The reigning United States National Snooker Champion Ahmed Aly Elsayed has set up a mouthwatering all-American round of 16 tie with local Houston player Blaine Barcus at the 2019 Pan American Sooker Championship at Q Ball Snooker & Pool as the round of 24 draws to a conclusion.

With all eight round of 24 ties commencing in this morning's 10am local time session, players who finished second and third in their groups matched up, with the winners of those ties taking on those who topped their groups in the round of 16.

The player from Brooklyn was in fine swift form as he defeated Brazil's Dayron Gontijo Azevedo 4-0, and is now in a fascinating face-off with Barcus, who is better known for his exploits in pool though played some excellent snooker to win his Group.

Saif Ibrahim came through a tight tussle with a fellow American Sim Long Tran 4-3, and both Mark White and Mike Collier defeated American compatriots Paul Richardson and Othman Belgrini 4-1 respectively.

Laszlo Kovacs became the fourth American to advance from the round of 24, as he defeated Brazil's Jesus Batista de Oliveira 4-0.

The two all-Brazilian round of 16 ties went in favor of Osni Xavier Kuss and Fabio Luiz Gusso who both scored respective 4-0 wins over Christiano Galesi and Bernard Frérotte.

Canada has insured that they will have at least one player in the quarterfinals, as Charlie Brown has set up an all-Canadian round of 16 encounter with John White, after he came through 4-0 over Brazil's Januario Silverio de Souza.

The full Schedule of results and Knockout draw charts can be downloaded by clicking on the following links (PDF format):
» Match schedule and results    » Knockout draw chart

The round of 24 results as follows:

Round of 24 (Best-of-7 frames)
Match ID	Player		Player
R24-1	Sim Long Tran ( U.S.A. )	3 - 4	Saif Ibrahim ( U.S.A. )
R24-2	Ahmed Aly Elsayed ( U.S.A. )	4 - 0	Dayron Gontijo Azevido ( Brazil )
R24-3	Mark White ( U.S.A. )	4 - 1	Paul Richardson ( U.S.A. )
R24-4	Christiano Galesi ( Brazil )	0 - 4	Osni Xavier Kuss ( Brazil )
R24-5	Januario Silverio de Souza ( Brazil )	0 - 4	Charlie Brown ( Canada )
R24-6	Mike Collier ( U.S.A. )	4 - 1	Othman Belgrini ( U.S.A. )
R24-7	Laszlo Kovacs ( U.S.A. )	4 - 0	Jesus Batista de Oliveira ( Brazil )
R24-8	Fabio Luiz Gusso ( Brazil )	4 - 0	Bernard Frérotte ( Brazil )

The round of 16 draw as follows:

Round of 16 (Best-of-7 frames)
Match ID	Player		Player
R16-1	Igor Figueiredo ( Brazil )	vs.	Saif Ibrahim ( U.S.A. )
R16-2	Blaine Barcus ( U.S.A. )	vs.	Ahmed Aly Elsayed ( U.S.A. )
R16-3	Victor Sarkis ( Brazil )	vs.	Mark White ( U.S.A. )
R16-4	Ajeya Prabhakar ( U.S.A. )	vs.	Osni Xavier Kuss ( Brazil )
R16-5	John White ( Canada )	vs.	Charlie Brown ( Canada )
R16-6	Rafael Franceschi Gusso ( Brazil )	vs.	Mike Collier ( U.S.A. )
R16-7	Levi Meiller ( Canada )	vs.	Laszlo Kovacs ( U.S.A. )
R16-8	Renat Denkha ( U.S.A. )	vs.	Fabio Luiz Gusso ( Brazil )

Results and reports from the 2019 Pan American Snooker Championship will appear here on SnookerUSA.com.