Ace Indian cueist Pankaj Advani won the 2015 IBSF World Snooker Championship.

In the final match played at Hurghada (Egypt), he defeated his Chinese opponent Zhua Xintong by 8-6 score in the best-of-15 final. He had entered the finals of the Championship after defeating Alex Borg of Malta by 6-0 score.

With this victory, Pankaj Advani has won the World Snooker Championship for record 15 times. He also became the first person in history of Snooker to take the short (6-Red) and the long snooker format in the same calender year.

Presently he is ranked world number 1 in 6-red snooker and World Team Billiards.This was Advani’s first 15-Red Snooker title since 2003 when he won the crown in China. Though Egypt proved lucky for the champion, who had won his first 6-Red world title here last year.

India’s ace cueist Pankaj Advani has won 2015 IBSF World Billiards Championship (Point Format) in Adelaide, Australia. It was his overall 14th World title.

He won 2015 IBSF World title by defeating Peter Gilchrist of Singapore by 1168 points.

Advani is 14-time World Billiards and Snooker Champion. He is only player in the world to win world titles in all formats of both, Billiards and Snooker.

He is the first cueist in the world to win the Grand double three times in 2005 and 2008 respectively.

 

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