{"id":49686,"date":"2024-09-24T17:30:47","date_gmt":"2024-09-24T12:30:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/?p=49686"},"modified":"2024-09-24T17:30:47","modified_gmt":"2024-09-24T12:30:47","slug":"asjad-iqbal-clean-sweeps-indian-rival-to-reach-world-6-red-snooker-championship-final","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/sports\/asjad-iqbal-clean-sweeps-indian-rival-to-reach-world-6-red-snooker-championship-final\/","title":{"rendered":"Asjad Iqbal clean sweeps Indian rival to reach World 6-Red Snooker Championship Final"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ULAANBAATAR: Pakistani cueist Asjad Iqbal managed to secure a place in the final after defeating India\u2019s Malkeet Singh with a comprehensive 6-0 victory in the semi-final of the IBSF World Six Red Snooker Championship, being held in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>Pakistani&#8217;s top snooker player outplayed Indian rival, starting with a comfortable 49-18 win in the first frame.<\/p>\n<p>Asjad Iqbal managed to clean sweep by winning 6 straight frames with a scoreline of 38-34, 46-13, 40-31, 52-13, and a crushing 45-0 in the final frame, preventing Singh from winning a single frame in the best-of-11 contest.<\/p>\n<p>Iqbal made it into the final of the World Championship with a brilliant form shown throughout the tournament, a glimpse of which was shown in the semi-final further emphasizing his dominance.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier in the quarterfinals, Asjad defeated Cyprus&#8217; Michael Georgiou 5-2, securing his place in the semi-finals. With this resounding victory, Iqbal is seen as a top contender for the title.<\/p>\n<p>Pakistan&#8217;s Asjad Iqbal will face the winner of the second semi-final, which will take place between Richard Wienold of Germany and India\u2019s Kamal Chawla, in the final tomorrow.<\/p>\n<div class=\"detail_auth\">\n<div class=\"detail_auth_name\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ULAANBAATAR: Pakistani cueist Asjad Iqbal managed to secure a place in the final after defeating India\u2019s Malkeet Singh with a comprehensive 6-0 victory in the semi-final of the IBSF World Six Red Snooker Championship, being held in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia on Tuesday. Pakistani&#8217;s top snooker player outplayed Indian rival, starting with a comfortable 49-18 win in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":49690,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-49686","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49686","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=49686"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49686\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49694,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49686\/revisions\/49694"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/49690"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49686"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49686"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49686"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}