S. Shrikrishna from India grabs the top seed position for the knockouts of 2015 IBSF World Under-18 Snooker championship being played at Saint Petersburg, Russia.

Yana Shut from Belarus, who has previously participated very well in various Women championships, went through the decider in her first match of IBSF World Under-18 Girls Championship here at Maza Park Snooker Centre in Saint Petersburg, Russia.

The host association for Inaugural IBSF World Under-18 (Boys and Girls) Snooker Championships 2015, Federation of Billiards Sport of Russia, organized the opening ceremony at Maza Park snooker centre, where all the participants enjoyed the entertaining cultural program and delicious meal of the beautiful Russian city, Saint Petersburg.

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).

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.

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.

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

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)

Defending champion, Pankaj Advani from India and Peter Gilchrist, who recently won the 150 Up title on Wednesday, are ready to meet once again in the final of timed format tomorrow morning here at Oceania Snooker Academy, Adelaide, South Australia.

It is all India for semi finals knockout of 2015 IBSF World Under-21 (Boys) Billiards Championship at Adelaide.

The four who reached the semi finals are Ishpreet Chadha, S. Shrikrishna, Jagadesh B. and Kaavya Bharath. The all four are from India and have secured the title for their. Out of them, Ishreet stayed undefeated and won all five matches. There was a tie between Kaavya Bharath and Shrikrishna but Shrikrishna had better average and stayed No.2