Sahil Nayyar Storms to Canadian Snooker Championship Crown
Sahil Nayyar beat Alan Whitfield 5-2 in the final of the 2025 Canadian Amateur Snooker Championship to win the title for the first time in his career.
The 31-year-old lifted the prestigious national championship trophy in June prior to joining the professional World Snooker Tour (WST) from the start of the 2025/26 season as a result of winning last year’s Pan-American Snooker Championship.
First staged in 1969, the Canadian Amateur Snooker Championship boasts an impressive roll of honour that includes Cliff Thorburn, Bill Werbeniuk, Kirk Stevens, Alain Robidoux and many more recognisable names.
This year’s edition saw 64 cueists competing and Nayyar stormed through his group with a clean sweep of whitewash victories over Charlie Brown, Adamo Colletti and Jesse Fox.
The eventual champion was given a scare in the last 32 as he trailed Blake Martel 2-0 in a best-of-five frame contest before turning it around with a top break of 51 to win through in a decider.
More comfortable successes against Ahmad Farid Afandi (4-0), Amar Sadeg (4-2) and Cheukyin Kwan (5-2) saw Nayyar set up a title match meeting with 2014 winner Whitfield.
The first two frames of the final were shared before Nayyar won back-to-back frames to open up a 3-1 lead at the mid-session interval.
Whitfield hit back in the next to reduce the deficit but Nayyar ultimately proved too strong as he conceded just nine points in the next two frames to get over the line as a 5-2 victor and secure the title.
