Pankaj Advani with chief guest Raima Sen, at the Bengal Rowing Club, on Saturday. A Telegraph picture

Calcutta: Pankaj Advani wasn’t quite able to blow away his opponent as he did in the billiards final last week, but the game he churned out on Saturday was good enough to secure him his fourth double in the national meet.

At the Bengal Rowing Club, the 12-time world billiards and snooker champion recorded a 6-3 victory over young Varun Madan in men’s senior snooker final of the BRC-Gloster National Billiards and Snooker Championship.

The scoreline read 83-36, 73-35, 27-86, 79-0, 13-87, 76-35, 48-72, 74-0, 96-9 in favour of Pankaj in a contest intriguing to say the least.

Precisely, Pankaj did go through some scary moments as the 24-year-old Varun put up a good challenge.

Such was the pressure on Pankaj that he thrice committed a foul at the start of the fifth frame and a few misses, something that’s pretty uncharacteristic of the 29-year-old star.

However, his overall experience and quality, together with Varun faltering at crucial moments, helped Pankaj come through. In a nutshell, it was in the eighth frame when Varun missed a red that made matters tougher for him, as Pankaj simply dominated from thereon.

Varun got no chance for a shot in the eighth frame as Pankaj was perfection personified. Such a show wasn’t quite expected as it was only in the previous frame when he surrendered an advantage and Varun had latched onto it.

Apart from his fine putts, the Delhi-based cueist also had his rival missing and committing a foul that cost Pankaj the seventh frame.

Making it 3-4, Varun looked well on his way to level things before the champion in Pankaj came to the fore.

Having drubbed his opponent in the eighth, Pankaj trailed 1-8 in the ninth frame.

But just as he putted a blue and followed it up with a red and a pink to lead 15-8, there was no stopping him.

Varun could manage just one point thereafter as all he could do was sit with his hands folded and watch the great man calling the shots in his own style.

In the women’s section, Amee Kamani of Madhya Pradesh upset experienced campaigner in Vidya Pillai of Karnataka to lift the title. Amee won 63-39, 21-59, 60-47, 57-32, 32-64, 45-44 in the final.

“Though it was my first national final, I think I played my natural game.

The experience of playing in the two international tournaments last year had added to my confidence,” said Amee.

Amee won the first frame comfortably with the score reading 63-39, but Vidya put it across in the next, winning 59-21.

In the next two frames, Vidya failed to capitalise on a streak of good work as she couldn’t putt the black. Amee took advantage of it and went ahead.

Though Vidya fought back to win the fifth game 64-32, Amee eased past her in the sixth and final frame with the narrowest possible margin, winning 45-44.