The

2015 IBSF World Snooker Championship The 2015 IBSF World Snooker Championship was an amateur snooker tournament which took place from 9 November to 21 November 2015 in Hurghada, Egypt. It will be the 41st edition of the IBSF World Snooker Championship and also doubles as a World Sno ...

is an amateur

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tournament that took place from 9 November to 21 November 2015 in

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. It was the 41st edition of the

IBSF World Snooker Championship The IBSF World Snooker Championship (also known as the World Amateur Snooker Championship) is the premier non-professional snooker tournament in the world. The event series is sanctioned by the International Billiards and Snooker Federation. ...

and also doubled as a qualification event for the

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. The event was originally due to take place in

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, however due to the Metrojet Flight 9268 crash the tournament was relocated to

. Because of this many competitors withdrew from the competition amid safety fears, Including the entire

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n and

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n teams. This ended up leaving some of the groups featuring as little as four players who would subsequently all qualify for the knockout stage of the tournament regardless of their results in the group stage. The final would go on to feature a contest between 2003 IBSF World Snooker Champion Pankaj Advani and

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player

Zhao Xintong Zhao Xintong (; born 3 April 1997) is a Chinese professional snooker player and the reigning World Snooker Champion. He first turned professional in the 2016–17 season, aged 19, having previously recorded wins against a number of top p ...

who had previously reached the 2013 IBSF World Snooker Championship final before losing 8–4 to fellow country man

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. Number 6 seed Advani would eventually go on to win the championship defeating Xintong 8–6 in the final. Following the tournaments result Advani was offered a two-year card on the professional

for the 2016/2017 and 2017/2018 seasons. Advani had previously played on

up until September 2014, when he announced that he was relinquishing his snooker tour card in order to concentrate on his billiards career and spend more time with his family.

Results

Group Round

Group A

Group B

Group C

Group D

Group E

Group F

Group G

Group H

Group J

Group K

Group L

Group M

Group N

Group P

Group Q

Group R

Group S

Group T

Group U

Group V

Group W

Group X

Knockout rounds

Round 1

Best of 7 frames

Round 2

Best of 7 frames

Finals

Century breaks

* 141, 109, 108, 106, 105 Pankaj Advani * 136, 108 Brian Cini * 130, 102

Issara Kachaiwong Issara Kachaiwong (; born October 4, 1983, in Chanthaburi, Thailand), is a Thai former professional snooker player. Career Kachaiwong became the Thai national under-20 champion. He won the first edition of the General Cup International, defe ...

* 127

Basem Eltahhan Basem Abdullah Eltahhan (born 17 August 1982 in Alexandria, Egypt) is an Egyptian former professional snooker player. Eltahhan turned professional in 2017 winning the African Championship. Career In 2017, Eltahhan beat fellow countryman Wael Tal ...

* 126, 119, 116, 108, 105

* 126 Saqib Nasir * 122 Mohd Reza Hassan * 122

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* 122

Alex Borg Alex Borg (born 5 June 1969) is a Maltese former professional snooker player. Borg currently resides in Mellieha, Malta. Career Borg first turned professional in 1991, and regularly appeared as a wild card in the Malta Grand Prix, where throug ...

* 120

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* 119 Muhammad Sajjad * 115

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* 109, 108

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* 109

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* 107 Ben Jones * 103, 102 Lee Chun Wai * 102 Aaron Busuttil * 102

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References

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