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Yet another resilience masterclass from Kelly Fisher, who survives three shootouts in a row to clinch the Medalla Light Puerto Rico Women’s Open, securing her record-breaking 6th Predator Pro Billiard Series title.

Daniela Romiti won and with this, she will always be the holder of the first 5-Pins Women’s World Championships.

Hall in Tirol the place, on November 12, 2023, the date, an enthusiastic public celebrated and cheered the Italian player who beat her compatriot Cristina Pulcini 3-1, who accumulated great tension during the competition and whose happiness shone with her silver medalist, Charlotte Koefoed from Denmark and Lucía Bionlillo from Italy completed a podium that would go down in billiard history.

Italy is at the top of the hill, the defender is the World Champion in Hall in Tirol after defeating Uruguay’s magnificent finalist that repeat also their championship in Lugano.

How do you defeat Eddy Merckx in a World Cup final? Even the greatest talent on the planet couldn’t do it today: Myung Woo Cho lost 50-43 in 21/20. The only player who knows is Dani Sánchez, who did it in Hurghada in 2008. Merckx was in fourteen finals in his life, including this one in Seoul.  

Konrad Juszczyszyn is the new champion of the 2023 Medalla Light Puerto Rico Open. The Pole earned his first Predator US Pro Billiard Series title and $37,500, defeating Roland Garcia from the Philippines in two sets: 4-2, 4-1.

Team Hong Kong China of Cheung Ka Wai and Chang Yu Kiu has won the World Men Team Snooker Championship 2023. The final was played today at the La Maison Hotel in Doha Qatar where they defeated team Cyprus (Michael Georgiou & Antonis Poullos) 4-2 to win the title.

A much-awaited dream came true for everyone associated with snooker in Qatar when their star player Ali Alobaidli became the the World Snooker Champion for 2023.

He may be fourth on the world ranking list after “Veghel”, but in the eyes of many, Dick Jaspers is still the best player in the world. After a somewhat disappointing season, the Dutchman re-established himself with a superior display in the fourth World Cup of 2023. Martin Horn got beaten in a one-sided final of great quality: 50-22 in 12 (!) innings. It was the best World Cup final ever to 50 points. 

Five new WPA World Champions were crowned yesterday in Austria as Klagenfurt played host to over 200 billiards stars from around the world, with $400,000 on the line.

Men World 8-Ball: American Shane Van Boening claimed his maiden Predator WPA World 8-Ball Championship title and $75,000 first prize, solidifying his legacy with a 10-7 victory over the talented Sanjin Pehlivanovic from Bosnia Herzegovina.

The fourth World Cup of 2023 will be played in Veghel, the Netherlands, from 22-28 October. The small city in the South of the country has also hosted World Cups in 2022, 2021 and 2019, with Torbjörn Blomdahl, Dani Sánchez and Haeng Jik Kim as the winners. For many years, Veghel was home to the Dutch 3-cushion championship, known as “The Masters”. There’s always an appreciative crowd in the old industrial building “De Koekbouw”, and the 148 player slots are easily filled. 

The World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) published the 2024 List of Prohibited Substances and Methods (List), which was approved by WADA’s Executive Committee (ExCo) during its meeting on 22 September 2023 and enters into force on 1 January 2024.

After a very special 4-day promotion, today we can say that Carom Billiards has finally started its introduction in China.

The UMB, in a historic agreement with the Chinese Billiards & Snooker Association (CBSA), and the cooperation with ACBC, Shanghai City, Xingpai Company, the Billiards Museum, and the Billiards Academy in Shanghai, which its extraordinary facilities, has organized a promotional Exhibition Event in Shanghai with four UMB Top 3-Cushion players: Dick Jaspers, Tayfun Tasdemir, Cho Myung Woo, Quyet Chien Tran, a Referee team from Korea, for this occasion, participated in the event.