His best run in a ranking event during the rest of the season was at the World Open, where he narrowly beat Xiao Guodong 5-4 to set up a last 32 meeting with Ding Junhui. However, Ding made a break of 52 to win the frame, compiled a 136 to draw level and won the deciding frame in one visit to defeat Advani. He won his first ever title at the age of 11 and went on to set several records at the state and national levels. Overall, as of 2017 Advani had won 60 titles: 19 world titles; 8 Asian titles; 2 Asian Games titles; 1 Australian Open title and 30 national titles. He received training in snooker from former national Snooker champion Arvind Savur. The seedings for tournaments change from tournament to tournament: the defending champion is allocated the top seed followed by the reigning world champion and the remaining seeds are taken from a "seeding list". He is a 27-time International Billiards and Snooker Federation (IBSF) world champion. The rankings determine the seedings for tournaments on the World Snooker Tour, organised by the World Professional Billiards and Snooker Association (WPBSA), and who gets an invite to prestigious invitational events.

Various "cut-off" points are selected at convenient stages during the season where the rankings are "frozen" and used as seedings for the next few tournaments, until the next revision. When the official rankings were only calculated once a year the seedings for tournaments-with the exception of the top two seeds-followed the official rankings. In tournaments with a "tiered" format players come into events in different rounds based on their ranking, and in some cases the top players in the sport are seeded through to the venue stage and do not have to play a qualification match. In particular, the top 16 ranked players automatically qualify for the final stages of the World Championship and the Masters, so as well as interest in who will be number one, there is typically a lot of interest in which players are likely to maintain or acquire "top 16 status". The billiards world rankings are the official system of ranking English billiards players to determine automatic qualification and seeding for tournaments. A player's ranking is based on their performances in designated ranking tournaments. Tournaments open to the membership are often played in two stages-a qualification stage and the "venue stage"-usually at different locations. Every professional member of the WPBSA is assigned a ranking, whether they are active on the circuit or not.

As of 2012, the distinction between professional and amateur players was removed. In the same tournament, Advani sailed to the semi-finals of the World Amateur Snooker Championship where he lost to Thailand's Kritsanut Lertsattayathorn. The tie-break system was dropped but the system remained basically the same with players awarded incrementally more points for each successive round; should a seeded player lose their first match they would receive only half the points allocated to the non-seeded losers in that round. The current system utilises a two-year "rolling" format where points from tournaments in the current season replace the points from corresponding tournaments of two seasons ago. The original "Order of Merit", created for the 1975-76 season and based on just World Championship results, awarded the winner five points, the runner-up four, semi-finalists three, and so on down to one point for players who lost in the last 16. The world rankings, introduced in the following year, used the same allocation. Subsequent tournaments that were assigned ranking status worked on the same system but with the World Championship from 1983 onwards carrying double points. The ranking list rolls on at the end of each season, with every player’s points being halved at the season switchover.

The World Championship continued to award more points than the other events but under the "open era" system the allocations often varied between other events too, with the UK Championship traditionally having the second-highest tariff. World Professional Billiards and Snooker Association. Everton, Clive. "Professional billiards dies: what next?". In 2018, Advani won his 7th Asian Billiards Title in Myanmar making him the maximum holder of the Asian Title. In May 2016 he won the Asian 6-Red Snooker title. It was announced in May that Advani had accepted the Indian wildcard place on the main snooker tour for the 2012-13 season. He received an invite to participate in the wildcard round of the 2015 Indian Open, but lost 4-3 to Rhys Clark. The match was heavily focused on safety and it was Mehta who advanced with a 4-3 win. His match with Allen finished at 11 pm local time, with Advani back in last 16 action at 10 am the next morning to play Stuart Bingham. Advani made his international competitive debut in 1999 at the World Billiards Championship in England. Pankaj Arjan Advani (born 24 July 1985) is an Indian billiards and professional snooker player. WPBSA. World Professional Billiards and Snooker Association.

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