World Billiards

World Billiards (Limited) was founded in November 2011 as a subsidiary of the World Professional Billiards & Snooker Association. It includes former members of EBOS (English-Billiards Open Series) and WPBSA, and is the governing body for English billiards.

World Billiards Ltd
SportEnglish billiards
CategorySport governing body
JurisdictionInternational
AbbreviationWBL
Founded2011
AffiliationWPBSA
PresidentRoxton Chapman
Board membersJason Colebrook (Managing Director), Jim Burke, Steve Lock, Darren Clark, Chris Coumbe
Official website
www.world-billiards.com

As of 2012, the distinction between professional and amateur players was removed and the WPBSA World Professional Billiards Championship became simply the World Billiards Championship. Tournaments are now held in modern short multiple game format, long single game format and the more traditional timed format.

Promotional activities

Since 2012 World Billiards has organised the World Billiards Championship (English billiards) plus up to 20 other world ranking tournaments per year. Apart from the World Championship, other major ranking tournaments include the American Cup in Canada, the European Open, the Pacific International in Australia and the Asian Grand Prix in Singapore.

World Billiards Championships
Date Format Winner Score Runner-up Score
2012 Short[1] Rupesh Shah 6 Matthew Bolton 2
Timed[2] Pankaj Advani 1,895 Mike Russell 1,216
2013 Short[3] David Causier 6 Alok Kumar 1
Long[4] Peter Gilchrist 1,500 David Causier 1,085
2014 Short[5] Pankaj Advani 6 Peter Gilchrist 2
Timed[6] Pankaj Advani 1,928 Robert Hall 893
2015 Short David Causier 6 Robert Hall 1
Long David Causier 1,500 Peter Gilchrist 1,277
2016 Short David Causier 8 Dhruv Sitwala 6
Timed Mike Russell 2224 David Causier 1115
2017 Short David Causier 8 Sourav Kothari 4
Long David Causier 1,500 Peter Gilchrist 779
2018 Timed Sourav Kothari 1,134 Peter Gilchrist 944
2019 Timed Peter Gilchrist 1,307 Sourav Kothari 967

See also

References
  1. Subbaiah, Sunil. "Rupesh Shah wins second world title". The Times of India. Retrieved 14 April 2013.
  2. "Pankaj Advani wins World Billiards title". The Times of India. Retrieved 14 April 2013.
  3. Pathak, Vivek (25 October 2013). "David Causier, the new champion for World Billiards (Short format)". International Billiards and Snooker Federation. Retrieved 20 April 2014.
  4. "IBSF Long up Billiards Championships Long up – Leeds / England 2013". International Billiards and Snooker Federation. Retrieved 20 April 2014.
  5. "Advani stuns Gilchrist to clinch World Billiards title". The Times of India. 24 October 2014. Retrieved 25 October 2014.
  6. "Advani: first ever player to bag billiards triple double". The Hindu. 30 October 2014. Retrieved 30 October 2014.
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