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Peter Du has won Event 3 of the 2026 United States Snooker Association (USSA) National Tour, after capturing the 2026 The Champion USSA Open at The Champion Snooker Club in Concord, California. The event attracted a very strong field of players which included the winner of the previous USSA Tour...

THE INAUGURAL PREDATOR Pro Billard Series women’s doubles event was won by Kristina Tkach and Chou Chieh Yu as they beat Seo Seoa and Savannah Easton 3-1, 3-1 to lift the Fujifilm Women’s Double Master Showdown title at the Rome Cavalieri Hotel. With many of the matches in the quick-fire...

Mickey Krause goes undefeated to face him in finals Just as there is “no crying in baseball,” there are very few surprises when it comes to wins and losses in pool tournaments at the upper skill levels. That said, it is hard to imagine that there weren’t more than just a few folk who were...

The World Nineball Tour heads back to Orlando, Florida this August for the second edition of the Florida Open Pool Championship, with 256 players competing for the ‘Palm Tree Trophy’ at the Caribe Royale Resort. Featuring the sport’s biggest stars, a defending champion chasing history, a former...

SWEDEN’S HENRIK LARSSON claimed the first title of the Predator Pro Billard Series’ Roman stay as he took down the Predator Wheelchair Open, defeating Matej Barjkovic in a third set decider in front of an appreciative crowd at the Rome Cavalieri Hotel. Elsewhere, the Fujifilm Women’s Double...

The World Nineball Tour is proud to announce that KAMUI has signed a new multi-year agreement to continue as the Official Tip Partner of the World Nineball Tour, strengthening its commitment to the sport as the WNT enters an exciting new era of global growth. A valued associate sponsor of...

Aloysius Yapp has been crowned the new World No. 1, capping a remarkable rise to the summit of the World Nineball Tour following one of the greatest seasons in modern nine-ball history. The 30-year-old Singaporean rises to the top of the world rankings on the strength of his performances last...

THE PREDATOR WHEELCHAIR OPEN is down to the final four players as the event plays to a conclusion on Tuesday, while the 2026 Banca del Fucino WPA Women’s 10-Ball World Championships resumes at Losers’ Round 3 and then Losers’ Qualification to set up the last 16 single elimination on Wednesday...

THERE WAS FURTHER action in both the 2026 Banca del Fucino WPA Women’s 10-Ball World Championships as well as the Predator Wheelchair Open. In addition, the Fujifilm Women’s Double Master Showdown got underway this afternoon. It’s the Predator Pro Billiard Series’ first visit to Italy as the...

Gorst, Meglino, Hollingsworth, Bergman, Bregu and Styer will represent USA At 11 a.m. tomorrow morning, Sunday, August 1, the WNT points-qualifying Vice City Classic will begin its Stage 2, single-elimination phase of the $20,000-added event that beginning on Wednesday, July 29, drew 106...

THE 2026 BANCA DEL FUCINO WPA WOMEN’S 10-BALL WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP is the main event as the PREDATOR PRO BILLIARD SERIES sets out its stall in one of the world’s great cities – the capital of Italy, Rome. 64 players from 21 nations across the globe will be contesting a US$200,000 prize fund in the...

Mickey’s got some work to do and in a ‘no time like the present’ way, he’s gettin’ to it. Denmark’s Mickey “The Viking” Krause, who came out of 2024 at #7 on the AZBilliards Money Leaderboard after what is still his best recorded earnings year with us, has slipped a little in the Leaderboard...

The draw has been confirmed for the 2026 Florida Open Pool Championship, with defending champion Aloysius Yapp, five-time US Open champion Shane Van Boening, and reigning World Champion Carlo Biado among the star names set for a blockbuster opening round at the Caribe Royale Resort in Orlando...

It looked for a while as though this past weekend’s (Sat., July 25) stop on the Q City 9-Ball Tour was going to come down to a final battle between the two, highest-ranked competitors in the field. It almost did, but it did not. One of them, Landon Hollingsworth, racing to 10 throughout the...

This past weekend, players and fans returned to Side Pockets in Blue Springs, KS for Ultimate Pool USA’s Kansas City Open 2026. One of the largest venues in the Midwest, Side Pockets has thirty tables, multiple eight foot HD big screens and more than sixty dining/drinking seating table options...

It ended in a few minutes of extraordinary high drama that necessitated the employment of judges and a look at the videotape to determine what had actually happened in the first of the last three shots made in the final match of the 2026 Oneida WPA Women’s 8-Ball World Championship. Over the...

Ashley Benoit becomes first Jersey Girl competitor to bring home 3 of event’s 5 trophies You’d think that after all this time, we here at AZBilliards wouldn’t be surprised to see someone we’d never heard of win a ‘major’ event. We are not the informational gatekeepers for every body that wields...

There is a noteworthy dynamic at work in the Northwest Women’s Pool Association (NWPA) Tour, which held its most recent 25th anniversary tour stop (#4) this past weekend (July 17-19). Kathie MacDonald retained her position at the top of the tour’s member standings by going undefeated in the...

Billiards has officially returned to the Rocky Mountain State Games (RMSG), Colorado’s Olympic‑style amateur sports festival produced by the Colorado Springs Sports Corporation, promoted by event commissioner Samm Diep-Vidal, and directed by USA Cue Sports national tournament director, Jose...

The World Nineball Tour is delighted to confirm the official qualification cut-off events for two of the sport’s biggest team competitions, with places at the 2026 Reyes Cup and 2026 Mosconi Cup to be decided during the remainder of the 2026 WNT season. The 2026 US Open Pool Championship (25–30...