Nine-ball (sometimes written 9-ball) is a discipline of the cue sport pool. The game's origins are traceable to the 1920s in the United States. It is...

The WPA World Nine-ball Championship is an annual professional nine-ball pool tournament contested since 1990. The championship is sanctioned by the World...

The World Nine-ball Championships are held annually, and are sanctioned by the World Pool-Billiard Association. Events have been held for boys and women...

(For the same reason, the glossary's information on eight-ball, nine-ball, and ten-ball draws principally on the stable WPA rules, because there are...

Nine-ball (or nine-ball, 9 ball, 9-ball and other variant spellings) is a pool (pocket billiards) game, played with nine object balls, of which the 9 ball...

professional pool game, after nine-ball, and for the last several decades ahead of straight pool. The game of eight-ball arose around 1900 in the United...

popular include: eight-ball, blackball, nine-ball, ten-ball, seven-ball, straight pool, one-pocket, and bank pool. Eight-ball is the most frequently played...

Ten-ball is a rotation pool game similar to nine-ball, but using ten balls instead of nine, and with the 10 ball instead of the 9 as the "money ball". Although...

Pool Championship, formerly the U.S. Open Nine-ball Championship, is an annual professional men's nine-ball pool tournament that began in its current...

possible. In nine-ball, the basic principles are the same as detailed in the eight-ball section above, but only balls 1 through 9 are used; the 1 ball is always...

conducts pool leagues and tournaments in the disciplines of eight-ball and nine-ball with a unified ruleset. The organization was founded in 1981 by professional...

four-ball Pocket billiards (or pool), played on six-pocket tables of seven, eight, nine, or ten-foot length, including among others eight-ball (the world's...

Asian Nine-ball Tour (also known as the Guinness Asian 9-Ball Tour or San Miguel Asian 9-Ball Tour for sponsorship reasons) was an annual series of nine-ball...

dominated Eklent Kaci, 13–4, to win the 42nd U.S. Open Pool Championship in Nine-ball pool. Shaw also appeared representing Europe at the Mosconi Cup, winning...

professional Snooker player Lin Yiyang (played by Leo Wu) and a famous Nine-ball athlete Yin Guo (played by Zhao Jinmai) met on a rare snowstorm night...

Amita, who longs for more independence from her mother; security hacker Nine Ball; street hustler and pickpocket Constance; and profiteer Tammy, a housewife...

object ball (four-ball uses an extra object ball, usually blue). Pool balls are used to play various pool games, such as eight-ball, nine-ball, and straight...

as a stand-in for an official event name most commonly refers to the nine-ball event, it may, depending upon context, refer to any of six different annual...

his numerous titles, Reyes is a four-time World Eight-ball champion, the 1999 WPA World Nine-ball Championship winner, a three-time U.S. Open winner, a...

involves a somewhat more significant amount of luck than either nine-ball or eight-ball, because of the disproportionate value of pocketing balls on the...

reigning world number one pool player Eklent Kaçi at the 2018 WPA World Nine-ball Championship when he was 17 years old. In 2024, Capito claimed his biggest...

WPA World Nine-ball Championships, and the 2007 World Cup of Pool. Gomez was the first qualifier to reach the final of the WPA World Nine-ball Championships...

of all time. Van Boening has won the WPA World Nine-ball Championship and has won the US Open Nine-ball Championship on 5 occasions, along with over 100...

Marboys Nine-ball Open 2024 Reyes Cup 2024 Hanoi Open 9-Ball Championship 2024 Shanghai Zen and Yuan8 Open Nine-ball 2024 Ibalong Festival Nine-ball Championship...

eight-ball champion aged 14. Alcaide made his first breakthrough reaching third place at the Spanish Open in 1998. Later during the 2001 WPA World Nine-ball...

play full-time on the WPBA Tour, and has been nicknamed the "Queen of Nine-Ball". Pan was named WPBA Rookie of the Year in 2006 and finished the season...

eight-ball, ten in nine-ball, six in straight pool and three in ten-ball) since 1999, including eighteen (four in eight-ball, five in nine-ball, six in straight...

two-time WPA Women's World Ten-ball champion and the first Filipina pool player to become WPA Women's World Nine-ball champion in 2024. She is also the...

lowest numeric ball was not played into a pocket. The major competitive game nine-ball and its variants (six-ball, seven-ball, and ten-ball) are rotation...

tournament the current discipline is Ten-ball, however for the Women's tournament it is played in the discipline of Nine-ball. The All Japan Championship is currently...