Vidya Pillai (born 26 November 1978 in Trichy) is an Indian professional player of snooker.
 Vidya Pillai grew up in Chennai, Tamil Nadu.
 In 2011, after her wedding to Bangalore based architect MC Tilakraj she moved to Bangalore, Karnataka and is currently a domicile of the state.
 In recognition of her achievements, the Government of Karnataka has bestowed her with the prestigious Ekalavya award in 2016 for outstanding performance in Sports.
 She has won several International medals for India and recently in 2013 won the Gold medal in the IBSF World Team Snooker Championship, Gold in the IBSF Australian Women’s Ranking Snooker Championship in 2016 and was the first Indian woman to reach the finals of the WLBSA World Women's Snooker Championship in 2017 and won the Silver medal as well.
 She is also a 9-time winner of the National Championship Title.
 She is acclaimed to be the best Woman Snooker player in India.
The 2012/2013 snooker season was a series of snooker tournaments played during 2012 and 2013.
 The season featured two new ranking events; the Wuxi Classic and the International Championship.
 The tour had a record five ranking events in China, and three new PTC events in Asia.
 The tour also visited Bulgaria for the first time in its history, and returned to Poland, Belgium and Australia.
 Before the start of the season World Snooker requested every player to sign a players contract, that would allow players to choose which events they want to enter – no player was forced to play in any event.
 At the end of the season Mark Selby was named the "World Snooker Player of the Year", the "Snooker Writers' Player of the Year" and the "Fans' Player of the Year" and Ian Burns the "Rookie of the Year".
 Ronnie O'Sullivan received the "Performance of the Year" for winning his fifth World title after playing just one competitive match during the season.
 Jimmy Robertson's 57 break in just 130 seconds at the Snooker Shoot-Out received the "Magic Moment of the Year" award.
 Terry Griffiths, Joe Johnson, Peter Ebdon, Ken Doherty, Graeme Dott, Shaun Murphy and Neil Robertson were inducted into the Hall of Fame.
Pankaj Arjan Advani (born 24 July 1985 in Pune) is an Indian professional player of English billiards and former professional snooker player.
 In recognition of his achievements, the Government of India has bestowed several awards upon Advani—Arjuna Award in 2004, Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna in 2006, and Padma Shri in 2009.
 He has achieved a hat-trick of hat-tricks in English billiards, holding the World, Asian, and Indian National Championship titles simultaneously, in three different years: 2005, 2008 and 2012.
 He became a snooker professional only in 2012, and his first season on the main tour was the 2012/2013 season.
 Advani won the 2014 IBSF World 6-Red Snooker Championship, on his debut in that discipline.
 He is the only player ever to win world titles in both the long and short formats of snooker (15-red standard, and 6-red) and both formats of English billiards (time and point).
 Advani is also India's first world champion in 6-red snooker.
 On 14 August 2014, Advani helped win the first ever World Team Billiards Championship held in Glasgow, Scotland, along with Rupesh Shan, Devendra Joshi and Ashok Shandilya.
Manish Jain (born 25 August 1988) is an Indian Billiards and Snooker player.
 Manish started his career in 2004 after being Ranked 2nd at the West Bengal State Junior Billiards Championship and Ranked 3rd in the Snooker Championship.
 In 2005 he represented West Bengal in the National Billiards & Snooker Championship at the Goregaon Sports Club, Mumbai.
 In 2006 he represented West Bengal in the National Billiards & Snooker Championship at Vijaya Mehal Chennai.In 2007 he Represented West Bengal in the National Billiards & Snooker Championship at Hyderabad and Ranked 2nd In Billiards & Snooker both in India.
 He also won the State Junior Snooker Championship in 2007 and Ranked2nd in the State Senior Snooker Championship at West Bengal.
 In 2008 Manish represented India at the Asian U-21Snooker Championship held at Yangon,Myanmar.
 In 2008 he won the State Junior Snooker & Billiards Championship both held at the Bengal Rowing Club.
 In 2009 he represented India in the Asian U-21 Snooker Championship at Pune.
 In 2010 Manish joined Eastern Railways under Sports Quota to become a full time professional in Billiards & Snooker.
 In 2011 he Represented India in the World Sooker Q- School.
 He also won the State Snooker Championship at the Bengal Rowing Club.He also represented India in the World Professional Billiards Championship at Leeds, U.K.
 In 2012 he won the State Senior Billiards Championship at the Bengal Rowing Club.
 He then went on to represent India in the World Billiards Championship at the Northern Snooker Centre at Leeds, U.K.
 He participated in the All India Invitation Billiards & Snooker Championship, Baroda and Beat 9 times World Champion Geet Sethi in the Group Stage and Participated.
 In 2013 he represented India at the Australian Open Billiards Championship and made it to the Round of 16.
 He represented West Bengal in the National Billiards & Snooker Championship at Gwalior and finished Ranked 6th in the National Senior Billiards Championship.
 In 2014 he won both the State Billiards & Snooker Championship at the Bengal Rowing Club.
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Shaun Murphy (born 10 August 1982) is an English professional snooker player, who won the 2005 World Championship.
 Nicknamed "The Magician", Murphy is noted for his straight cue action and his long potting.
Arantxa Sanchis is a female Professional Billiards and Snooker player from India.
 She won the Gold medal in the Women's Team event at the inaugural IBSF World 6-Red Snooker and Team Snooker Championship in Carlow, Ireland on 6 Oct, 2013.
 It was a historic first Gold Medal for Indian Women's Snooker at a World Championship.
 On 27 Sep 2015, she won the inaugural IBSF World Billiards Championship in Adelaide, Australia.
 This feat made her the only woman in the world to hold IBSF World titles in both Billiards and Snooker.
Shawn Budd (born 2 March 1974 in Sydney, Australia), is a professional snooker and pool player that has won major snooker and pool tournaments in Australia, New Zealand, England and America.
 He is the only Australian snooker player ever to win the Australian Open Snooker, Australian National Snooker, Australian 9 Ball and 8 Ball titles.
 Also he has won the Oceania Snooker championships and was runner up in the Oceania Billiards Championship in the same year.
 In 2002 he was a quarter finalist in the IBSF World Billiards Championships (50 up).
 In 1994 he won the Valley National Open 8-ball tournament in Las Vegas (over 5000 entries) and in 2001 he won the Masters 8-ball event.
 The event is now called the World Pool Championships.
Luca Brecel (born 8 March 1995 in Dilsen-Stokkem) is a Belgian professional snooker player.
 He won the European Under-19 title at the age of 14 and is the youngest player to play at the Crucible after qualifying for the 2012 World Championship aged 17.
 His first ranking event final came at the 2016 German Masters which he lost to Martin Gould.
 The following year, he became the first player from mainland Europe to win a ranking event, defeating Shaun Murphy in the final of the 2017 China Championship.
Graeme Dott (born 12 May 1977) is a Scottish professional snooker player and snooker coach from Larkhall.
 He turned professional in 1994 and first entered the top 16 in 2001.
 He has won two ranking titles, the 2006 World Snooker Championship and the 2007 China Open, and was runner-up in the World Championships of 2004 and 2010.
 He reached number 2 in the world rankings in 2007, but a subsequent episode of clinical depression seriously affected his form, causing him to drop to number 28 for the 2009/2010 season.
 He then recovered his form, regained his top-16 ranking, and reached a third World Championship final.
 In 2011, he published his autobiography, "Frame of Mind: The Autobiography of the World Snooker Champion."
Albert Brown (10 July 1911 – 27 April 1995) was an English cricketer and snooker player.
 He made just one first-class appearance for Warwickshire County Cricket Club in 1932.
 As a snooker player he was twice runner-up in the English Amateur Championship and reached the semi-final of the World Snooker Championship four times between 1948 and 1953.

Question: Which snooker player made the final of the 2017 China Championship and the nickname "The Magician"?
Answer: Shaun Murphy