{"id":83949,"date":"2025-07-18T12:00:20","date_gmt":"2025-07-18T07:00:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/?p=83949"},"modified":"2025-07-18T12:54:54","modified_gmt":"2025-07-18T07:54:54","slug":"hasnain-storms-into-snooker-u-17-pre-quarters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/hasnain-storms-into-snooker-u-17-pre-quarters\/","title":{"rendered":"Hasnain storms into snooker U-17 pre-quarters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Pakistan\u2019s young cueist Muhammad Hasnain Akhtar delivered a dominant performance in the IBSF Under-17 World Snooker Cham\u00adpionship, securing two emphatic victories to top his group and qualify for the pre-quarterfinals here at the Crowne Plaza hotel on Wednesday.<br \/>\nThe 16-year-old continued his scintillating form, first overpowering Mohammad Omar 3-0 of the UAE with a display of heavy scoring.<br \/>\nHasnain fired breaks of 61 [98(61)-5], 65 [74(65)-1] and 54 [92(54)-8] to seal a commanding win. He maintained this mom\u00adentum against Poland\u2019s Witold Bystrz\u00adycki, completing another 3-0 clean sweep.<br \/>\nHasnain, who won the Asian U-21 title in Riyadh in 2024, opened with a 63 break [79(63)-1], followed by a 48 break [81(48)-17] before clinching a tense final frame [59(34)-53].<br \/>\nThese victories, combined with his opening-day win against Qatar\u2019s Abd\u00adulla Al Musleh, ensured Hanain finished the group stage with a perfect record without dropping a single frame.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pakistan\u2019s young cueist Muhammad Hasnain Akhtar delivered a dominant performance in the IBSF Under-17 World Snooker Cham\u00adpionship, securing two emphatic victories to top his group and qualify for the pre-quarterfinals here at the Crowne Plaza hotel on Wednesday. The 16-year-old continued his scintillating form, first overpowering Mohammad Omar 3-0 of the UAE with a display &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":83921,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-83949","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83949","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=83949"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83949\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":83950,"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83949\/revisions\/83950"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/83921"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=83949"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=83949"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=83949"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}