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Wednesday 15 Jiune 2016

2016 USSA National Champion Sargon Isaac
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Fantastic Isaac Defends Title to Become Three Time National Snooker Champion
Report by Alan Morris

Sargon Isaac has successfully defended his United States National Snooker Championship title by defeating Ahmed Aly Elsayed in the 2016 final at the 147 Snooker Club in Houston, Texas, to become a three times Champion.
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The 30-year-old first won the title back in 2012, though lost in the final in the following year and was heavily defeated in the semifinals in 2014; but over the past two Championships he has stepped up to the mark and has outperformed all of his closest rivals.
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As the defending champion and number one seed he was certainly the player to beat this year. He eased through his Group A matches with the loss of just one frame; was a very convincing 4-0 quarterfinal winner against Cheang Ciing Yoo; and although the alarm bells would have started to ring when he fell 2-0 behind to Raymond Fung in the semifinals, he tenaciously came back to run out a comfortable 4-2 winner.
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Number three seed Aly played impressively and composed throughout this year's Championship, and so would have gone into the match feeling positive that he could take revenge for last year's final defeat and win a fourth title. The 36-year-old from Brooklyn, New York, who last tasted success back in 2011 when he won his third title in succession, breezed through his Group C matches for the loss of just one frame; was a comfortable 4-1 winner over Rizwan Khan in the quarterfinals; and came through a testing semifinal 4-2 against the twice former champion, Ajeya Prabhakar.
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Watching the final was the veteran professional pool star and fabulous trick-shot artist Mike Massey, who himself was runner-up in this Championship back in 1993.
Isaac took his earlier form straight into the final on this Memorial Day Monday holiday as he raced away with the first frame, but Aly managed to steady the ship and seal a very good frame two, and a close match seemed to be a real prospect.

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