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title: "Carlo Biado: Career, Titles and Latest Results"
url: https://billiardnews.net/players/carlo-biado
published: 2026-10-21T08:54:39Z
updated: 2026-10-21T09:29:21Z
summary: "Carlo \"The Black Tiger\" Biado — Filipino pool's World No. 1. Career profile: two World 9-Ball titles, World 10-Ball, U.S. Open, BCA Hall of Fame, and his latest results."
author: "BilliardNews Editorial"
lang: en
---

# Carlo Biado: Career, Titles and Latest Results

Carlo Biado — "The Black Tiger" — is the Philippines' leading pool player and the current
World No. 1 on the World Nineball Tour. A two-time WPA World 9-Ball Champion (2017, 2025),
he is the first Filipino to win that title twice, and one of a small group of players to
hold world championships in both nine-ball and ten-ball.

## Career at a glance

- **Born:** October 31, 1983, Philippines
- **Turned pro:** 2004
- **Nickname:** "The Black Tiger"
- **Disciplines:** Nine-ball, ten-ball, eight-ball, rotation
- **Current ranking:** No. 1, World Nineball Tour
- **Honours:** Billiard Congress of America Hall of Fame — elected August 2025, the
  sixth Filipino inducted, after Efren Reyes (2003), Francisco Bustamante (2010),
  Jose Parica (2014), Alex Pagulayan (2019) and Dennis Orcollo (2022)

## Major titles

| Year | Event | Final |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | WPA World 9-Ball Championship, Jeddah | d. Fedor Gorst 15–13 |
| 2024 | WPA World 10-Ball Championship, Las Vegas | d. Naoyuki Oi |
| 2022 | WPA World Teams Championship (with Johann Chua & Rubilen Amit) | d. Great Britain 3–0 |
| 2021 | U.S. Open 9-Ball Championship | d. Aloysius Yapp 13–8 |
| 2017 | WPA World 9-Ball Championship | d. Roland Garcia 13–5 |
| 2017 | World Games, Wrocław — 9-Ball | d. Jayson Shaw 11–7 |

World Nineball Tour ranking titles: Raxx Pool Room Open (2023), Chinese Taipei Open
(2024), Raxx MVP Open (2024). Team honours: Reyes Cup champion with Team Asia (2024,
2025). For the Philippines he has taken SEA Games gold in both nine-ball (2017) and
ten-ball (2021), among other medals.

## The long road up

Biado's path was unusually slow for a player of his level. He turned professional in 2004
and went nearly a decade without a major title, reaching his first world final — the 2015
WPA World 10-Ball Championship — only to lose to Ko Pin-Yi. The breakthrough came in 2017
with the World Games gold and his first World 9-Ball crown in the same year.

In 2021 he moved to the United States during the pandemic-era drought of tournaments in
the Philippines and promptly won the U.S. Open, joining Alex Pagulayan and Efren Reyes
as Filipino winners of the event. His second World 9-Ball title, in Jeddah in July 2025,
came eight years after the first — a span few champions have managed — and was worth
$250,000.

Biado is the godson of Filipino legend Francisco Bustamante, who captains Team Asia at
the Reyes Cup. Biado has said he calls Efren Reyes "Father Efren" — a sign of how closely
his career sits between the Philippines' established champions and its next generation.

## Latest results

*(updated October 2026 — refresh after every major event)*

- **Reyes Cup 2026 (Manila):** Biado was Team Asia's standout in a losing campaign,
  beating Shane Van Boening 5–3 on Day 2 before Team Rest of the World closed out an
  11–4 win.
- **WPA Men's Doubles 10-Ball World Championship (Bali, Oct 2026):** Runner-up with
  19-year-old AJ Manas, losing a deciding fifth set to Spain's Francisco Sanchez Ruiz
  and David Alcaide.
- **Philippines Open 2026:** Headlined the home charge at Gateway Mall, Quezon City.
- **Phoenix Open 2026:** Semi-final finish earlier this season on the World Nineball Tour.

## Frequently asked

**How many world titles has Carlo Biado won?**
Three individual world championships: World 9-Ball (2017, 2025) and World 10-Ball (2024),
plus the 2022 WPA World Teams Championship.

**Is Carlo Biado the world number one?**
Yes — he tops the World Nineball Tour rankings, seeded into Team Asia at the 2026 Reyes
Cup as its highest-ranked Filipino.

**Why is he called "The Black Tiger"?**
It is his long-standing ring name on the Filipino and international circuit.

**Who is Carlo Biado's godfather?**
Francisco Bustamante — himself a Hall of Famer and captain of Team Asia at the Reyes Cup.

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*Sources: WPA Pool (wpapool.com), World Nineball Tour (worldnineballtour.com),
Billiard Congress of America.*