Pankaj Advani Wins 2026 World Billiards Championship for His 29th World Title

23 October 2026National

India's Pankaj Advani won the 2026 World Billiards Championship at the Landywood Snooker Club in Walsall, England, on 23 October 2026, beating home favourite Robert Hall 1,906-1,206 in a five-hour, points-format final. It was the 41-year-old Bengaluru-based cueist's 29th world title and his first World Billiards Championship crown since 2014 - when he also beat Hall in the final. The 60-player event was staged under the World Billiards Limited banner. Advani has won world titles across both billiards and snooker and in the long-up, points and 6-red formats, and remains the only player to have held world crowns in every discipline of cue sport.

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Pankaj Advani was born on 24 July 1985 in Pune and is based in Bengaluru | He received the Arjuna Award in 2004, the Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna in 2006, the Padma Shri in 2009 and the Padma Bhushan in 2018 | The international governing body for amateur cue sports is the International Billiards and Snooker Federation (IBSF)

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