Teenager Hossein Vafaei Ayouri has won the 2011 IBSF World Championship following a dramatic 10-9 victory over Welshman Lee Walker in India.
The International Billiards & Snooker Federation is the world governing body for all of non-professional snooker and this event has a long and illustrious history with the likes of Jimmy White and Ken Doherty emerging victorious in the past.
17 year-old Vafaei was one of the pre-knockout phase favourites having come through the round robin stage as the top seed and maintained his form to memorably lift the trophy.
Walker is a former professional who has reached the quarter-finals of the professional World Championship at the Crucible and staged an impressive comeback from 6-3 and 9-7 behind to force what became a very nervy decider.
Vafaei got in first but his opponent responded and looked set to clear the table only to appear to miss championship winning ball on the pink – judging by the visuals provided by live scoring on the IBSF website.
Wasting little time, the pink and final black were sunk to grant a historic victory that offers Vafaei a nomination onto the professional Main Tour for the 2012/13 campaign.
If that eventuality was to materialise, he will become the first professional player from Iran, which is surely a positive for a sport that has often had potential in the Middle East.
Three Irish players competed in Bangalore – with Brendan O’Donoghue the best of the trio, losing to the eventual champion in the last 8.
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