#10-ball

8-ball usually catches the 3 sneaking out to see people like they are rebellious teenagers and CHASES them when they leave the house 😭

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Gold medals in 10-ball for Trushevskaia, Kural and Pehlivanovic

The 10-ball titles have been awarded today at the Dynamic Billard European Youth Championships in Veldhoven, The Netherlands. In the Girls division, Valeriia Trushevskaia (RUS) took the title. In the U17 division, Szymon Kural (POL) won the Gold medal. And in the U19, Sanjin Pehlivanovic (BIH) was the winner.

The final match in the U19 was played between Sanjin Pehlivanovic and Jonas Souto (ESP). Pehlivanovic did not have a good start into the event. He lost his opening match 6:7 to Dmitrii Shkudov (RUS). So he had to take the longest possible rout over the loser’s side. He won match after match and finally booked his seat in the final match of the 10-ball competition. Jonas Souto had already won a silver medal in straight pool this week. Unlike Pehlivanovic, Souto took the direct route into the final match with mainly pretty clear results. The writing was on the wall that the final match would be a close affair. But it turned out to become a one-sided match in favour of Pehlivanovic. The Bosnian got his rhythm and the roll of the balls and wasted no time, defeating Souto clearly with 7:3.

Top eight finishers Under 19 10-ball

1. Sanjin Pehlivanovic BIH 2. Jonas Souto ESP 3. Christoffer Lentz DEN     Tin Petljak CRO 5. Ole-Kristian Rudshavn NOR     Jeppe Thyde DEN     Micke Stroem FIN     Tomasz Krysztofik POL

In the U17 division, Szymon Kural met his teammate Dominik Jastrzab (POL) in the final match. The final turned into a nightmare for Jastrzab. He cold not even get one foot on the floor and Kural was on his a-game. After 6 racks, the match was already over with a 6:0 victory for Kural.

Top eight finishers Under 17 10-ball 1. Szymon Kural POL 2. Dominik Jastrzab POL 3. Arsenii Kovalerchik RUS     Ajdin Piknjak BIH 5. Luka Galic CRO     Oskar Jamorski POL     Kledio Kaci ALB     Albert-Roman Stensrod NOR

In the girls division, Valeriia Trushevskaia also met a teammate. She played Aleksandra Guleikova (RUS) for the glory. Just like the other two finals tonight, the final match in the girls division was dominated by one player only. Trushevskaia proved to be too strong for Guleikova and handed her a clear 5:1 result in the final match.

Top eight finishers Girls 10-ball 1. Valeriia Trushevskaia RUS 2. Aleksandra Guleikova RUS 3. Polina Vinokurova UKR     My Nguyen SWE 5. Natalia Gabriel GER     Milena Murha BLR     Bojana Sarac SRB     Nina Torvund NOR

Medal table after 2 of 5 events

Earlier today, the first rounds of the 8-ball individuals took place. In a nail-biting thriller, Dmitrii Shkudov (RUS) pipped Adam Stankiewicz (POL) to the post with 7:6 in the U19. My Nguyen (SWE) overpowered Chiara Boehmer (GER) 5:4 in the girls division.

(Left to right: Sanjin Pehlivanovic, Valeriia Trushevskaia and Szymon Kural)

The Dynamic Billard European Youth Championships 2019 will commence tomorrow morning at 09:00 CET with matches in the 8-ball individuals competition of the girls and U19.

The Championships are played on 24 tables which are all streamed LIVE throughout the whole event. In order to be able to follow all the action LIVE, premium membership can be obtained at www.kozoom.com. Once a premium membership is held, all events for the respective period of time can be viewed LIVE. Additionally, a huge video gallery is contained in the website.

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Predator World 10-Ball Championship Day 1 Recap

Predator World 10-ball Championship- Delivers Full House and Compelling Matches on First Day

By Keith Paradise

CSI Media Staff Writer

At many professional pocket billiards tournaments, the opening rounds sometimes have a bit of a perfunctory feel to them.

As the pros jockey early to either stay in stroke or get in stroke to avoid an early trip over to the one-loss side of the bracket, crowds are many times sparse until an event reaches the later stages.

This wasn’t the case when fellow Americans Billy Thorpe and Shane Van Boening squared off in the opening round of the Predator World 10-ball Championship Monday night. With the event being played right in the heart of the Billiard Congress of America Pool League championships, amateur players and fans began filling the arena more than an hour the match was scheduled to begin.

“I like a crowd myself,” said Thorpe. “It sparks a bit of a fire in me.”

The two competitors didn’t disappoint, combining for eight breaks and runs as Thorpe defeated his friend and roommate for the week, 8-4, at the Rio All-Suites Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas. The match was one of many tightly-contested pairings during the first act of this five-day, $100,000 added competition – with eight of the 32 first round matchups needing a deciding 15th game.

With two of the most decorated players in the United States squaring off, the matchup felt more like a quarterfinal or a semifinal match rather the beginning of the tournament. Van Boening and Thorpe split the first six games of the set, with each using two breaks-and-runs each along with effective safety play to maintain serve. The young man from Ohio edged ahead 4-3 when Van Boening left a 1-ball in the corner pocket’s jaws, then increased his lead to two games when he used a jump shot to run out in the eighth rack. The two competitors again traded breaks and runs for the next three games, with Thorpe maintaining a 6-5 lead.

“We broke well. I thought it might be different with the referees racking the balls with the template,” Thorpe said. “For a while I thought that it was going to be break and run the whole match.”

And it essentially was until the 12th game when Thorpe missed a 3-ball in the corner pocket.

“I really thought that I hit it good but the ball hopped on me,” Thorpe said.

Although Thorpe had left the window open for his friend, establishing position on the 4-ball would be a challenge thanks to two object balls providing cover. Van Boening pocketed the 3-ball then failed to land the 4-ball. Using a clutch jump shot, Thorpe pocketed the ball, cleared the table then added in one final break-and-run to clinch the victory.

Thorpe now heads to the second round where he will face Canadian John Morra Wednesday at 5:30 p.m. local time. Van Boening moves to the one-loss side where he will face Hunter Lombardo Tuesday at 7:30 p.m.

Also advancing to the winner’s side second round is current World Pool and Billiards Association 9-ball champion Joshua Filler of Germany, who survived a scare from Fan Yang, 8-5.

Playing in one of the opening matches of the tournament, Filler opened competition with a break-and-run then failed to capitalize on a Yang dry break the following game. Yang took the lead in the race-to-eight set after Filler fouled on the break. The young German used a break-and-run and a missed 2-ball to take a 3-2 lead but gave his opponent an opportunity when he missed an 8-ball in the following game. The two split the next four games before Filler used two breaks-and-runs and a Yang foul to pull away and close out the match.

With the competition now equally divided into 32 winners and losers, Tuesday’s schedule begins at noon local time with eight matches on the winner’s side of the bracket – including Chris Melling meeting Toru Kuribayashi on the live broadcast table. A second round of winner’s side matches will begin at 2:30 p.m. in a matchup of BCA Hall of Famers as Earl Strickland takes on Ralf Souquet. Other matches of note in this timeslot include Alex Kazakis meeting Skylar Woodward and Pin-Yi Ko matching up with Alex Pagulayan. The evening session broadcast schedule includes Fan Yang matching up against Raymund Faraon at 5 p.m. and Fedor Gorst going up against Matt Edwards at 7:30 p.m.

The Predator World 10-ball Championship is a presentation of CueSports International and sponsored by Predator Group, one of the world’s premier cue makers and billiards accessory manufacturers. The event is being hosted by the Rio All-Suites Hotel and Casino and broadcast live on YouTube by CSI Media, a subsidiary of Cue Sports International. The event is also sponsored by Diamond Billiards Products, Omega Billiards and Kamui Brand. For more information, visit www.world10ball.com

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“It’s Happening!” Predator World 10-ball Championship Kicks Off Today With Full Slate of Competition

In 2014, as Predator Group was celebrating its 20th anniversary as a cue maker and billiards innovator, company president Karim Belhaj was already looking ahead to the manufacturer’s silver anniversary in five years.

He wanted to do something bold. Afterall, the company’s motto is “innovate and inspire.” While Belhaj searched for methods to celebrate the milestone and to promote the game of professional pool, efforts to maintain a world 10-ball championship were stuck in the mud. The World Pool and Billiards Association’s world championship had not been staged since 2015 when Ko Pin-yi defeated Carlo Biado in the Philippines and tentative plans for a tournament in Manilla last year fell through at the last minute.

That’s when the light bulb went off for Belhaj – why not grab the reigns and produce their own world major. He reached to Ozzy Reynolds, president of Cue Sports International, and asked what was needed to put on world event while also discussing his ideas for professional pool. The two of them began working on a plan to develop not just an event, but eventually a tour.

“I shared with him my vision and Ozzy shared with me his vision for building a bridge between the amateur players, league players and pro events,” Belhaj said. “We found a synergy between CSI and Predator that was just natural.”

A partnership was reached and the Predator World 10-ball Championship was announced last December.

After five years of dreaming and the last eight months of planning, the event begins this afternoon at the Rio All-Suites Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas. The $100,000 added tournament features 64 players from 24 countries in what could be considered one of the strongest fields of any event in recent years. This five-day competition is part of a three-year agreement between Predator and CSI and will be taking place right along side of amateurs competing at the Billiard Congress of America Pool League Championships. Admission is free and the event will be streamed live for no charge on YouTube.

The Predator World 10-ball Championship will be the first world championship held in the United States since 1997 when Johnny Archer won the WPA 9-ball championship in Chicago.

The roster of players is smorgasbord of youth, experience and championships. Of the players set to compete this week, 11 of them either currently hold or previously held a WPA title – including Ko, Biado, reigning World 9-ball champion Joshua Filler, former 8-ball and 9-ball champion Ralf Souquet, 2014 World 9-ball champion Niels Feijen, three-time World 9-ball champion Earl Strickland and the winner of the inaugural World 10-ball event in 2008, Darren Appleton.

Additionally, four of the entrants have already punched their ticket to the Billiard Congress of America’s Hall of Fame – Darren Appleton, Strickland, Ralf Souquet and Alex Pagulayan, who will be inducted into the Hall this fall.

Nine of the players competing this week hail from the United States – including Shave Van Boening, one of the most decorated 10-ball players in the world. The South Dakotan has won the last three United States Open 10-ball Championships and earned top honors in the 10-ball division of the Derby City Classic in 2014 and 2015. Joining Van Boening are fellow Americans Corey Deuel, Oscar Dominguez, Hunter Lombardo, Danny Olson, Billiard Congress of America Hall of Famer Earl Strickland, Tyler Styer, Billy Thorpe, and reigning Derby City Classic Master of the Table Skylar Woodward

The world championship will be held in two stages. The first stage will involve all players competing in race to 8 matches within a double-elimination format until only 16 competitors remaining. Those remaining players will then compete in a single-elimination format during the second half of the event, with the races now increased to 10 games. Additionally, there will be a re-drawing of the brackets during the final phase – with competitors from the winner’s side of the bracket taking on players from the one-loss side.

The Predator World 10-ball Championship is a presentation of Cue Sports International and sponsored by Predator Group, one of the world’s premier cue makers and billiards accessory manufacturers. The event is being hosted by the Rio All-Suites Hotel and Casino and broadcast live on YouTube by CSI Media, a subsidiary of Cue Sports International. For more information, visitwww.world10ball.com

CueSports International (CSI) is an international billiards organization which produces the United States Open 8-ball, 10-ball, one pocket, bank pool and straight pool championships. CSI, which also operates national amateur pool leagues, has three divisions: CSI leagues, CSI events and CSI media. CSI leagues manages the BCA Pool League and USA Pool League, the events division produces numerous amateur and professional events and the media department creates live video billiards content. For more information about CSI, visit www.playcsipool.com or find CueSports International on Facebook, YouTube, Instagram and Twitter.