Mohammed Al Joaker beats Mohammed Mustafa Shehab 4-3 to clinch UAE Ramadan Championship – Snooker
Dubai’s second seeded player Mohammed Al Joaker has won the United Arab Emirates Ramadan Championship trophy, as he defeated the top seeded Mohammed Mustafa Shehab of Abu Dhabi by a frame score of 4-3 in a best-of-seven frames final match.
This event was staged at the Dubai Snooker Club on Saturday, August 27, 2011 and both UAE’s most consistent men in the game provided a great show for the audience.
Shehab, who previously whitewashed former Pakistan number one player in the semi-final, was the favourite for the match but he crashed out. For Al Joaker in the meanwhile it was an accomplishing performance as he held his nerves and staged a super comeback
to edge out his opponent.
The overall score-line between both players was 39-71, 0-123(123), 61-24, 70(60)-61, 36-64, 66-28 and 78(51)-0.
Shehab stormed into the first two frames with a match-high break of 123 to go in front at 2-0 before Al Joaker somehow managed to win the scrappy third frame to reduce the deficit at 1-2.
In the fourth frame, Shehab had a frame winning chance but he failed to utilise the opportunity and when the chance presented itself Al Joaker slotted a modest break of 60 to level the scores at 2-2.
Though Shehab pocketed the fifth frame without doing anything outstanding to leave his opponent down by one frame with two to play, he lost the following two in row.
Al Joaker showed great temperament and killed the match with a classy break of 51 in the final frame.
Al Joaker was excited with his performance and he shared his feeling with the media afterwards.
Al Joaker said, “It was a highly entertaining match and I am happy to have won the title. I haven’t played Mohammed (Shehab) in a match for a long time so naturally I was a bit wary of him. He had been playing very well and carried the form into the final.
After the first two frames something extra was required. The clearance of 60 in the fourth frame was a difficult one and it prove to be the turning point of match. If I had gone 3-1 down at the time, the result could have been different.”
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