World champion Pankaj Advani (PSPB) today won his fifth national billiards title with a commanding 5-1 win over Balachandra Bhaskar of Bangalore here.

Bhaskar, who has been in the national scene for over 15 years and on his maiden national final, remained a spectator from his chair for larger period of the match as 26-year-old Advani had his measure of comfort after losing the first frame.

Earlier, Advani, who has won four Asian titles besides two gold medals in Asian Games, overwhelmed nine time world champion Geet Sethi of Gujarat 150-114 150-12 151-105 150-104 in the semifinal, while 39-year-old Bhaskar was at his best in progressing to the final with a 152—117 151-130 151-79 36-151 151-60 over Dhruv Sitwala (PSPB).

However, Bhaskar could not face up to the challenges of Advani, a seven times world champion. Advani, on his part brought innovations to pot at will with regular frequency. On the other hand, Bhaskar was seen missing even easy shots.

Bhaskar’s lone good patch was in the first frame when he came up with an unfinished 119 but once Advani found his rhythm and implemented his game plan while his senior state mate was languishing in the chair.

Advani’s remarkable abilities with swift decisions on the table helped him record unfinished breaks of 147 107 150 and 147 in the third, fourth, fifth and sixth frames to close up the match in quick time. Fifth and sixth frames were noteworthy as the enterprising Advani exhibited his control of playing the Postman’s knock from top of the table game.

In the third place match, Geet Sethi beat Dhruv Sitwala 151-50 10-150 151-07.

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For now, let us have a look at the final Asian Games 2010 medal tally.

Asian Games 2010 medal tally

China rein on the top with 145 Gold

India Bags 6 Gold Medals and rein on 8th Position

Somdev Devvarman

Somdev Devvarman became the first Indian to reach the men’s singles final in the history of the Asian Games before winning the men’s doubles gold with Sanam Singh but Sania Mirza and Vishnu Vardhan had to be content with a silver in the tennis competitions.

Preeja and Sudha clinch golds for India from track

Preeja Sreedharan and Sudha Singh were the gold winners in the women’s 10,000m and 3000m steeplechase. Preeja finished the race by 31 minutes, 50.47 seconds to reach two minutes below the Asian and world record of China’s Wang Junxia. Kavita, finished second with her personal best of 31:51.44, to add a silver to Indian tally.

Another thrilling moment to Indians came when Sudha Singh outpaced Jin Yuan of China to win a Gold in the 3000m women’s steeplechase. 24-year-old Sudha made her record gain running ten meters ahead of her Chinese rival.

Symbols M=Men W=Women X =Mixed T=total

Rank	NOC	Gold				Silver				Bronze				Total Medals				Rank by Total
		M	W	X	T	M	W	X	T	M	W	X	T	M	W	X	T
1	China	40	55	10	105	18	21	1	40	22	14	0	36	80	90	11	181	1
2	R.O. Korea	19	7	3	29	9	7	7	23	15	17	4	36	43	31	14	88	3
3	Japan	12	6	0	18	21	18	3	42	17	16	4	37	50	40	7	97	2
4	DPR Korea	4	1	0	5	5	2	0	7	3	7	0	10	12	10	0	22	5
5	Iran	4	1	0	5	2	2	0	4	5	3	0	8	11	6	0	17	9
6	Chinese Taipei	3	1	0	4	0	4	1	5	6	12	1	19	9	17	2	28	4
7	Uzbekistan	3	0	0	3	9	0	0	9	5	4	0	9	17	4	0	21	6
8	Hong Kong, China	0	3	0	3	5	2	0	7	1	4	0	5	6	9	0	15	10
9	Malaysia	2	1	0	3	2	0	1	3	0	2	2	4	4	3	3	10	14
10	Kazakhstan	0	2	0	2	3	3	0	6	8	3	1	12	11	8	1	20	7
11	India	1	0	0	1	5	2	0	7	6	1	0	7	12	3	0	15	10

National Billiard Champion Pankaj Advani provided the first gold for India in the 16th Asian Games by clinching the title in billiards singles while Alok Kumar claimed a bronze in 8-ball pool event and the shooters accounted for a silver and bronze on the second day of competitions on Sunday.

The Commonwealth Games 2014 which is the 20th edition of these games will be held in Glasgow, Scotland.

India Australia Test Series 2010

India wins against Australia by 7 wickets and retained the  Border-Gavasker Trophy

India has won against Australia by 7 wickets on the 5th day of the 2nd test played in Bangalore. Australia had made 478 in the first and 223 in the second inning, whereas India made 495 in the first and 207 for three in the second inning.

Tendulkar comfortably scored  53 (77) not out, Dravid got 21 (53) not out. Tendulkar played the last stroke. Vijay got 32, Sehwag made 7 and Pujara made 72 that helped building India’s solid position.

Kim Clijsters-U.S. Open 2010 Women’s Champion

The number two-seeded Clijsters defeated Russia’s Vera Zvonareva, the number seven seed, 6-2, 6-1 to capture the 2010 U.S. Open Women’s Championship.