Seattle Nineball Open 2025
Jonas Souto, SNO ‘25 Champion
We don’t come across a lot of professional pool events happening above the 47th North Latitude line which lies just south of Seattle, WA. There are a few international cities above that line, including Vienna, which hosts a regular stop on the Euro Tour, but we’ve never heard of a pool tournament in Bern, Switzerland, for example, or Urumqi, China, Astana in Kazakhstan or Vladivostock, Russia, for that matter. But a strong contingent of professionals headed north to Seattle this past weekend, March 28-30, to compete in the World Nineball Tour ranking event, the 2025 Seattle 9-Ball Open. Though the 64-entrant field featured a number of Canadians and a strong contingent of American competitors, it was won by Spain’s Jonas Souto, who went undefeated through three opponents in a double-elimination Stage 1 of the event and four more in the 16-entrant single-elimination Stage 2 to claim the event title. The event drew its 64 competitors to OX Billiards in Seattle.
Team USA’s captain in the 2024 Mosconi Cup, Sky Woodard also went undefeated through Stage 1 and won three of his four matches in Stage 2. He and Souto met in the finals and played a race-to-13 double-hill match to end it.