Kuala Lumpur: India’s Pankaj Advani has reached in the final of 31st Asian Snooker Championship being played at Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia where he will meet Pakistan player Hamza Akbar.

On Wednesday, Pankaj played quarter-final against his compatriot Kamal Chawla and defeated him 5-2 to enter into the semis. The match was quite interesting where Pankaj scored a massive break of 135 points to gain 3-0 lead and Kamal replied with 136 in 6th frame to narrow down to 2-4. However, in the next frame, Pankaj did not allow Chawla to do much and cleared with 78-04 to win the match 5-2.

In the semis, Pankaj blanked Zhang Yong of China to step in the final. He also scored a break of 115 in the fifth frame.

The other finalist, Hamza Akbar's journey so far has been interesting. He met two of his compatriots in the knockout rounds. First he defeated former world champion Muhammed Asif by winning the decider frame 4-3 in the last 32 stage and later he knocked out Shahram Changezi in the quarter-final 5-1.

In the semis, he outclassed Mohd Reza of Malaysia 6-2.

Another Indian Varun Madan had also reached the quarterfinals but lost to Mohd Reza 1-5.