Alex Borg, Duncan Bezzina and Simon Zammit travelled to India yesterday to represent Malta in the 2009 IBSF World Snooker Championships which starts in Hyderabad today.

A total of 68 players from 45 countries will compete in the championships which will be played on 20 tables at the Hyderabad International Convention Centre. There will be 96 players in the men's championships, 48 in the masters (Over 40) category while 24 ladies will compete for the women's title.

Borg and Bezzina will take part in the men's championship while Zammit will make his first appearance in the masters event.

The participants in the men's category were divided into 16 groups of six players each with the top four in each group progressing into the knock-out stages.

Borg has been drawn in Group D together with Manan Chandra of India, Faaris Khan (South Africa), James Mifsud (Australia), Alexander Gauss (Austria) and Khaled Belaid Mohamed of Libya.

Bezzina is in Group M together with Lim Chun Kiat of Singapore, Joeri Reisig (Netherlands), Bobby Cruickshanks (Scotland), Dhruv Sitwala (India) and Yu Delu, of China.

The preliminary phase of the masters category will feature eight groups of six players each with the top four advancing to the last 32.

Zammit has been drawn in Group B together with local favourite Geet Sethi, Ayyoub Alsharrat (Kuwait), Abdul Mohsen Khammis (Qatar), Clive Thomson (New Zealand) and Mostafa Aly of Egypt.

The MBSA contingent is headed by president Joe Caruana Curran who, during his stay in India, will take part in the IBSF annual general meeting scheduled for November 24.

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