Tamil Nadu’s Abdul Saif bagged the Sub-junior boys’ snooker title in the ongoing 90th National Billiards & Snooker Championships at the Nehru Indoor Stadium here on Friday.
Saif clinched a thrilling best-of-7 frames final 4-3 against Gujarat’s in-form Mayur Garg, who was gunning for a ‘double’ after winning the Sub-junior billiards title on Thursday.
After Garg rallied to level at 2-all, Saif took the fifth comfortably before Garg came back strongly to win the next.
In the decider, Garg took an 18-point lead on the brown ball, but Saif managed to clear the table from brown to black ball to bag his maiden National title in style.
“It was a close match until the decider, and when Mayur missed brown it gave me an opportunity,” said Chennai boy Saif, who trains at Saleem Snooker Academy.
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