Chezka Centeno

Chezka Luy Centeno, nicknamed the Flash, is a Filipina professional pool player from Zamboanga City, born in 1999, and a three-time world champion who won the World Ten-ball Championships in 2023 and 2025 and the World Eight-ball Championship in 2026. She is the sixth of seven children and started playing billiards at five, and her potential was discovered at eight in local tournaments in her family's hometown. At eleven she entered the Philippine National Games and finished third, and at twelve she was invited to the Kremlin Cup in Russia. After being recruited into the national team she won the girls' singles at the 2014 Asian Junior Championship and the nine-ball women's singles at the 2015 Southeast Asian Games, beating Rubilen Amit in the final.