After swift round of 16 victories for both Brazil's Igor Figueiredo and the reigning United States National Snooker Champion, Ahmed Aly Elsayed, the pair will battle it out for a place in the semifinals of the 2019 Pan American Sooker Championship at Q Ball Snooker & Pool in Houston, Texas.

The 41-year-old from Rio de Janeiro, who reached a highest ranking of 65 as a professional playing on the World Snooker Tour, will start as favorite, after he ran out a comfortable 4-0 winner over Saif Ibrahim of the United States, assisted with breaks of 63 and 43.

However, it was Aly who shot a new Championship highest break during his 4-0 win over the local Houston player Blaine Barcus, who had impressed to finish top of his group, as the player from Brooklyn eclipsed Figueiredo's previous top break with a run of 99.

The twice former United States National Snooker Champion, Ajeya Prabhakar, also booked his quarterfinal berth with, in his own words, a "scrappy" 4-0 win over the Brazilian player Osni Xavier Kuss, where he will now take on another local Houston player, Mark White, who fought back from 3-1 down to defeat Brazil's Victor Sarkis 4-3.

Another United States player who is moving swiftly through the draw is Chicago's Renat Denkha, a semifinalist in the 2017 United States National Snooker Championship, as he came through 4-0 against Brazil's Fabio Luiz Gusso, and has now set up an intriguing quarterfinal tie against Canada's Levi Meiller, who squeezed past his American opponent Laszlo Kovacs 4-3 in the round of 16 after trailing 3-2.

The fifth American player to make it through to the quarterfinals is Californian Mike Collier who secured a 4-1 success over Brazil's Rafael Franceschi Gusso, and he will face John White who narrowly won the all-Canadian round of 16 tie 4-3 over Charlie Brown.

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 16 results as follows:

Round of 16 (Best-of-7 frames)
Match ID	Player		Player
R16-1	Igor Figueiredo ( Brazil )	4 - 0	Saif Ibrahim ( U.S.A. )
R16-2	Blaine Barcus ( U.S.A. )	0 - 4	Ahmed Aly Elsayed ( U.S.A. )
R16-3	Victor Sarkis ( Brazil )	3 - 4	Mark White ( U.S.A. )
R16-4	Ajeya Prabhakar ( U.S.A. )	4 - 0	Osni Xavier Kuss ( Brazil )
R16-5	John White ( Canada )	4 - 3	Charlie Brown ( Canada )
R16-6	Rafael Franceschi Gusso ( Brazil )	1 - 4	Mike Collier ( U.S.A. )
R16-7	Levi Meiller ( Canada )	4 - 3	Laszlo Kovacs ( U.S.A. )
R16-8	Renat Denkha ( U.S.A. )	4 - 0	Fabio Luiz Gusso ( Brazil )

The quarterfinals draw as follows:

Quarterfinals (Best-of-7 frames)
Match ID	Player		Player
QF1	Igor Figueiredo ( Brazil )	vs.	Ahmed Aly Elsayed ( U.S.A. )
QF2	Mark White ( U.S.A. )	vs.	Ajeya Prabhakar ( U.S.A. )
QF3	John White ( Canada )	vs.	Mike Collier ( U.S.A. )
QF4	Levi Meiller ( Canada )	vs.	Renat Denkha ( U.S.A. )

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