Pankaj Advani (billiards player), Date of Birth, Place of Birth
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Billiards and Snooker Professional
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Place of Birth: Pune, Maharashtra, India
About Pankaj Advani (billiards player)
- Pankaj Arjan Advani (born 24 July 1985) is an Indian billiards and snooker player.
- He 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: 2005, 2008 , 2012, 2017 and 2019.
- 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 (15-red standard, and 6-red) and both formats of English billiards (time and point).
- Advani is also India's first world champion in 6-red snooker.
- Since 2014, Advani has focused solely on English billiards. 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.
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