Pankaj Advani and Sourav Kothari in Leeds, on Friday.

Calcutta/ Leeds: King of Indian cue sports Pankaj Advani added yet another jewel to his glowing crown, outplaying former champion Peter Gilchrist in the 150 up points format World Billiards Championship final and pocket his 11th world title, here on Friday.

Advani, 29, conquered the Singapore cueist Gilchrist 6-2 in a high-quality final of the shorter format of billiards.

On Thursday night, Sourav Kothari settled with the bronze medal losing to Advani 2-5 in the thrilling semi-final encounter. Undoubtedly Kothari was much competitive where four games out of seven played had a close finish.

While Advani had lost to Gilchrist in the league stage 3-2, the Indian seemed determined to reverse the outcome in the most crucial match of the tournament.

Gilchrist was off to a flying start registering a 145 unfinished and securing the first frame. However, Advani responded with a 127 in the second to even the score.

Gilchrist surged ahead to 2-1 but that was the last frame he was going to win in the final. After Frame 3, it was the Advani show. The next two frames saw the Indian score heavily with two unfinished breaks of 108 and 150 to go into the interval with a slender 3-2 lead.

On return from the mid-session break, Advani was in demolition mode and won the next 3 frames to lift his eleventh world title. Advani now is the holder of three different world titles in 2014 — the IBSF World 6-Red Snooker title, the World Team Billiards title and now the World Billiards Championship (point format), an unprecedented record in itself.

“I’m in 11th heaven! I returned to India to focus on this very event and it has paid off. Gilchrist was the most dangerous competitor of the tournament and in a dream final I am happy with the way I performed,” said an elated Advani after the triumph.

With the time format starting on Saturday, Advani said, “The job is only half done. I have to now focus on the longer format and try for a double. I have a match at noon on Saturday so celebrations will have to wait, but no complaints.”

Talking about the Thursday clash, Kothari flew off to a brilliant start with breaks of 91 & 47 to seal the first game. However, Advani not to be kept quiet responded with a frame winning break of 135 in spite of Kothari scoring a break of 80 earlier in the frame.

With the scores level at 1-1, Kothari rose to the occasion and fired a magnificent break of 139 points to seal the third frame and lead Advani by 2-1 games. Efforts of 55 and 95 by Advani ensured that players went into the mid-session interval levelled at 2-2 games.

In the fifth game, Kothari sat and watch as in the very first visit to the table Advani went all guns blazing to notch an unfinished break of 151 points and take the lead for the first time in the match.

There was no stopping Advani as he fired a brilliant 148 break to clinch the sixth game and extend his lead to 4-2 games. It was the seventh game where Kothari made a fabulous 119 break to reach 143 points and when just seven points away from reaching the 150 mark missed a regulation red in-off at the center pocket.

Advani, who had a meagre 12 points in the board lived up to the true reputation and exhibited great skill both at the top of the table as well as in all round Billiards to seal the frame and match with an unfinished match winning break of 138.