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Pankaj Advani Biography: Age, Career, Family and More

F4U Editorial Desk • Updated October 6, 2026 • 3 min read

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Date of birth24 July 1985

BirthplacePune, Maharashtra, India

ProfessionBilliards and Snooker player

NationalityIndian

Marital statusUnmarried

FamilyFather - Arjan Advani; Mother - Kajal Advani; Brother - Dr. Shree Advani

Pankaj Advani Biography

Pankaj Advani is an Indian cue sports player from Pune who has won multiple world titles across billiards and snooker. A prodigy from a young age, he rose‌

Early life and background

Pankaj Arjan Advani was born on 24 July 1985 in Pune, Maharashtra. He spent the first five years of his life in Kuwait before his family moved to Bangalore amid the regional instability caused by the Iraqi invasion. Advani grew up in a sporting and competitive household: his brother Shree played a formative role in his early cue-sports development and later worked as a sport and performance psychologist.

Advani attended Frank Anthony Public School in Bangalore and went on to graduate in commerce from SBM Jain College, Bangalore. He was raised in a Sindhi family, follows Hinduism, and has described himself as a vegetarian. His father was Arjan Advani and his mother Kajal Advani; his father died when Pankaj was six years old.

Career

Advani began playing cue sports as a child, practising at snooker parlours alongside his brother. He won his first state title at the age of eleven, defeating his brother in the final. Internationally, he made his debut at the 2002 Asian Billiards Championship in Bangalore.

From the early 2000s Advani established himself as one of the most successful cue-sports athletes in the world. He captured his first world snooker crown in 2003 at age eighteen and continued to add major trophies in both snooker and billiards. Over his career he has won multiple world titles across formats: IBSF World Snooker Championships, IBSF Six-Red Snooker, World Billiards Championships in both time and points formats, and team events.

Notable milestones include being the first player to win both the points and time formats at the IBSF World Billiards Championship in the same year (2005), and winning the Grand Double on more than one occasion. His achievements span more than a decade and a half, with world titles recorded in 2003, 2005, 2007–2009, 2012, 2014–2015, 2016–2018 and beyond in different events.

Advani has credited both his brother Shree and coach Arvind Savur for their roles in his development and sustained success. Outside championship play, he has represented India at multi-sport events and won medals at the Asian Games as well as at other international competitions including the Australian Open.

Public profile

Advani carries several nicknames earned through his dominance in cue sports, including The Prince of Pune, The Prince of India, and The Golden Boy. His on-table success brought him national recognition and numerous awards: among them the Arjuna Award (2004), the Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna (2006), the Padma Shri (2009) and later the Padma Bhushan (2018). He has also been honoured with awards such as the Indo‑American Young Achiever’s Award and recognition from sporting bodies and media outlets.

Known for maintaining a disciplined public image, Advani has a measured personal profile. He has expressed interests outside sport—listening to music, watching films and reading spiritual books—and has named Roger Federer as a favourite athlete. His listed tastes include idli as a favourite food and a preference for designers such as Manoviraj Khosla and Wendell Rodricks.

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Advani’s competitive résumé continued through the 2010s with world-level titles in both snooker and billiards, including team honours and six-red snooker crowns. Across formats he is described as an eighteen-time world champion in combined billiards and snooker events, and his trophy list includes multiple world championships in both time and points formats, IBSF world snooker titles, and an IBSF world snooker team crown in 2018.

He maintains his residence in Bangalore, where he spent much of his childhood and schooling, and remains associated with the Indian cue-sports community through competition and mentorship.

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Recent Work

IBSF World Snooker Team Championship

Part of India’s winning effort at the team world snooker championship

2018
IBSF World Snooker Champion

Won IBSF world snooker titles in multiple years including 2003, 2015 and 2017

2003/2015/2017
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Career Highlights

  1. First player to win both points and time formats at the IBSF World Billiards Championship in the same year (2005)
  2. Three-time IBSF World Snooker Champion (2003, 2015, 2017)
  3. Multiple World Billiards Champion titles across time and points formats (2005, 2007–2009, 2012, 2014–2015, 2016, 2017)
  4. Recipient of major national honours including the Arjuna Award, Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna, Padma Shri and Padma Bhushan
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