The Indian duo of Pankaj Advani and Aditya Mehta overcame a tough Thai team to emerge World champions in the IBSF World snooker team event, here on Wednesday.
This takes Advani’s world title tally to a phenomenal 23 while Aditya claimed his maiden at a time when his future is being doubted due to health issues.
For Advani, this win has ensured that his name is now there on every IBSF World title on offer. He had won the world billiards event here last week.
“I’m absolutely excited to win my first World title. All the years of hard work and struggle has finally paid off,” said Mehta.
“It’s a dream trip for me as I return from Myanmar in under 3 weeks with 2 World championship gold medals and a bronze (which he got in the world 6-red snooker event). I’m over the moon to have won the only missing World title on my list and this win is very special for that reason.
“It’s been a long but satisfying outing. Having to switch from billiards to snooker in a day and to come out on top is a reassurance that specialising in two sports is indeed achievable.”
The result: India-1 beat Thailand-2 5-2 (65-31, 9-69, 74(55)-8, 21-64, 55-44, 72(52)-23, 83-9).
