Mohamed Khairy and Hossein Vafaei Ayouri all set for pro snooker tour

Egypt’s Mohamed Khairy and Iran’s Hossein Vafaei Ayouri performed brilliantly in the International Billiards and Snooker Federation (IBSF) circuit and were able to claim the professional tour spot in the 2012-13 and 2013-14 snooker seasons.

Khairy and Ayouri were selected for performing brilliantly in the African Snooker Championship and Asian Snooker Championship. Both potters are now all set to take part in the pro circuit and give their best.

According to the new set of rules for the professional circuit, 128 cuemen will be given a chance to try their luck in the professional circuit for the next two years. Before this reform, 100 potters from around the world used to have a place in the professional circuit.

While speaking to World Snooker about Khairy’s selection, the WPBSA Chairman Jason Ferguson said, “We welcome Mohamed Khairy to the tour and we are pleased to have given Africa representation for the first time. Part of our strategy to globalise snooker is to work with the five Olympic regions – Europe, Asia, Africa, the Americas and Oceania – and to assist the growth of our sport in those areas.”

Meanwhile, Ayouri was quite excited about his selection and expressed his joy saying, “I am very excited and determined to succeed on the pro circuit. I have played as a wild card in two ranking events in China and I can’t wait to play in the big tournaments.”

The new professional circuit of the 2012-13 Snooker Season will commence with the launch of Players Tour Championship (PTC) but before that the World Snooker Qualifying School (Q School) will start to feature 12 more amateurs to play in the professional circuit.

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