{"id":180352,"date":"2026-02-16T17:47:09","date_gmt":"2026-02-16T17:47:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/180352\/"},"modified":"2026-02-16T17:47:09","modified_gmt":"2026-02-16T17:47:09","slug":"nijiati-lifts-maiden-q-tour-title-in-san-jose","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/180352\/","title":{"rendered":"Nijiati Lifts Maiden Q Tour Title in San Jose"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Adam Nijiati defeated Hasanain Alsultani 5-4 at the PABSA Snooker Academy in San Jose, USA to win the first WPBSA Q Tour Americas title of his career.<\/p>\n<p>The American won through a field of 24 players to become the third different winner of a Q Tour Americas event during the 2025\/26 campaign \u2013 following Brazilian double-champion Igor Figueiredo and Alan Whitfield from Canada.<\/p>\n<p>Nijiati began the three-day event strongly with a whitewash win over compatriot Paul Richardson, before showing his battling qualities to come through a dramatic deciding frame against Sargon Isaac to reach the quarter-final stage.<\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-114395\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/QTourAmericas-300x173.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"995\" height=\"574\"  \/><\/p>\n<p>Andy McCloskey, a former Q Tour Americas event winner, was up next but he proved to be no match for the Q Tour debutant as Nijiati won through as a 4-1 victor before downing Peter Du by the same scoreline to reach his maiden title match.<\/p>\n<p>Alsultani, who had previously competed in the Q Tour Global Play-Offs in 2024, awaited him in the final after he had beaten Ryan Irons (4-0), Nitin Mehta (4-2) and Ajeya Prabhakar (4-2) to reach this stage.<\/p>\n<p>The concluding match in San Jose was a closely-fought contest but it was Nijiati who once again held his nerve to get over the line and secure his maiden Q Tour title.<\/p>\n<p>The WPBSA Q Tour Global Play-Offs will take place on 15-17 March in Gandia, Spain. Further details will be announced in due course.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Adam Nijiati defeated Hasanain Alsultani 5-4 at the PABSA Snooker Academy in San Jose, USA to win the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":180353,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[85607,85608,85609,85610,85611,88,90,89],"class_list":{"0":"post-180352","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-san-jose","8":"tag-adam-nijiati","9":"tag-hasanain-alsultani","10":"tag-q-tour","11":"tag-q-tour-americas","12":"tag-q-tour-global","13":"tag-san-jose","14":"tag-san-jose-headlines","15":"tag-san-jose-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180352","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=180352"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180352\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/180353"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=180352"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=180352"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=180352"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}