Pankaj Advani gets top billing

Pankaj Advani who finished the league phase Tuesday with an all-win record and without dropping a frame in his four matches, was named top seed in the knock-out round of the IBSF 6 Reds World snooker championship in progress here.

Along with Advani, Kamal Chawla and Dharmender Lilly also joined six other Indians in the knock-out phase that commences Thursday.

In the team championship, all the five Indian men's pairings qualified for the knock-out stage as did two other combinations of Syed Saleem and Nadeem Ahmed, and Rafath Habib and Nadeem Azeez in the Masters section.