On the afternoon of September 28, at Military Region 7 Gymnasium (HCMC), the final match of the 2025 Predator WPA Men's 10-Ball World Championship took place between two players Ko Ping Chung (Taiwan) and Alex Kazakis (Greecia).
With his highest level, Ko Ping Chung took the lead, adding errors in Kazakhstanis' passes to quickly end the first set with a score of 4-0. Continuing the excitement after a favorable start, Ko Ping Chung continued to increase the score gap in the set when winning 4-2 in set 2.
Kazakhstanis held on to hopes of turning the tables when they won set 3 with a score of 4-1. In the 4th set, Ko Ping Chung entered the game better than ever, taking an early 2-0 lead. However, the number 10 pass in the third game put Ko Ping Chung at a disadvantage in this set. He let his opponent lead 3-2 before equalizing the score of the 3-3 set before winning 4-3 in this set.
In the end, Ko Ping Chung won convincingly 3-1 in the 2025 Predator WPA Men's 10-Ball World Championship final against Kazakhstanis.
The 2025 Predator WPA Men's 10-Ball World Championship helped Ko Ping Chung win a prize of 70,000 USD (about 1.8 billion VND). Not stopping there, Ko Ping Chung also became the second player in history to win 2 10-a-side world championships (2019, 2025) along with Eklent Kaci (2021, 2023).
Kazakis received 40,000 USD (about 1 billion VND) for the runner-up position. The two semi-finalists Shane Van Boening (USA) and Carlo Biado (Philippines) each received 17,500 USD (about 450 million VND) in the third place.
The series of events jointly organized by Box Billiards, Predator and the Ho Chi Minh City Billiards & Snooker Federation (HBSF) has continuously recorded many records on digital platforms in billiards pool around the world.
On September 25, in the Last 32 round of the 2025 Predator WPA Men's 10-Ball World Championship, the match between Duong Quoc Hoang and Joshua Filler on Box Billiards channel made history as the first global billiards match to surpass the 200,000 live views mark at the same time on all platforms.
Just one day later (September 26), this record continued to be broken when Duong Quoc Hoang faced Aloysius Yapp, attracting more than 400,000 live audiences. This match also marks the milestone of 1 million livestream views on YouTube for a global billiards match - an achievement that only includes live broadcasts, excluding post-match highlight videos.
Previously, also at Military Region 7 Gymnasium, two tournaments were held, the International Women's Box Billiards Mixed Doubles Open, with the championship going to Joshua Filler and Pia Filler. On September 26, the final match of the Poison Cues Saigon Women's 9-Ball Open International 9-Ball Open Women's Tournament also ended with the highest title for Taiwanese (Chinese) representative Tzu-Chien Wei.
