more-inPankaj Advani and Peter Gilchrist lead the field in the IBSF Worldbilliards championship, which commences at KSBA here on Monday. Gilchrist defeated Advani in the points format final in 2015 IBSF World championship, a few days before Advani reversed the result in the time format summit clash. Dhruv Sitwala (2015 and 2016 Asian billiards champion), Sourav Kothari (2014 Asian billiards champion), Rupesh Shah (two-time World champion) and Robert Hall (leading English player) are some of the other big names. Iran’s Soheil Vahedi, current IBSF World snooker champion, will also be seen in action here. Groupings (Indians unless mentioned): Long-up format: Group-A: Pankaj Advani, Akhilesh Mohan (France), Soheil Vahedi (Iran), Rupesh Shah, Shankar Rao.

Source: The Hindu December 04, 2016 15:30 UTC