India's Aditya Mehta registered his third victory with a 4-0 thrashing of Karam Fatima of Syria, in the 28th Asian Snooker Championships in Doha, Qatar, on Monday.
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India's Pankaj Advani crashed out of the UK Players Tour Championship after suffering a 4-0 defeat to England's Michael in Gloucester on Saturday.
Former World women's billiards champion M Chitra finally won her maiden national title after years of toil, defeating Neena Praveen of Tamil Nadu 3-1 in the final of the snooker event at Manisha-National Billiards and Snooker championship in Pune on Sunday.
True to his reputation, local lad Pankaj Advani entered the semi-finals of the IBSF World Snooker Championship, defeating Belgium's Peter Bullen 6-2, in Banaglore, on Friday. Advani will meet Wales's Lee Walker, who caused a major upset, defeating former World snooker champion Thepchaiya Un-Nooh of Thailand 6-2.
Continuing his winning streak, ace India cueist Pankaj Advani scripted a sizzling victory to enter the pre-quarter-finals in the IBSF World Snooker Championship at KSBA auditorium, Bangalore, on Thursday. The seven-time World champion's 5-0 demolition of Ireland's Mark Tuite will boost his self-belief, which is a bit low in the event of not being able to win a single international title this year. Advani won 73-24, 77-36, 61-23, 92-0, 57-43.
The IBSF World Men's Snooker Championship, which was originally scheduled to take place in Bahrain, will now be held in Bangalore from November 28 to December 3.
Defending champion Pankaj Advani crashed out of the 78th National Snooker Championship after losing to club-mate Alok Kumar in the quarter-finals, in Chennai, on Monday. He lost 59-27, 47-58, 63-31, 76-63, 44-73, 67-66, 66-58.
India's Pankaj Advani faced few problems in defeating Finland's Antti Silvo 4-1 in a Group D tie to storm into the knockout stages of the IBSF World Snooker Championship in Bangalore on Wednesday.
Ace Indian cueist Yasin Merchant will have to wait till Wednesday to know whether he will make it to the knock-out stages of the IBSF World Snooker Championship after losing to England's Martin O'Donnel on the second day in Bangalore, on Tuesday.
Former Asian and National champion Ashok Shandilya of Railways failed to qualify for the Senior National Snooker Championship after losing 2-3 to Tamil Nadu's Nigel Lazar in Chennai on Thursday. Lazar, making a comeback to the National Championship after a gap of 14 years, entered the main draw after a 47-56, 62-51, 14-70, 74-42, 64-49 victory.
Ronnie O'Sullivan beat fellow-Briton Ali Carter 18-11 to win the World snooker championship for the fourth time on Monday.
Promising 16-year-old cueist from Pakistan Hunain displayed good skills along with a fine temperament to outwit India's Lalit Dahiya by 4 frames to 3 on day two of the 13th ONGC Asian Under-21 Snooker Championship in Goa.
India' Pankaj Advani and Aditya Mehta continued their winning streaks by securing a place in the semi-final of the Asian Snooker Championship, while Kamal Chawla failed to qualify for the last four stage in Indore on Friday.
In a major upset, Pakistan's top seed Mohammad Sajjad was ousted from the Asian Snooker Championship, even as India's Pankaj Advani, I H Manudev, Kamal Chawla and Aditya Mehta secured places in the last 16, in Indore on Wednesday.
Summary of all that made news on Monday
Ace Indian cueist Pankaj Advani on stormed into the finals of the IBSF World Snooker championships after defeating Rodney Goggins of Ireland 7-4 in Damascus, Syria.
Geet Sethi shrugged off a first frame deficit to thrash Kuwait's Ayyoub Alsharrah in the Masters category, while World champion Pankaj Advani continued his brilliant run in the men's event, defeating compatriot Sandeep Gulati, in the IBSF World Snooker Championships, in Hyderabad, on Thursday.
Mumbai's Aditya Mehta, the lone Indian on the world professional circuit, lived up to his reputation, defeating former champion Alok Kumar of Punjab 6-2, to clinch the title in the 78th National snooker championship in Chennai on Tuesday. Mehta won the best-of-11 frames final 66-6, 6-63, 72-65, 67-41, 67-10, 74-58, 43-52, 82-5 in three hours.
India's top cueist Pankaj Advani fought off a stiff resistance from Keen Hoo Moh of Malaysia to notch up a 4-2 win in his opening match in the Seaways IBSF World Snooker Championship in Bangalore.
Ace cueist Geet Sethi squandered chances galore and suffered a shock 3-4 defeat against unheralded Costas Konnaris of Cyprus in the Masters' category quarter-finals as the Indian challenge ended in the World Snooker Championships in Hyderabad on Monday.
India's top cueist Pankaj Advani stormed into the final of the Asian Snooker Tour's second leg event after impressive wins in the quarter-finals and semi-finals.
Young Rishabh Pandya stunned ace Geet Sethi 4-2 to enter the quarter-finals of the Matunga Gymkhana-BSAM-Pidilite 6-Red All India Open Snooker Championship in Mumbai on Sunday.
Pankaj Advani and Geet Sethi hardly broke a sweat but compatriot Yasin Merchant had to toil for his win in the IBSF World Snooker Championship in Hyderabad.
Indian cueist Alok Kumar registered his fourth victory in as many group matches to reach the knock-out stage in the men's event of the ONGC-IBSF World Snooker Championship in Hyderabad on Wednesday. The 41-year-old, who is yet to loose a frame in four matches played so far, thrashed Ryan Somaratna of Sri Lanka 4-0 to reach the round of 64 at the International Convention Centre.
It was a day of mixed fortunes for Indian cueists as Geet Sethi was beaten by Clive Thomson (New Zealand) while star attraction Pankaj Advani and veteran Yasin Merchant maintained their winning streaks in the IBSF World Snooker Championship in Hyderabad on Tuesday.
Veteran cueist Geet Sethi survived a scare against Malta's Simon Zammit, while Pankaj Advani had a field day against Moosa Saleem of Mauritius on the second day of the ONGC-World Snooker Championship in Hyderabad on Monday.
India's ace cueist Pankaj Advani staged a late comeback to beat compatriot Aditya Mehta in the quarter-finals of the Asian Snooker Championship, in Doha, on Thursday. In what was going to be a clear upset, Mehta was a frame away from ousting the 21-time World champion from the tournament but Advani's resilient efforts saw him enforce the decider and register a 5-4 (0-99(99), 1-60, 64-50, 97(72)-0, 35-90, 113(105)-0, 8-107(107), 61-16, 72-48) victory.
China's 14-year-old Yan Bingtao scripted a sensational upset on Friday, sending 12-time World champion Pankaj Advani packing with a 6-4 victory in the quarter-finals of the Seaways IBSF World Snooker Championship, at the Sree Kanteerava indoor stadium, in Bengaluru.
Shabaz, representing Petroleum Sports Promotion Board, trounced Shravan of Maharashtra 82-38 54-67 54-20 65-26 while Andhra Pradesh's K Someswara Rao thrashed Druv Sitwala of PSPB 58-1 49-27 61-73 39-58 43-34 in the Senior Snooker draw of the ongoing National Billiards and Snooker Championship in Hyderabad.
Continuing his winning streak,Pankaj Advani secured passage into the knockout stage of the Asian 6 Reds Snooker Championship by beating Khaled Alastal 5-0 in his third group match in Abu Dhabi on Friday. Winning 20 frames out of a possible 25 in four group matches and losing only three frames, Advani secured breaks of 75, 74, 57 and 47 in his four group matches.
Pankaj Advani defeated Aditya Mehta 54-42, 107-0, 58-23, 84-1, 82-22, 49-65, 62-60 in the final on Monday.
The India-Pakistan Peace Cup snooker and a kabaddi series between the countries was cancelled owing to the 'tense' situation in the wake of the recent serial blasts in Mumbai.
World champion Pankaj Advani, former world champion Geet Sethi and former Asian champion Alok Kumar lost to lesser-known cueists in the pre-quarter-finals of the National Billiards Championship.
While Sethi lost to Sourav Kothari, Joshi was beaten by Yogesh Rai in the league stage of the Senior National billiards championship.
Pankaj Advani will lead the Indian challenge in the IBSF World Snooker Championships in Jordan.
Thailand's Supoj Saenia swamped India's Yasin Merchant 7-0 to win the Asian Snooker Championship title.
The Indian cueist will take on Supoj Saenia of Thailand in Sunday's final.
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