Pankaj Aijan Advani is the only Indian to have won the amateur world titlein both snooker and billiards. 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. He was bestowed the Aijuna Award in 2004, Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratnain 2006Padma Shriin 2009 andPadma Bhushardn 2018.