The 2025 World 10-Ball Championship takes place from September 20-28 at the Military Zone 7 Stadium in Ho Chi Minh City as the $250,000 tournament is held in Vietnam for the first time.
Carlo Biado will act as the defending champion, having defeated Japan’s Naoyuki Oi in last year’s final in Las Vegas, and the Filipino accompanies seven former champions in a star-studded lineup.
2021 and 2023 champion Eklent Kaci, who is the only player to win the title twice, will be one of the title favourites alongside the likes of Fedor Gorst, Joshua Filler and Shane van Boening – the latter two eyeing an historic world championship three-peat.
Brothers Ko Pin-Yi and Ko Ping-Chung will be eyeing further success, having won the event in 2015 and 2016 respectively, while 2022 winner Wojciech Szewczyk returns to the scene of his finest hour, fresh from his China Open success last weekend.
Duong Quoc Hoang will provide Vietnam’s most prominent hopes of home success as he competes in his hometown, while Phuong Nam Pham and qualifiers Nguyen Van Huynh and Nguyen Bao Chau will also represent Vietnam as they host a world championship for the first time.
Other notable players involved include US Open champion Aloysius Yapp, two-time runner-up Naoyuki Oi, 2024 semi-finalist Denis Grabe and WPA number one Alex Kazakis, as well as Albin Ouschan, Daniel Maciol, Robbie Capito and Kledio Kaci.
The $250,000 tournament, which rewards $70,000 to the eventual champion, will feature 96 players and is double elimination during the early stages, with 32 players advancing to the single elimination phase.
As has become the norm in Predator Pro Billiard Series events, the double elimination phase will be best-of-three sets of race-to-four racks and the single elimination best-of-five sets. A shootout will determine the winner should the score be 3-3 in the deciding set.
Free main table coverage will be broadcast throughout the duration of the tournament via the Billiard TV website and Pro Billiard TV on YouTube, while Box Billiards Vietnam will show every match via their YouTube channel.
WORLD 10-BALL CHAMPIONSHIP 2025
Draw Bracket
Click here for the full draw bracket via the Pro Billiard Series website
Last 32
🇵🇭 Carlo Biado 3-2 Ruslan Chinakhov 🇷🇺
(2-4, 4-2, 4-3, 3-4, 4-1)
🇵🇭 Jonas Magpantay 3-1 Moritz Neuhausen 🇩🇪
(4-2, 4-1, 3-4, 4-3)
🇵🇱 Mieszko Fortunski 0-3 Ko Pin-Yi 🇹🇼
(3-4, 1-4, 0-4)
🇵🇭 Mark Estiola 3-2 Konrad Juszczyszyn 🇵🇱
(4-3, 0-4, 4-2, 0-4, 4-0)
🇹🇼 Wu Kun-Lin 0-3 Jonas Souto Comino 🇪🇸
(3-4, 2-4, 1-4)
🇦🇱 Kledio Kaci 1-3 Oliver Szolnoki 🇭🇺
(3-4, 2-4, 4-3, 3-4)
🇵🇱 Szymon Kural 2-3 Ko Ping-Chung 🇹🇼
(2-4, 4-0, 1-4, 4-2, 2-4)
🇪🇪 Mark Magi 1-3 Daniel Maciol 🇵🇱
(3-4, 4-1, 1-4, 3-4)
🇩🇪 Joshua Filler 2-3 Duong Quoc Hoang 🇻🇳
(4-1, 2-4, 4-1, 3-4, 1-4)
🇸🇬 Aloysius Yapp 3-2 Mateusz Sniegocki 🇵🇱
(4-3, 1-4, 3-4, 4-0, 4-3 (3-1))
🇵🇭 Jeffrey De Luna 2-3 Ko Taeyoung 🇰🇷
(4-3, 4-1, 1-4, 2-4, 2-4)
🇺🇸 Shane van Boening 3-1 Naoyuki Oi 🇯🇵
(1-4, 4-2, 4-1, 4-2)
🇵🇱 Wojciech Szewczyk 3-0 Marco Spitzky 🇩🇪
(4-0, 4-1, 4-0)
🇵🇭 AJ Manas 0-3 Marco Teutscher 🇳🇱
(2-4, 2-4, 3-4)
🇫🇷 Alex Montpellier 3-2 Robbie Capito 🇭🇰
(2-4, 4-0, 4-2, 2-4, 4-2)
🇬🇷 Alex Kazakis 3-0 Sun Yi-Hsuan 🇹🇼
(4-2, 4-2, 4-0)
Last 16
🇵🇭 Carlo Biado 3-2 Jonas Magpantay 🇵🇭
(4-0, 3-4, 3-4, 4-3, 4-2)
🇹🇼 Ko Pin-Yi 2-3 Mark Estiola 🇵🇭
(2-4, 1-4, 4-0, 4-1, 3-4 (3-4))
🇪🇸 Jonas Souto Comino 0-3 Oliver Szolnoki 🇭🇺
(0-4, 0-4, 3-4)
🇹🇼 Ko Ping-Chung 3-1 Daniel Maciol 🇵🇱
(3-4, 4-0, 4-2, 4-1)
🇻🇳 Duong Quoc Hoang 2-3 Aloysius Yapp 🇸🇬
(4-3, 2-4, 3-4, 4-1, 3-4 (2-4))
🇺🇸 Shane van Boening 3-2 Ko Taeyong 🇰🇷
(4-0, 2-4, 4-1, 1-4, 4-2)
🇵🇱 Wojciech Szewczyk 0-3 Marco Teutscher 🇳🇱
(3-4, 4-3, 2-4, 0-4)
🇫🇷 Alex Montpellier 0-3 Alex Kazakis 🇬🇷
(3-4, 2-4, 3-4)
Quarter-Finals
🇵🇭 Carlo Biado 3-0 Mark Estiola 🇵🇭
(4-1, 4-1, 4-3)
🇹🇼 Ko Ping-Chung 3-2 Oliver Szolnoki 🇭🇺
(4-3, 2-4, 4-3, 2-4, 4-1)
🇸🇬 Aloysius Yapp 1-3 Shane van Boening 🇺🇸
(4-3, 2-4, 1-4, 0-4)
🇬🇷 Alex Kazakis 3-2 Marco Teutscher 🇳🇱
(4-0, 2-4, 4-0, 1-4, 4-0)
Semi-Finals
🇵🇭 Carlo Biado 0-3 Ko Ping-Chung 🇹🇼
(1-4, 3-4, 2-4)
🇺🇸 Shane van Boening 2-3 Alex Kazakis 🇬🇷
(0-4, 4-0, 2-4, 4-2, 3-4 (12-13))
Final
🇹🇼 Ko Ping-Chung 3-1 Alex Kazakis 🇬🇷
(4-0, 4-2, 1-4, 4-3)
Prize Fund
Champion – $70,000
Runner-up – $40,000
Semi-finalists – $17,500
Quarter-finalists – $8,750
Last 16 – $4,375
Last 32 – $2,188
Total – $250,000
Roll of Honour
2008 – Darren Appleton 13-11 Wu Jiaqing
2009 – Mika Immonen 11-6 Lee Van Corteza
2011 – Huidji See 11-8 Fu Jianbo
2015 – Ko Pin-Yi 11-9 Carlo Biado
2019 – Ko Ping-Chung 10-7 Joshua Filler
2021 – Eklent Kaci 10-6 Naoyuki Oi
2022 – Wojciech Szewczyk 10-8 Christopher Tevez
2023 – Eklent Kaci 10-7 Francisco Sanchez Ruiz
2024 – Carlo Biado 3-1 Naoyuki Oi
(4-1, 3-4, 4-2, 4-1)
