Indian Players of English Billiards - Geet Sethi, Pankaj Advani, Michael Ferreira, Subhash Agarwal, Wilson Jones (Paperback)

Chapters: Geet Sethi, Pankaj Advani, Michael Ferreira, Subhash Agarwal, Wilson Jones. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 22. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Geet Siriram Sethi (born April 17, 1961) of India is a semi-professional player of English billiards who dominated the sport throughout much of the 1990s, and a notable amateur snooker player. He is a six-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. Born in Delhi and growing up in Ahmedabad, Sethi won his first major English billiards event in 1982, the Indian National Billiards Championship (an international event despite its name), defeating Michael Ferreira, and later went on to win the NBC again four years in a row, 19851988, and made a comeback in both 1997 and 1998 to reclaim the title. He rose to international prominence by winning the IBSF World Amateur Billiards Championships in 1985, versus Bob Marshall in an eight-hour-long final round. In 1987, he again won the IBSF event, as well as the ACBS Asian Billiards Championship He won another World Amateur Billiards title 2001, despite having previously played as a pro by that date. Sethi also took the Indian National Snooker Championships four times back to back, in the same 19851988 span as his national English billiards streak. In the 1989 event, held at Guntur, Andhra Pradesh, though he did not take the title, he did achieve the world's first amateur maximum break of 147 in official competition. He has never placed in the top snooker world rankings, however. Sethi is the only player in the history of cue-sports to have scored a maximum (147) in competitive snooker and a 1000+ break in competitive billiards. In the 1992 World Professional Billiards Championship, Se...More: http: //booksllc.net/?id=57441