♦ Ace Indian cueist Sourav Kothari clinched the 2025 IBSF World Billiards title in the final in Carlow, Ireland on 17 April 2025.

♦ Kothari emerged champion, scoring 725 points to Advani’s 480.

♦ This victory marked a historic first IBSF world title (timed format) for Kothari, 35 years after his father and billiards legend Manoj Kothari won it in 1990 in Bangalore.

♦ Kothari is now only the third Indian to have won both the IBSF and the WBL World Billiards titles.