Summary of sports events and persons who made news on Wednesday
Michael White became the youngest ever finalist when he beat the Indian in the semi-final of the World Snooker Grand Prix.
India 'A' routed USA 'B' 9-0 in the ISBF World Snooker Team Championship.
India 'A' thrashed Isle of Man 3-0 in their inaugural match in the IBSF World Snooker Team Championship.
The seven-time world champion joined Pankaj Advani and Sourav Kothari in the per-quarter-finals of the National Billiards Championship.
Pankaj Advani has opted out of the Asian Under-21 Snooker Championship to concentrate on academics
The former world billiards champion registered a 5-3 win over Delhi's Harpreet Singh at the BPCL-ONGC 9-ball Pool Nationals.
Former Asian champion Alok Kumar is the only Indian left in fray at the quarter-final stage in the World Snooker Championship.
Indian cueists upset favourites China 2-1 in the semi-finals of the Asian Open Invitational Snooker Championship.
They scored thumping victories over Yasin Marchant and Sarang Shroff respectively in the semi-finals of the National Snooker Championship.
Defending champion Alok Kumar would be defending his title in the Asian Snooker championship.
Geet Sethi, Devendra Joshi, Ashok Shandilya and Pankaj Advani stormed into the last four to create history.
The Indian combine of Pankaj Advani and Manan Chandra staged a remarkable recovery to pip Pakistan in the final of the inaugural IBSF Snooker Team World Cup.
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.
Lack of sponsors has put the world snooker champion's professional circuit plans in jeopardy.
The former world billiards champ advanced with a thumping win over Cheung Sing of Hong Kong in the IBSF World Snooker championships.
Pankaj Advani went down to Michael Lupton of Australia in the knock-out stage of the World Under-21 and Seniors Snooker Championships.
Pankaj Advani scored his sixth straight victory in the league stage at the World IBSF Snooker Championships
The Indian beat Paul Wilcock of Isle of Man in a junior section league match of the World IBSF Under-21 and Seniors Snooker championship.\n
Pankaj Advani beat Khamis Al Obaidly of Qatar 4-0 in the third round at the IBSF World\nSnooker Championships
The national champion easily beat Edward Foo Ming Fa of Singapore in the World Under-21 snooker championship.
Afer winning the points format title, the 19-year old Indian ace beat Geet Sethi in the final of the time format event.
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 other members of the team are Sourav Kothari of Kolkata and Aditya Mehta of Mumbai.
Advani easily beat Jin Long of China 4-1 while Merchant edged past Hong Kong's Chi Wai Au 4-3 in the World snooker championships.
Meanwhile, Sourav Kothari has won only two of his six matches and has very slim chances of advancing to the next stage.
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.
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.
Manan Chandra bowed out of the World Snooker championships after losing to Daniel Ward of England in the semi-final.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Michael White became the youngest ever winner of the world amateur snooker crown when he beat Mark Boyle of Scotland 10-5 in the final.
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