India’s Advani clinches 6-Red World Cup title

India’s ace cueist Pankaj Advani claimed back-to-back two major international championships after he won the 6-Red World Cup final in Doha yesterday. Advani had clinched the Asian Snooker Championship title on Thursday. Yesterday, Advani beat  Pakistan’s 2017 World Team Snooker Champion Babar Masih 7-5. Earlier, in the day, Pankaj got the better of the Asian Snooker finalist Amir Sarkhosh of Iran 6-3. In the final against Babar, Advani started on a winning note but after losing the second frame he raised the lead 3-1 with a break of 32 points.Babar recovered with a break of 53 points in the fifth frame but Advani won the next three frames in a row. That was a do-or-die situation for Babar and he put in all his experience to secure next three frames, scoring 43-00, 46-12 and 59-15.The score was 6-5 in favour of Pankaj and Babar was placing good safety, but when Pankaj got a chance for long red pot, he succeeded to accumulate few red-black combinations to score a break of 32 points. Although Pankaj committed a foul on the last red, no major damage and he sealed the frame in the next visit to win the title.The presentation ceremony was graced by the IBSF President Mubarak al-Khayarin, QBSF President Mohamed Mubarak al-Ramzani, IBSF Secretary Michael Alkhoury, IBSF Executive Alamgir Shaikh, officials from QBSF and the representatives from the Sponsors Ooredoo and Al Maha.