Reigning champ Fazil seeking to retain title
M.F.M. Fazil, the reigning Junior National Champion
The Billiards and Snooker Association of Sri Lanka (BSASL)has finalised all arrangements to conduct the Junior National Snooker Championship which is scheduled to get underway at the Otters AC billiards table from today.
This will be the first tournament for the year 2017 that the BSASL will be conducting which will go on for seven days with the final slotted to be played on April 9.
The championship will see the participation over 45 young cueists representing eight cue playing clubs around Sri Lanka. The first day’s proceedings will also see six matches down for decision with matches starting from 10.00am.
Defending champion M.F.M. Fazil of 8BPP who also is the reigning national snooker champion will be seeking to retain the title for yet another year but he will face stiff opposition from his victim of last year’s final M. Shamil of Sea Endless. The preliminary round matches will be played over three frames and the quarter and semi final matches will be of five frames while the final is slotted to be played over seven frames.
- MSA