Sourav was born in Kolkata on 16 November 1984. His father, Manoj, became the 1990 I BSF World Billiards Champion. He won the ONG 13th Asian Billiards Championship 2014,beating Alok Kumar in the final, and a gold medal at the 2017 Asian Indoor Games.
Born: 16 November 1984 (age 37); Kolkata,
It was, a double delight for former world billiards champion Sourav, who clinched the Pacific International Billiards Championship title on Friday, just days after bagging the Snooker crown in the same event.
The 37-year-old Sourav edged past multiple-time English champion Rob Hall of England 1500-1321 in the finals of the Level 5 World Billiards ranking event to win the title.
Former world billiards champion Sour av of India, who bagged the Lance Parnell Pacific International Snooker title in Melbourne on Monday, put up yet another impressive performance to clinch the Pacific International Billiard's Championship.
Sourav, 37, has thus joined Matthew Bolton of Australia among cubists to have won both the snooker and billiards events at the Pacific International Championship. Sourav edged past multiple-time English champion Rob Hall of England 1500-1321 in the finals of the Level 5 highest World Billiards ranking event to win the title on Friday.
In the thrilling final in Melbourne, Sourav, who won the world billiard's championship in 2018, displayed great mastery of cue ball control from the beginning. He notched up breaks of 161, 141, 135 and 117 to take a massive 600-point lead.
Englishman Hall could manage only a solitary century break of 177 during that session.
But a couple of missed regulation drop cannons by Sourav in the next session saw Hall fight back with a magnificent break of 391 as he reduced the margin to 200 points before overtaking Sourav.
Sourav, unperturbed at having squandered the lead, showed great calmness and composure under trying circumstances to inch towards the 1500-mark and completed the proceeding with a nicely crafted century break of 111.
Earlier, Hall ousted world billiards champion Peter Gilchrist of Singapore. Sourav scraped past compatriot Sitwala in a nail-biting 1200-1131 finish.
MELBOURNE: It was a double delight for former world billiards champion Sourav, who clinched the Pacific International Billiards Championship title on Friday, just days after bagging the Snooker crown in the same event.
The 37-year-old Sourav edged past multiple-time English champion Rob Hall of England 1500-1321 in the finals of the Level 5 highest World Billiards ranking event to win the title.
The 2018 World Billiards champion thus became only the second cubist after Mathew Bolton of Australia to achieve a double title in the Pacific International.
In the thrilling final, Sourav displayed great mastery of cue ball control from the beginning. He notched up breaks of 161, 141, 135 and 117 to take a massive 600-point lead.
The Englishman could manage only a solitary century break of 177 during that session.
A couple of missed regulation drop cannons by Sourav in the next session saw Hall fight back with a magnificent break of 391 as he reduced the margin to 200 points before overtaking Sourav.
Sourav showed great calmness and composure under trying circumstances and sealed the issue with a century break of 111.
Earlier, Hall ousted World Billiards Champion Peter Gilchrist of Singapore by 1204 registering big breaks of 244 and 192.
Sourav scraped past compatriot Sitwala in a nail-biting 1200-1131.
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