The third staging of the Zen Custom Cue and Yuan 8 Open takes place from September 2-5 at the Yuan 8 Club in Shanghai as the World Nineball Tour returns to China.
Being held ahead of the upcoming China Open Championship, a tournament not associated with the WNT tour, a strong field have travelled to Shanghai as they set their sights on the $20,000 top prize.
Defending champion Ko Pin-Yi leads the field, having defeated Aloysius Yapp 13-11 in December’s final, with world number two Yapp returning to China fresh from his recent US Open Championship scalp in Atlantic City.
Jonas Souto Comino, Naoyuki Oi and Wu Kun-Lin are also amongst the 96 players, while the Philippines will be represented by the likes of Jefrey Roda, Bernie Regalario, Michael Feliciano and Marvin Asis.
Other notable entrants include Alex Pagulayan, Chang Yu-Lung, Kuo Po-Cheng, Bader Alawadhi, Tobias Bongers and teenage talents Kledio Kaci, Felix Vogel and Albert Januarta.
The tournament will be double elimination and race-to-nine racks, race-to-eight on the one-loss side, until 32 players remain, before the format increases to race-to-10 through to the quarter-finals. The semi-finals will be race-to-11 and the final will be race-to-13 racks.
Coverage will be broadcast via WNT TV throughout the four days for subscribers, with the semi-finals and finals being contested on Friday, September 5.
ZEN & YUAN 8 OPEN 2025
Draw Bracket
Click here for the full draw bracket via the Digital Pool website
Last 32
🇸🇬 Aloysius Yapp 9-10 Kuo Po-Cheng 🇹🇼
🇹🇼 Liu Ri-Teng 10-8 Toh Lian Han 🇸🇬
🇹🇼 Wang Hung-Hsiang 4-10 Sun Yi-Hsuan 🇹🇼
🇩🇪 Felix Vogel 10-6 Alvin Anggito 🇮🇩
🇮🇩 Albert Januarta 1017 Nguyen Van Huynh 🇻🇳
🇵🇭 Harry Vergara 10-9 Jonas Souto Comino 🇪🇸
🇪🇸 Jose Alberto Delgado 9-10 Chen Hsin-Ting 🇹🇼
🇷🇺 Ruslan Chinakhov 10-7 Chang Pei-Wei 🇹🇼
🇹🇼 Lin Ta-Li 10-5 Kuo Hsuan-Wei 🇹🇼
🇨🇦 Alex Pagulayan 7-10 Xu Xiaocong 🇨🇳
🇹🇼 Lu Hui-Chan 10-3 Chen Chen-Wei 🇹🇼
🇹🇼 Hsieh Chia-Chen 2-10 Bernie Regalario 🇵🇭
🇯🇵 Naoyuki Oi 10-1 Fu Che-Wei 🇹🇼
🇹🇼 Wu Kun-Lin 8-10 Michael Feliciano 🇵🇭
🇩🇪 Tobias Bongers 9-10 Ko Ping-Han 🇹🇼
🇹🇼 Ko Pin-Yi 10-8 Marvin Asis 🇵🇭
Last 16
🇹🇼 Kuo Po-Cheng 10-4 Liu Ri-Teng 🇹🇼
🇩🇪 Felix Vogel 10-6 Sun Yi-Hsuan 🇹🇼
🇮🇩 Albert Januarta 10-3 Harry Vergara 🇵🇭
🇹🇼 Chen Hsin-Ting 7-10 Ruslan Chinakhov 🇷🇺
🇹🇼 Lin Ta-Li 10-6 Xu Xiaocong 🇨🇳
🇹🇼 Lu Hui-Chan 5-10 Bernie Regalario 🇵🇭
🇯🇵 Naoyuki Oi 10-6 Michael Feliciano 🇵🇭
🇹🇼 Ko Ping-Han 3-10 Ko Pin-Yi 🇹🇼
Quarter-Finals
🇹🇼 Kuo Po-Cheng 3-10 Felix Vogel 🇩🇪
🇮🇩 Albert Januarta 10-8 Ruslan Chinakhov 🇷🇺
🇹🇼 Lin Ta-Li 4-10 Bernie Regalario 🇵🇭
🇯🇵 Naoyuki Oi 3-10 Ko Pin-Yi 🇹🇼
Semi-Finals
🇩🇪 Felix Vogel 8-11 Albert Januarta 🇮🇩
🇵🇭 Bernie Regalario 11-5 Ko Pin-Yi 🇹🇼
Final
🇮🇩 Albert Januarta 13-8 Bernie Regalario 🇵🇭
Prize Fund
Champion – $20,000
Runner-up – $8,000
Semi-finalists – $4,000
Quarter-finalists – $2,000
Last 16 – $800
Last 32 – $400
Losers Qualification – $200
Total – $60,000
