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IBSF World Billiards accomplished successfully at Adelaide

Panka Advani, Arantxa Sanchis, Peter Gilchrist, S.Shrikrishna

The 2015 IBSF World Billiards Championship was completed this evening with the final of the Timed event where Pankaj Advani (India) won his 14th World title defeating Peter Gilchrist (Singapore) by 1168 points difference (2408-1240).

Advani defends his World Billiards (Timed) title

Indian player, Pankaj Advani has successfully defended his World Billiards (Timed) title defeating Peter Gilchrist of Singapore by 1168 points difference (2408-1240). This is his 14th World title and second this year.

Peter Glichrist had already won the 150Up event defeating Advani earlier this week, so sweet revenge for Advani to defend his Timed title.

Advani had done very well in the first session and was leading way ahead, continued with same zeal in the second session too. His constant scoring and ability to produce breaks at regular interval put Gilchrist all time under pressure.

Though Gilchrist also crafted some magnificent breaks of 156, 249, 107 and 198 points in Session 2, but Advani replied him every time with same amount of breaks and at last the champion ended up with much bigger break of 430 points to defend his title.

Rupesh Shah and Siddharth Parikh from India shared joint bronze as last night, Rupesh lost to Advani and Siddharth lost to Gilchrist in the semi finals.

Advani way ahead at the end of session 1

The defending champion, Pankaj Advani from India is leading by 1167 points at the end of session 1 of 2015 IBSF World Billiards (Timed) championship here at Adelaide, South Australia.

In the second visit of the game, Advani picked up an initial break of 127 and piled up the well crafted breaks of 360, 301, 284, 124 and 101 in subsequent visits to create a mammoth score of 1368 against Gilchrist who was at a score of 219 at the end of session 1.

The session 2 of next 2 hours 30 minutes has now resumed and if Gilchrist don't recover, it's all the way Pankaj Advani.

Ishpreet to take on Shrikrishna in Under-21 Billiards final

Ishpreet Chadha (India) vs. Shrikrishna (India)

The Under-21 Boys Billiards final is also between Indian boys i.e. Ishpreet Singh Chadha and S. Shrikrishna.

Umadevi to meet Arantxa in the Women Billiards final

R. Umadevi (India) vs. Arantxa Sanchis (India)

Indian players R. Umadevi and Arantxa Sanchis have now reached in the final of 2015 IBSF World Women Billiards championship and already secured the title for their country 'India'.

Uma, who took on Anna Lynch of Australia, was more confident and was striking good throughout the match. She also made a break of 50 in between. Anna also tried hard to chase the lead but fall short by 108 points (382-274).

In other semi final, Arantxa Sanchis and Meenal Thakur had good contest and both scored breaks of 32 by Meenal and 31 by Arantxa.

Meenal gave tough fight to Arantxa and was trailing by nearly 40 points but in the last 20 minutes of play, Arantxa accelerated her scoring and defeated Meenal by 115 points (387-272)

The final will start at 1430 hours (Adelaide Time)