Pakistan’s Babar Masih has confirmed his place in the knockout stage of the IBSF 6-Red World Cup in Doha with two more wins on Saturday.
Babar along with his teammate Haris Tahir Won their second consecutive match. Babar defeated Enes Bakirci of Turkey and Mohammad Al-Binali of Qatar in the group stage matches and topped his group.
Babar made a tremendous fightback against Turkey’s cueist in the morning session after losing the first frame. He then played breaks of 58, 41, and 47 to win the next three frames and took a 3-1 lead.
In the third frame, the opponent couldn’t even pot a single red as Babar cleared the frame in the single break of 41. In the fourth frame, the Turkish player got 18 points before the Pakistani cueist undergo another clearance break of 47.
Bakirci fought back in the 5th frame to decrease his deficit from 3-1 to 3-2. In the 6th frame, Masih chalked out a break of 69, taking three black and three blue following each red ball before clearing the frame by taking all colors.
Both the players played safe and tried to place snooker balls on each other. However, Babar – once again – emerged victoriously.
Masih’s score against Bakrici was 12-45, 70-12, 41-0, 47-18, 26-49, 69-0, and 42-40.
In the second match, Babar Masih stunned his opponent Qatar’s Mohammad Al-Binali with a ravishing 5-1 victory. The Pakistani cueist took an early lead of 4-0 by winning the first four frames playing breaks of 36 in the first and 44th in the 4th frame before the Qatari player made a comeback to make it 4-1 — still in Babar’s favor.
The Pakistani cueist won the second match with scores of 36-32, 54-14, 57-0, 72-0, 16-53, and 28-18.
Haris Tahir, who’s placed in group H, defeated Lebanon’s Firas Abboud 5-0 to register his second consecutive win in the 6-Red World Cup.
The 21-year-old cueist remained in control of the game throughout and didn’t allow his opponent to flex his muscle by winning it 63-01, 58-19, 74-05, 54-06, and 33-09.
