David Alcaide

David Alcaide Bermúdez is a Spanish professional pool player, born on 14 December 1978, who began playing pool aged five and became Spanish eight-ball champion at fourteen. He is a two-time winner of the World Pool Masters, taking the 2017 event by beating Jayson Shaw 8-7 and the 2019 event by beating Alexander Kazakis 9-8, and a three-time world championship semi-finalist at the WPA World Ten-ball Championship in 2009 and 2015 and the WPA World Eight-ball Championship in 2011. He has represented Europe at the Mosconi Cup seven times, the first Spanish player to do so in 2006, and also plays snooker.