Panjak Advani, India’s most successful cueist, has added another feather to his cap by winning the IBSF World Billiards Championship held in Adelaide, Australia. He outplayed his opponent in the final to take his world title count to 14. Advani, 30, defeated Singapore’s Peter Gilchrist by 1168 points. Bengaluru’s ‘Golden Boy’ was in roaring form and appeared keen to not only defend his Time format world title but also avenge his loss of the Point format championship to Gilchrist, which happened recently.
Pankaj Advani
- Pankaj Advani was born on 24 July 1985 in Pune, India.
- Pankaj Advani is a professional player of English billiards and former professional snooker player.
- The Government of India has bestowed several awards upon Advani—Arjuna Award in 2004, Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna in 2006, and Padma Shri in 2009.
- Advani won the 2014 IBSF World 6-Red Snooker Championship, on his debut in that discipline.
- On August 14th, 2014, Advani helped win the first ever World Team Billiards Championship held in Glasgow, Scotland.
Billiards vs Snooker
Billiards is played with three balls: white, red and yellow. The white and yellow balls are the cue balls of the two opponents respectively and the objective is to score some set points. The player who scores the required points first, wins.
In snooker, there are 15 red and six coloured balls and one cue ball. The player has to pot a red first, then a colour, and again a red, and so on. At the end of the frame the player with more points wins.
Test Your English
What is the meaning of Outplayed?
Answer – played better than
