Indian cue sports maestro Pankaj Advani has won an unprecedented 14th gold medal at the Asian Snooker Championship in Doha, Qatar.
Pankaj Advani won the coveted Songhe Singapore Open title with a 5-1 win over local favourite Jaden Ong.
Pankaj Advani clinched a historic 28th World title, his seventh in a row, after outclassing England's Robert Hall 4-2 in the final.
Indian cueist Pankaj Advani rallied to win the IBSF World Billiards Championship title in Doha on Tuesday for a staggering 26th time, beating compatriot Sourav Kothari in the final.
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The Indian ace beat top seed Paithoon Phonbun of Thailand in the quarter-finals of the World Snooker Championships.
This is Advani's 40th international title and 8th Asian crown.
Ace Indian cueist Sourav Kothari clinched the 2025 IBSF World Billiards title after an emphatic victory over multiple-time winner Pankaj Advani in the final in Carlow, Ireland.
Sourav Kothari outclassed Pankaj Advani 4-2 in the final of the National Billiards and Snooker Championship in Indore on Saturday.
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.
Indian cueist Pankaj Advani won his 24th World title on Tuesday when he triumphed in the IBSF 6-Red Snooker World Cup with victory over Pakistan's Babar Masih in the final, in Doha.
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Pankaj Advani, India's most accomplished billiards and snooker player, has secured his 36th overall national title and 10th men's snooker crown at the Yashwant Club.
The second seeded former world champion was beaten by Pramual Janthad in a league match in the 21st Asian Snooker Championship.
Pankaj Advani won the Senior National Billiards Championship yet again, scoring a 5-2 victory over Sourav Kothari in a pulsating final, in Kolkata, on Tuesday.
India's ace cueist cruised into the semi-finals, beating Syria's Karam Fatima by five frames to nil, after a narrow victory earlier on Thursday in the last-16, where compatriot Ishpreet Chadha gave him a tough fight till the very last.
Pankaj Advani advanced to the final of the ONGC IBSF time-format World Billiards Championship defeating Geet Sethi 1269-1003 in Bangalore on Tuesday.
The 2005 World billiards champion routed Rupesh Shah 2-0 to maintain his unbeaten run in the Indian Cue Masters League 2005.
The world champion retained his National junior billiards crown, beating Aditya Mehta in a one-sided final.
The Indian national champion easily beat fifth seeded Brendan O'Donoghye of Ireland in the semi-finals of the World Snooker Championships.
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Pankaj Advani defeated Aditya Mehta 54-42, 107-0, 58-23, 84-1, 82-22, 49-65, 62-60 in the final on Monday.
The 21-year-old cueist will be conferred the country's highest sporting honour.
Joining the Asian Games champion in the quarter-finals of the Asian billiards championship was Rupesh Shah.
The ace cueist, the only Indian in the fray in the men's category, proved too good for Alex Borg of Malta in a 6-0 victory to improve upon his showing at the last championship when he was ousted in the quarter-finals in Bengaluru by Yan Bingtao 4-6 of China.
The Indian cueist proved too good for former World champion C Praput of Thailand in the final.
Alok stormed into the semi-finals of the PCL-Manisha Invitational Snooker Championship on Saturday.
The Indian national champion will meet C. Praput of Thailand in the title round of the Asian Billiards Championship.
The former National Snooker champion won the Indian Cue Masters League 2005 on Sunday.
The Indian national champion beat compatriot Devendra Joshi in the final of the points format event.
But Aditya Mehta failed to make it, losing in the round of 32, in the World under-21 snooker championship.
Pankaj Advani edged closer to his 28th World title, securing a spot in the final of the IBSF World Billiards Championship with a 4-2 win over fellow Indian Sourav Kothari.
India's Pankaj Advani is the new World Professional Billiards Champion. He beat the defending champion, Mark Russel, 2030-1253 to win the title.
The Bangalore-based cueist beat Devendra Joshi in the time format final 2370-2020 to add the crown to the points format one he captured last week.
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.
Pankaj Advani defeated Ehsan Heydari Nezhad of Iran 6-4 in the final to win the inaugural Asian Snooker Tour title, in Bengaluru, on Thursday. India's ace cueist and 21-time World billiards and snooker champion, won 52-40, 66(58)-0, 1-63(62), 78-4, 35-47, 0-51, 47-35, 38-39, 53(49)-35, 51(50)-20.
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