National sub-junior boys’ snooker champion Abdul Saif (proper) and runner-up Mayur Garg (left).
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Tamil Nadu’s Abdul Saif bagged the sub-junior boys’ snooker title on the ninetieth National billiards & snooker championships within the Nehru indoor stadium right here on Friday.
Saif clinched an exhilarating best-of-7 frames remaining 4-3 towards Gujarat’s in-form Mayur Garg, who was gunning for a double after successful the sub-junior billiards title on Thursday.
After Garg rallied to degree at 2-all, Saif comfortably took the fifth earlier than Garg strongly got here again to win the following. In the decider, Garg took an 18-point lead on the brown ball, however Saif managed to clear the desk from brown to black ball to bag his maiden National title in model.
“It was a close match until the decider, and when Mayur missed brown it gave me an opportunity,” mentioned the Chennai boy Saif.
The outcomes (sub-junior boys): Snooker: Final: Abdul Saif (TN) bt Mayur Garg (Guj) 4-3 (56-55, 69-48, 38-70, 30-60, 54-40, 7-60, 64-61).
Semifinals: Mayur Garg (Guj) bt Laxmi Narayanan (TN) 3-1 (68-28, 85-43, 52-54, 84-1); Abdul Saif (TN) bt Jabez Naveen Kumar (TN) 3-2 (44-26, 47-19, 30-50, 60-70, 71-40).
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