SINGAPORE - The Republic's top pool player Aloysius Yapp must wait longer for his first senior major title after he lost 13-8 to Carlo Biado in the final of the US Open 9-Ball Championship in Atlantic City on Saturday (Sept 18).

Yapp, 25, had led 8-3 but missed a shot on the 9-ball in the 12th rack which allowed Biado back to the table. The Filipino proved to be in fine fettle and won 10 racks in a row in the race-to-13, winner-break format of the final.

Biado, the 2017 World 9-Ball champion, becomes only the second Filipino to win the prestigious US Open title, after Efren Reyes in 1994.