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  • Advani makes it three in a row
    Indian billiard ace Pankaj Advani added another feather to his cap...


  • Indian PM acknowledges Advani’s efforts:
    Indian Prime Minister, Manmohan Singh said that Advani’s victory will be an inspiration...


  • Advani wins World Professional Billiard Championship
    Pankaj Advani was crowned World professional billiards champion after...


  • Advani extends his rule in Asian billiards
    Pankaj Advani is a champion of many hues. In a format of billiards that hardly justifies his talent...


  • ‘It took my breath away’
    The world’s youngest billiards champion, Pankaj Advani, finally decided to take a break from his game...


  • Pankaj Advani underlines supremacy
    Pankaj Advani proclaimed himself as the undisputed king of the Indian green baize in no uncertain terms here on Sunday...


  • Pankaj Advani wins National billiards title
    Pankaj Advani made his youth tell against the experience of legend Geet Sethi when he beat him 5-3 in the final of the...


  • Billiards giants to clash again in National final
    Geet Sethi entered his ninth National Billiards championship final when he beat Railways' Ashok Shandilya 4-0 in the semi-finals of the 75th edition being ...


  • Joshi goes down fighting to Advani
    The Devendra Joshi-Pankaj Advani contest was the only quarter-final to go the distance as the semi-final stage was reached in 75th National men's Billiards Championship....


  • Pankaj Advani clinches title
    Pankaj Advani won the Alliance Group-ASCA snooker tournament here on Sunday, winning a tense final frame after Manan Chandra had fought back valiantly from 1-4 and 3-5 down earlier....


  • Advani sets up title clash with Manan
    Outclassing Alok Kumar in straight frames on Saturday, Pankaj set up a title clash with Manan Chandra in the Alliance Group-ASCA All India Invitation Snooker Championship....


  • Pankaj, Manan begin in style
    Pankaj Advani and Manan Chandra began their campaign with facile victories in league matches of the Alliance Group-ASCA Invitational Snooker Tournament on Monday...


  • Double crown for Advani in world billiards
    In a repeat of his feat in 2005, Pankaj Advani today added the ONGC IBSF World Billiards Championship (time format) title to the points format crown he won last week....


  • Advani wins World Billiards Champ
    Pankaj Advani won the time-format World Billiards Championship for the sixth time beating his own country men Devendra Joshi here on Wednesday...


  • Time & again: Advani beats Sethi to enter final
    Pankaj Advani is on a roll. After annexing the points format crown last week, the 23-year-old Bangalore lad inched closer to repeating the feat when he edged past Geet Sethi 1269-1003 in the semi-final...


  • Pankaj Advani in line for a double
    Pankaj Advani is just a match away from emulating his Malta feat where he achieved a double in 2005. For the second time in five days, the young champion put it across a senior pro...


  • An all-Indian affair in the semifinals
    Asserting supremacy, Indian cueists rocked on the green baize at the ONGC-sponsored IBSF World Billiards championship (time format) at the Karnataka State Billiards Association (KSBA) on Monday...


  • Advani prevails over Kothari
    Pankaj Advani had an eye on the clock and Dhruv Sitwala did not. Advani advanced into the semifinals and Dhruv did not...


  • Sethi, Advani & Gilchrist in Bangalore pre-quarters
    Defending champion Pankaj Advani, eight time world champion Geet Sethi and Suriya Suwannasingh (Thailand) advanced to the pre-quarters of the ONGC-IBSF World Billiards time format...


  • Pankaj is phenomenal: Sethi
    For over three decades, Geet Sethi has proved that he is indeed a champion on the green baize. Now, at 47, Sethi continues to find fulfilment every time he competes...


  • Advani annexes ONGC IBSF World Billiards Championship
    Asserting his supremacy, Pankaj Advani today annexed the ONGC IBSF World Billiards Championship (point format) with a comprehensive six games to one victory over Geet Sethi...


  • Advani vs Sethi in title clash
    It is on the table that the quintessential Geet Sethi comes through. On the table there are no compromises, whether in practice or during a world championship...


  • Advani overwhelms Gilchrist
    With no opponent giving him a real fight, Singapore’s Peter Gilchrist had a grin plastered on his face during the league matches at the ONGC-IBSF World Billiards Championship...


  • Winning Ways
    Winning is Pankaj Advani's habit and intimidating his opponents is his latest mantra for success. The world champion started off his IBSF World Billiards campaign on a rousing note defeating Calum Hossak of...


  • 'India is the home of billiards'
    The burly 53-year-old Irishman is in Bangalore as the chief referee for the IBSF World billiards championship starting at the Karnataka State Billiards Association from Monday...


  • All eyes on Advani as world meet begins
    At 23, he's the blue-eyed boy of Indian cue sports, a youngster who has joined the league of Indian legends of the baize game like Wilson Jones and Geet Sethi...


  • World championship from Sept. 1
    Its 50 years since an Indian answering by the name of Wilson Jones won the first World billiards title. In the interim period, India has produced 23 champions in the event...


  • 6-ball snooker similar to T20
    It is being touted as T20 equivalentof cue sports and India's reigning world billiards champion (time format), Pankaj Advani reckons 6-ball snooker, just like...


  • Pankaj is game for love
    Twenty-three-year-old Pankaj Advani may have scaled heights as a snooker player and English billiards player by first bagging the World Champion amateur player title and then the 2006 Asian Games gold medal in...


  • Snooker trio leave for Pak
    Indian snooker trio - Pankaj Advani, Yasin Merchant and Manan Chandra - on Monday left for Pakistan to participate in the inaugural five-nation six-ball snooker tournament from...


  • Event to stay in Bengaluru
    The suspense is finally over. The IBSF World Billiards Championship will indeed be held in Bengaluru from September 1-10. Following the serial bomb blasts in the city last...


  • 'I' d like to do 'ROMANTIC COMEDIES'
    Fifty years after India won its first World billiards championship title (IBSF) through the late Wilson Jones, podium finishes by Indian cueists have become a routine affair.


  • Dancing is my other passion
    Pankaj Advani talks about how he attains concentration at the table and how he wishes he could relive his college days...


  • Pankaj Advani's thunder down under
    Fifty years after India won its first World billiards championship title (IBSF) through the late Wilson Jones, podium finishes by Indian cueists have become a routine affair.


  • Classy Advani wins in style
    Pankaj Advani has made winning a habit. After conquering the World, Asian and the Indian billiards crown, the 22-year-old Bengaluru boy reigned supreme Down Under.


  • Contenders line up to win crown
    The draw has been released for the World Professional Billiards Championship, to be held once again at the Northern Snooker Centre in Leeds, between July 23 and July 27.


  • Asian champion Pankaj gets better of Rafat
    Asian champion Pankaj Advani of Bangalore got the better of a resolute Rafat from Chennai, in a tight tie at 112-0, 70-14, 0-88, 08-77, 77-43 and breezed into the last eight of the Manisha invitation prize money snooker tournament at the Poona Club tables here.

  • 3rd PCL snooker c'ship from May 29
    The 3rd 'Poona Club Ltd-Manisha Open and Invitational Snooker Championship 2008' in collaboration with Manisha Construction will be held at the Poona Club tables from May 29- June 12.

  • Pankaj Advani as Chief guest
    Silvers, as Harmony calls the senior citizens, made themselves shine during the marathon as they put aside their age and ran the distance, proving that they have got what it takes.

  • Day of misery for UAE fans
    UAE snooker player Mohammad Shehab failed to show his customary killer instinct at the Asian Snooker Championship when he was beaten 5-4 by Khurram Agha.

  • Advani sets sights on Asian title after beating old rival
    Pankaj Advani has put himself in line for the 24th Asian Snooker Championship title after repeating a win that saw him clinch a sensational victory over Pakistan's Mohammad Saleh at the 2003 IBSF World Championship.

  • Khurram, Sajjad enters Asian Snooker quarters after thrilling wins
    Pakistan's fasting rising cueist Muhammad Sajjad Rana and Khurram Agha entered the quarterfinal of 24th Asian Snooker Championship after thrilling 5-4 victories over their respective rivals on Wednesday.

  • Advani describes Saleh's 147 break a huge feat
    Former World Amateur Snooker Champion Pankaj Advani of India described Saleh Muhammad's 147 break as a huge feat and massive achievement.

  • India's Advani wrests early advantage with facile win
    Pankaj Advani of India has wasted little time in establishing his authority in the 24th Asian Snooker Championship here.

  • Advani targeting success on the snooker table
    Fresh form his Asian billiards conquest, Pankaj Advani has had little time to celebrate his second continental success.

  • Shehab seeded fifth for Snooker Asiad
    UAE's cue wizard Mohammed Mustafa Shehab has been seeded fifth in the 24th Asian Snooker Championships to be held at the Dubai Police Club from May 3 to 10.

  • Advani wins Asian billiards crown
    Pankaj Advani, the reigning World champion, annexed his second Asian billiards crown with a 5-4 win over fellow Indian Rupesh Shah in Myanmar late on Sunday.

  • India's Pankaj Advani for Asian billiards
    Multiple world title-winning cueists Pankaj Advani and Geet Sethi along with Rupesh Shah will represent India at the seventh Asian Billiards Championships in Yangon, Myanmar.

  • Aditya ousts Advani to meet Yasin in Final
    Aditya Mehta proved that his triumph over Pankaj Advani at the Asian trials was no flash in a pan when beating him again 4-3 in the semi-finals of the Shyam Shroff Memorial snooker tournament.

  • Pankaj, Yasin in Quarter Finals
    Title contenders Pankaj Advani and Yasin Merchant fashioned contrasting wins to book their berths in the knock out quarter-finals of the Khar Gymkhana-Shyam Shroff Memorial Open Invitation Snooker Tournament.

  • Advani leads elite field in Khar Gym main draw
    National champion Pankaj Advani will lead an elite field of cueists who will feature in the main draw of the Khar Gymkhana Open Invitation Snooker Tournament.

  • Pankaj leads elite field in Khar Gym Snooker main draw
    National champion Pankaj Advani will lead an elite field of cueists who will feature in the main draw of the Khar Gymkhana-Shyam Shroff Memorial Open Invitation Snooker Tournament.

  • Young Turks reign supreme
    Young Turks Pankaj Advani and Manan Chandra survived an early scare to rally to a thrilling win over Dynamic Duo to emerge champions.

  • Taming the Lions in their den
    Dynamic Duo Devendra Joshi and Ashok Shandilya stunned title favourites Indian Lions to storm into the final.

  • Indian Lions, Young Turks, Action Jackson, Dynamic Duo staged Semi finals
    Young Turks Pankaj Advani and Manan Chandra topped Group 'B' to storm into the semi-final of the inaugural Yasin Merchant Classic Invitation Snooker Doubles Tournament.

  • Advani reluctant to try pro snooker
    He is just 22 and has won everything there is to be won in amateur billiards and snooker. There are four World titles in his showcase.

  • Joshi and Advani triumph
    Host BPCL's Devendra Joshi capped his fine run by winning the Petroleum Sports Promotion Board's inter-unit snooker title at the Regional Sports Centre here on Monday.

  • Advani, Sitwala in semifinals
    Pankaj Advani and Dhruv Sitwala, both from ONGC, entered the semifinals of the fourth Petroleum Sports Promotion Board's inter-unit billiards championship.

  • Joshi jolts Advani
    Devendra Joshi jolted World champion Pankaj Advani as host BPCL dethroned ONGC and won the team title in the fourth Petroleum Sports Promotion Board's inter-unit billiards championship.

  • Pankaj delights with a double
    For someone who gave the impression of a schoolboy who had inadvertently entered the competition venue, the manner in which Pankaj Advani reasserted his supremacy in Indian cue sports was memorable.