<a href="http://www.thenational.ae/sport/other-sport/mohammed-shehab-goes-down-fighting-in-west-asian-snooker-final">Mohammed Shehab</a> cruised into the quarter-finals of the first ever ENOC UAE Snooker Ranking Circuit tournament with a convincing victory over Essa Ali Sayed last night. He will be joined in the last eight <a href="http://www.thenational.ae/sport/other-sport/khalid-kamali-joins-uae-cueists-in-west-asian-last-16">by young Khalid Kamali</a>, who whitewashed the No 12 ranked Marwan Ibrahim, while Salem Ali, the No 5 seed, squandered a 3-1 advantage to lose to Salem bin Zeban Shehab, the top ranked player in the country, was in a fine form at the Dubai Snooker Club against Essa and won the first two frames with ease before the No 6 seed took the third. The fourth frame was decided on the black before the No 1 seed produced a break of 77 in the fifth to take the match 4-1. Kamali, the No 4 seed, set off in style with a break of 77 in the first frame and Ibrahim was unable to recover as the 19 year old raced to a highly impressive 4-0 victory. Bin Zeban set up a quarter-final clash with Shehab after clawing his way back from the brink of elimination. Salem had taken a 3-1 lead before bin Zeban reeled off three frames in a row to beat the UAE national team player 4-3. The remaining five last-16 round matches were to be played tonight with the quarter-finals taking place tomorrow night at the same venue. * Agency