Aloysius Yapp

Aloysius Yapp, born in 1996, is a Singaporean professional pool player and reportedly the first professional pool player from Singapore. He began playing at eight, left school in 2011 to turn professional, and in 2014 won the inaugural Asian Junior Pool Championship and became the first Singaporean to win a world title in pool at the World Junior Pool Championships in Shanghai. He reached the final of the 2021 U.S. Open Pool Championship, beating defending champion Joshua Filler and Shane Van Boening on the way before losing to Carlo Biado, won the CSI Michigan 10-Ball Open in 2021 and 2022, took bronze in nine-ball at the 2022 World Games, and won the 2025 UK Open Pool Championship by beating Jonás Souto 13 to 1 in the final.