Pankaj Advani Wins 29ThNational Snooker Championship Title
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Pankaj Advani clinched his 29th Indian National Snooker Championship title. Advani won Indian National Snooker Championship with a 6 - 0 win over Pandurangaiah of Railways in a one-sided final. He became only Indian men՚s cueist to be holder of all national billiards and snooker titles.
Highlights
Pankaj Advani (31-year) has won Indian National Snooker Championship with a 6 - 0 win over Pandurangaiah of Railways.
Final top 3 standings of National Snooker Championship: 1. Pankaj Advani 2. Pandurangaiah 3. Malkeet Singh
Pankaj Advani has become only Indian men՚s cueist to be holder of all national billiards and snooker titles at same time - Billiards, 6-red Snooker and 15-red Snooker.
About Pankaj Advani
- Born: 24 July 1985 (age 31) Pune, Maharashtra
- Sport country: India
- He is a player of English billiards by profession.
- He became a snooker professional in 2012.
- He won IBSF World 6 - Red Snooker Championship in 2014.
- He holds World, Asian, and Indian National Championship titles simultaneously, in three different years: 2005,2008 and 2012.
- He is single player in world to win world titles in Billiards՚s and Snooker՚s all formats.
- Awards
- Arjuna Award in 2004
- Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna in 2006
- Padma Shri in 2009
About snooker
- First played: 19th century
- Snooker, generally regarded as having been invented in India by British Army officers.
- Contact: Handshake at beginning and end of match
- Type: Cue sport
- Equipment: Snooker balls
- It is a cue sport played on a table covered with a green cloth with pockets at each of four corners and in middle of each of long side cushions.
- A full-size table measures commonly referred to as 12 × 6 ft.
- The game is played using a cue and 22 snooker balls:
- One white cue ball
- 15 red balls worth one point each
- six balls of different colours: yellow (two points) , green (three) , brown (four) , blue (five) , pink (six) and black (seven)
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