The three-time World champion beat Paul Bennett set up a meeting with Lee Lagan, who overcame Ashok Shandilya in the other semi-final in the World billiards championship.
The Indian national champion beat compatriot Devendra Joshi in the final of the points format event.
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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Defending champion Pankaj Advani and veteran Geet Sethi entered the semi-finals of the time format in the IBSF World Billiards Championship after contrasting victories in Pune on Thursday. Sethi defeated compatriot Ashok Shandilya by a huge margin of 1230 points, while Advani beat another Indian Rupesh Shah by 595 points after trailing nearly by 170 points, at the PYC Gymkhana Club.
Defending champion Pankaj Advani opened his campaign in style, winning both his group matches, but eight-time winner Geet Sethi suffered one of the worst starts in his career, losing back-to-back league matches on the opening day of the IBSF World Billiards Championship in Pune on Friday.
The 21-year-old cueist won the World billiards championship in 2005 and World snooker title in 2003.
Reigning champion Pankaj Advani stayed on course for a second successive World Professional Billiards title after securing contrasting wins over compatriot Sushrat Pandia and England's Martin Goodwill on the opening day of the event in Leeds.
It will be an all-Petroleum Sports Promotion Board affair when Devendra Joshi clashes with Dhruv Sitwala in the final of the National Billiards Championship.
The Indian cueists were beaten by Singapore's Peter Gilchrist and Aung Htay of Myanmar respectively in the quarter-finals of the Asian Billiards Championships.
Doha Asian Games silver medallist Ashok Shandilya recorded three century breaks -- while scoring beating Chetan Chabra of Haryana in the Senior National Billiards Championship.
Pankaj Advani also made the grade in the fourth Asian Billiards Championship.
They will clash in the snooker final of the National Snooker and Billiards Championship.
Sethi was defeated England's Lee Lagan 5-6 in the final of the IBSF World Billiards championship in Hyderabad on Sunday.
Joining the Asian Games champion in the quarter-finals of the Asian billiards championship was Rupesh Shah.
18-year-old Advani went down narrowly to U Kyaw Oo of Myanmar in the last 16 in the World billiards championship.
Rishabh Thakkar and Siddarth Parikh also won their matches in the World Billiards Championship.
The former beat Geet Sethi while Joshi accounted for Alok Kumar in the quarter-finals of the World Billiards Championship.
The Indian national champion will meet C. Praput of Thailand in the title round of the Asian Billiards Championship.
The world champion retained his National junior billiards crown, beating Aditya Mehta in a one-sided final.
B Bhaskar and Siddharth Parikh are the other Indians who failed to make the last 16 in the World Billiards 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.
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.
Ashok Shandilya got back his winning ways as he registered a comfortable win over his compatriot Sourav Kothari.
Ashok Shandilya of India suffered a shock defeat against Aung San Oo of Myanmar in a thrilling tie.
'Scrapping titles like WIM, WGM and a separate women's category will kill women's interest in chess.'
The 18-year-old cueist put together two unfinished breaks of 150 as he rallied past the veteran cueist to make the knock-out round in the World billiards championship.
Fourth seed Dhruv Sitwala was beaten by unsung Loon Hong Moh of Malaysia in the World Billiards championship.
The ace Indian cueist beat John Hartely of England in the opening match of the World Billiards Championship.
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.
India's most successful cueist Pankaj Advani won the IBSF World Billiards Championship after a dominating performance against Singapore's Peter Gilchrist in the final to claim his 14th World title.
Pankaj Advani won his 25th World crown on Saturday after a resounding 4-0 victory over fellow-Indian Sourav Kothari in the 150-up billiards final at the IBSF World Championships in Kuala Lumpur on Saturday.
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.
Sheikh said Majid had no financial issues.
A summary of sports events and sports persons, who made news on Friday
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.
A summary of sports events and sports persons, who made news on Sunday
