Myanmar will host Asian Billiards Championships and U-21 Asian Snooker Championships here in April, local media reported in this week's issue.
Asian Billiards Championships and U-21 Asian Snooker Championships, scheduled on April 5-12, will be held at Dusit InyaLake Hotel in Yangon, and Myanmar has chosen 12 competitors - six billiards players and six snooker players, for the tournaments, the Myanmar Times said.
The selected Myanmar billiards players are Kyaw Oo, Aung Htay, Aung San Oo, Nay Thway Oo, Si Thu and Karsin. Kyaw Oo, who is Myanmar's top billiard player, grabbed the billiards doubles title at the 24th Southeast Asian (SEA) Games in Thailand in December 2007 with compatriot Aung San Oo the second consecutive time, and he also finished third at the 36th World Billiards Championship in Singapore in September the same year, it said.
Myanmar is one of the billiards powerhouses of Asia, having a long history of good results in international billiards tournaments.
Aung San Oo triumphed in the 2006 Asian Billiards Championship and Aung Htay was last year's Asian billirads bronze medallist.
Myanmar's major opponents will be competitors from India, Singapore, Thailand and Vietnam as they have some world class players who have won world titles in recent years and India appears to be the toughest opponent, said the weekly quoted Kyaw Oo, adding that "we are used to competing with them and I believe we can achieve some good results at the tournament."
At the World Billiards Championship in Singapore last year, Kyaw Oo beat Pankaj Advani, former world champion of India, in the knockout stage and Peter Gilchrist, defending Asian Billiards champion and former world billiards champion, in the quarter finals, while Nay Thway Oo also defeated Peter Gilchrist.
The selected Myanmar snooker players who will participate in the tournament are Arkar, Naing Lin Thu, Aung Zaw, Parakay, Hein Lwin Moe and Win Khaing.
Source:Xinhua
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