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The IBSF Executives have approved the revised dates for the 2021 IBSF World Snooker Championships (Women, Men & Men Under-21) from 1st March till 11th March 2022 at Doha, Qatar. The Championships are being hosted by Qatar Billiards and Snooker Federation (QBSF).

CueSports International (CSI) and Predator Group are excited to announce that the 2022 US Pro Billiard Series will feature nearly a half-million dollars in added prize money and a total prize fund of approximately $775,000, representing more than a 300% increase in added money over the inaugural 2021 season. All six events will have more than $52,000 added each, upgrading them all to World Pool-Billiard Association (WPA) Category 3 sanctioned events which secure the exclusive dates on the WPA calendar and allow players to earn more WPA ranking points from each event. The 2022 season will culminate with the 2023 Predator World 10-Ball Championship, boasting a quarter-million-dollar prize fund, held as part of the CueSports International Expo in Las Vegas, February 22 – March 4, 2023.

After two weeks of high-level billiards in Sharm El Sheikh, today the individual world championship closed brilliantly, the winner in this 73rd edition of the UMB individual 3-Cushion World Championship was the Dutch player Dick Jaspers who prevailed by 50-48 to the Turkish player Murat N. Coklu.

Team Europe has won the 2021 Cazoo Mosconi Cup at Alexandra Palace, London to retain the cup for a second year in an 11-6 victory over Team USA.

Semih Sayginer has been proclaimed the brilliant Winner of Sharm El Sheikh World Cup 2021, after beating Dick Jaspers, 50-44 in 27 innings, in the final match. The Turkish Player conquers herewith his seventh World Cup.

Dani Sanchez beat Tayfun Tasdemir in the 2021 LBM final, after defeating Jeremy Bury in the semifinal while his opponent Tayfun Tasdemir qualified for the final after beating Semih Sayginer.

With this triumph RESULT, 50-42 in 28 inning DANIEL SANCHEZ repeats his achievement of ANTALYA ready for his next performance in SHARM EL SHEIKH, Egypt, as the favorite for the third World Cup and the World Championship.

Great matches and long runs that materialized from the beginning of the tournament and that excelled from 1/8-Finals, the favorites at stake, reached the quarterfinals.  DANIEL SANCHEZ, TAYFUN TASDEMIR, JUNG HAN HEO, and JUN TAE KIM closed on Friday as winners and candidates for the title on Saturday. In the semifinals, DANI SANCHEZ, who had eliminated SAYGINER AND JASPERS in two epic matches, faced JUN TAE KIM who in top form had overcome the Italian top player MARCO ZANETTI. The RESULT 50-30 in 27/26 inning, gave the ticket for the final to the Spanish player.

The FargoRate Ohio Open was the fourth and final stop of the U.S. Pro Billiard Series, which featured four open professional events between July and the end of the year. Created by Predator Group and amateur league operator CueSports International, these tournaments will run in tandem alongside CSI league amateur events being held throughout the country. The winner of each competition receives a guaranteed spot in the $130,000-added 2022 Predator World 10-Ball Championship, which will be held March 28 through April 1 in Las Vegas at the Rio Hotel and Casino.

It is the final day of Austria open in Klagenfurt, the first European event in the Probilliardseries. 4 women and 8 men left in the two respective tournaments, all 12 players with a chance to grab that 15K first prize and the honor of becoming the winner of the inaugural event on European soil.

Three World titles were to be won on this final day of the 2021 Predator World Junior 9-Ball Championships in Klagenfurt, Austria. In the morning, the faces of the youngsters warming up for their D-day showed the enormity of what could be achieved. To have their name added to the WPA hall of fame and to have their name cemented in 9-ball history.

Following the announcement of September 20^th, 2021, we proceed with the confirmation that the invitation for inscriptions will open today, Monday 27^th September 2021 at 12:00 CET.

By Keith Paradise
CSI Staff Writer

This month, Singapore’s Aloysius Yapp has had himself a pretty good year.

The 25-year-old began his September with a top 10 finish in the Diamond Las Vegas Open, then reached the semifinals of the Predator World 10-Ball Championships six days later. Following those performances, he traveled cross-country to Atlantic City where he reached the finals of the U.S. Open Pool Championships, jumping out to an 8-3 lead against Carlo Biado before the Filipino mounted a second-half comeback and secured the title, 13-8.