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Continuing his winning streak,Pankaj Advani secured passage into the knockout stage of the Asian 6 Reds Snooker Championship by beating Khaled Alastal 5-0 in his third group match in Abu Dhabi on Friday. Winning 20 frames out of a possible 25 in four group matches and losing only three frames, Advani secured breaks of 75, 74, 57 and 47 in his four group matches.
Reigning world champion Pankaj Advani's medal hopes in the ongoing third Asian Indoor Games went up in smoke after he crashed out in the pre-quarterfinals of the 6-Red Snooker discipline in Hanoi, Vietnam on Monday.
The BCCI has also recommended Yuvraj Singh and former women's captain Anjum Chopra for Arjuna awards.
Fifteen other top sportspersons, including woman shuttler Aparna Popat and shooter Gagan Narang were presented the Arjuna award.
Pankaj Advani qualified for the Asian Billiards Championships after topping the selection trials.
Defending champion and top seed Manan Chandra faces a strong challenge to retain his national crown.
A list of the Indian medal winners at the 15th Asian Games in Doha.
Pankaj Advani beat Ashok Shandilya in the billiards final as India won gold and silver from the event.
National champions Alok Kumar (snooker) and Pankaj Advani (billiards) comfortably survived the first day in the Reliance Industries Indian Cue Masters League.
The 21-year-old cueist won the World billiards championship in 2005 and World snooker title in 2003.
The Indian went down to Myanmar's Kyaw Oo in the pre-quarterfinal match of the IBSF World Billiards Championships.
The Indian scored 3-0 wins against Larry Drennan of Ireland and Kiwi Paul Wereta in 150-up point format.
Pankaj Advani held his nerve to edge past David Causier of England and enter the final of the World Billiards Championship (Time format) by a mere five points, in Leeds, on Wednesday. Eyeing another grand double (points and time format in the same year) after clinching the 150-up short format title last week, the Indian ace led last year's runner-up by a comfortable 400 points at one stage before settling for a 1180-1175 victory.
After young Pankaj Advani and experienced Ashok Shandiliya fetched a gold and silver on Tuesday, it was the turn of the snooker team, comprising Aditya Mehta, Yasin Merchant and Rupesh Shah, to bring cheer to the Indian camp.
Advani, who at 19 became the youngest world champion in 2003, will lead the Indian challenge at the World Snooker Grand Prix, beginning at Pontin's, England, on Wednesday.
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.
Pankaj Advani will lead the Indian challenge in the IBSF World Snooker Championships in Jordan.
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.
Yasin Merchant and Pankaj Advani beat Devendra Joshi and Aditya Mehta to make the grade in the semi-finals of the Reid and Taylor Bombay Gymkhana InstaSnooker.
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Pankaj Advani did the star turn as India 'A' beat Thailand in the semi-finals.
Former world amateur snooker champion Pankaj Advani clinched the 71st Senior National Billiards championship in Mumbai.
They entered the semi-finals of the National Billiards and Snooker Tournament in Mumbai.
The Asian snooker champion will face a tough battle to repeat his last year's double crown winning feat in the National Billiards and Snooker championship.
The veteran cueist beat Pankaj Advani in the final to win the Senior National billiards title after nine years.
Pankaj Advani has set his eyes on a golden double at the 2006 Doha Asian Games
Pankaj Advani beat Ashok Shandilya 76-101, 101-40, 100-0, 100-32 to win the billiards final at the Asian Games.
Pankaj Advani has opted out of the Asian Under-21 Snooker Championship to concentrate on academics
The seven-time world champion joined Pankaj Advani and Sourav Kothari in the per-quarter-finals of the National Billiards Championship.
In the backdrop of the developments surrounding cricket in India, sixteen-time world champion in cuesports Pankaj Advani feels that any sports code would only yield results if athletes and measures to support them are given primacy. "The world's sports policy needs to be centred on the athletes and their requirements. Only then will it be successful," he said on the sidelines of the 3rd Kolkata Open National Invitation Snooker Championship 2017 organised by the West Bengal Billiards Association which kicked off today at the Bengal Rowing Club.
The ace cueist decided to compete in the three-ball game at the Doha Asian Games in December.
Pankaj Advani's India 'A' team went down crashing 2-7 to England at the World Snooker Team Championship.
Pankaj Advani and Geet Sethi will play in the seven-man Indian team for the Asian Billiards Championship.
India 'A' thrashed Isle of Man 3-0 in their inaugural match in the IBSF World Snooker Team Championship.
They will clash in the snooker final of the National Snooker and Billiards Championship.
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.
Joshi claimed a thrilling nine-point win in a pulsating billiards pre-quarter-final encounter to steal the day's honours in the National Billiards and Snooker championship.
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