{"id":27992,"date":"2025-11-19T06:04:25","date_gmt":"2025-11-19T06:04:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=27992"},"modified":"2025-11-19T06:04:25","modified_gmt":"2025-11-19T06:04:25","slug":"asjad-iqbal-advances-to-ibsf-world-cup-semi-finals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=27992","title":{"rendered":"Asjad Iqbal advances to IBSF World Cup semi-finals"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Pakistan\u2019s Asjad Iqbal continued his impressive run at the IBSF Snooker World Cup 2025, reaching the semi-finals after a series of dominant victories at the Active Oman Sports and Entertainment Hub on Tuesday.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The 34-year-old former national champion defeated India\u2019s Pankaj Advani 4-0 in the quarter-finals. Asjad opened with an 81 break to take the first frame 100-0, followed by a 92-37 win in the second. He then scored a 68 break in a 117-16 third-frame victory and sealed the match 83-21 in the fourth.<\/p>\n<p>Asjad\u2019s campaign began in the last 32 round, where he beat India\u2019s Hussain Khan 3-0 (53(53)-44, 90-41, 93(84)-9). In the same round, Egypt\u2019s Mina Awad defeated Pakistan\u2019s Mohammad Hasnain 3-1, while Pakistan\u2019s Mohammad Asif overcame Khalid Kamali of the UAE 3-2 (71(70)-77, 17-70(54), 77-74, 61(51)-45, 84-38).<\/p>\n<p>In the pre-quarterfinals, Asjad beat Mina Awad 4-1 after losing the first frame 62-21. He bounced back with wins of 72(72)-11, 69(52)-29, 58-29, and finished with a 104(104)-0 clearance. Meanwhile, Mohammad Asif fell 4-2 to France\u2019s Nicolas Mortreux (74-49, 46-57, 72(68)-28, 9-106(83), 73(73)-65(60), 85(55)-43).<\/p>\n<p>Asjad will face Mortreux in the semi-finals, aiming to improve on his bronze medal finish from the previous edition and keep Pakistan\u2019s hopes alive in the prestigious tournament.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pakistan\u2019s Asjad Iqbal continued his impressive run at the IBSF Snooker World Cup 2025, reaching the semi-finals after a series of dominant victories at the Active Oman Sports and Entertainment Hub on Tuesday.\u00a0 The 34-year-old former national champion defeated India\u2019s Pankaj Advani 4-0 in the quarter-finals. Asjad opened with an 81 break to take the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27992","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27992","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=27992"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27992\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27992"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27992"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27992"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}