World Team Snooker (Men, Masters and Women) has now reached into the single-elimination round where 16 teams for Men, 8 teams of Masters and 6 teams of Women will contest for the knockout competition for title race.

Egyptian players Hesham Shawky and Abdelrahman Shahin rallied breaks in their last group stage match against Hong Kong-1 and secured top position in their group for the knockout stage. They beat Hong Kong-1 players Cheung Ka Wai and Tam Yun Fung 4-1 having breaks in all four individual frames.

Hesham and Shaheen started with full confidence and in first frame Hesham kept Cheung Ka Wai on zero score by making a frame winning break of 69 points.

Shaheen stayed unlucky in next frame when he lost the frame despite crafting a break of 40 points. He lost to Tam Yun Fung 46-58, but after that Hesham and Shahin did not allow them for more scoring shots and controlled the match their way. They won won scotch-doubles frame followed by break of 70 by Hesham in fourth frame and break of 60 by Shahin in fifth frame to close the proceedings 4-1.

Hong Kong-1 is yet to play against India-2 for match to qualify as both haven’t won any match and the winner will advance to knockout stage.



Meanwhile team Thailand comprises of Passakorn Suwannawat and Thanawat Thirapongpaeboon has also won their second match and one match away to claim group top position.

Today they beat Egypt-7 (Tymour Hussien and Fadi Hammouda) 4-1. Passakorn and Thanawat made a joint break of 52 in scotch-doubles frame and then Passakorn crafted 50 points break in fourth to lead 4-0 but after that Fadi shocked Thanawat by snatching the last frame 68-38 and Thailand registered 4-1 win

Egyptian Masters players Mohamed Noweir hits first century break for all categories in the World Team Snooker Championship 2018. He made 135 points and set that as highest break of the competition.

Team India-4 (Kamal Chawla/ Varun Madan) survived after a nail-biting finish of their first match 3-2 against team Qatar comprises of Ahmed Saif and Ali Alobaidli by winning the deciding frame.

The World Team Snooker Championship 2018 started today morning at Jaz Grand Marsa hotel in Marsa Alam, Egypt. The first session was having matches of masters and women category and the most crucial match of first session was between United Arab Emirates-1 (Mohamed Shehab / Mohamed Al-Joaker) and India-2 (Alok Kumar / Rafath Habib).

At one of the world’s greatest iconic buildings, the Eiffel Tower, billiards sports launched its bid to get on the program of the 2024 Paris Olympic Games.

The Conference was organised by the Billiards 2024 Committee on behalf of the World Confederation of Billiards Sports (WCBS), and was attended by many dignitaries and billiard industry leaders. A media contingent of 35 was present to report on the news.

The WCBS is the world governing body for all billiard sports and is a member of the IOC. Its members are the world governing bodies for their respective disciplines of Carom, Pool and Snooker.

The Conference started with a trick and fancy shot display by the world’s greatest trick shot player, Florian Kohler who delighted the crowd with his amazing skills on a pool table that had been specially installed for the occasion.

16-year-boy Chang Bingyu from China has now become the World Men Snooker Champion. Today in the final played at Grand Mercure Hotel in Yangon, Myanmar, he defeated his compatriot and current World Under-18 Champion, He Guoqiang 8-3 to lift the title.

Waratthanun Sukritthanes caused biggest upset of the World Snooker Championship 2018 and won her first Individual World Snooker title. In the final today she defeated the defending champion Wendy Jans of Belgium 5-2.

Darren Morgan of Wales maintained his supremacy and won the World Masters Snooker title defeating Saleh Mohammed of Myanmar in a one-sided affair 6-0.

Saleh Mohammad of Afghanistan won his semi-final bout when he fought off a spirited performance from Suckakree Poomajang of Thailand to triumph 5-4 and reached in the final of World Snooker Masters Championship 2018.