One of 8-ball pool’s rising stars, Dom Cooney has already disrupted the sport’s hierarchy during the inaugural Ultimate Pool Professional Series where he won Event 8.
In front of the live television cameras, Cooney secured the biggest accolade of his career to date, memorably eliminating two world champions back-to-back during the same session to lift the trophy.
Having defeated Rob Chilton 6-5 and Jimmy Croxton 6-1 in the previous rounds, Cooney denied Chris Melling 6-3 in the semi-finals and then reigning world blackball champion Scott Gillespie 10-7 in the final. Outside of the provisional top 16 rankings before the tournament, this triumph catapulted Cooney into the top eight on the end-of-year list.
That victory iced a very pleasing year for the Cambridgeshire cueist; a few months before he won the third Jason Owen Open event of the year on the World Rules Pool Tour and prior to that made the semi-finals of Pro Series Event 2.
