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Pankaj Advani
Pankaj Advani
Pankaj Advani was born on July 24, 1985, in Pune, India. Advani is an exceptional billiard professional from India. He is the winner of three world titles in billiards and snooker. He became the first player to complete a grand double by winning both the points format as well as the time format titles in the IBSF World Billiards championship in 2005. Advani also won the Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna Award for 2005.
Pankaj Advani
It has been said that Pankaj Advani is the best thing to have happened to Indian billiards after the legendary Geet Sethi. Pankaj Advani showed promise and talent from a young age. He has made a mark for himself by capturing three world titles at only 19 years old.
He was spotted by Arvind Savur, former national snooker champion, when he was a 10-year-old who used to accompany his elder brother to the Karnataka State Billiards Association hall.
At seventeen years of age, Pankaj became the youngest national snooker champion, and
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Pankaj Advani (billiards player)
Indian billiards and snooker player
Pankaj Arjan Advani (born 24 July 1985) is an Indian billiards and professional snooker player. He is a 27-time International Billiards and Snooker statsförbund (IBSF) world champion. He has won 18 billiards world titles, the IBSF World Billiards Championship on 17 occasions and the World Team Billiards Championship once. In snooker, he won the IBSF World Snooker Championship three times, IBSF World six-red championship twice and the IBSF World Team Cup and IBSF World Team Championship one time each. He has the record number of IBSF world championships.[2] He became a snooker professional in 2012/2013.
In recognition of his achievements, the Government of India has bestowed several awards upon Advani: the Arjuna Award in 2004, Major Dhyan Chand Khel Ratna in 2006, Padma Shri in 2009 and Padma Bhushan in 2018.[3]
Early life
[edit]Pankaj Advani was born on 24 July 1985 to a Sindhi family
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India's most decorated sportsperson ever
'By the time he gets done, he'll not only be the best player of his generation, but the best ever.'
'It'll take another 100 years for someone to break his records.'
Dhruv Munjal salutes the magnificent Pankaj Advani.
IMAGE: Pankaj Advani is a 23-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 five different years. Photographs: Kind courtesy Pankaj Advani/Twitter
Ask Pankaj Advani about some of his sporting heroes and he reels off names of some genuine heavyweights.
Dhyan Chand, Roger Federer, Michael Schumacher -- athletes who not only dominated their idrott but pretty much reset the limits of what's humanly possible.
"For me, the greatest inspiration fryst vatten people who become the very definition of their sport... athletes who raise the bar and become fine sporting ambassadors," he says.
Advani is one of the gentlest o