African Games 2019 / Snooker

Snooker at the Africa Games 2019
information
venue	Casablanca Morocco
Competition venue	Hotel Farah
date	August 20th to 24th, 2019
decisions	3
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Medal table snooker (after 3 of 3 decisions)
space	country	gold	silver	bronze	total
01	Morocco	3	1	2	6th
02	Egypt	-	2	1	3
total		3	3	3	9

At the Africa Games 2019 in Morocco , from 20 to 24 August 2019, three competitions in the snooker billiards discipline were held at the Hôtel Farah in Casablanca , one each for men and women and a mixed competition.

Medalist

discipline	gold	silver	bronze
Women singles	Youssra Matine	Gantan el-Askary	Hakima Kissai
Mixed	Yassine Bellamine Hakima Kissai	Amine Amiri Youssra Matine	Mohamed al-Akrady Yara Sharafeldin
Men singles	Amine Amiri	Abdelrahman Abdelhamid	Yassine Bellamine

Competitions

Women singles

In the women's tournament on August 20, 2019, four players played against each other in a round robin format . The Moroccan Youssra Matine won all three games and thus won the gold medal, Gantan el-Askary from Egypt won silver and Hakima Kissai won the second medal for Morocco with bronze.

Games

game	Player 1	Result	Player 2
1	Hakima Kissai	30: 30	Youssra Matine
2	Gantan el-Askary	12 : 12	Yara Sharafeldin
3	Youssra Matine	12 : 12	Yara Sharafeldin
4th	Gantan el-Askary	12 : 12	Hakima Kissai
5	Youssra Matine	02 : 02	Gantan el-Askary
6th	Hakima Kissai	02 : 02	Yara Sharafeldin

table

space	Player	won	lost	Frames	Points
1	Youssra Matine	3	0	7: 1	6th
2	Gantan el-Askary	2	1	4: 4	4th
3	Hakima Kissai	1	2	3: 5	2
4th	Yara Sharafeldin	0	3	2: 6	0

Mixed

On August 21, 2019 competition was mixed - double discharged. As with the women, the four doubles played in everyone against everyone . Here too, two medals went to Moroccan players; Yassine Bellamine and Hakima Kissai won gold without defeat, Amine Amiri and Youssra Matine won silver due to the better frame ratio ahead of the Egyptians Mohamed al-Akrady and Yara Sharafeldin .

Games

game	Player 1	Result	Player 2
1	Amine Amiri Youssra Matine	21: 21	Yassine Bellamine Hakima Kissai
2	Abdelrahman Abdelhamid Gantan el-Askary	12 : 12	Mohamed al-Akrady Yara Sharafeldin
3	Amine Amiri Youssra Matine	03 : 03	Abdelrahman Abdelhamid Gantan el-Askary
4th	Mohamed al-Akrady Yara Sharafeldin	21: 21	Yassine Bellamine Hakima Kissai
5	Yassine Bellamine Hakima Kissai	03 : 03	Abdelrahman Abdelhamid Gantan el-Askary
6th	Mohamed al-Akrady Yara Sharafeldin	12 : 12	Amine Amiri Youssra Matine

table

space	player	won	lost	Frames	Points
1	Yassine Bellamine Hakima Kissai	3	0	7: 2	6th
2	Amine Amiri Youssra Matine	1	2	5: 4	2
3	Mohamed al-Akrady Yara Sharafeldin	1	2	4: 5	2
4th	Abdelrahman Abdelhamid Gantan el-Askary	1	2	2: 7	2

Men singles

Since the four participants from Algeria and Tunisia did not compete, only four instead of the planned 16 games were played on August 22 and 23, 2019. The two best-placed players in both groups qualified for the main round on August 24, 2019. As in the two previous competitions, a Moroccan again won the gold medal in Amine Amiri . He defeated Abdelrahman Abdelhamid from Egypt in the final . In the game for third place, Yassine Bellamine secured bronze against Mohamed al-Akrady .

After his victory, Amiri was nominated by the African Association ABSC for the Snooker Main Tour seasons 2019/20 and 2020/21 .

Group A

game

game	Player 1	Result	Player 2
1	Amine Amiri	4th1: 41	Abdelrahman Abdelhamid

table

space	player	won	lost	Frames	Points
1	Abdelrahman Abdelhamid	1	0	4: 1	2
2	Amine Amiri	0	1	1: 4	0
-	Mohammed Benlama	not started
	Mohsen Neffati

Group B

Games

game	Player 1	Result	Player 2
1	Mohamed al-Akrady	04 : 04th	Mina Samuel
2	Mina Samuel	4th1: 41	Yassine Bellamine
3	Mohamed al-Akrady	4th3: 43	Yassine Bellamine

table

space	player	won	lost	Frames	Points
1	Yassine Bellamine	2	0	8: 4	4th
2	Mohamed al-Akrady	1	1	7: 4	2
3	Mina Samuel	0	2	1: 8	0
-	Mohammed Fekrach	not started
	Oussema Harzallah

Main round

Semifinals to finals

	Semifinals					final
	A1	Abdelrahman Abdelhamid	4th
	B2	Mohamed al-Akrady	3
						A1	Abdelrahman Abdelhamid	3
						A2	Amine Amiri	4th
	B1	Yassine Bellamine	2
	A2	Amine Amiri	4th
						3rd place match
						B2	Mohamed al-Akrady	2
						B1	Yassine Bellamine	4th

final

Final: Best of 7 Frames Hôtel Farah ,  Casablanca , Morocco , August 24, 2019
Abdelrahman Abdelhamid	3: 4	Amine Amiri
-	Highest break	-
-	Century breaks	-
-	50+ breaks	-

Web links

• Snooker games in Africa in 2019 (English)
• 2019 African Games - Women at CueTracker.net
• 2019 African Games - Men at CueTracker.net
• Report from the World Snooker Federation

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1. ↑ Morocco's Amine Handed Tour Card. In: worldsnooker.com. World Professional Billiards & Snooker Association , August 28, 2019, accessed August 30, 2019 .