Sourav Kothari outclassed Pankaj Advani 4-2 in the final of the National Billiards and Snooker Championship in Indore on Saturday.
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.
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.
Pankaj Advani clinched a historic 28th World title, his seventh in a row, after outclassing England's Robert Hall 4-2 in the final.
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 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.
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.
Sourav Kothari amassed huge breaks of 407, 295 and 170 in a display of relentless scoring to register a comfortable 1047-663 win over Pankaj Advani.
Defending champion Sourav Kothari continued his spectacular show to outperform multiple-time world champion Mike Russell of England and enter his second consecutive World Billiards (long-up) final.
Rupesh Shah caused a major upset at the World Billiards Championship when he defeated seven-time World champion and compatriot Geet Sethi in the 'Long up' format and advanced into the pre-quarters of the event, in Leeds, on Tuesday.
Seven-time World champion Pankaj Advani, veteran Geet Sethi and Dhruv Sitwala continued their unbeaten run in the Time Format after outplaying their rivals in the World Billiards Championships in Leeds on Sunday.
Sourav Kothari caused the biggest upset of the tournament, beating Pankaj Advani in the final, to win the Rs 3,10,000 Nahar-MIG All India Invitation Snooker Championship 2010 in Mumbai on Wednesday.
The semi-finals of the ONGC-IBSF World Billiards (Time Format) championship will be an all-Indian affair, after defending champion Pankaj Advani, eight-time World champion Geet Sethi, Rupesh Shah and Devendra Joshi made the grade at the Karnataka State Billiards Association in Bangalore on Monday.
Pankaj Advani survived a scare before beating New Zealand's Gary Oliver in a league encounter of the ONGC IBSF World Billiards Championship in Bangalore on Tuesday. The 23-year-old local boy prevailed over his dogged opponent 3-2 (101-151, 151-98, 117-151, 152-0, 151-107), but not before some tense moments in an edge-of-the-seat match at the Karnataka State Billiards Association hall.
Pankaj Advani defeated Aditya Mehta 54-42, 107-0, 58-23, 84-1, 82-22, 49-65, 62-60 in the final on Monday.
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.
While Sethi lost to Sourav Kothari, Joshi was beaten by Yogesh Rai in the league stage of the Senior National billiards championship.
Pankaj Advani and Geet Sethi will play in the seven-man Indian team for the Asian Billiards Championship.
The seven-time world champion joined Pankaj Advani and Sourav Kothari in the per-quarter-finals of the National Billiards Championship.
The national champion easily beat Edward Foo Ming Fa of Singapore in the World Under-21 snooker championship.
Bihar's Niraj Kumar beat last year's quarter-finalist Rupesh Shah to enter the last 16 in the National snooker championship.
The other members of the team are Sourav Kothari of Kolkata and Aditya Mehta of Mumbai.
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.
Ashok Shandilya got back his winning ways as he registered a comfortable win over his compatriot Sourav Kothari.
But Aditya Mehta and Sourav Kothari lost in the preliminary rounds in the Under-21 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.
Mehta strengthened his chances of qualifying for the knock-out stage by recording his fourth straight win
It was a case of so near yet so far for veteran Indian cueists Alok Kumar and Ashok Shandilya. Both fell just before the final hurdle in the World Billiards Championship in Leeds.
In the first upset of the tournament, India's Siddharth Parikh on Monday shocked multiple-time World champion Peter Gilchrist in a closely fought battle 500-483 at the 2016 IBSF World Billiards Championship in the 500 long-up format.
A summary of sports events and sports persons, who made news on Wednesday
Pankaj Advani continued his surge in the World Billiards Championship (time format), making it to the semi-finals with a 916-665 victory over compatriot Rupesh Shah, in Leeds, on Tuesday, while Balachandra Bhaskar shocked Singapore's Peter Gilchrist.
Reigning national Champion Sourav Kothari pulled off a big upset by shocking 10-time world champion Pankaj Advani in the quarterfinals of the IBSF World Billiards Championship in Long-Up format in Bengaluru on Wednesday.
Pankaj Advani lost his opening outing to defending champion Peter Gilchrist but later recovered and scored two straight victories in World Billiards Championship, in Leeds, on Tuesday.
A summary of sports events and sports persons, who made news on Monday
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Amid escalating tensions between India and Pakistan, ace cueist Pankaj Advani believes politics should not be mixed with games and Indo-Pak sporting ties should go on.
A summary of sports events and sports persons, who made news on Wednesday
In an unprecedented move, the Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna, the country's highest sporting award, will be conferred on four athletes this year. The Sports Ministry announced on Monday that Olympic medalists P V Sindhu and Sakshi Malik will be honoured alongside trail-blazing gymnast Dipa Karmakar and ace shooter Jitu Rai.
Rafael Nadal has withdrawn from the Paris Masters ahead of the tournament's start on Monday for "personal reasons", the French Tennis Federation announced on Friday.
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