Arantxa Sanchis, at the BRC, on Wednesday. A Telegraph picture

Calcutta: Pankaj Advani seems to be doing no wrong.

Carrying his sublime form from billiards to snooker, the 12-time world champion blazed past his opponents in Group A to top the league table in the BRC-Gloster National Billiards and Snooker Championship, here, at the Bengal Rowing Club, on Wednesday.

He started the day by giving a thrashing to Akshay Kumar of UP, winning 135-0, 129-0, 95-1. His 135 in the first frame was the highest break registered so far in the competition.

Thereafter, it was the turn of Assam’s Sukumar Barman to get a hammering. Pankaj won the game 92-6, 106-04, 129-0 before turning the heat on local man Ankit Kariwala and Assem Arora of Haryana.

Kariwala, though, tried his best, but all he could do was only delay the inevitable as Pankaj wrapped up the match 60-19, 96-13, 92-20.

Just like Akshay and Sukumar, Assem was a sitting duck for Pankaj as the scoreline read 77-1, 71-6, 117-10 in favour of the 29-year-old.

In other words, the quartet simply had no chances at all before Pankaj who looks unconquerable at present. Considering his performance at present, Pankaj is well on his way to retain the snooker title and make it his fourth double.

“It’s a still a bit too early to talk about a double, but yes, I’m getting into the groove… Just want to carry on with the way I’ve been going… That’s it…” he said after the day’s proceedings.

Precisely, Pankaj is only showing that the qualitative difference between the other cueists in the country and him is just too huge.

Like Pankaj, Kamal Chawla of Railways also exhibited his class, winning all his league matches without dropping a frame to occupy the second spot. No wonder Kamal is the best bet at present to challenge the No. 1 player.

The other star of the day was young Arantxa Sanchis of Maharashtra, who secured a berth in the women’s billiards final. Arantxa will be meeting Meenal Thakur in the decider on Thursday.

On her way to the final, Arantxa upset top player Vidya Pillai, winning 2-0 (50-5, 52-26). For sure, the win gave her ample confidence and momentum for the semis where she beat M. Chitra of Karnataka 75-72, 76-10.

Her first frame versus Chitra went to the wire. But once Arantxa held her nerves to secure the frame, it was just a matter of time before she sealed the match.

“It’s always nice to come out on top against a quality player like Vidya. But I feel it would have been far more tougher for me had I faced her in snooker,” Arantxa said.

Meenal, also of Maharashtra, won 77-20, 25-74, 77-18 against R. Umadevi of Karnataka.