Billiards
Reyes Cup: Rest of the World's maiden title was built on the racks nobody wants to rewatch
Six Sports Wearing One Name: Why Billiards Statistics Cannot Be Compared
Australian Women's Open 2026: Short Format Shapes the Title Race
Peter Gilchrist's Canadian Double: When the Number 596 Says It All
Phu Tho, a 9-Ball Night: The World No.1's Missed Shot and the Price of a Short Format
Two Deciders in Leicester: Crowley's Blind Spot and Gao Yang's Overlooked Signal
10-Ball in Gandia: Silva, Correia and Kokten Win on Nerve in the Shortest RacksGandia, Spain. Sinem Kokten sits down in the chair, lays her cue across her...
Kyren Wilson ends an 18-month ranking semi-final drought: when a Masters title is worth zero ranking pointsThird table at the Waterfront Hall, the deciding frame. Wilson bends to set t...
Mark Allen Returns in Belfast: Ten Weeks of Treatment and the Real Price of a Long PotWaterfront Hall, Belfast. The lights come up over the blue baize, the arena i...
Zhao Xintong After World Number One: A Form Diagnosis for the 2026 SeasonBelfast, a Tuesday afternoon at the Waterfront Hall. Zhao Xintong lowers...
Reyes Cup: Rest of the World's maiden title was built on the racks nobody wants to rewatchThe twentieth rack of the Reyes Cup in Hanoi lasted seventeen minutes. No...
Five Points And Three Breaks: The Reyes Cup Has Tilted Toward Rest Of The WorldDay three of the 2026 Roobet Reyes Cup closed at Makati Coliseum with a numbe...
Six Sports Wearing One Name: Why Billiards Statistics Cannot Be ComparedAutumn 2026, in a newsroom in central Liverpool, I opened a spreadsheet with...
Snooker After Crucible 2026: The New Grammar of the Safety ShotThere is a moment at the Crucible that I rewound four times. It was the...
Australian Women's Open 2026: Short Format Shapes the Title RaceI opened the draw for the Australian Women's Open 2026 and stopped at the lin...
The Maturation Curve of Vietnamese Billiards: When the Spotlight Is No Longer Enough to Keep a Young TalentThe sediment layer of a World Cup is never in the trophy; it is in the player...
Peter Gilchrist's Canadian Double: When the Number 596 Says It AllHook Winnipeg, Canada, over five days this month. Peter Gilchrist walked to t...
Six Sports Under One Name: The Billiards Strata and the Classification Trap in Youth DevelopmentIn an internal evaluation session in Hai Phong, I received a two-page scoutin...
Stan Moody beats Gary Wilson in the Snooker 900 final: re-reading a non-ranking titleGary Wilson made the tournament's highest break, 131, and still left the tabl...
Professional Billiards: Three Disciplines, Three Data Systems, and One Classification GapAn audience member in the fourth row in Sheffield asked me after the...
Filler Wins Bali Open: When Front-Running Grit Overcomes a Young Challenger's Final-Frame NervesBali, Indonesia — In a final where the margin between victory and defeat was...
"I Only Look 28": Michael Holt and the Formula for Beating Higher-Ranked PlayersThe opening frame of the last-16 match between Michael Holt and Kyren Wilson ...
