New Delhi: Pankaj Advani beat Singapore's Peter Gilchrist 6-5 in the best-of-11 crunch games to become the first cueist to win a hat-trick of Asian Billiards title.
With this win at the Yeshwant Club in Indore on Thursday night, Advani also became the youngest Asian to win four Asian Billiards title. The win was also sweet revenge for the Bangalore lad as he had lost to Gilchrist in their last encounter in the semi-final of the Vietnam Asian Indoor Games.
Earlier on Thursday, Advani defeated Yaw Oo of Myanmar in the semifinal to set up the title clash against Gilchrist.
The Bangalore cueist took an initial 3-1 lead with a century break in the second game and a 86 break in the third. However, Gilchrist came back with a 97 break in the fifth game to narrow the lead to 3-2. Advani gave way while on 38 in the seventh and Gilchrist capitalised to equal the scores.
In the next game, Advani had an incredible century break to win the ninth game. Gilchrist equalled the scores again in the penultimate game with a 98 break. But Advani gave no chance to Gilchrist to recover and won the decider with an unfinished century break to end the match at 6-5.
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