Snooker News from Around the World

New World Snooker Tour

Snooker champion John Higgins is launching a new World Series of snooker tournaments. Consists of 4 tournaments, the tour will be hosted by different European cities including Moscow, Warsaw, Jersey and Amsterdam and will be expand to other parts of the continent for the next season.

Asian Billiards & Snooker Championships coming up

The preparations to the 7th Asian Billiards and 9th U-21 Asian Snooker Championships Asian Billiards and U-21 Asian Snooker Championships are at their peak. The notable snooker championships will feature 5 world championships and competitors from 16 different Asian countries China’s Hong Kong, India, Singapore, South Korea, Sri Lanka, Thailand, are among them Vietnam. The hosting country, Myanmar is also sending five representatives to the competition including the country’s best billiards player Kyaw Oo. Both championships will be held at the Kandawgyi Palace Hotel on April 5-12, 2008.

Pakistan’s Junior National Snooker Championship - Results

Local snooker players Muhammad Afzal and Sindh’s Ahad Ali Khan has counted their 3rd win in a row on the second day of Pakistan’s Junior National Snooker Championship, which took place last week at the Amir Bakhsh Billiards Hall in Karachi. Among the young snooker talents was son of former World Amateur Snooker Muhammad Yousuf, Azeem Yousuf who lost to Tahir Abbas 1-3. Top 2 players from each of the groups will move forward to the quarterfinals.

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