Geet Shriram Sethi biography , career , birthday , history

 Professional English billiards player Geet Shriram Sethi (born in India on April 17, 1961) dominated the sport throughout the most of the 1990s. He is a well-known amateur snooker player and a former professional. He owns two world records in English billiards and has won the professional level six times and the amateur world championship three times. Together with Prakash Padukone, he formed the sports advocacy group Olympic Gold Quest.Geet Sethi, who was born in Delhi to a Punjabi family and raised in Ahmedabad, won his first significant English billiards title—the Indian National Billiards Championship—in 1982 by defeating Michael Ferreira [1]. He went on to win the title four times in a row on NBC from 1985 to 1988 before reclaiming it in 1997 and 1998.

After defeating Bob Marshall in an eight-hour final to win the IBSF World Amateur Billiards Championship in 1985, he rose to renown around the world.  He again won the IBSF title and the ACBS Asian Billiards Championship in 1987 [3]. Prior to 2001, he played as a professional player before winning a World Amateur Billiards title. 

Similar to his outstanding achievement in the National English Billiards, Sethi also won the Indian National Snooker Championship four times in a row between the years 1985 and 1988.  He made the world's first amateur highest break of 147 in a competitive tournament in 1989, even though he did not take home the victory in the competition held in Guntur, Andhra Pradesh. [1] [3] He was never ranked, though, in the global snooker rankings. Sethi is the only player in history to have recorded more than 1000 breaks in competitive billiards and 147 breaks in competitive snooker.

Sethi won the World Professional Billiards Championship in 1992 by setting a world record for English billiards under the three-pot rule of 1276 (the largest break in fifty years) [1] [3]. In 1993, 1995, [3] 1998, [2] [3] and 2006, he once more captured the crown.

He defeated World Pro Champion Chris Shutt in the semifinals of the 2006 Championship in Prestatyn, Wales, and David Kuzyr in the quarterfinals. He defeated Lee Legan in the title match 2073-1057 (average per template:Glossary link 34.3 vs 17.0), which lasted five hours. Legan had previously defeated him 6 to 5 at the IBSF Amateur World Championship in 2003. Sethi led by 150 at the end of the first hour after holding a two Template: Glossary link advantage.Legan, on the other hand, was only able to record two centuries in the first season and one century in the second. Link to glossary template With 206 at the end of the innings, Sethi was once more close to a double century, and it was entirely possible that he would keep his recent pattern of taking rests.