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2007 was a great year for Indian cueist Pankaj Advani. After having pocketed the World Billiards title for the third time, he rounded off the year with a grand double - the Indian National Billiards and Snooker championships.  

After winning the ISBF World Billards title for the third time, he completed 2007 capturing both national snooker and billiards titles, thereby clearly proving as to why he is the best in the business.

"It's a great feeling to end the year in style. It was extremely difficult because of the number champions in the fray."

The twin titles makes Advani only the second Indian to achieve the feat after Geet Sethi whom he beat to capture the National Billiards title. 

Pankaj stated: "Snooker was the most difficult and the most satisfying one to win, because the last snooker title I won was in 2003. In 2007, I was concentrating more on snooker. Once I won the Billiards title, the pressure was off."

Pankaj beat Aditya Mehta  6-1 with the following frame scores 54-42, 107-0, 58-23, 84-01, 82-22,49-65 and 62-60 to win the snooker title.