Congrats to Chezka Centeno for winning the Women World 10 Ball Champs

Classic Chezka. Concentration lapses, inexplicably missed balls .. and blazing fast runouts that piled up quickly.

Usually she would have lost the finals or any game in which she made as many errors as she did. But ... Amit made her own share of mistakes.

The biggest surprise, and difference, to me was Centeno's safety play. It was the best I've ever seen from her in a tournament. Both the choices and execution. She didn't really lose any overall safety battles in her matches this week.

Her safety play, instead of being a big minus, was a plus. Helped her win her second 10 ball title.

WNT Hanoi Open 2025, Vietnam, Oct 7-12

Much as I don't like these two picks, Matchroom is sticking to its rule that players have to participate in big WNT tournaments to be eligible for the Reyes/Mosconi. That rules out SVB, Filler and the Ko brothers. So MR had to scramble a bit.
Both the Reyes Cup and Mosconi Cup are based on the Ryder Cup golf event.

Although it is far less common now than in the past, there are/were players that play/played both the European golf tour and the PGA tour, whose tournaments regularly clashed in the schedule. Such players were always welcomed with open arms in PGA events, including the end of year Fed Ex Cup if they had accumulated enough points to qualify. Provided that they had played in fifteen events (about 50% of those held), they could even keep their PGA touring card provided that they maintained a Top 125 ranking.

For much of their respective careers, three of the greatest ever European golfers, Bernhard Langer, Nick Faldo, and Colin Montgomerie, played both golf tours, playing enough events on each to maintain touring pro status on both.

If we have a meaningful reconciliation between WPA and Matchroom, they must have the kind of working relationship that the European Tour and the PGA always maintained. I think that day is coming, but for now, there are some growing pains.

Men's 2025 World 8-Ball Championship, Bali, Oct.7-13

You could say that on 9ball and 10ball as well
I disagree a bit here. In rotation games decision-making is straightforward on 95% shots and most of the time you only need to adjust your position play plan a bit according to the cueball. In 8-ball there are more shot selection choices, more replanning the patterns and risk-evaluation. Even on an open table players tend to eliminate risks by re-evaluating their original patterns, you often see even top players going for a certain pattern and then changing their minds because the cueball fell 4” off the intended position to enable highest runout percentage. Perpetual re-evaluation is heavy on shot clock.

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