In the backdrop of the developments surrounding cricket in India, sixteen-time world champion in cuesports Pankaj Advani feels that any sports code would only yield results if athletes and measures to support them are given primacy. "The world's sports policy needs to be centred on the athletes and their requirements. Only then will it be successful," he said on the sidelines of the 3rd Kolkata Open National Invitation Snooker Championship 2017 organised by the West Bengal Billiards Association which kicked off today at the Bengal Rowing Club.
The Indian national champion was beaten by Pakistan's Saleh Mohammad in the knock-out stage of the World Snooker Championships.
Pankaj Advani led with back-to-back wins as Indian cueists had a field day in the IBSF World Snooker championships.
However, National champion Manan Chandran was taken the distance by Ben Farnworth of New Zealand in the World snooker championships.
Alok Kumar was blanked 0-4 by Australia's Steve Mifsud at the IBSF World Snooker championships.
World snooker champions Advani will receive Rs 100,000 and a citation, while Chinappa, winner of three squash titles including the British Open, will get Rs 50,000.\n\n
Former national champion Alok Kumar also stayed on course for a place in the knock-out round atthe World Snooker championships.
Yasin Merchant, Pankaj Advani and Alok Kumar posted easy victories on day 3 of the World snooker championship.
The Indian challenge in the World Under-21 Snooker Championship ended with the former losing in the pre-quarters and the latter in the quarter-finals.
The defending champion blanked John Loh Ei Loong of Malaysia to stay on course for a clean sweep in Group D in the World Under-21 snooker championship.
But Aditya Mehta failed to make it, losing in the round of 32, in the World under-21 snooker championship.
The Indian cueist's showing earned him the top seeding in the knock-out round in the world under-21 snooker championship.
But Aditya Mehta and Sourav Kothari lost in the preliminary rounds in the Under-21 World Snooker championships.
Pankaj Advani, Aditya Mehta and Sourav Kothari won their matches in the under-21 World snooker championship.
But former champion Yasin Merchant failed to make it, losing in the quarter-finals, in the Asian Snooker Championship.
Pakistan won the inaugural Peace Cup snooker series 43-33.
The third seeded Indian ace lost to the second seeded Irishman 2-4 in the World Snooker Championships.
Aditya Mehta beat Chris Martin 4-2 to enter the knock-out stage in the juniors section of the IBSF World snooker championships.
The former was beaten in the pre-quarter-finals while Chandra lost in the last eight stage, in the Asian Snooker Championships.
The second seeded former world champion was beaten by Pramual Janthad in a league match in the 21st Asian Snooker Championship.
BSFI president P N Roy said Advani's World Championship win will encourage youngsters to take to snooker in greater numbers.
But former Asian champion Yasin Merchant and Alok Kumar bowed out of the world Snooker Championships.
Manan Chandra bowed out of the World Snooker championships after losing to Daniel Ward of England in the semi-final.
They scored narrow victories over Ding Junhui and Mark Allen respectively in the semis of the World under-21 snooker championship.
The Indian champion went down to Australian professional Neil Robertson in the quarter-finals of the World Under-21 snooker championship
The sixth seed beat giant-killer Rushabh Thukral 6-1 in NSCI Invitational Snooker Championship.
World champion Advani beat Jessada Posukarn of Thailand 5-0 while Mehta shocked eighth seed Mark Allen of Northern Ireland 5-4 in the World under-21 snooker championship.
The Indian national champion easily beat fifth seeded Brendan O'Donoghye of Ireland in the semi-finals of the World Snooker Championships.
The 34-year-old, who won his fourth straight final in the 150-up format, has brought home a World trophy every year ever since returning from a professional stint in the UK in 2014.
The Indian champion overcame a late challenge from Tian Pengfei of China to make the grade in the World Under-21 snooker championship.
The 19-year-old Indian cueist beat second seed Saleh Mohammad of Pakistan in the final.
The ace cueist, the only Indian in the fray in the men's category, proved too good for Alex Borg of Malta in a 6-0 victory to improve upon his showing at the last championship when he was ousted in the quarter-finals in Bengaluru by Yan Bingtao 4-6 of China.
India's top cueist Pankaj Advani lost to China's Lv Haotian in the summit clash of Asian Snooker Championship in Doha on Friday, as he failed in his bid to win the continental double of billiards and snooker titles in the same year.
President Ram Nath Kovind and Prime Minister Narendra Modi, on Thursday, hailed Saikhom Mirabai Chanu's gold-medal winning effort at the Weightlifting World Championship in Anaheim, USA.
Highly talented Welshman Michael White capped a splendid run by claiming his maiden ranking title when he blanked World No 8 Ricky Walden 5-0 in a one-sided final of the Indian Open Snooker Championship in Mumbai on Saturday.
India's ace cueist Pankaj Advani created history in Abu Dhabi by clinching the Asian 6-Red Snooker title.
Manan Chandra continued his impressive run at the IBSF World Snooker Championships with another comfortable victory even as other Indian cueists enjoyed a mixed day in Daugavpils (Latvia) on Tuesday.
Pankaj Advani and Manan Chandra stormed into the last-32 stage, even as Kamal Chawla crashed out, in the Seaways IBSF World Snooker Championships, at the Sree Kanteerava Indoor Stadium, in Bengaluru, on Wednesday. Advani, the 2003 World champion, prevailed over young Tomasz Skalski of Belgium 4-2, but not before facing the threat of being knocked.
Pocketing his 13th World title, ace cueist Pankaj Advani feels that an IPL-like league in snooker or billiards would be a possibility in the game that has become financially rewarding.
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