Beijing (July 11, 2017): Pakistan’s Naseem Akhtar won the IBSF World U-18 Snooker Championship. Akhtar is the first Pakistani to win any junior world snooker title.
In the final, Naseem Akhtar beat China’s Peifan Lei 5-3.
In the semi-final, Nassem had defeated Israel’s Amir Nardela 4-0 (74-19(69), 82-0(64), 90-21, 89-42).
Earlier Naseem defeated Florian Nuble of Austria 4-1 in the quarter-finals with frame scores of 62-67, 74-7, 86-29, 74-8, 72-21, in the event contested by 48 cueists from 29 countries.
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