Pankaj Arjan Advani is an Indian billiards and snooker player from India. He is a 21-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 three different years: 2005, 2008 and 2012 and recently in 2017.
Geet Siriram Sethi of India is a professional player of English billiards who dominated the sport throughout much of the 1990s, and a notable amateur (ex-pro) snooker player. He is a six-time winner of the professional-level and a three-time winner of the amateur World Championships, and holder of two world records, in English billiards. He, along with Prakash Padukone, has co-founded Olympic Gold Quest, a Foundation for the Promotion of Sports in India.
In snooker the maximum break is 147, also known as a maximum, a 147, or orally, a one-four-seven. A player compiles a maximum break by potting all 15 reds with 15 blacks for 120 points, followed by all six colours for a further 27 points. A maximum break is regarded as the highest possible achievement in a single frame of snooker, and is often compared to a nine-dart finish in darts or a 300 game in ten-pin bowling.
Robin Hull is a Finnish professional snooker player.
In snooker, a century break is a score of 100 points or more within one visit at the table without missing a shot and requires potting at least 25 consecutive balls. The ability to score century breaks is regarded as a mark of the highest skill in snooker, while the first career century has been described by Ronnie O'Sullivan as the "ultimate milestone for any snooker player".
The WPBSA World Billiards Championships are a pair of international, professional cue sports tournaments in the discipline of English billiards. The formerly singular championship has been divided, since 2010, into separate timed and points divisions, like the amateur world championships. In its various forms, and usually as a single World Billiards Championship, the title is one of the oldest sporting world championships, dating in earnest to 1869.
The English Amateur Championship is an annual snooker competition played in England and is the highest ranking and most prestigious amateur event in England. It is the oldest and longest-lasting snooker tournament in the world having been established back in 1916, 11 years before the World Snooker Championship.
The IBSF World Snooker Championship is the premier non-professional snooker tournament in the world. The event series is sanctioned by the International Billiards and Snooker Federation. A number of IBSF champions have gone on to successful careers in the Pro ranks, notably Jimmy White (1980), James Wattana (1988), Ken Doherty (1989), Stuart Bingham (1996), Marco Fu (1997), Stephen Maguire (2000) and Mark Allen (2004). Both Ken Doherty and Stuart Bingham have gone on to win the professional World Snooker Championship.
The World Snooker Tour is a circuit of snooker tournaments organised by the World Professional Billiards and Snooker Association (WPBSA) for their members. To compete as a professional player, players must be WPBSA members.
Hossein Vafaei Ayouri is an Iranian professional snooker player. He was the first Iranian professional snooker player in the history of the game. His attempts to travel to the United Kingdom to qualify for the major tournaments on the snooker calendar were denied due to visa problems, but he gained a UK visa in February 2015.
Oliver Brown is an amateur snooker player from Derbyshire, England.
The Irish Amateur Championship is an annual snooker competition played in Ireland and is the highest ranking amateur event in Ireland.
The Canadian Amateur Championship is an annual snooker competition played in Canada and is the highest ranking amateur event in the country.
The German Amateur Championship is an annual snooker competition played in the Germany and is the highest ranking amateur event in Germany.
The 2015 Betway UK Championship was a professional ranking snooker tournament that took place between 24 November and 6 December 2015 at the Barbican Centre in York, England. It was the fourth ranking event of the 2015/2016 season.
Yan Bingtao is a Chinese professional snooker player. He is the youngest player to win the Amateur World Snooker Championship, his 8–7 victory over Muhammad Sajjad in the final of the 2014 event earning him a place on the sport's main tour.
The 2016/2017 snooker season was a series of professional snooker tournaments played between 5 May 2016 and 1 May 2017.
David "Dai" John is a Welsh professional snooker player.
The 2018/2019 snooker season is an ongoing series of professional snooker tournaments being played between 10 May 2018and 20 May 2019. The season is made up of ranking tournaments, non-ranking tournaments and variant tournaments. In total, 46 events are to be competed in the 2018/19 season, beginning with the pro-am 2018 Vienna Open, and ending with the 2019 World Championship.
The 2019 World Snooker Championship is an upcoming professional snooker tournament, taking place from 20 April to 6 May 2019 at the Crucible Theatre in Sheffield, England. It will be the 20th and final ranking event of the 2018/2019 season. Qualifying for the tournament will take place from 10 to 17 April 2019 at the English Institute of Sport, also in Sheffield.
