Fedor Gorst
Born | Moscow, Russia | 31 May 2000
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Sport country | United States |
Nickname | “The Ghost” |
Pool games | Nine-ball, ten-ball, eight-ball, one pocket, banks |
Tournament wins | |
World Champion | Nine-ball (2019) |
WEBSITE [1] |
Fedor Alekseyevich Gorst (Russian: Фёдор Алексеевич Горст; born May 31, 2000, in Moscow) is a Russian-born American professional pool player.
Career[edit]
In December 2018, Gorst reached 8th in the World Pool-Billiard Association (WPA) world rankings. Gorst won the U19 8-Ball European Pool Championship in 2017,[1] before winning the 2018 Treviso Open on the Euro Tour.[2] Gorst is also a Junior 9-ball world champion, winning the 2017 WPA World Nine-ball Junior Championship in the boys (Under 19) event.[3]
Gorst won the 2019 WPA World Nine-ball Championship, defeating Chang Jung-lin in the final 13–11.[4]
In 2023, Gorst made it to the final of the U.S. Open Nine-ball Championship, but he was defeated 13–6 by Chinese Taipei's Ko Ping Chung.[5]
In 2024, Gorst won his first major Matchroom title, defeating Joshua Filler in a nail-biting 13–12 hill-hill final at the World Pool Masters in Hildesheim, Germany.[6]
Gorst said: "It feels unbelievable! Both of us had crazy rolls in this match. I thought it was over for me but somehow it turned around for me," "Hats off to Matchroom, this is an unbelievable tournament to win."
Titles and achievements[edit]
- 2024 Rally in Shenandoah Valley Nine-ball Open
- 2024 World Pool Masters
- 2024 Bayou State Classic One ball One Pocket
- 2024 Derby City Classic One Pocket
- 2024 Mini Derb Open One Pocket
- 2024 Turning Stone Classic Nine-ball
- 2023 Peri Nine-ball Open
- 2023 Turning Stone Classic Nine-ball
- 2023 CSI U.S. Open 8-Ball Championship
- 2023 CSI U.S. Open 10-Ball Championship
- 2023 Skinny Bob's One Pocket Classic
- 2023 Skinny Bob's Nine-ball Classic
- 2023 Derby City Classic Master of the Table
- 2023 Derby City Classic Nine-ball
- 2023 Derby City Classic Bank Pool
- 2023 Mini Derb Open Ten-ball
- 2023 Mini Derb Open Nine-ball
- 2023 Mini Derb Open One Pocket
- 2022 Pro Billiard Series Ohio Open
- 2022 River City Open Ten-ball Championship
- 2022 Brendan Crockett Memorial
- 2022 Racks on the Rocks One Pocket
- 2022 Racks on the Rocks Ten-ball
- 2022 International Open Bigfoot Ten-ball Challenge
- 2022 Pro Billiard Series Arizona Open[7]
- 2022 CSI U.S. Open 10-Ball Championship
- 2022 Hannah Choi Memorial Ten-ball
- 2022 Midwest Bar Table Classic
- 2022 Midwest Open Ten-ball Championship
- 2022 Midwest Ten-ball Invitational
- 2022 Derby City Classic Master of the Table
- 2022 Derby City Classic Bank Pool
- 2022 Derby City Classic One Pocket
- 2021 Pro Billiard Series Arizona Open
- 2021 Rack N Grill Nine-ball Shootout
- 2021 Midwest Ten-ball Invitational
- 2021 Russian Pool Championship Ten-ball
- 2021 Russian Pool Championship Eight-ball
- 2021 European Pool Championship 14.1
- 2020 Mosconi Cup
- 2020 Russian Pool Championship Ten-ball
- 2020 Russian Pool Championship Nine-ball
- 2020 Russian Pool Championship Eight-ball
- 2020 Athens Nine-ball Open
- 2019 WPA World Nine-ball Championship
- 2019 Russian Pool Championship Ten-ball
- 2019 Russian Pool Championship Nine-ball
- 2019 Mezz Bucharest Open
- 2019 European Pool Championship Nine-ball
- 2018 Russian Pool Championship Ten-ball
- 2018 Euro Tour Treviso Open
- 2017 Russian Pool Championship 14.1
- 2017 WPA World Nine-ball Junior championship
References[edit]
- ^ "New European 8-Ball Champions are Tkach, Gorst and Pehlivanovic". azbilliards.com. 8 August 2017. Retrieved 31 December 2018.
- ^ "Fedor Gorst goes all the way". azbilliards.com. 17 November 2018. Retrieved 31 December 2018.
Dynamic Billard Treviso Open 2018
- ^ "Triple gold for team Europe". azbilliards.com. 3 November 2017. Retrieved 5 February 2019.
- ^ "Knockout". esnooker.pl. Retrieved 17 December 2019.
- ^ Pool, Matchroom (2023-10-01). "KO PING CHUNG WINS THE 46TH US OPEN POOL CHAMPIONSHIP". Matchroom Pool. Retrieved 2024-02-19.
- ^ Pool, Matchroom (2024-04-28). "FEDOR GORST WINS 2024 WORLD POOL MASTERS". Matchroom Pool. Retrieved 2024-05-08.
- ^ "9741 - Arizona Open 2022".
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