Mumbai, Jul 30 (PTI) Multiple-time world champion Pankaj Advani and the current Asian and national billiards champion Dhruv Sitwala will be among the competitors at the Western India Billiards and Snooker Championship starting here on August 3.

The competitions will feature three categories: senior billiards, senior snooker and junior snooker.

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It will also feature the current national snooker champion Sourav Kothari, Aditya Mehta, Laxman Rawat, Rupesh Shah, Dhvaj Haria, Alok Kumar, Siddharth Parikh and S Srikrishna.

The senior snooker champion will get a prize money of Rs 2 lakh and the runner-up will get Rs 1.2 lakh.

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The senior billiards winner will get Rs 1 lakh and the runner-up will get Rs 50,000. The winner and runner-up in the junior category will get an amount of 40,000 and Rs 20,000 respectively.

“There will also be prizes in the senior events for players who reach the last 16 and cash awards for the top breaks,” said the organisers in a release, adding that the tournament is organised by Khar Gymkhana along with the Billiards & Snooker Association of Maharashtra (BSAM) and the Billiards & Snooker Federation of India (BSFI).

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