Hamza Akbar
| Hamza Akbar | |
|---|---|
| birthday | 12th November 1993 (age 26) |
| nationality |
 Pakistan
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| professional | 2015-2019 |
| Prize money | £ 29,100 |
| Highest break | 135 ( Indian Open 2019 , Q) |
| Century Breaks | 4th |
| Main tour successes | |
| World championships | - |
| Ranking tournament victories | - |
| Minor tournament victories | - |
| World rankings | |
| Highest WRL place | 81 (May – July 2016) |
Hamza Akbar ( Urdu : حمزہ اکبر DMG Ḥamza Akbar ; Born November 12, 1993 ) is a Pakistani snooker player from Faisalabad .
Career
Even as a schoolboy, Hamza Akbar was enthusiastic about snooker and played his first tournaments. Most of the time, however, he had to play secretly until a club owner could convince Akbar's parents to send their son training. From 2008 he got training lessons and was supported by Shahid Aftab, another top Pakistani player from Faisalabad. Just a year later he qualified for the Junior World Championships. In the years to come, however, there was no success and he was faced with the decision between work and sport.
In 2013 Akbar played in the national championship and won the final 8: 7 against Imran Shehzad. At the age of 19 he was the youngest player to become national champion of Pakistan. The following year he was able to defend his title. Both times he qualified for the Asian Cup . While he was eliminated by a compatriot the first time after the group stage, he reached the final in 2015. There he defeated the former Indian professional snooker Pankaj Advani 7: 6 after he had already been 30 points behind in the decision-making frame. The title also gave him the right to participate in the professional tournaments of the Snooker Main Tour for the following two seasons. Hamza Akbar is the first official professional snooker from Pakistan.
At the beginning of the 2015/16 season , Akbar and the amateur vice world champion Muhammad Sajjad competed in the Team World Cup and missed the quarter-finals by one frame. After that, the slow visa processing in his home country prevented entry into Europe, so that he missed the first two individual tournaments.
Web links
- Profile in the Pro Snooker Blog (English)
- Hamza Akbar at World Snooker (English)
- Tournament statistics at Snooker.org (English)
- Hamza Akbar in the snooker Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c Career-total Statistics for Hamza Akbar. CueTracker, accessed on 14 September 2019 .
- ↑ World Rankings. (PDF; 275 kB) After The 2016 Kaspersky Riga Masters. In: worldsnooker.com. World Professional Billiards & Snooker Association , June 29, 2016, accessed June 30, 2016 .
- ↑ a b Hamza Akbar first Pakistani to play in Snooker Professional Circuit. (No longer available online.) PK on Web, July 14, 2015, archived from the original on July 14, 2015 ; Retrieved August 5, 2015 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Hamza wins national snooker crown in 15-frame thriller. Dawn, March 25, 2013, accessed August 8, 2015 .
- ↑ 30th Asian Snooker Championships 2014. Cue Sports India, May 3, 2014, accessed August 5, 2015 .
- ↑ Sharda Iyer: Pankaj Advani Loses ACBS Final To Hamza Akbar. Sports Rediscovered, May 2, 2015, accessed August 5, 2015 .
- ↑ With Shokat Ali was already playing a snooker professional for Pakistan, but he is born in England. Muhammad Asif, 2012 amateur world champion , could have turned pro, but he let the registration deadline pass.
- ^ Nabeel Hashmi: Visa mars Hamza's bid to feature in professional circuit. The Express Tribune, August 4, 2015, accessed August 5, 2015 .
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Akbar, Hamza |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Pakistani snooker player |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 12, 1993 |