India Billiards Asian Games

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  MS Dhoni, Pankaj Advani Among Padma Awardees At Rashtrapati Bhavan

  Former Indian skipper Mahendra Singh Dhoni and billiards champion Pankaj Advani today received Padma Bhushan awards from President Ram Nath Kovind. Weightlifter Saikhom Mirabai Chanu and former Asian Games gold medallist tennis player Somdev Devvarman were honoured with the Padma Shri award at the Rashtrapati Bhavan.

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  Asian Indoor Games: Sourav Kothari Wins Gold In Billiards

  Building on the good start, Kothari went all guns blazing into the second game, even as a visibly edgy Praprut gave the Indian an opportunity to make a dent.

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  Pankaj Advani Enters Asian 6-Reds Snooker Championship Knockouts

  Winning 20 frames out of a possible 25 in four group matches and losing only three, Pankaj Advani secured breaks of 75, 74, 57 and 47 in his four group matches.

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  Government to bear cost for billiards players in Asian Indoor Games

  Fourteen kabaddi players will also participate in the June 29 to July 6 multi-sport event at the government cost.

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  India to take part in Asian Indoor Games under Olympic Council of Asia's banner

  The 12-discipline Games have some obscure sports like e-sport, dance sport, kurash, baduk, kickboxing and muay. The others are billiards, bowling, chess, futsal, kabaddi and short course swimming (25m).

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  Pankaj Advani advances to Asian Billiards final

  Two former world champions, Pankaj Advani and Praput Chaithanasukan from Thailand, in a classic display of billiards had the packed audience on their toes at the Clube Tennis De Gaspar Dias Miramar where the Indian managed to outwit Praput by 5 games to 4 in the second semi-final of the 11th ONGC Asian Billiards Championship on Saturday.

• Aditya wins bronze, cueists finish with four medals at Games

  India's Aditya Mehta secured bronze after losing to Chun Marco Fu Ka of Hong Kong 1-4 in the semifinals of the men's snooker singles event, here on Saturday, as the Indian cuesports contingent finished their Asian Games campaign with four medals, including one gold won by Pankaj Advani in the billiards event.

• Advani knocked out, Mehta in quarters in snooker

  India's receding hopes in cue sports suffered a major blow today when billiards event gold medallist Pankaj Advani was knocked out of the snooker singles competition.

• Alok ends India's medal drought in Pool events, wins bronze

  National billiards champion Alok Kumar on Sunday became the first Indian to win an Asian Games medal in pool events by clinching bronze in the men's 8-ball category despite losing in the semifinals on Sunday.

• Advani opens gold account, Alok creates history

  Star cueist Pankaj Advani provided the first gold for India in the 16th Asian Games by clinching the title in billiards singles while Alok Kumar claimed a bronze in 8-ball pool event and the shooters accounted for a silver and bronze on the second day of competitions on Sunday.

• Pankaj Advani wins gold in Billiards singles

  Defending champion Pankaj Advani notched up India's first gold medal in this edition of the Asian Games in men's Billiards singles event after defeating Oo Nay Thway Oo of Myanmar 3-2 here on Sunday.

• Indian cueists confident of good show in Asian Games

  Former World Professional champion Pankaj Advani and legendary Geet Sethi are confident of a good show by the Indian cueists in this month's Asian Games in China and said the contingent will look to double its medal count this year.

• Advani, Sethi to represent India in Asian Games

  Reigning World professional champion Pankaj Advani and veteran Geet Sethi will spearhead India's challenge in the billiards category in this year's Asian Games to be held in Ghungzhou, China from November 12-27.