Wiktor Zieliński (born 11 January 2001) is a

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professional

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player. He is the youngest player to ever win a

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event, winning the 2017 Treviso Open at the age of 16.

Career

Zielinski began playing pool at aged 8 in 2009, and in 2013 entered his first competition, the Junior European championships. Zielinski played his first men's event in 2015, at the 2015 Italian Open. The following season, he won his first European championship. He won both the 9-ball and straight pool events at the European Youth Championships(under 16s). He defeated

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in the straight ball final 75–66, and Keskutis Zadeikis 7–5 in the 9-ball final. He won the junior straight pool championship again in 2017, whilst also finishing runner-up at the 9-ball and 8-ball events as well. In 2017, aged 16, he became the youngest player to win an event on the

, when he won the 2017 Treviso Open. Zielinski won the final over Mario He 9–1. The same season, he reached the quarter-finals of the 2017 Portugal Open, and the last 16 at the 2017 Klagenfurt Open. He finished tenth on the rankings list at the end of the 2017

season. He later reached 4th in the Euro Tour rankings, in the 2018 season. At the 2017 WPA World Nine-ball Championship, Zielinski lost his initial match to

Cheng Yu-hsuan Cheng Yu-hsuan, also sometimes known as Kevin Cheng (Born 2 May 1988) is a Taiwanese professional pool player, representing Chinese Taipei. Yu-Hsuan reached world number 1 in 9-Ball in 2016, following winning U.S. Open 9-Ball Championships in 20 ...

before winning his final match of the

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round against Mario He 9–8, to reach the knockout round. In the knockout round, Zielinski was defeated by

David Alcaide David Alcaide Bermúdez (born 14 December 1978) is a Spanish pool player. He is a two-time winner of the World Pool Masters, winning the 2017 event, defeating Jayson Shaw 8–7 in the final, and again in 2019 defeating Alexander Kazakis 9� ...

11–5. The following year at the 2018 event, Zielinski also lost his first match, before reaching the knockout round. In the knockout rounds, he defeated

Tomasz Kapłan Tomasz Kapłan (born 14 January 1984) is a Polish professional pool player. He won the 2011 European Pool Championships in the discipline of Straight pool. He has played on the Euro Tour since 2009, reaching the semi-finals on three occasions, ...

11–4 and

Johann Chua Johann Gonzales Chua is a Filipino professional pool player from Manila. His nickname is "Bad Koi". Early life Born and raised in Bacolod in the central Philippines, Chua began playing pool at the age of nine. He was often accompanied to the ...

11–5. Zielinski set up a last 16 match again

Albin Ouschan Albin Alois Ouschan (born August 14, 1990, in Klagenfurt, Austria) is an Austrian pool and billiards player. Ouschan was the 2016 WPA World Nine-ball Championship winner, as well as the runner-up in 2014. He also won the 14.1 Continuous European ...

, which he eventually lost 8–11.

Titles & achievements

* Pro Billiard Series ** Alfa Las Vegas Open (2022) *

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Invitational Tournament (2022) *

** Treviso Open (2017) ** Treviso Open (2021) ** Lasko Open (2022) * Polish Pool Championship **

Nine-Ball Nine-ball (sometimes written 9-ball) is a discipline of the cue sport pool. The game's origins are traceable to the 1920s in the United States. It is played on a rectangular billiard table with at each of the four corners and in the middle of e ...

(2022)

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