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Pankaj Advani
World Champion | Snooker and Billiards Professional
Who am I
Pankaj Arjan Advani is an Indian billiards and snooker
player. He is a 21-time World Champion and has achieved a hat-trick of
hat-tricks in English billiards, holding the World, Asian, and Indian National
Championship titles simultaneously, in three different years: 2005, 2008 and
2012 and recently in 2017.
He became a snooker professional in 2012, and his first
season on the main tour was the 2012-2013 season. 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 and both formats of English billiards. Advani is also India's
first world champion in 6-red snooker.
In recognition of his achievements, the Government of India has bestowed several
awards upon Advani: the Arjuna Award in 2004, Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna in 2006, Padma Shri in
2009 and Padma Bhushan in 2018.
Advani made his international competitive debut at the Asian
Billiards Championship 2002, held at Bangalore, in which he finished as a
finalist.
He is also the youngest person to have won all these world titles in English Billiards Advani also remains the only person to have won all five national, regional, and world billiards tournaments in a single season, a feat he achieved by winning the Indian Junior National Championship and Senior National Championship, the Asian Billiards Championship, and both the World Billiards Championship and World Billiards Championship. At the 2013 Welsh Open, he became the first Indian player to reach the quarter-final stage of a ranking event. He was ranked world number 74 after his first year on the main snooker tour.
He has been given the nick names The Prince of India and The Golden boy in
recognition of his amazing achievements.
Who am I
Pankaj Arjan Advani is an Indian billiards and snooker
player. He is a 21-time World Champion and has achieved a hat-trick of
hat-tricks in English billiards, holding the World, Asian, and Indian National
Championship titles simultaneously, in three different years: 2005, 2008 and
2012 and recently in 2017.
He became a snooker professional in 2012, and his first
season on the main tour was the 2012-2013 season. 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 and both formats of English billiards. Advani is also India's
first world champion in 6-red snooker.
In recognition of his achievements, the Government of India has bestowed several
awards upon Advani: the Arjuna Award in 2004, Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna in 2006, Padma Shri in
2009 and Padma Bhushan in 2018.
Advani made his international competitive debut at the Asian
Billiards Championship 2002, held at Bangalore, in which he finished as a
finalist.
He is also the youngest person to have won all these world titles in English Billiards Advani also remains the only person to have won all five national, regional, and world billiards tournaments in a single season, a feat he achieved by winning the Indian Junior National Championship and Senior National Championship, the Asian Billiards Championship, and both the World Billiards Championship and World Billiards Championship. At the 2013 Welsh Open, he became the first Indian player to reach the quarter-final stage of a ranking event. He was ranked world number 74 after his first year on the main snooker tour.
He has been given the nick names The Prince of India and The Golden boy in
recognition of his amazing achievements.
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