Eklent Kaçi

Eklent Kaçi, also known as Klenti Kaçi, is an Albanian professional pool player born on January 29, 1999. He won the WPA World Ten-ball Championship in 2021 and 2023, reached the semi-finals of the 2017 WPA World Nine-ball Championship and the final of the 2024 edition, and has been the top-ranked nine-ball player in the world. He started playing at eight and has won the Albanian snooker championships as well as national pool championships, although he had never played snooker before his federation asked him to enter the event. At eighteen he won the Aramith Masters and became world number one later that year.