{"id":62054,"date":"2025-01-10T18:42:20","date_gmt":"2025-01-10T13:42:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/?p=62054"},"modified":"2025-01-10T18:42:20","modified_gmt":"2025-01-10T13:42:20","slug":"mohammad-asif-wins-unbeaten-claims-3rd-saarc-snooker-championship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/sports\/mohammad-asif-wins-unbeaten-claims-3rd-saarc-snooker-championship\/","title":{"rendered":"Mohammad Asif wins unbeaten, claims 3rd SAARC Snooker championship"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>KARACHI: In a positive and joyous move, Pakistan&#8217;s great cueist Muhammad Asif nabbed the title of the 3rd<a href=\"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/sports\/muhammad-asif-dominates-naseem-akhter-reaches-sarc-snooker-final\/\"> SAARC Snooker Championship<\/a> at the Moors Sports Club, Colombo, with victory over Thaha Irshath in the final match.<\/p>\n<p>Asif, a reigning<a href=\"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/latest-news\/australia-becomes-the-world-champions\/\"> world champion<\/a>, had the better grasp over the match and won all five frames without dropping a frame, thus stamping his authority as one of the most recognizable faces of the game.<\/p>\n<p>The final already started with Asif making a strong statement by effortlessly taking the opening frame. Irshath launched a blistering attack in the second frame, and at one point, it seemed he had taken complete control.<\/p>\n<p>However, an untimely mistake on the pink ball let Asif seize the moment and carry the frame 73-46 to build a lead.<\/p>\n<p>Momentum grew through the third frame, wherein Irshath started with the upper hand after Asif had a scratch during his first break. But once he could not maintain the cue ball in a successive inning, he opened the table for Asif to unleash himself, and the latter went on with a beautiful 58-point clearance break to gain complete control.<\/p>\n<p>Asif, radiating confidence, showed no mercy to his opponent in the remaining two frames, winning them 109-6 and 74-0, respectively, for a resounding victory.<\/p>\n<p>This win saw Asif become the second Pakistani to win the SAARC Snooker Championship by following in the footsteps of Asjad Iqbal, who won the inaugural edition in 2019.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KARACHI: In a positive and joyous move, Pakistan&#8217;s great cueist Muhammad Asif nabbed the title of the 3rd SAARC Snooker Championship at the Moors Sports Club, Colombo, with victory over Thaha Irshath in the final match. Asif, a reigning world champion, had the better grasp over the match and won all five frames without dropping [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":62055,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[25664,25663],"class_list":["post-62054","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports","tag-mohammad-asif-claims-3rd-saarc-snooker-championship","tag-saarc-snooker-championship"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62054","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\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=62054"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62054\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":62056,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62054\/revisions\/62056"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/62055"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62054"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=62054"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62054"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}