The Petroleum Sports Promotion Board cueist won the National 9-Ball Pool Championship for the fourth title.
The 12th seeded Indian cueist will meet Chan Kwok Ming of China Hong Kong in the pre-quarter-finals in the 21st Asian Snooker Championship.
Manan Chandra continued his impressive run at the IBSF World Snooker Championships with another comfortable victory even as other Indian cueists enjoyed a mixed day in Daugavpils (Latvia) on Tuesday.
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 one-sided final, the Delhi cueist got the better of the reigning world amateur snooker champion.
Veteran Alok Kumar and national snooker champion Manan Chandra were included among the probables for the 8-ball and 9-ball pool events at the Doha Asian Games in December.
Pankaj Advani defeated Aditya Mehta 54-42, 107-0, 58-23, 84-1, 82-22, 49-65, 62-60 in the final on Monday.
Pankaj Advani will lead the Indian challenge in the IBSF World Snooker Championships in Jordan.
Pankaj Advani did the star turn as India 'A' beat Thailand in the semi-finals.
The BPCL-ONGC National 9-Ball Pool Championship is held in Chembur.
Pankaj Advani's India 'A' team went down crashing 2-7 to England at the World Snooker Team Championship.
India 'A' thrashed Isle of Man 3-0 in their inaugural match in the IBSF World Snooker Team Championship.
The former world billiards champion registered a 5-3 win over Delhi's Harpreet Singh at the BPCL-ONGC 9-ball Pool Nationals.
Indian cueists upset favourites China 2-1 in the semi-finals of the Asian Open Invitational Snooker Championship.
Manan Chandra overcame maestro Geet Sethi 5-3 to win the snooker title of the Shivaji Park Gymkhana All India Open Invitation tournament
The victory got him a place in the snooker semi-final of the All India Open Invitation tournament on Saturday.
India resisted Pakistan's challenge to win the 2005 Lawrencepur Snooker Challenge 39-38 at the Karachi Club
Defending champion Alok Kumar would be defending his title in the Asian Snooker championship.
They scored thumping victories over Yasin Marchant and Sarang Shroff respectively in the semi-finals of the National Snooker Championship.
Manan Chandra overcame Geet Sethi 5-2 in an absorbing final to clinch the inaugural Nahar Group-MIG All India Invitation Snooker Championship at the MIG Club, in Bandra, Mumbai, on a rain-soaked Saturday.
The Railways cueist will take on World and Asian billiards champion Pankaj Advani in the semis of the Indian Cue Masters League 2005.
They shocked Pankaj Advani and Ashok Shandilya respectively in the CCI snooker tournament.
Both won their semi-final matches in the selection tournament.
Yasin Merchant will take on Alok Kumar in the other semi-final tomorrow to decide the second participant for the championship.
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.
Alok Kumar was blanked 0-4 by Australia's Steve Mifsud at the IBSF World Snooker championships.
Delhi's Manan Chandra and world No 1 woman cueist Kelly Fisher of England won the men's and women's titles respectively in the CCI snooker tournament.\n\n
Pakistan won the inaugural Peace Cup snooker series 43-33.
The former was beaten in the pre-quarter-finals while Chandra lost in the last eight stage, in the Asian Snooker Championships.
The second seeded former world champion was beaten by Pramual Janthad in a league match in the 21st Asian Snooker Championship.
Manan Chandra bowed out of the World Snooker championships after losing to Daniel Ward of England in the semi-final.
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.
India's ace cueist Pankaj Advani created history in Abu Dhabi by clinching the Asian 6-Red Snooker title.
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.
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.
A summary of sports events and sports persons, who made news on Thursday
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