Pankaj Advani held his nerve to edge past David Causier of England and enter the final of the World Billiards Championship (Time format) by a mere five points, in Leeds, on Wednesday. Eyeing another grand double (points and time format in the same year) after clinching the 150-up short format title last week, the Indian ace led last year's runner-up by a comfortable 400 points at one stage before settling for a 1180-1175 victory.
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.
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.
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India's most successful cueist Pankaj Advani on Saturday added another feather in his cap by winning the IBSF World Snooker Championship after battling past his Chinese opponent Zhua Xintong in the final to take his World title count to 15.
Both won their semi-final matches in the selection tournament.
The 33-year-old kept churning out world titles, proving that his game was getting better with age and there was a long way to go before his hunger for trophies could be satiated.
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.
Aditya Mehta set up a mouth-watering quarter-final against compatriot Pankaj Advani after ending the challenge of double World champion Mark Williams in the Indian Open snooker tournament in Delhi on Thursday. Mehta became only the second Indian cueist, after Advani, to reach the quarter-final of a world ranking snooker event with a 4-2 victory over the world No 18.
Pankaj Advani has won a staggering eight world titles in the last three years and he continues to go about his business unassumingly, as if he is expected to lap up the trophies every season.
Pakistan's Imran Shahzad capitalised on the largesse to cut India's lead on day 1 of the \nLawrencepur Snooker Challenge.
While Aditya Mehta, ranked 80th in the world, outclassed Lee Spick 5-2, Pankaj Advani spanked Justin Astley 5-1.
India's leading cueists, Pankaj Advani and Aditya Mehta, bowed out of the third European Players Tour Championship (PTC) of the season -- the Bluebell Wood Open -- after suffering defeats in their respective round matches at the Doncaster Dome in Sheffield.
The Indian champion went down to Australian professional Neil Robertson in the quarter-finals of the World Under-21 snooker championship
A summary of sports events and sports persons, who made news on Wednesday
The 21-year-old cueist won the World billiards championship in 2005 and World snooker title in 2003.
Pankaj Advani, Alok Kumar and Yasin Merchant scored their third straight victories make it to the knock-out phase in the Asian Snooker Championship.
The ace Indian cueist beat John Hartely of England in the opening match of the World Billiards Championship.
National champion Alok Kumar blanked Praput Chaithanasukan of Thailand 6-0 to win the Asian Billiards Championship at the Olympic Stadium of Kish Island, Iran, on Thursday.
Ace shuttler Saina Nehwal walked away with the Sports Person of the Year award for 2008-09, while World billiards champion Pankaj Advani and cricketer Virender Sehwag shared the honour for 2007-08 at the ninth PSPB annual awards in Delhi on Wednesday night.
They scored easy victories over Ashik Shandilya and Devendra Joshi respectively in the semi-finals of the IBSF World Billiards Time Format Championship.
Pankaj Advani, Aditya Mehta and Sourav Kothari won their matches in the under-21 World snooker championship.
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A summary of sports events and sports persons, who made news on Sunday
Indian ace cueist Pankaj Advani lost a thriller 3-4 against young Scottish rival Rhys Clark to exit the 300,000 pound sterling Indian Open World Ranking Snooker Tournament in Mumbai on Tuesday.
Yasin Merchant, Pankaj Advani and Alok Kumar posted easy victories on day 3 of the World snooker championship.
Led by Asian champion Pankaj Advani and former champion Geet Sethi all the Indians reached the last 16 stage in the IBSF World Billiards championship.
Fresh from a two-month break, ace Indian cueist Pankaj Advani is eyeing a good start in the new season with the Six-Red National Championships to be held in Bangalore from March 7-16.
India's leading cueist Aditya Mehta's dream run in the Indian Open snooker tournament continues. The 28-year-old from Mumbai beat compatriot Pankaj Advani 4-3 to enter the semi-finals, in New Delhi, on Thursday night.
In the women's section, Anuja Thakur created a flutter by advancing to the semi-finals in her maiden appearance at the World Snooker championship.
Pakistan won the inaugural Peace Cup snooker series 43-33.
Pankaj Advani led with back-to-back wins as Indian cueists had a field day in the IBSF World Snooker championships.
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