Defending champion Pankaj Advani and veteran Geet Sethi reigned supreme at the green baize to enter the semi-finals in the Point-format of IBSF World Billiards Championship in Pune on Sunday.
Defending champion Pankaj Advani came one step closer towards registering a hat-trick of titles, beating Myanmar's Kyaw Oo 5-3 in the semi-finals of the Asian Billiards championship in Indore, on Wednesday. Advani will face Singapore's Peter Gilchrist, whom he had beaten in the final in Pune last year, in the best-of-11-frames final on Thursday.
Ace Indian cueist Pankaj Advani capped his Asian Indoor Games campaign by winning a bronze medal in the English Billiards singles category in Hanoi, Vietnam.
The 34-year-old Gujarat cueist beat countryman Ashok Shandilya by six frames to four in the final.
The Indian went down to Myanmar's Kyaw Oo in the pre-quarterfinal match of the IBSF World Billiards Championships.
18-year-old Advani went down narrowly to U Kyaw Oo of Myanmar in the last 16 in the World billiards championship.
The Indian national champion will meet C. Praput of Thailand in the title round of the Asian Billiards Championship.
The seven-time World champion lost to Thailand's C Praput while defending champion Devendra Joshi was beaten by Pankaj Advani in the Asian Billiards Championship.
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