IBSF World Championship 2011

Wow I couldn't have been more wrong. Lee is 6-2 down.

Best of 17 or 19?

Thought it was best of 19. Heard hossein won in deciding frame on last black. Sounds like a tremendous match.

(to confirm) New IBSF World Champion is 17 year old Hossein Vafaei Ayouri of Iran, victor by 10 frames to 9 - haven't found the frame scores I'm afraid, but sounds like it was a real close match, would imagine Walker is gutted after this.

Will be interesting to see if Ayouri takes up a place on the Pro Tour, would be good to have another country represented but rather lonely experience I'd imagine, especially for such a young player. His teammate Ehsan Heydari Nezhad is pretty handy too, perhaps an offer of a wild card place to Nezhad would make things easier.

Belatedly, frame-by-frame from the semis (added the quarter final ones too to the post with the quarter final results above).

Hossein Vafaei Ayouri (Iran) beat Kamal Chawla (India) 7-2
67-53, 65-43, 108(91)-09, 68-05, 74(65)-25, 56-67, 71(64)-16, 61(57)-74(65), 88(66)-36)

Lee Walker (Wales) beat Pankaj Advani (India) 7-1
68(56)-82, 61-41, 69-39, 115(115)-00, 85(85)-42, 67-28, 108(100)-33, 73(73)-52(52)

The Champion Ayouri (hoping these links work!):

http://sports.yahoo.com/top/photo?slug= ... 560543%3A1

http://sports.yahoo.com/top/photo?slug= ... -507560646

Frames scores for the final (Ayouri's scores first):

10-9 (81-30, 5-121 (116), 72 (49)-0, 103 (56)-8, 76 (40)-49 (48), 5-83 (43), 62 (57)-59 (45), 74-15, 0-92 (87), 66-9, 53 (53)-75, 73 (59)-24, 5-123 (78), 14-80 (76), 46-80 (45), 73-43, 39-79, 52-57, 58-52 (51)

... thanks to this article from the Deccan Herald:

http://www.deccanherald.com/content/209 ... preme.html