Break Stats -- 2025 International 9-Ball Open, November 2025

[AtLarge]

Here are some aggregate break statistics from the 2025 International 9-Ball Open played November 19-23, 2025 at the World Golf Village Renaissance St. Augustine Resort in St. Augustine, Florida. Free streaming on YouTube was provided by Accu-Stats. Aloysius Yapp won the event, defeating Francisco Sanchez-Ruiz in the final match.

The main commentators were Mark Wilson and Mike Sigel. Others who commentated included Jeanette Lee, Jerry McWorter, Billy Incardona, Nick Varner, and Mark Kendall. The main referees were Ken Shuman and Ed Liddawi. The Master of Ceremonies was Derrick Keith.

Conditions -- The conditions for the feature table included:

• Diamond 9-foot table (corner pockets reported at more than one size);​

• blue Simonis 860 cloth;​

• Aramith Tournament balls with a red-dots cue ball;​

• Accu-Rack racking template;​

• referee racks with the 9-ball on the foot spot and the 2-ball on one of the two wings;​

• alternate breaks from a box -- 9" to each side of the long string;​

• 30-second shot clock (even after the break) with one automatic extension per player per rack;​

• foul on all balls;​

• jump cues allowed;​

• all slop counts; and​

• lag for the opening break in each match.​

This was a 101-player event (105 entrants less 4 no-shows), with double elimination down to 16 players (8 on the winners' side and 8 on the one-loss side), and then single elimination to the end. These stats are for all 14 matches (227 games) played on the feature table, with commentary. Matches 1 through 8 below were in the double-elimination stage and matches 9-14 were in the single-elimination stage. These 14 matches were only about 7% of the total of 193 matches played in the event, but included 40% of the 15 single-elimination matches.

The figures in parentheses are the Accu-Stats Total Performance Averages (TPA), as calculated by Accu-Stats and shown on the stream. TPAs were not provided for a few of the matches.

Thurs., Nov. 20

1. Tony Crosby (.806) defeated Jonathan Demet (.714) 10-3​

2. BJ Ussery (898) d. Alex Bausch (.797) 10-4​

3. Jeremy Sossei (.844) d. Billy Thorpe (.833) 10-9​

4. Tyler Styer (.909) d. Roland Garcia (.852) 10-5​

Fri., Nov. 21

5. Mickey Krause (.919) d. Ralf Souquet (.867) 10-6​

6. Georgi Georgiev (.860) d. Tan-Guo En-Nicholas (.755) 10-5​

7. Fedor Gorst (.894) d. Alex Kazakis (.833) 10-3​

8. Dimitris Loukatos (.890) d. Vitaliy Patsura (.907) 10-6​

Sat., Nov. 22

9. Francisco Sanchez-Ruiz (.859) d. Gerson Martinez (.785) 10-5 (Last 16)​

10. Aloysius Yapp (.879) d. Alex Kazakis (.804) 10-5 (Last 16)​

11. Yapp (.926) d. Skyler Woodward (.949) 10-9 (Quarterfinal)​

Sun., Nov. 23

12. Sanchez-Ruiz (.920) d. Jonas Souto (.817) 10-8 (Semifinal)​

13. Yapp (.977 -- best of the event) d. Wiktor Zielinski (.843) 10-5 (Semifinal)​

14. Yapp (.924) d. Sanchez-Ruiz (.907) 13-11 (Final)​

Overall results

Successful breaks (made at least one ball and did not foul):​

Match winners -- 85% (97 of 114)​

Match losers -- 82% (93 of 113)​

Total -- 84% (190 of 227)​

Breaker won the game:​

Match winners -- 75% (85 of 114)​

Match losers -- 49% (55 of 113)​

Total -- 62% (140 of 227)​

Break-and-run games on all breaks:​

Match winners -- 37% (42 of 114)​

Match losers -- 25% (28 of 113)​

Total -- 31% (70 of 227)​

Break-and-run games on successful breaks (made at least one ball and did not foul):​

Match winners -- 43% (42 of 97)​

Match losers -- 30% (28 of 93)​

Total -- 37% (70 of 190)​

Here's a breakdown of the 227 games (for match winners and losers combined).

Breaker made at least one ball and did not foul:​

Breaker won the game: 124 (55% of the 227 games)​

Breaker lost the game: 66 (29%)​

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Breaker fouled on the break:​

Breaker won the game: 3 (1%)​

Breaker lost the game: 10 (4%)​

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Breaker broke dry (without fouling):​

Breaker won the game: 13 (6%)​

Breaker lost the game: 11 (5%)​

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Therefore, whereas the breaker won 62% (140 of 227) of all games,​

He won 65% (124 of 190) of the games in which the break was successful (made at least one ball and did not foul).​

He won 43% (16 of 37) of the games in which the break was unsuccessful (fouled or dry).​

Break-and-run games -- The 70 break-and-run games represented 31% of all 227 games, 50% of the 140 games won by the breaker, and 37% of the 190 games in which the break was successful (made a ball and didn't foul).

With alternating breaks, B&R "packages" of the normal type are not possible. But we can still look at the breaks of a given player and see how many he ran on his own successive breaks, and we can call these "alternate-break packages." The 70 break-and-run games consisted of two alternate-break 5-packs (by Yapp and Woodward in their quarterfinal match), two alternate-break 3-packs (Loukatos and Souto), 12 alternate-break 2-packs, and 30 singles. So only four times in these matches did anyone break and run more than 2 games in a row on his own break.

9-balls on the break -- The 70 B&R games included 4 game-winning 9-balls on the break (1.8% of all 227 breaks).

 

[AtLarge]

Miscellany from the data for the 2025 International 9-Ball Open:
[This relates only to the 14 tracked matches, not to all matches in the event.]

▪︎ The most balls made on a single break was 5 -- just once, by Yapp in a B&R game. Three balls were made on the break 18 times. Thirteen of those 18 games were won by B&R, 3 were won but not by B&R, and 2 were lost.

▪︎ The average number of balls made on the break was 1.4 (this includes dry and fouled breaks). On successful breaks (made at least one ball and did not foul), the average was 1.6, and the distribution was 56% 1 ball, 34% 2 balls, and 10% 3 or 5 balls.

▪︎ Number of innings:

• 47% (106 of 227) of the games ended in one inning – 70 games on the breaker's first inning (B&Rs) and 36 games on the non-breaker's first inning.​

• 31% (71 of 227) of the games ended on the second inning.​

• 22% (50 of 227) of the games went beyond the non-breaker's second visit to the table, with the longest game ending on the non-breaker's 7th visit.​

▪︎ 37% (84 of 227) of the games were run out by the player who was at the table following the break. These run-outs were:

• By the breaker after successful breaks (B&R games) – 37% (70 of 190)​

• By the non-breaker after fouls on the break – 69% (9 of 13)​

• By the non-breaker after dry breaks – 21% (5 of 24)​

▪︎ The player who made the first ball after the break:

• Won the game in that same inning 61% of the time (137 of 223)​

• Won the game in a later inning 15% of the time (33 of 223)​

• Lost the game 24% of the time (53 of 223)​

[Note -- total games used here are 223 rather than 227 to eliminate the 4 games in which no ball was made after the break.]​

▪︎ For the 13 races to 10 (i.e., excluding the Finals race to 13) the match loser won an average of 5.6 games. Two matches went to hill/hill; the fewest games won in a match was 3.

▪︎ The race to 10 that was longest in elapsed time, at about 138 minutes, and highest in average minutes per game, at 8.6, was Loukatos d. Patsura 10-6. The elapsed time was measured from the lag until the winning ball was made (or conceded), so it includes time for racking and timeouts.

▪︎ The match that was both shortest in elapsed time, at about 62 minutes, and lowest in average minutes per game, at 4.8, was Crosby d. Demet 10-3.

▪︎ The average elapsed time for the 13 races to 10 was about 97 minutes. The average minutes per game for all 14 matches was about 6.2 minutes.

▪︎ Breaking fouls averaged 1 for every 17.5 games, other fouls 1 for every 6.3 games, and missed shots about 1 for every 2.1 games.

▪︎ One or more safeties were played in about 43% of all games and in about 62% of games that were not B&Rs.

 

[Positively Ralf]

Where there really only 14 main table matches? That's pretty low if you ask me but it would explain so much of the dead air time there was.

Regardless, excellent work as usual. I'm curious to see if anyone will report any of the various corner pocket sizes were.