Billiards or cue sports includes a range of games played to test the skill in hitting billiard balls with a cue stick on a billiard table. The sport of Billiards consist of 3 subdivisions: 1) Carom billiards, relating to those games played on tables without pockets 2) Pocket billiards, relating to those games played on a table with 6 pockets 3) Snooker, though its technique is the same as pocket billiards but its origin, culture [...]
Pankaj Advani is a world-renowned snooker player from India. He holds the record of being the youngest national snooker champion at the age of 17. He is the second cueist to win both the billiards and snooker amateur world titles. In the year 2005 he achieved a historical feat by becoming the first player to win both the Time and Points format titles in the IBSF World Billiards Championship in Malta. He is the recipient [...]
