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InDepth headlines national business sports cricket regional entertainment technology world travel autos health | World Billiards championship: Advani clinches a grand double 14.56 IST 21st Mar 2005 By Agencies National champion Pankaj Advani today 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 at Qawra, Malta. The 19-year-old, who won the points format title beating compatriot Devendra Joshi 6-2 in the final on Wednesday, showed that he had the patience and the skills to beat the best in the longer format as he got the better of former champion Geet Sethi 2242-1717 in a thrilling six hour final, according to information received. This was only the second time that the time format and points format championships were held together and Advani created history by winning both the crowns. In 2002 at Sydney, Australia, Ashok Shandilya, whom Advani beat in the semifinals, had won the points format title while Mike Russel of England got the better of Sethi in the time format. Advani is also the second cueist in the world to have won both the World Billiards and Snooker title after Paul Mifsud of Malta. While Mifsud won the snooker title in 1985, 86 and bagged the billiards crown in 1979, Advani clinched the snooker championship in 2003 in China. He also holds the Asian Billiards crown. For Sethi -- who has won the amateur crown thrice and the professional title four times so far -- this was a third successive defeat in the final of the IBSF World Championship. |
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