Pankaj Advani bags 13th World Snooker Championship

In Sports
August 12, 2015

India’s star Snooker player Pankaj Advani has clinched his 13th world title by outplaying the Chinese player Yan Bingtao 6-2 in the World 6-Red Snooker Championship, held in Karachi. Advani won the title in 2014 as well, in Egypt. This Advani’s 13th World title. Yan Bingtao, 15, is the youngest player to win the Amateur World Snooker Championship (2014).

Points to Note

Pankaj Advani is a professional player of English billiards and former professional snooker player.
He was conferred with Arjuna Award in 2004, Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna in 2006, and Padma Shri in 2009.
Advani is India’s first world champion in 6-red snooker.
He is the only player ever to win professional world titles in both the long and short formats of snooker.

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What is the Difference between Billiards and Snooker?

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Billiards is played with three balls: white, red and yellow. Yellow and white are cue balls for the two players. One for each. The objective is to score some set points.

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.