Alexander Kazakis

Alexander Kazakis, born on July 16, 1991, is a Greek professional pool player, a former European ten-ball champion and a regular nine-ball competitor who held the number one position in the World Pool-Billiard Association rankings in 2018. In 2016 he won the Kremlin Cup without losing a game, and he reached the semi-final of the 2018 WPA World Nine-ball Championship before losing to the eventual winner Joshua Filler in a deciding frame. He won the 2018 Austria Open on the Euro Tour by beating Denis Grabe in the final, finished second at the 2019 World Pool Masters, and won the 2021 World Pool Masters by beating Shane Van Boening 9 to 0, the first clean sweep of that final.