Sattar, Thasleem, Isham and Mubeen advance to semis

The Moors Six Red Ball Snooker championships which is in progress now at the Moors billiards and snooker tables in Braybrooke Place has now reached the tail-end of the tournament with only the semi final and final remaining to be completed.

The completion of the quarter finals yesterday evening saw three cueists Abdul Sattar, M.J.A. Thasleem and M.I.M. Hisham from host club Moors and M.M. Mubeen of Embassy Pool Parlour (EPP) qualifying for the semi finals.

Club mates Sattar, Thasleem and Hisham recorded easy wins over their opponents with the identical score of four frames to nil while Mubeen received a walk over as Ryan Somaratne failed to turn up for their quarter final encounter.

The curtains will come down today with the semi finals scheduled to be played at 10.00 a.m. Sattar will confront Thasleem, in fact whoever wins this game is tipped to lift the title while Hisham will battle Mubeen to book a berth for the final showdown which is scheduled to be played at 4.00 p.m.

The semi finals will be played over nine frames and the final over 11 frames. In between these two the play off for the third place will take place at 1.00 p.m. The winner will be awarded a trophy along with a cash award with surprises awaiting for the participants. A DVD player will be awarded to the player who made the highest break. Up to now M.S.M. Zulfikar of YMCA who made break of 43 is in line for the award.

The chief guest at the closing ceremony will be Mervyn Jayasinghe, Deputy Chairman of Finance and Guarantee Group of Companies and the incumbent president of the Billiards and Snooker Association of Sri Lanka.

Results of matches played yesterday:
Pre quarter finals – M.S.M. Zulfikar (YMCA) beat M. Sadik (BPPP) 4/0 (30/10, 63/01, 42/07, 45/27). Abdul Sattar (MSC) beat W.M.P. Pushpakumara (YMBA) 4/2 (38/25, 07/39, 32/61, 33/19, 38/06, 48/02) M.J.A. Thasleem (MSC) beat P.A.M. Badurdeen (MSC) 4/1 (35.43, 45/21, 36/23, 49/20, 41/19).
Quarter Finals – Abdul Sattar (MSC) beat M. Farooq (MICH) 4/0 (30/03, 39/04, 49/01, 43/01). M.J.A. Thasleem (MSC) beat M.S.M. Zulfikar (YMCA) 4/0 (41/13, 26/20, 37/30, 38/35). M.I.M. Isham (MSC) beat Z.A.M. Fawmy (MSC) 4/0 (52/24, 40/36, 33/10, 36/16)/ M.M. Mubeen (EPP) w/o from Ryan Somaratne (OAC) - MSA