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A statistical analysis argues that break-and-run percentages cannot fully describe a player's performance. Table conditions, lighting, cloth and racking methods can influence the opportunities available, making comparisons between different competitions less straightforward than one headline percentage suggests.
Kathie MacDonald won Northwest Women's Pool Association Stop 4 at Players Sports Bar & Grill in Kennewick. The July 17–19 tenball event used seven-foot tables and drew 35 entrants, adding another victory to her season-leading campaign.
Billiards rejoined the Rocky Mountain State Games for the first time since 2019. The Crooked Cue hosted the competition in Colorado Springs during the amateur festival, with Samm Diep-Vidal promoting the event and Jose Burgos directing the tournament.
The World Nineball Tour identified the US Open as the final ranking event for 2026 Reyes Cup qualification. The Philippines Open was named the cutoff for automatic Mosconi Cup places, linking the two team competitions to key late-season tour results.
Slovakia led the final medal table at the European Youth Pool Championships with three golds, two silvers and a bronze. Closing-day nineball titles went to Gabriel Aspholm, Mark Szabo and Iris Eijmberts, while Germany and Slovenia took the team golds.
Three nineball finals and two team deciders remained as the European Youth Pool Championships entered their last day. Slovakia led the standings before the closing matches, with Germany, Sweden and France still part of the medal-table race.
The Midwest Billiards & Cue Expo returned to Big Dog Billiards in Des Moines. Its 12th edition featured four competitions spanning nineball, one-pocket and banks, with Shane Van Boening among the leading winners during the $15,000-added programme.
Kim Davenport claimed the 15th stop of the fourth annual Rack Race without a defeat. The tournament result added another competitive win for the Billiard Congress of America Hall of Fame member, whose professional achievements span multiple decades.
Rachelle Enfroy, Mark Szabo and Robin Hauge Pettersen won the girls', under-17 and under-19 eightball titles at the European Youth Championships. Enfroy won her final 5–0, Szabo prevailed 6–3 and Hauge Pettersen needed a deciding rack.
Niko Konkel won the seventh Brian James Memorial in Bristol, Tennessee. The July 11 tournament operated under the Q City 9-Ball Tour, adding another regional title to the young North Carolina player's developing competition record.
Yen Huynh won West Coast Women's Tour Stop 3 after losing a deciding-rack hot-seat match to Lela Andrews. She returned through the bracket and defeated Andrews twice in the final phase at Family Billiards, where 32 women competed.
Bill Larson won the USA national wheelchair eightball championship, while Derrick Bonds retained the wheelchair tenball title for a second year. The competitions took place in Dubuque, Iowa, where Bret Clifton also earned silver in both disciplines.