As the sought-after Women’s World 9-Ball Championship returns once more, the world’s best female players will have their sights set on achieving lifelong dreams and becoming the champion of the world.
Rubilen Amit will be defending her crown as the most prestigious women’s tournament takes place in Jacksonville, Florida for the first time, with 96 players aiming to turn fantasy to reality and seal the $50,000 top prize.
We’ve selected some household names and some dark horses to keep a close eye on throughout the week in the sunshine state.
Rubilen Amit
Having beaten Chen Siming in last year’s final to add the most prestigious women’s accolade to her brace of World 10-Ball titles, Rubilen Amit now has the chance to join just Robin Bell, Allison Fisher, Kim Ga-Young and Liu Shasha in successful retaining the title.
Amit was peerless last year in New Zealand in cruising to the title and she will undoubtedly be one of the title favourites this time around too. She’s since become the Las Vegas Open champion, defeating Kelly Fisher, Jasmin Ouschan and Han Yu en route.
Jasmin Ouschan
Jasmin Ouschan has the opportunity to achieve something that’s never been accomplished this week. The Austrian could become the first male or female player to win world titles in all three disciplines, having won the Women’s World 10-Ball Championship in 2010 and the Women’s World 8-Ball Championship this year.
Ouschan was recently reinstated as the women’s world number one in the WPA rankings to cap off a stellar year. She’s won on both the WPBA tour and the Euro Tour, and reached the World 10-Ball Championship quarter-finals as well as the China Open semi-finals.
Wei Tzu-Chien
Taiwanese number one Wei Tzu-Chien has enjoyed the most prosperous season of her career, reaching her peak at the age of 35 and notably spending a couple of months as the women’s world number one.
Wei has snapped off two prestigious titles in the women’s game this year, winning both the Masters and the Saigon Open. She battled back from a set behind to beat Amit in the finals in Vietnam.
Sofia Mast
Sofia Mast is one of the most promising young female talents in the world, having become the USA’s first world girls champion for 18 years last summer and reached the Women’s World 10-Ball Championship quarter-finals in November of last year.
Mast defeated Meng-Hsia Hung and Ouschan on her way to that elusive quarter-final and, despite not quite managing to push on from that so far in 2025, she’s clearly got the potential to excel.
Chezka Centeno
Chezka Centeno reached the finals of July’s Women’s World 8-Ball, won October’s Women’s World 10-Ball, and now she has the chance to become the first player to reach the final of all three lucrative tournaments in the same calendar year.
It was seems almost baffling to think that Centeno had something of a confidence crisis before sealing her second World 10-Ball title in three years, although that merely proves the quality in which the sensational shotmaker expects from herself.
Kristina Tkach
Former world number one Kristina Tkach will be one of perhaps four or five strong favourites. Having won the World 10-Ball last year, getting her hands on the most prestigious prize in women’s pool will be another childhood dream fulfilled for Tkach.
She’s heads to Florida having reached back-to-back semi-finals in 2023 and 2024, and should she keep knocking on that door, it will eventually move adrift. Her technique makes her one of the world’s most complete players, and it would certainly be no surprise to see her land the big one.
Seo Seoa
It’s been quite the year for Seo Seoa, amassing more than $72,000 in prize money. She won the Indonesia International Open in July and more recently the Spanish International Open, truly proving herself as one of the very elite.
The 23-year-old has developed pedigree in 9-ball tournaments also, stunning two-time world champion Albin Ouschan in this year’s World Pool Championship as she became just the fourth female player to reach the last 64 of the world’s biggest tournament.
Now, South Korean star Seoa has the chance to follow in the legendary footsteps of her compatriot Kim Ga-Young in becoming the women’s world champion. It would be fitting conclusion to a fine season for the rising star.
Savannah Easton
She’s unequivocally the most prodigiously-talented female American teenager ever seen, perhaps one of the best that the world has ever seen, yet Arizona Open champion Savannah Easton continues to brush off any expectation and show maturity beyond her years.
Easton makes her third Women’s World 9-Ball Championship appearance at just 15 years old and continues to gather crucial experience. She recently made the mixed doubles quarter-finals in Spain alongside Jonas Souto Comino and partners up with Jayson Shaw in Jacksonville – sharing the table with two of the world’s elite will only benefit her.
Liu Shasha
Somehow more than 16 years have passed since Chinese sensation Liu Shasha won her first of three world 9-ball titles at just 16 years of age. It was a simply astonishing achievement and a record that will almost certainly never be broken.
Despite her most recent success having come a decade ago now, Liu remains one of the prominent players in women’s game. She defeated Ouschan and Han Yu on her way to the World 10-Ball Championship semi-finals in October and en route to a Euro Tour title in Spain as recent as nine days ago.
Hong Xin-Yu
Having won back-to-back World Girls Championship titles in 2022 and 2023, Taiwanese teenager Hong Xin-Yu has now started to make waves on the senior women’s scene.
Hong defeated Liu Shasha at the World 10-Ball Championship in Indonesia, perhaps her biggest win to date, and she’s the most promising female talent from a pool hotbed in Taiwan.
