14- years-old Hamza wins inaugural U16 national snooker Championship

KARACHI: what number eighth graders can be sure of their future? Very few. Be that as it may, Hamza Ilyas is a skilled cueist who has won the debut Jubilee Insurance U16 National Championship in Islamabad overcoming Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa's Kamran Albert Masih 4-0 this week.

Hamza is only 14, yet he has been playing in the national U18 circuit throughout the previous three years and feels that one day he needs to speak to Pakistan on the planet proficient circuit.

"This was the hardest title," youthful Hamza disclosed to The Express tribune, as he will plan for the National U18 Championship that will begin on Thursday. "I figured it would be simple when I begun. The challenge is extreme, I began playing in 2016 I truly enjoyed the amusement and the first occasion when I saw a snooker table, it was my dad playing on it. Be that as it may, I buckle down, I train three to four hours per day with my mentors."

As indicated by Hamza even his school International Studies in Science and Arts additionally urges him to play and it turns out to be simple for him to contend at the national occasions, when he needs to departures.

Hamza had vanquished Shaban Butt 4-2 to achieve the last, while Kamran outflanked Muhammad Umer Khan 4-3 in his semi-last.

Hamza is thinking ambitiously and trusts that just considering snooker important can get him to an expert circuit. He prepares with previous snooker stars Imran Shehzad and Farhan Mirza.

"It needs diligent work, on the off chance that anybody needs to take it, they ought to be not kidding about it," said Hamza, as he prepares in Lahore.

His most loved players that he needs to pursue are Ronnie O'Sullivan and Stephan Hendry.

He got Rs50,000 as the prize-cash, while Kamran got Rs 25,000. Likewise, the semi-finalists sacked Rs15,000 each and the quarter-finalists tightened Rs5,000 each.

At the point when asked what Hamza will do with the cash, he recently answered that he will offer it to his dad.

The U16 title had 18 top youngsters in it and as indicated by the Pakistan Billiards and Snooker Association official Naveed Kapadia the reason is the solace for the adolescent players and getting them to Islamabad where the offices for convenience are accessible effortlessly close to the snooker corridor.

In any case, will the PBSA have the capacity to send Hamza to a universal U16 occasion in the not so distant future relies upon the accessibility of assets.

"The youthful players require security and wellbeing and the motivation behind why we kept the number relatively littler at the first U16 National Championship was that it ought to be simple for the kids and they don't get tired, and their folks are fulfilled as well," said Kapadia. "In any case, it is a generally welcomed outcome. We are attempting our best to proceed on the lesser dimension as well."

Then again the Pakistan Sports Board has not been assuming the best job, as regardless of succeeding at slightest 11 decorations globally the snooker body's exceptional awards have been decreased from Rs3m to Rs1.5m.

"It is something that we don't get it. Our players have done as such well in global occasions, yet as opposed to expanding that allow they diminished it. Anyway we'll continue attempting," said Kapadia.