| Born | 16 November 1984 Kolkata, India |
|---|---|
| Sport country |  India |
| Tournament wins | |
| World Champion | 2018 |
Sourav Kothari (born 16 November 1984) is an Indian player of English billiards. He was world champion in 2018.
| Born | 16 November 1984 Kolkata, India |
|---|---|
| Sport country | India |
| Tournament wins | |
| World Champion | 2018 |
Sourav Kothari (born 16 November 1984) is an Indian player of English billiards. He was world champion in 2018.
Kothari was born in Kolkota on 16 November 1984. [1]
He won the ONGC 13th Asian Billiards Championship 2014,beating Alok Kumar in the final, [2] and a gold medal at the 2017 Asian Indoor Games. [3]
He was a runner-up to David Causier at the 2017 World Billiards Championship, losing 4–8 in the short format (150-up) final. [4]
Kothari won the World Billiards Championship in 2018 with a 1,134–944 victory over Peter Gilchrist. In the semi-final, Kothari had been more than 500 points behind Causier, before coming back to win. [5]
In 2019 Kothari again reached the world championship final, finishing runner-up by 1,307–967 to Gilchrist. [6] Kothari also won the 2019 Reventon Masters against Johl Younger (6-5) and Reventon Classic against Tyson Crinis (5-1), two tournaments of the Reventon Triple Crown series. [7] [8]
Pankaj Arjan Advani is an Indian billiards and professional snooker player. He is a 26-time International Billiards and Snooker Federation (IBSF) world champion. He has won 17 billiards world titles, the IBSF World Billiards Championship on 17 occasions and the World Team Billiards Championship once. In snooker, he won the IBSF World Snooker Championship three times, IBSF World six-red championship twice and the IBSF World Team Cup and IBSF World Team Championship one time each. He has the record number of IBSF world championships. He became a snooker professional in 2012/2013.
Geet Siriram Sethi of India is a professional player of English billiards who dominated the sport throughout much of the 1990s. He is also a notable amateur (ex-pro) snooker player. He is a five-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. Along with Prakash Padukone, Sethi has co-founded Olympic Gold Quest, a foundation for the promotion of sports in India.
The World Billiards Championship is an international cue sports tournament in the discipline of English billiards, organised by World Billiards, a subsidiary of the World Professional Billiards and Snooker Association (WPBSA). In its various forms, and usually as a single competition, the title is one of the oldest sporting world championships, having been contested since 1870.
Emma Bonney is an English world champion player of English billiards, and snooker player. She has won the World Women's Billiards Championship title a record thirteen times.
Peter Gilchrist is a Singaporean billiards player. He won the World Billiards Championship in 1994, 2001, and 2013, 2019, and 2023.
Vidya Viswanathan Pillai is an Indian professional snooker player. Vidya Pillai grew up in Chennai, Tamil Nadu. In recognition of her achievements, the Government of Karnataka bestowed her with the Ekalavya award in 2016 for outstanding performance in Sports. She has won several International medals for India and in 2013 won the gold medal in the IBSF World Team Snooker Championship, Gold in the IBSF Australian Women's Ranking Snooker Championship in 2016 and was the first Indian woman to reach the finals of the WLBSA World Women's Snooker Championship in 2017. She is also a 9-time winner of the National Championship Title.
World Billiards (Limited) was founded in November 2011 as a subsidiary of the World Professional Billiards & Snooker Association (WPBSA). It includes former members of EBOS and WPBSA, and is the governing body for English billiards.
The year of 2019 included professional tournaments surrounding table-top cue sports. These events include snooker, pool disciplines and billiards. Whilst these are traditionally singles sports, some matches and tournaments are held as doubles, or team events. The snooker season runs between May and April, whilst the pool and billiards seasons run in the calendar year.
Waratthanun Sukritthanes is a snooker player from Thailand. She was the 2018 IBSF World Snooker Championship Women's Champion, and was the runner-up in 2017.
Amee Kamani is an Indian snooker player. She was runner-up in the 2016 International Billiards and Snooker Federation World Snooker championship, losing 0–5 in the final to the defending champion Wendy Jans. Kamani was the 2018 Asian Billiards Sports Championships Ladies Champion after defeating Siripaporn Nuanthakhamjan 3–0 in the final, and was runner-up at the 2014 Australian Open and the 2019 International Billiards and Snooker Federation Women's six-reds snooker championship.
David Causier is an English world champion player of English billiards.
The World Women's Billiards Championship is an English billiards tournament, first held in 1931 when organised by the cue sports company Burroughes and Watts then run from 1932 by the Women's Billiards Association (WBA). It is currently run under the auspices of World Billiards Ltd (WBL), a subsidiary company of the World Professional Billiards and Snooker Association.
Chris Shutt is an English champion player of English billiards. He won the World Professional Billiards Championship in 2005.
Rupesh Shah is an Indian player of English billiards. He was world professional champion in 2012.
Dhruv Sitwala is an Indian player of English billiards. He has reached three world finals, and twice been Asian Billiards champion.
The Reventon Triple Crown is a series of snooker tournaments held in the Reventon Snooker Academy, Melbourne, Australia. It is formed by the tournaments Reventon Masters, Reventon Classic and Reventon International, and is held annually.
Chris Christofi is a Greek-Australian entrepreneur, sporting director and sports sponsor who is the founder and CEO of Reventon and CHC Planning Solutions. Since 2010, he has been the major sponsor of cue sports, is the director of the Reventon Snooker Academy and also created the Reventon Triple Crown.
In 2018, championships were held across three continents to determine the best players in major cue sports, including snooker, pool, and English billiards. While these are mostly single player sports, some matches and tournaments are held as either doubles or as team events. The snooker season runs between May and April; the pool and billiards seasons run through the calendar year.
The ACBS English Billiards Asian Championships is an English Billiards tournament first held in 1986, and then from 2002. The event is hosted by the Asian Confederation of Billiards Sports (ACBS).