Pankaj Advani Wins 29th National Snooker Championship Title (Download PDF)

Pankaj Advani clinched his 29^th 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: 19^th 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)