Shane van Boening, Joshua Filler and Ralf Souquet could achieve an unprecedented feat as the WPA World 10-Ball Championship takes place in Vietnam for the first time.
The $250,000 tournament will be held in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam from September 20-28 and features 96 players who were either invited or came through a qualifying event.
The aforementioned trio could become the first ever player to win all three world championship titles, having previously reigned supreme at the World 9-Ball Championship and the World 8-Ball Championship.
Van Boening achieved his destiny by denying Albin Ouschan to win the 2022 World Pool Championship in Milton Keynes, England, before beating Sanjin Pehlivanovic to seal World 8-Ball glory a year later.
Filler will be defending his World 8-Ball title this year after beating Hsu Jui-An in last year’s final in New Zealand, having landed the World 9-Ball Championship in 2018 by overcoming Carlo Biado.
Souquet, meanwhile, dismantled Tom Storm 11-1 to win the World 9-Ball Championship in 1996, before beating Ronnie Alcano to seal World 10-Ball spoils 12 years later. He could win the three championships in three different decades.
Francisco Sanchez Ruiz won the 2022 World 8-Ball Championship and the 2023 World Pool Championship, although the Spaniard did not receive an invitation for this year’s World 10-Ball Championship in bizarre fashion.
Sanchez Ruiz came close to holding all three world championships at the same time two years ago, but he was agonisingly stopped in his tracks by Eklent Kaci in the World 10-Ball Championship final in Las Vegas.
