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Pankaj Advani
Viswanathan Anand
Mahesh Bhupathi
Baichung Bhutia
Abhinav Bindra
Rahul Dravid
Anil Kumble
Sania Mirza
Saina Nehwal
Leander Paes
Viren Rasquinha
Virender Sehwag
Geet Sethi
Sachin Tendulkar
Vijay Amritraj
Kapil Dev
Sunil Gavaskar
Prakash Padukone
Tiger Pataudi
Ajit Pal Singh
Roger Federer (courtesy Globosport)
Diego Forlan (courtesy Mahua TV)
Ricky Ponting (courtesy Dhiraj Malhotra)
Maria Sharapova (courtesy Akshay Kulkarni)
Shane Warne (courtesy Rahul Bose)
 
 
 

The trophy is special for me as it was won in front of my home crowd with my favourite actor, Amitabh Bachchan, handing it over to me. The emotion I experienced at the time of becoming the best in the professional world is embedded in this trophy. The cue I’ve donated is one of my favourites - I made the 764 in Singapore with it. I have known Rahul and the social work he does, for some years. It gives me immense pleasure to donate these pieces to his organization, The Foundation.
It was a day Indian billiards had waited for. In September 1992, Geet Sethi became the first Indian to win the World Professional Billiards title, that too, in Mumbai. His world record break of 1276 in the quarter finals against Englishman Bob Close and his 818 against Mike Russell in the final encapsulated the qualities Indians have since come to take for granted in this champion – talent, concentration and a fierce desire to win. The two-piece maple cue that accompanies the trophy served him in both, the World Snooker Masters in 2007 as well as the World Billiards Championships in 2007 where Geet notched the tournament’s highest break of 764.