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Merchant showed the door to Alok Kumar 4-2 in a well-fought quarter-final clash.
The Indian scored 3-0 wins against Larry Drennan of Ireland and Kiwi Paul Wereta in 150-up point format.
A summary of sports events and sports persons, who made news on Wednesday
The Petroleum Sports Promotion Board cueist beat Rupesh Shah of Gujarat by six frames to five in a nail-biting final.
The 21-year-old cueist will be conferred the country's highest sporting honour.
Pankaj Advani will lead the Indian challenge in the IBSF World Snooker Championships in Jordan.
Pankaj Advani beat Ashok Shandilya 76-101, 101-40, 100-0, 100-32 to win the billiards final at the Asian Games.
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.
The 2005 World billiards champion routed Rupesh Shah 2-0 to maintain his unbeaten run in the Indian Cue Masters League 2005.
The 33-year-old from Bengaluru overcame Nay Thway Oo of Myanmar in a high-quality final. After bossing the '150-up' format, Advani will now compete in the longer version, 'Up' format, commences immediately.
They entered the semi-finals of the National Billiards and Snooker Tournament in Mumbai.
England is the only other country, where a professional national league has been existent.
The Indian Olympic Association has decided to include cue sports in the 2010 Commonwealth Games to be held in Delhi
The PSCB cueist beat reigning champion Vidya Pillai to win the women's title in the women's crown in the National snooker championships.
Pankaj Advani and Geet Sethi will play in the seven-man Indian team for the Asian Billiards Championship.
The World billiards champion begins his quest for the one title that has eluded him on Sunday.
The junior national billiards and snooker champion proved too good for the former world champ in the semi-finals of the Senior National billiards championship.
The former National Snooker champion won the Indian Cue Masters League 2005 on Sunday.
Women cueists would get a maiden opportunity to prove their prowess in any mutli-discipline event at the 2006 Doha Asian Games
The three-time world amateur billiards champion says Indian cueists have a good chance of winning medals in the sport at the Doha Asian Games.
Six of the seven members of the Indian team made it to the knock out stage of the time format event at the World Billiard championship.
The national champion was stretched by Neeta Sanghvi in the Bombay Gymkhana All India Ladies Open Snooker Tournament.
It was a win-win situation for the Indian cue sport on the occasion of Independence Day as the Pankaj Advani-led India B secured a gold while India A bagged a silver in the inaugural World Billiards Team Championship in Glasgow on Friday.
TOP Scheme shows how sport treated unequally in India, says Pankaj Advani.
The other members of the team are Sourav Kothari of Kolkata and Aditya Mehta of Mumbai.
The 23-year-old was runner-up at the Junior National snooker championship.
India's first world champion not only won hearts by his showing on the green baize but also with his charisma.
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.
Major Bikramjeet Kanwarpal succumbed to COVID-19 on May 1. After retiring from the Indian Army, the major became a successful actor in films and television. An old friend salutes a wonderful human being.
Advani conquered the ACBS Asian Snooker events - 6-red (short format) and 15-red (long format) - along with the IBSF World Championships in both formats too.
Pankaj Advani continued his dream run in the Welsh Open Pro Snooker Series as the eight-time world champion on Thursday rewrote history by entering the quarter-finals of a major ranking event, defeating Scotland's Graeme Dott 4-1 at Newport, Wales.
2019 became a 'Year to Remember' in Indian sports for trailblazing performances in Olympic disciplines
Pankaj Advani on Wednesday created history by becoming the first Indian cueist ever to reach the pre-quarterfinals of the BetVictor Welsh Open Pro Snooker Series, defeating former world champion, England's Shaun Murphy, 4-3 at Newport, Wales.
Summary of sports events and persons who made news on Sunday
Eight-time world champion Pankaj Advani says he is playing the best snooker of his life on the Pro circuit and now wants to pass on his vast experience to the new generation of Indian cueists who aspire to compete at the highest level.
While Aditya Mehta, ranked 80th in the world, outclassed Lee Spick 5-2, Pankaj Advani spanked Justin Astley 5-1.
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