Morning all, Reggie here. Poland's parasport pool players gave the home crowd in Warsaw a proper final last night, and the defending champion came off second best. In Leicester, Kyren Wilson's winning run reached 14 matches with a 6–1 hammering of the world number one. Plus a busy Friday: the IPA Grand Final opens on the Isle of Man, qualifying starts at the snooker worlds in Indore, and America's best amateurs gather in Las Vegas.
WARSAW — KUBALSKI DETHRONES WILK
Marcin Kubalski is the new European standing 10-ball champion. He beat his countryman Adam Wilk 5–4 in the final at the EPBF Parasport European Championships, per the official EPBF results. A year ago in Starachowice it was Wilk who won this title on the hill, coming back from 2–4 down against Cyprus's Georgios Malekkidis. This time the deciding rack went the other way.
It was Kubalski's second hill-hill win in a row. He beat Slovenia's Blaž Rus 5–4 in Thursday's semi-final, while Wilk got past Malekkidis by the same score.
In the wheelchair 10-ball, Finland's Jouni Tähti beat Great Britain's Daniel Luton 5–3 for gold. It was the second time this week Tähti had stopped Luton, after a 5–2 win on Wednesday. Luton still leaves with silver after a fine run through the one-loss side, which included a 5–4 quarter-final win over Sweden's Henrik Larsson, the reigning champion.
Warsaw 10-ball medals
- Standing: gold Marcin Kubalski (Poland), silver Adam Wilk (Poland), bronze Blaž Rus (Slovenia) and Georgios Malekkidis (Cyprus)
- Wheelchair: gold Jouni Tähti (Finland), silver Daniel Luton (Great Britain), bronze Matej Brajkovič (Slovenia) and Peter Macho (Slovakia)
LEICESTER — WILSON MAKES IT 14 IN A ROW
Last year Zhao Xintong beat Kyren Wilson on the final black at this stage of the Champion of Champions. There was no repeat. Wilson won the Group Two final 6–1, with breaks of 75, 100, 123, 86 and 104 in the first five frames. By the time Zhao got on the board with a 78, Wilson had scored over 400 unanswered points, per LiveSnooker.
"Annoying not to go 6–0," Wilson said afterwards. "I just cued across a red slightly playing for the black. Other than that, I think it would have definitely been my best performance."
He had already beaten Ali Carter 4–2 earlier in the day. Wilson arrives at the weekend with back-to-back ranking titles from the Northern Ireland Open and the International Championship, and he hasn't lost a match since.
The semi-finals
- Tonight, 7pm: Chris Wakelin v Neil Robertson. Robertson leads their head-to-head 8–3, but Wakelin won their last meeting 5–2 in Shenzhen in October (The Stats Zone)
- Saturday, 7pm: Shaun Murphy v Kyren Wilson
HO CHI MINH CITY — DAY THREE
The Universal Open is into its third day at Sniper Billiards Club. Johann Chua, the Philippines Open champion, beat Japan's Kenichi Uchigaki 9–5 on Thursday, and top seed Aloysius Yapp is still unbeaten too. Carlo Biado and James Aranas are both on the one-loss side. Aranas plays Thailand's Amarit Theprattanawichai today on the streamed table, and one more loss sends him home. The event drops to single elimination at the last 64, and the final is on Sunday. It's live on WNT TV.
ISLE OF MAN — IPA GRAND FINAL
The IPA Tour Grand Final Open breaks off this morning at the Comis Hotel in Douglas. It's a 161-player blackball draw, single elimination, with every match a race to 7 and play through to Sunday. Scores are on CueScore.
INDORE — THE SNOOKER WORLDS BEGIN
Men's qualifying starts today at the IBSF World Snooker Championships at the Yeshwant Club. Two former world 6-red champions, Laxman Rawat and Kamal Chawla, are among seven Indian men who have to come through Stage 1. Pankaj Advani and seven other Indians go straight into the main draw, which starts on Tuesday alongside the women's event. Anupama Ramachandran is the defending women's champion. Both finals are on Saturday 21 November (Times of India, IBSF).
LAS VEGAS — U.S. AMATEUR CHAMPIONSHIP
The APA's 31st U.S. Amateur Championship starts today at the Westgate Las Vegas. Men play races to 7 and women races to 5, mixing 8-ball and 9-ball games in a double-elimination format. Both champions win paid travel and entry into a pro event, per the APA.
Coming up
- Tonight, 7pm: the Bar Billiards World Championship opens with the pairs at the Merton Hotel in Jersey (Jersey Evening Post)
- Tonight, 7pm: Wakelin v Robertson, Champion of Champions semi-final
- Saturday, 7pm: Murphy v Kyren Wilson
- Sunday: the Champion of Champions final, and the final day in Ho Chi Minh City
- 17–21 November: the Universal Bangkok Open
Have a good Friday. Reggie.
Sources: EPBF, LiveSnooker, Eurosport, The Stats Zone, Ncue Media, On the Hill, World Nineball Tour, CueScore, Times of India, IBSF, American Poolplayers Association, Jersey Evening Post. Feature image: Kyren Wilson at the German Masters, 2026. “Kyren Wilson 2026 (7)” by Andrej146, via Wikimedia Commons, released under CC0 1.0 (public domain dedication).