Billiards
Mark Allen Withdraws from Shenzhen Open: The Missed Black in Frame 32 and the Empty Season of a Former World No. 1
European Disability Snooker Championship 2026: Eight Brackets, One Cup for the Defeated, and the Price Nobody Writes Into the Contract
The Billiards Table Has No Room for Haste: Data and the Numbers That Know Which Story to Stand Behind
Training Vietnam's Young Cueists: An Excavation from a Spreadsheet of Forty-Seven Names
Mark Allen Withdraws from Shenzhen Open: The Missed Black in Frame 32 and the Empty Season of a Former World No. 1Frame 32. World Championship semi-final, Crucible Theatre, Sheffield. Mark...
One Name, Six Rulebooks: Where Billiards Analytics Goes Wrong at the First Data RowOne Name, Six Rulebooks: Where Billiards Analytics Goes Wrong at the First Da...
World Billiards After the 2026 Verdict: The Power Vacuum Between Two GenerationsOn 6 June 2026, the World Professional Billiards and Snooker Association...
The Identity Boundary: Break Shot, Century Break, and the Discipline Problem in BilliardsIn June 2026, John Higgins received a six-month suspension and a £75,000 fine...
Six Sports Under One Name: The Identity Problem of BilliardsOne March evening in Liverpool, I sat next to an English friend watching a...
World Billiards from a Beijing Table: Three Rule Systems, One Name, and an Unmeasured GapA billiards table in Beijing's Chaoyang District has a pocket diameter...
Inside the Ledger of Vietnamese Billiards: The Stands Are Silent, the Money Never IsINSIDE THE LEDGER OF VIETNAMESE BILLIARDS: THE STANDS ARE SILENT, THE MONEY...
European Disability Snooker Championship 2026: Eight Brackets, One Cup for the Defeated, and the Price Nobody Writes Into the ContractSofia, September 2026. The Ramada Sofia City Centre. The organisers have lock...
“Billiards” Is Too Broad a Label: Why Every Cueist Comparison Skews at the First Data LineLast Saturday I watched three matches back to back in a single evening: a...
Vietnamese Billiards: Three Tables, One Name, and the Data Gap Nobody CountsVietnamese Billiards: Three Tables, One Name, and the Data Gap Nobody Counts ...
The Billiards Table Has No Room for Haste: Data and the Numbers That Know Which Story to Stand BehindIn March 2026, the arena in Binh Duong was packed. Inside, a cueman born in...
The Silence Between Two Interviews: The Craft of Reading Contracts in Vietnamese BilliardsThe Third-Floor Practice Room and a Number That Did Not Add Up November, Hano...
Billiards Is Six Different Sports: Nine Layers of Verification to Read a Table CorrectlyOpening: The black ball at 12:23 a.m. In a small commentary booth in Hanoi, I...
Xu Si, Kyren Wilson, and the Data Rhythm Hidden Behind Breaks: When Chinese Snooker Learns to Hold PositionAcross his last 12 frames at the World Snooker Championship qualifiers, Xu Si...
European Disability Snooker Championship 2026: 45 Entries, Eight Ranking Brackets and the Retention Equation in SofiaThe WPBSA announcement is short enough to scroll past in three seconds. The...
Professional Billiards 2026: The Generational Handover and the Gaps Behind the TableAt a ranking-event qualifier in Europe last October, I stayed behind after th...
Training Vietnam's Young Cueists: An Excavation from a Spreadsheet of Forty-Seven NamesAt a billiards club on Le Loi Street in Hai Phong, on the last Saturday of...
Safety Is No Longer King: The Tactical Reversal in Elite BilliardsIn the 21st frame of a four-hour semifinal, Judd Trump stood over a red three...
