Aly loses out to Ramzan at World Games snooker
filed Wednesday, July 13, 2022. 11:25pm PT/USA
Ahmed Aly Elsayed has been eliminated from the World Games snooker event at the Sheraton Hotel in Birmingham, Alabama, as the American succumbed in the round of 16 to the reigning International Billiards & Snooker Federation (IBSF) World Snooker Men's Champion, Ahsan Ramzan, from Pakistan.
With four of the round of 16 matches taking place on the first day's play of snooker competition, the reigning United States National Snooker Champion faced the difficult task of taking on the 16-year-old prodigy from Pakistan, who is ranked as the number seed to take the Gold medal.
Ahmed Aly Elsayed pictured in action during his round of 16 match
Photo courtesy of World Confederation of Billiards Sport
Ramzan took the first frame but the player from New York City then hit back by winning frame two.
A third frame break of 66 put the Pakistani cueist ahead 2-1, and although Aly had led the fourth frame right up until the final colored balls, he was caught out in the end to suffer a 3-1 defeat.
The round of 16 draw and results as follows:
Round of 16
(Best-of-5 frames) |
| Match ID |
|
|
|
| R16-1 |
Ahsan Ramzan (Pakistan) |
3 - 1 |
Ahmed Aly Elsayed (U.S.A.) |
| R16-2 |
Cheung Ka Wai (Hong Kong, China) |
3 - 0 |
Wayne Brown (Great Britain) |
| R16-3 |
Umut Dikme (Germany) |
3 - 0 |
Habib Subah (Bahrain) |
| R16-4 |
Ali Al Obaidli (Qatar) |
3 - 0 |
Taweesap Kongkitchertchoo (Thailand) |
| R16-5 |
Florian Nüßle (Austria) |
vs. |
Renat Denkha (U.S.A.) |
| R16-6 |
Abdelrahman Shahin (Egypt) |
vs. |
Victor Sarkis (Brazil) |
| R16-7 |
Pankaj Advani (India) |
vs. |
Darren Morgan (Great Britain) |
| R16-8 |
Antoni Kowalski (Poland) |
vs. |
Ahmed Saif (Qatar) |
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In the quarterfinals Ramzan will match up against Hong Kong's Cheung Ka Wai who had a comfortable 3-0 round of 16 victory over Great Britain's Wayne Brown.
The day's two other round of sixteen matches produced comfortable 3-0 results in favor of Germany's Umut Dikme and Qatar's Ali Al Obaidli, who had respective wins over Bahrain's Habib Subah and Thailand's Taweesap Kongkitchertchoo.
Thailand's Taweesap Kongkitchertchoo pictured at the table during his round of 16 match, with a view of the playing arena
Photo courtesy of World Confederation of Billiards Sport
The highlight of the second day's play of the snooker event from an American perspective will be the appearance of Chicago's Renat Denkha, who was runner-up in last year's Pan American Snooker Championship, when he faces Austria's Florian Nüßle in the round of 16.
SnookerUSA.com will report on all the day's snooker action at the World Games.
