Top seed Haris Tahir wins Jubilee Insurance U-21 National Snooker Championship

Top seed Haris Tahir clinched the Jubilee Insurance U-21 National Snooker Championship after comfortably beating unseeded Umer Farooq at the Pakistan Sports Complex’s Snooker Hall, Islamabad.

In the all-Punjab final, Haris proved too hot to handle for Umer, who looked completely off-color and had no answers to the control and overwhelming accuracy of Haris, who tamed Umer 6-1, adding colour to his victory with three breaks (63, 68, 52) and finally winning with the final score line of 82-5, 77-39 (63), 19-73, 50-35, 91-21, 79-30 (68), 71-8 (52).

President Pakistan Billiards and Snooker Association, Munawwar H. Shaikh and world champion Mohammad Asif were also present at the occasion and later attended the prize distribution ceremony.

Munawwar appreciated the performance of the juniors players during the event and hoped they will improve with age and represent Pakistan on the international stage.

Later, the winners and runners up of all categories  U-18, U-18 and U-21 were awarded trophies. 

In the U-16 category, the highest break was made by Hamza Ilyas (67) while in the U-18 and U-21 competitions, Mohammad Umar Khan (106) and Muhammad Ahmed (85) recorded the highest breaks.