Champions Reign Supreme !!

The ace billiards and snooker champion Pankaj Advani was surprisingly trailing from his opponent Sourav Kothari 1 game to 3 at the break in the finals of the 16 Asian Billiards Championship, but set into his rhythm immediately thereafter to race to the title at the Hyatt Regency in Chandigarh on Good Friday. The 16-time world billiards and snooker champion just tore Kothari’s game apart to pocket the next 5 games and win the best-of-11 games final 6-3. Advani registered six 50-plus breaks, including a century break in the 6th game, to Kothari’s three, including one century break, in the 2nd game.

 Photo By: Sumit Kumar

 

 Photo By: Sumit Kumar

 

Hong Kong’s Ng On Yee, who recently won the Eden World Women’s Championship in Singapore for the second time, after leading initially, also came from behind to outclass Thailand’s Warathanun Sukritthanes 3-2 and lift the title in the first ever Asian Ladies Snooker Championship. Having won the first frame, she conceded the next two to her opponent before rallying to take the last two frames in a best-of-5 frames final.

Photo By: Sumit Kumar

 

 Photo By: Sumit Kumar

 

India’s Vidya Pillai, who became the first Indian player to reach the final in a world snooker final in Singapore, earlier bowed out in the semi-final. Her slayer once again was Ng On Yee, to whom she had fallen in the Singapore final as well.

 

Photo By: Sumit Kumar 

 

Eight Indians were among the 16 players who participated in the first Asian Ladies Snooker Championship.  

 

The 18th Asian Under-21 Men’s Snooker Championship title went to China’s Yuan Sijun, who outgunned his compatriot Fan Zhengyi by 6 frames to 2 in the best-of-11 frames final.