If nothing else, the 13th Annual NC State 9-Ball Open, held under the auspices of the TOP (The Open Players) Tour, was a showcase event, featuring a wide selection of well-known competitors at all skill levels from the Mid-Atlantic and Southern regions of the country. We’ll pass on the ‘including x, y, z’ part of […]

WE ARE AT the mid-point of the 2025 season on the PREDATOR EURO TOUR series as both Open and Women’s event take place this week within the impressive event space at the Terme Olimia resort on the Slovenia/Croatia border. The KAMUI SLOVENIAN OPEN gets underway tomorrow morning, while the Women’s open runs on Saturday and […]

It’s a good sign when in almost every tournament that we cover by writing up a report, there are new competitors entering our database, at which point we create a Player Profile and christen it (so to speak) by entering information about their first cash payout. This ‘good sign’ is particularly true with tournaments that […]

Rack Race #12 had some competition this past weekend (July 5-6). Some three hours away from Rack & Grill II in Augusta, GA (in a crow-flies straight line, closer to four hours on roads), the 13th Annual NC State Open 9-Ball championships in Clemmons, NC had a way of siphoning off some of the competitors […]

Fedor Gorst is gearing up for glory as he returns to Jeddah to defend his World Pool Championship title at the world’s richest Nineball tournament, set to make history once more in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia for the second consecutive year. In collaboration with the Saudi Arabian Billiard & Snooker Federation and under the […]

On June 21, The West Coast Women’s Tour was welcomed by Racks N Cues Billiards & Brews in Windsor, California for the first time. This new sponsor room, which just opened its doors in the heart of Sonoma County wine country in 2024, played host to 29 competitors from around the region including tour veterans […]

Most sporting cliches, while undoubtedly annoying, are centred in fact. ‘Records are made to be broken’ is a prime example, although when it comes to the World 9-Ball Championship one unprecedented achievement may well last a lifetime. Twenty years ago this month, Wu Chia-Ching, now known as Wu Jia-Qing, captured the sport’s most prestigious title […]

Chezka Centeno fights to double hill in the final and falls to Ouschan’s 5th Break and Run While tactically, the games are the more or less the same; line up a shot, make the shot and leave the cue ball in place, at minimum, for your next shot, the game of 8-ball differs substantively from […]

The Final Four competitors at the 2025 WPA Women’s 8-Ball Championship, set to compete at 1 p.m. and 3 p.m. (EDT) this afternoon (Sun., July 6), has likely come as a surprise to more than just a few. Given what many people probably thought ahead of time, or at least those who follow the sport […]

Surprises? Not really. Disappointments? For sure, as at least 48 competitors have been eliminated from the first-ever WPA Women’s 8-Ball World Championships, eight of them having left the stage with some measure of recompense. Anticipation regarding the matchups that are and could be ahead as the tournament comes down to its Final 16 and heads […]