CARLO BIADO IS 2024 WPA PREDATOR 10-BALL CHAMPION
By Dong Secuya
PhilBoxing.com
Sun, 03 Mar 2024
Carlo Biado of the Philippines won the 2024 WPA Predator 10-Ball Championship by defeating Japan's Naoyuki Oi in their final match at the Rio All-Suites Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas in Las Vegas Saturday to add another diadem in his glittering world title collection. Biado also won the top prize money of $75,000.
Biado beat Oi 3-1 (4-1, 3-4, 4-2, 4-1) in their best of five match up.
Last week, Biado ended up runner-up to compatriot Lee Van Corteza for the Pro Billiards Series Las Vegas Open in the same venue that earned him $14,000, not bad for a two-week sojourn in the gambling capital of the world.
Carlo Biado celebrates after sinking the last 10 ball to win the tournament.
On the way to the finals, Biado won over Justin Sajich of Australia, 2-0, top American player Shane Van Boening, 2-0, Lin Wu Kun of Taiwan, 2-0 in the elimation round. He dispatched Taiwan's Ko Ping-Chund in the beswt of five quarterfinals, 3-2 (4-1, 0-4, 4-1, 3-4, 4-1) and defeated Russian-born American Fedor Gorst in the semis, 3-1 (1-4, 4-3, 4-3, 4-2).
The 2024 WPA Predator 10-Ball Championship pitted the world's 64 best-ranked players. Biado is the only Filipino entry in the tournament.
Carlo Biado receives the champion's gold medal.
Biado thus become the most accomplished Filipino billiards player of the current generation reinforcing the Filipinos' dominant hold of the sport continuing the legacy of Filipino legends Efren Reyes and Django Bustamante.
Below is a list of Biado's major accomplishments to date (via Wikipedia):
2024 Universal Chinese Taipei Open
2023 RAXX MVP Tour Open
2023 Manny Pacquiao Ten-ball Championship
2022 Pro Billiard Series Puerto Rico Open
2022 Texas Open Ten-ball Scotch Doubles
2022 WPA World Mixed Teams Ten-ball Championship
2022 CSI U.S. Open Eight-ball Championship
2021 Big Tyme Classic One Pocket
2021 Cajun Coast Classic Nine-ball
2021 Southeast Asian Games Ten-ball Singles
2021 Abu Dhabi Open Nine-ball Championship
2021 U.S. Open Nine-ball Championship
2020 Predator One Pool Ten-ball
2018 Pool Classic Competition (Philippines vs. Chinese Taipei (Taiwan))
2018 Jogja Open International Ten-ball
2017 Philippine Sportsman of the Year
2017 WPA World Nine-ball Championship
2017 World Games Nine-ball Singles
2017 Southeast Asian Games Nine-ball Singles
2015 Japan Open Ten-ball
2015 Southeast Asian Games Nine-ball Doubles
2013 Hard Times Ten-ball Open
2012 Green Garden Jakarta Ten-ball Open
2012 Banjarmasin Nine-ball Championship
2011 BSCP National Eight-ball Pool Championship
2011 BSCP National Pool Championship Overall
2010 Manny Pacquiao Ten-ball Championship
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