Pankaj Arjan Advani (born 24 July 1985) is an Indian billiards and snooker player. He is a 23-time World Champion and has achieved a hat-trick of hat-tricks in English billiards, holding the World, Asian, and Indian National Championship titles simultaneously, in five different years: 2005, 2008 , 2012, 2017 and 2019. He became a snooker professional in 2012, and his first season on the main tour was the 2012/2013 season. Advani won the 2014 IBSF World 6-Red Snooker Championship, on his debut in that discipline. As such he is currently the only player ever to win world titles in both the long and short formats of snooker (15-red standard, and 6-red) and both formats of English billiards (time and point). Advani is also India's first world champion in 6-red snooker. Since 2014, Advani has focused solely on English billiards.
Born  : 24 July 1985
Sport : billiards and snooker