This gave him the eighth seed for the final competition bracket in which he faced Ali Salem in the first round, beating the Qatari 108–103.
Muhammad Ali | Salem | Winston-Salem, North Carolina | Salem, Massachusetts | Hyder Ali | Muhammad Ali Jinnah | Ali | Muhammad Ali of Egypt | Salem, Oregon | Zulfikar Ali Bhutto | Ali Akbar Khan | Tariq Ali | Winston-Salem | Saif Ali Khan | Asif Ali Zardari | Ali Shariati | Ali Abdullah Saleh | Ali Mohammed Ghedi | Ali Khamenei | Salem, Tamil Nadu | Salem district | Salem Communications | Ali Pasha | Ali G Indahouse | Salem, New Hampshire | Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan | Husayn ibn Ali | Hasan ibn Ali | Ali Imam | Salem Saberhagen |
Ali Salem adopted the story from a US movie featured in 1967 named To Sir, with Love.