Fabio Petroni

Fabio Petroni, nicknamed Fabulous, is an Italian professional pool player, born on 30 March 1972 in Rome, who began playing billiards at the age of thirteen and in 1993 became the first Italian champion. He took second place in the World Pool League, was runner-up at the 1998 European Pool Championships in nine-ball, and represented Europe at the 1998 Mosconi Cup. He won two Euro Tour titles, the 2001 England Open in Hull and the 2006 Spain Open in Malaga, where he beat Niels Feijen 10-1 in the final. He played the World Cup of Pool nine times, reaching the quarterfinals in 2006 and 2012, and finished second at the World Snooker Trickshot Championship in 2003 and 2005.