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Pankaj Advani wins Asian Snooker Tour title

India’s best bet for International Cuesports, the 19-time World Champion, Pankaj Advani has won the second championship of Asian Tour 10Reds Snooker 2018 held at Jinan, China.

also RKG 10 red snooker All India tournament took place at Nainital organised by RKG.

Advani remained most accomplished player who scored 75+ points break in almost every match and defeated all his opponents mostly one-sided. His journey till final saw brilliance from Iran and Pakistan, whom he thrashed 5-1 each to see 2013 APTC Winner Ju Reti.

Ju Reti was also in good form and won most of his matches one-sided. The final was expected to be tough contest among them and that reflected in first frame too but once Pankaj clinched that frame, he went into perfect zone and dominated all around.

Though Pankaj missed the third frame but after that Ju Reti was unable to stop the storm and Pankaj capitalized rest of the frame with a brilliantly crafted break of 94 points towards the end.

With that, he also become the first Indian player who won International titles in all formats of snooker.

Advani started as No.4 in the Ranking after first championship in Doha and now hopefully he will be on top after the second championship. A confirmation will come in few days once the ranking points will be given to players.

source - cuesportsindia