{"id":61983,"date":"2025-01-09T23:03:48","date_gmt":"2025-01-09T18:03:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/?p=61983"},"modified":"2025-01-09T23:03:48","modified_gmt":"2025-01-09T18:03:48","slug":"muhammad-asif-dominates-naseem-akhter-reaches-sarc-snooker-final","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/sports\/muhammad-asif-dominates-naseem-akhter-reaches-sarc-snooker-final\/","title":{"rendered":"Muhammad Asif dominates Naseem Akhter, reaches SARC Snooker Final"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>COLOMBO: World champion <a href=\"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/pakistan\/lt-gen-muhammad-aamir-appointed-pakistans-ambassador-to-qatar\/\">Muhammad Asif<\/a> defeated compatriot Muhammad Naseem Akhtar after a tough match to book his place in the final of the SAARC Snooker Championship.<\/p>\n<p>In the first semi-final of the championship underway in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Muhammad Asif set his sights on the title by defeating former world junior champion Muhammad Naseem Akhtar 3-5 after a tough match.<\/p>\n<p>Muhammad Naseem Akhtar reached the semi-finals by defeating Indian player Kamal Chawla 2-4.<\/p>\n<p>In the final to be held on Friday, Muhammad Asif will face Sri Lanka&#8217;s Taha Irshad, who defeated Nepal&#8217;s Ankit Man 3-5 in the second semi-final after a challenging match.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>COLOMBO: World champion Muhammad Asif defeated compatriot Muhammad Naseem Akhtar after a tough match to book his place in the final of the SAARC Snooker Championship. In the first semi-final of the championship underway in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Muhammad Asif set his sights on the title by defeating former world junior champion Muhammad Naseem Akhtar [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":61984,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[25642,25644,25643],"class_list":["post-61983","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports","tag-muhammad-asif","tag-naseem-akhter","tag-sarc-snooker-final"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61983","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\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=61983"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61983\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":61985,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61983\/revisions\/61985"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/61984"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=61983"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=61983"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=61983"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}