Wizard Shri Pankaj Advani : Greatest World Champion in Indian History for any Sports!
Wizard Pankaj Advani made his international competitive debut at the Asian Billiards Championship 2002, held at Bangalore, in which he finished as a finalist. After an amateur World Snooker Champion title win in 2003, he won the IBSF World Billiards Championship in 2005 at Qawra, Malta, where he became the first to achieve a "grand double" by winning both the time and point formats, a feat he repeated at the 2008 event in Bangalore. He is the only Indian to have won the amateur world title in both snooker and billiards.
Advani won the WPBSA billiards title, at Leeds in 2009, against the defending champion Mike Russell; Advani won 2030–1253, after gaining an 800-plus lead at his opening break. He became the first person in the world to win the trio of the WPBSA World Billiards Champion pro title (which he has held twice, in 2009 & 2012), and the IBSF World Billiards Champion amateur title, as well as the IBSM World Snooker Champion amateur title.
In April 2012, Advani won the Asian Billiards Championship in Goa, India[8] to become the first player to win 5 Asian Billiards Champion titles. This takes his total tally of international majors to 17 – 8 Worlds, 5 Asian Billiards, 2 Asian Games Golds, 1 Australian Open and 1 Asian Team. It was announced in May that Advani had accepted the Indian wildcard place on the main snooker tour for the 2012/2013 season.
In October 2012, in Leeds, England, Advani won his seventh (counting professional and amateur) World Billiards Championship title, eighth world title overall, beating defending and nine-time WPBSA World Billiards Champion Mike Russell again, in the timed division final (Advani did not make it to the points division final).
Advani won the 2014 IBSF World 6-Red Snooker Championship, on his debut in that discipline. As such he is currently the only player ever to win world titles in both the long and short formats of snooker (15-red standard, and 6-red) and both formats of English billiards (time and point). Advani is also India's first world champion in 6-red snooker. Since 2014, Advani has focused solely on English billiards.
India cueist Pankaj Advani insists he is hungry for more after winning third straight IBSF billiards crown in Myanmar; takes overall World title count to 20, 2018.
Wizard Pankaj Adavni is currently the only player ever to win world titles in both the long and short formats of snooker (15-red standard, and 6-red) and both formats of English billiards (time and point).
In Nov. 2018 Pankaj Advani wins grand double, extends world title tally number 21 world title in his name.
Pankaj Advani extended his world title to 21 by winning the long and short formats of the IBSF World Billiards Championship titles for a record fourth time.
National , Asian & World championships Title :-
World Titles – 24
Billiards
IBSF World Billiards Championship (Point Format) – 7 (2005, 2008, 2014, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019)
IBSF World Billiards Championship (Long Format) – 8 (2005,2007, 2008, 2009, 2012, 2014, 2015, 2018)
World Team Billiards Championship – 1 (2014)
Snooker
IBSF World Snooker Championship (15 Reds) – 3 (2003, 2015, 2017)
IBSF World Snooker Championship (6 Reds) – 3 (2014, 2015, 2021)
IBSF World Team Cup – 1 (2018)
IBSF World Team Championship – 1 (2019)
2006 Asian Games, Doha - Gold Medal (English Billiards – Singles)
2010 Asian Games, Guangzhou – Gold Medal (English Billiards – Singles)
Asian Titles – 11
Billiards – 7 (2005, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2012, 2017, 2018 , 2021)
Snooker – 3
Asian Snooker Title (6 Reds) – 2016
Asian Snooker Title (15 Reds) – 2019
Asian Team Snooker Title (2017)
2018World Billiards Championship (Long Up) - Gold
World Billiards Championship (150 Up)- Gold
10 Red Snooker Asian Tour- Gold
IBSF – ACBS World Team Cup
2017
IBSF World Snooker Championship
IBSF World Billiards Championship (150 Up)
2016
IBSF World Billiards Championship (150-Up)
2015
IBSF World Snooker Championship
IBSF World 6-Red Snooker Championship – Gold
2014
IBSF World 6-Red Snooker Championship – Gold (a world record of winning world titles in both billiards and snooker in all formats)
World Team Billiards Championship – Gold (highest number of world titles by any Indian sportsperson)
2012
World Billiards Championship (a record 8 world titles for a 27-year-old)
Asian Billiards Championship (a record 5 times)
2010
Asian Games Gold Medallist – English Billiards Singles (first Gold Medal for India)
Asian Billiards Championship
2009
World Professional Billiards Championship
Asian Billiards Championship
2008
IBSF World Billiards Championship (both formats – timed and points) (repeated ).
2005 achievement and first ever again to win 2 twin formats)
Asian Billiards Championship.
2006
Asian Games Gold Medallist – English Billiards singles.
2005
IBSF World Billiards Championship (both formats – timed and points) (first person to ever achieve this)
Asian Billiards Championship
India Billiards Championship
India Junior Snooker Championship
India Junior Billiards Championship
WSA Challenge Tour.
2004
WSA Challenge Tour.
2003
IBSF World Snooker Championship
Indian Junior Billiards Championship
Indian Junior Snooker Championship.
2001
Indian Junior Billiards Championship.
2000
Indian Junior Billiards Championship.
1999
Pot Shot All India Triangular Championship
Pot Shot non-medallist Championship.
1998
Karnataka State Junior Snooker Championship.
1997
27th BS Sampath Memorial Handicap Snooker Championship
T.A. Selvaraj Memorial Billiards Championship
Karnataka Stage Junior Snooker Championship.
Santoshkumar B Pandey at 3.10Pm.
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