Jeddah writes a new chapter in the history of the global billiards Arabausa

Between the stories of former heroes and emerging heroes, the curtain was closed to the World Billiards Championship 9 balls for the year 2025, where the hero of the former American American version Fedor Gorst fought to defend his title against the Filipino Carlo Pado in a strong confrontation in which the spirit of the heroes appeared, and Bado returned to ascend to the podium again after 8 years of his title in 2017.

The match started with amazing progressing to the Philippine champion Pado with the score of 8-2, but the champion of the previous version, Fedor Gorst, did not want to fall without a fight, and returned with the result of the match to conclude the confrontation of the final of the World Bales Championship in its second version in Jeddah, with a score of 13-15.

“I am very happy, this is the biggest blessing in my life.” With these words, the hero Carlo Pado spoke to “Al -Sharq Al -Awsat” after raising his second title in the game of billiards 9 balls, to become the first Filipini to achieve this number.

Piado goes on his speech after the coronation: “I am very happy with my title in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, and I see this achievement the greatest blessing in my life,” noting his happiness at the amount of the great financial prize for this year, as the total of the prizes reached one million, which is the largest financial award in the history of billiard sport.

While the star of the Arab players brightened in this championship, specifically the Iraqi Amir Ali, who succeeded in reaching the quarter -finals after successive victories over opponents who possess high levels and international classes, as Amir himself presented an Iraqi dream growing in the championship.

Amir Ali speaks to Asharq Al -Awsat: “I see myself a warrior, I came from not good and supportive circumstances in order to make my path an Iraqi hero, and I did not participate in major world championships except in the Persian Gulf, due to the visa problems, indicating that he seeks that his success becomes a candle of hope for Iraqi youth not only in billiard game, but in various types of sports.

Amir continued his speech and said: «In this year’s version, I achieved better results by reaching the quarter -finals because I am tired of developing my skills more than last year, and I hope to reach more advanced roles, stressing his great desire to raise the championship title for Arabs and Iraq in particular.

The Iraqi player indicated the importance of public support to the player, saying: “The Kingdom’s hosting of the championship gave me great comfort, as there is only a friend from my friend from Iraq, and thanks to God and then support the public I was able to reach better results than last year, as they made me feel that I play in my country in Iraq.”

For her part, Emily Fariz, Executive Director of Match Room, described the “nine balls” championships, which was held in the city of Jeddah as an amazing, and she told “Al -Sharq Al -Awsat”: “After the first splendor of hosting, I did not think that we would be able to provide a better copy, but in our partnership with the Ministry of Sports and the Saudi Federation for billiards and Snooker we were able to present an amazing version more as everyone did everything they can to be to be Distinctive version ».

In her talk about the participation of Saudi and Arab players in the championship, Emily touched on the championship, saying: “What is wonderful is our choice for the players who participate in the championship through the invitation card, which we offer to local players in every country we visit as our greatest goal is to develop local players and obtain a diverse global classification that contains players from countries around the world where we came to this championship with more than 40 countries that have players who represent them.”

Noting that this is what makes sport actually global, and confirmed that the company “Match Room” is seeking to increase the number of Middle East players in the major championships, indicating that the way these players enables reaching the global level is through their competitor to the best, and this was done in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia hosting the championship for two years and will be eight years next.