Born | Veszprém, Hungary | 6 May 1997
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Sport country | Hungary |
Best finish | Semi finals 2021 WPA World Nine-ball Championship |
Oliver Szolnoki (born 6 May 1997) [1] is a Hungarian professional pool player. A regular on the Euro Tour, Szolnoki reached the quarter-finals of the 2019 Veldhoven Open. [2] He reached a high ranking of 2nd on the Tour in 2024. [3]
Szolnoki won four medals at the World Pool-Billiard Association world championship events, reaching the final of the under-16s eight-ball event in 2013, and the youth nine-ball event in 2019. [4] [5] [6]
Gerda Hofstätter Gergerson, nicknamed "G-Force", is an Austrian professional pool player. Hofstätter won the WPA World Nine-ball Championship in 1995. She is a winner at the European Pool Championship on nine occasions, and won the Austrian national Championship seventeen times. Hofstätter is a two-time Hall of Fame inductee being voted into both the Women's Professional Billiard Association and Billiard Congress of America Hall of Fames in the Greatest Players Category. Hofstätter was the Austrian Sportswoman of the Year for Carinthia in 1993. Hofstätter played on the WPBA Tour until her retirement, doing so from 1993 onward.
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Sandor Tot is a Serbian professional pool player. During the 2006 WPA World Nine-ball Championship he survived the group stages, the round of 64 and the round of 32, but was eliminated in the round of 16 by Li He-wen. This performance secured him a spot in the 2007 edition of the tournament. Tot plays for Slovenian club Biljard Klub Gomes.
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