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IT WAS DOUBLE delight for the Fillers as both Joshua and Pia claimed the PREDATOR Luxembourg Open titles at the GridX complex on Sunday evening. It was Joshua’s 11th Euro Tour crown, while Pia made it championship number four and the second time that they have triumphed simultaneously, following on from Lasko, Slovenia in 2022.

The World Confederation of Billiards Sports (WCBS) acknowledges the recent decision of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) Executive Board, which no longer recommends restrictions on the participation of Belarusian athletes and teams in competitions governed by International Federations and international sports event organisers.

IBSF is pleased to announce that the Chinese Billiard Sports Association will be hosting the 2026 World Team Snooker Championship in Guangdong from 16th to 19th June 2026.

The World Confederation of Billiards Sports (WCBS) is delighted to confirm that Billiards has once again been included in the official sports programme for The World Games 2029. The announcement was made by the International World Games Association following the ratification of the sports programme at its Annual General Meeting in Lausanne on 25 April 2026.

The best player in Bogota won the first World Cup of 2026. You would be excused for saying “the best player in the world won Bogota”, because the world champion of 2024 currently is. His victory started to look inevitable after his majestic run of 17 in the final against Thanh Luc Tran, taking him from 10-22 to 27-22. Cho followed up on the 17 with 3-2-3-5 and that was the load that broke Tran’s back.

The World Pool-Billiard Association (WPA) is pleased to announce a historic milestone in the global development of Heyball with the official introduction of the WPA Heyball World Cup, a premier international team championship that marks a new era for the discipline.

A small player, in pounds and centimeters, but a giant in talent. Quyet Chien Tran has won the Blois 3-cushion Challenge, beating world champion Frédéric Caudron 50-15 in 19/18 innings. The standard bearer of Vietnamese billiards and one of the most precise players on tour, had a few lesser months, and his countrymen Thanh Luc Tran and Phuong Vinh Bao were knocking on the door. Still, Quyet Chien remains the Vietnamese number one, with an LG Cup to his name, four World Cups, a silver at the World Championships, and now the Blois 3-cushion Challenge.   

The IBSF is pleased to announce that the 2026 IBSF World Billiards Championship will be played from April 24 to 29, 2026, in the SBI academy in Carlow, Ireland. We thank Snooker and Billiards Ireland for hosting this prestigious event in their world class academy.

England’s Harvey Chandler produced a masterful display to win the World Cup of Snooker 2025 (Singles Event) in Muscat, Oman, defeating Pakistan’s Asjad Iqbal 5–2 in a high-quality final that showcased elite cue sports at its finest.

The World Confederation of Billiards Sports (WCBS) and global sustainability consultancy bloomUp are set to deliver the first-ever sustainability maturity assessment in cue sports during the 2026 Heyball World Cup, taking place from 15–19 January 2026 in Brisbane, Australia.

India’s rising star Anupama Ramachandran has etched her name into the history books, capturing her first-ever IBSF World Women’s Snooker Championship title after a nerve-wracking 3–2 victory over Hong Kong China’s legendary Ng On Yee, a three-time World Champion.

Poland’s Michal Szubarczyk has etched his name into snooker history, becoming the IBSF World Men’s Snooker Champion 2025 after a commanding 5-2 victory over Qatar’s former world champion Ali Alobaidli in today’s final. At just 14 years old, Michal joins an elite company, becoming only the second player of his age to win the world title, the first being China’s Yan Bingtao in 2014 in India.

He was called “the future best player in the world” when he was barely fourteen. The prodigy from South Korea has not let his fans down. He was the world champion in 2024, and he is now the number one player in the world, having won his third World Cup. The final was mostly dominated by the Koreans, who managed to freeze out the old warrior from Bolzano, Marco Zanetti, with good defence and a little slice of luck. Cho used a few more innings than he liked, but when the scoreboard said 50-30 in 28, he knew he had done enough.