The Indian ace beat top seed Paithoon Phonbun of Thailand in the quarter-finals of the World Snooker Championships.
The former world billiards champ advanced with a thumping win over Cheung Sing of Hong Kong in the IBSF World Snooker championships.
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.
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
Seven-time world billiards champion Geet Sethi believes Pankaj Advani has the potential to win 10 world billiards titles.
India's world snooker champion says the two cueists will be his main challengers at next month's Asian championships in Jordan.
Lack of sponsors has put the world snooker champion's professional circuit plans in jeopardy.
India beat Thailand 2-1 to win the Asian Open Invitational Snooker team championship.
Baseball and softball officially applied for inclusion in the Tokyo 2020 Olympics on Thursday as they look to earn back their spot in the Games they lost after 2008.
The national champion easily beat Edward Foo Ming Fa of Singapore in the World Under-21 snooker championship.
Stevens went through to his second World snooker final beating Ian McCulloch while Murphy scored over Peter Ebdon.
The Tamil Nadu lady gave national champion Meenal Thakur a huge scare before bowing out in the quarter-finals in the Bombay Gymkhana women's snooker tournament.
Defending champion Anuja and National champion Meenal romped into the quarter-finals in the Bombay Gymkhana All India Ladies Open Snooker Tournament.
The defending champion beat MP's Dr. Renu Bharkatiya to enhance her quarter-final chances in the Bombay Gymkhana All India Ladies Open Snooker Tournament.
The 28-year-old Scot achieved the feat during the second round of the British Open.
Asian Games gold medallist Rafath Habib clinched a narrow win for the Indians in the first Rexello Castors Peace Cup snooker Test.
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.
They shocked Pankaj Advani and Ashok Shandilya respectively in the CCI snooker tournament.
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.
Meanwhile, Sourav Kothari has won only two of his six matches and has very slim chances of advancing to the next stage.
Manan Chandra bowed out of the World Snooker championships after losing to Daniel Ward of England in the semi-final.
World snooker champions Advani will receive Rs 100,000 and a citation, while Chinappa, winner of three squash titles including the British Open, will get Rs 50,000.\n\n
The Indian challenge in the World Under-21 Snooker Championship ended with the former losing in the pre-quarters and the latter in the quarter-finals.
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.
Sarang Shroff and Rishabh Thukral respectively accounted for their scalps in the NSCI snooker tournament.
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.
Former national champion Alok Kumar also stayed on course for a place in the knock-out round atthe World Snooker championships.
The former was beaten in the pre-quarter-finals while Chandra lost in the last eight stage, in the Asian Snooker Championships.
Yasin Merchant, Pankaj Advani and Alok Kumar posted easy victories on day 3 of the World snooker championship.
The second seeded former world champion was beaten by Pramual Janthad in a league match in the 21st Asian Snooker Championship.
Hurt at missing out on Padma Bhushan award for the second year in a row, 16-time world champion cueist Pankaj Advani says he does not know what he needs to do more to receive the coveted civilian honour.
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
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.
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