The year of 2019 included professional tournaments surrounding table-top

cue sports Cue sports are a wide variety of Game of skill, games of skill played with a cue stick, which is used to strike billiard balls and thereby cause them to move around a Baize, cloth-covered billiards table, table bounded by elastic bumpers known a ...

. These events include

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pool Pool may refer to: Bodies of water * Swimming pool, usually an artificial structure containing a large body of water intended for swimming * Reflecting pool, a shallow pool designed to reflect a structure and its surroundings * Tide pool, a roc ...

disciplines and

billiards Cue sports are a wide variety of games of skill played with a cue stick, which is used to strike billiard balls and thereby cause them to move around a cloth-covered table bounded by elastic bumpers known as . Cue sports, a category of stic ...

. Whilst these are traditionally singles sports, some matches and tournaments are held as doubles, or team events. The snooker season runs between May and April, whilst the pool and billiards seasons run in the calendar year. Four men's adult world championships were held in 2019, with

Judd Trump Judd Trump (born 20 August 1989) is an English professional snooker player who is a former List of World Snooker Championship winners, world champion and the current List of world number one snooker players, world number one. He is currently in ...

winning the

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, Ko Ping-chung winning the

WPA World Ten-ball Championship The WPA World Ten-ball Championship is a professional ten-ball Pool (cue sports), pool tournament sanctioned by the World Pool-Billiard Association (WPA). The event was first held in 2008 in the Philippines, followed by playings there in 2009 and ...

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 o ...

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and the World Billiards Championship by Peter Gilchrist respectively. Women's world championships featured a

won by

Reanne Evans Reanne Evans (born 25 October 1985) is an English professional snooker player and regular pundit on televised snooker broadcasts. Widely recognised as the most successful female player in the sport's history, she has won the World Women's Sno ...

and the World Billiards Championship won by Anna Lynch. The events in this list are professional,

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, or notable amateur cue sports tournaments from the year of 2019.

Pool

The cue sport

encapsulates several disciplines, such as

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and

. Ko Ping-chung won the

, whilst the

World Cup of Pool The World Cup of Pool is an annual international single-elimination tournament for doubles teams in nine-ball pool competition. The Philippines holds the record for World Cup wins, winning the title on four occasions. In 2023, they also became t ...

was won by Austria. In events where there was more than one competition, (m) refers to men, (f) to women, and (w) to a wheelchair competition.

Euro Tour

The

Euro Tour The Euro Tour is a series of professional pool events set around Europe Europe is a continent located entirely in the Northern Hemisphere and mostly in the Eastern Hemisphere. It is bordered by the Arctic Ocean to the north, the Atlanti ...

is a professional

series run across Europe by the

European Pocket Billiard Federation The European Pocket Billiard Federation (EPBF) is the European governing body for pocket billiards. EPBF is the European regional affiliate member of the World Pool-Billiard Association (WPA). Events The federation holds the European Championship ...

. The season featured six events, with five women's tournaments.

Women's pool

Southeast Asian Games

English billiards

The 2018–2019

English billiards English billiards, called simply billiards in the UK and in many former British colonies, is a cue sport that combines the aspects of carom billiards and pool. Two (one white and one yellow) and a red are used. Each player or team uses a diffe ...

season started at the end of August 2018. David Causier won the World Matchplay Championship, defeating Peter Gilchrist in the final 8–7. The 2019–2020 season started in September 2019, with Peter Gilchrist and Anna Lynch winning the World Billiards Championship titles in October 2019.

Southeast Asian Games

Snooker

The World Snooker season begins in July, and ends in May.

won his first

, defeating four-time champion

John Higgins John Higgins (born 18 May 1975) is a Scottish professional snooker player from Wishaw in North Lanarkshire. Since turning professional in 1992, he has won 33 ranking titles, placing him in third position on the List of snooker players by num ...

in the final.

won the women's world championship, defeating Nutcharut Wongharuthai in the final 6–3.

World ranking events

Challenge Tour

The

Challenge Tour The Challenge Tour, currently titled as the HotelPlanner Tour for sponsorship reasons and also sometimes referred to as the European Challenge Tour, is the second-tier men's professional golf tour in Europe. It is operated by the PGA European To ...

was a secondary non-professional snooker tour with events for invited players.

Non-ranking events

=Pro–am events

= Two events in 2019 were denoted as

, with the events open to specific professional and local amateur players.

Team event

Variant events

World Seniors Tour

The World Seniors Tour is an amateur series open to players aged 40 and over. There were four events in the 2019 World Seniors Tour.

Women's snooker

Amateur snooker championships

References

External links

World Pool Association Official Website

World Billiards Official Website

World Snooker Official Website
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