Pankaj Advani wins two world Billiards titles in a week to make it 27 world titles

 



Top Indian cue player Pankaj Advani won the double title for the fifth time by defeating compatriot Saurav Kothari 5-0 in the final of the IBSF World Billiards Championship (points format) here on Friday.  With this victory, Advani's number of world titles has increased to 27. Just like in the World Championship final, Advani proved his superiority over Kothari here on Friday.



 Advani had recently defeated Kothari in the long format of 1000 points. The 38-year-old had also won titles in the 2005, 2008, 2014 and 2018 editions, besides winning the snooker doubles title in 2015.


 Advani's dominance


 In this shorter format, it was a 'best of nine' match of 150-point frames, Kothari made a strong start in the first frame before Advani came back from 6-91 to take a 1-0 lead.  In the next two frames, Advani made the score 3-0 with two breaks of 100 points.  There were two frames left in which Advani continued to dominate, although there was no break of 100 points in both of them, but this cue player from Bengaluru won the match and the championship with breaks of 81 and 77.


 Advani will now leave for home for 10 days after which he will participate in the National Billiards and Snooker Championship in Chennai.




Meanwhile earlier  ,  India's star cue player Pankaj Advani created history.  He defeated Saurav Kothari in the final of the IBSF World Billiards Championship on Tuesday.  With this, Pankaj won the IBSF World Billiards Championship title for the 26th time.  Saurav is also an Indian player.  But he could not stand against Pankaj in the final.


 Pankaj won his first world title in 2005.  He has won the title nine times in the long format, while he has been the champion eight times in the point format.  Apart from this, he was also successful in winning the World Team Billiards Championship once.  Advani had earlier defeated compatriot Indian Rupesh Shah 900-273 in the semi-finals.  Kothari had defeated Dhruv Sitwala 900-756 in the semi-finals.


 Pankaj had also performed brilliantly in the semi-finals.  Pankaj, 26-time champion of World Billiards and Snooker, defeated Rupesh Shah in the semi-finals.  With this he had made it to the finals.  Pankaj defeated Rupesh 900-273.  Talking about Saurav Kothari, he defeated Dhruv Sitwala in the second semi-final.  Kothari had achieved a thrilling victory of 900-756 in this match.


 It is noteworthy that Pankaj Advani's career so far has been excellent.  He made his international debut in 1999.  Pankaj had participated in the World Billiards Championship in England.  He won the IBSF World Billiards Championship title in 2005.  He became the first player to achieve the Grand Double. He has also won the gold medal for India.  Pankaj got gold medal in Asian Games 2010.  He participated in singles.  Before this, he had also won gold in the 2006 Asian Games.  It was organized in Doha.

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