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NST Online : 11 October 2008
RUSSIA, led by 16-year-old wonderkid Ruslan Chinakhov, dumped Malaysia’s Ibrahim Amir and Benjamin Lee 8-4 in the opening round of the World Cup of Pool (doubles event) in Rotterdam, the Netherlands, on Thursday.
Chinakhov paired with former European No 1 Konstantin Stephanov, lost the first rack to the Malaysians but tightened [...]

The Star Online : 10 October 2008
PETALING JAYA: Top national pool player Ibrahim Amir (pic) has qualified for the final round of the Guinness Asian 9-Ball Tour, which will be held in Jakarta on Oct 24-26.
After five legs, Ibrahim accumulated 100 points to finish in 10th spot ahead of wild card entry Ricky Wang of [...]

NST Online : 8 October 2008
By : AJITPAL SINGH
MALAYSIA’S Ibrahim Amir and Benjamin Lee face a daunting task in today’s World Cup of Pool (doubles event) as they have been drawn against 15th seeds Russia in the opening round in Rotterdam, the Netherlands.
This is the first time Ibrahim will partner Benjamin in the World Cup.
However, [...]

NST Online : 7 October 2008
By Ajitpal Singh
IBRAHIM Amir has been given a reprieve and will compete in the Guinness Nine-Ball Grand finals in Jakarta after the organisers decided to increase the number of players from 10 to 11 for the Oct 24-26 event.
This was confirmed by organisers Guinness and ESPN in an e-mail to [...]

NST Online : 23 September 2008
BY : AJITPAL SINGH
IBRAHIM Amir has been robbed of a chance to compete in next month’s Guinness Nine-Ball Pool Tour Grand finals in Jakarta after the organisers decided to snatch his ticket away and award it to a player from the host country.
The Grand finals were supposed to pit the [...]

NST Online : 22 September 2008
By : Ajitpal Singh
IT would be a folly to tip Ibrahim Amir to win the inaugural RM15,000 National Nine-Ball Pool Championships which starts today in Bandar Sunway as the 47-year-old will skip the later stages of the competition to compete in the World 10-Ball event in Manila on Sept [...]

NST Online : 20 September 2008
By : AJITPAL SINGH
IBRAHIM Amir played the game of his life to beat Jeffrey De Luna of the Philippines 9-6, but still failed to make the quarter-finals of the Guangzhou-leg of the Guinness Asian Nine-Ball Pool Tour yesterday.
However, the victory against De Luna, a semi-finalist at last year’s World Championships [...]

NST Online : 19 September 2008
By Ajitpal Singh
POOL player Ibrahim Amir only needs to win a match in the last leg of the Guinness Asian Nine-Ball Tour, starting in Guangzhou today, to qualify for the tour’s grand finals and the World Championships.
The 47-year-old Ibrahim is currently ninth on the Tour’s leaderboard with 80 points [...]

NST Online : 17 September 2008
By : AJITPAL SINGH
NATIONAL No 1 Ibrahim Amir and Benjamin Lee have managed to secure funding from private sponsors to compete in the inaugural US$400,000 (RM1,382,496) World 10-Ball Pool Championships in the Philippines on Sept 29-Oct 5.
The duo had to look for sponsors after the Malaysian Snooker and Billiards Federation [...]