34th Worldchampionship Artistic Individual

Just days after the Ankara World Cup, the Turkish Federation’s center again welcomes the best players in the world, this time in a different discipline: artistic billiards. The organizing Turks have a strong history in artistic billiards, and even many of their 3-cushion players bring special abilities to the table.  

The artistic discipline lives a bit away from the mainstream of 3-cushion and carom billiards, but the players are highly respected for their unique abilities. Solving mandatory positions in varying degrees of difficulty, in three attempts at most, that’s their sport. It requires a ton of practice, advanced muscle memory and tremendous concentration. 

Rene Dericks from the Netherlands defends his 2025 world title. 

The UMB has invited the following players: 

Rene Dericks – NET
Bernd Singer – GER 
Erik van den Zegel – BEL 
Kevin Tran – Fra 
Emrah Tac – TUR 
Mehmet Sezer – TUR 
Baris Cin – TUR 
Haci Arap Yaman – TUR 
Benny Smits – NET 
Sergio Sanchez – SPA 
Erik Vervliet. – BEL
Matthieu Franck – LUX 
Anthony Marin – FRA 
Thomas Ahrens – GER 
Ken Dahlke – AUT 
Laszlo Kun – HUN 
Serdar Gümüs – TUR 
Sander Jonen – NET 
Hector Cuadrado – SPA 
Manfred Hekerle – AUT 
Jop de Jong – NET 
Naoki Harada – JAP 
Kazulaka Hodozuka – JAP 
Laszlo Toth – HUN 
Xavier Fonellosa – SPA 
Eric Daelman – BEL 
Tuncay Gulay – TUR 
Marvin Heinrich – GER 
David Keller – HUN 
Halm Doruk – TUR 
Sven Göppinger – GER 
Cengiz Can – TUR 

Players will be divided into 8 groups of 4, the best two to advance. 
The tables in Ankara are Zeki Bilardo, the balls are Aramith Prestige and the cloth is Simonis 330 Prestige. 

Full match results will be available on the UMB website.