player profile

Eddy Merckx

Belgium

04/09/1968

Achievements

  • 2x World Champion (2006, 2012).
  • 4x world champion in “Viersen”.
  • 1x European champion.
  • 10x Belgian champion.
  • Winner of 10 World Cups.
  • Winner of 35 Belgian ranking events.
  • 2x winner of the Verhoeven Open in New York.
  • World record holder to 50 points (6 innings).

Career

Very few people were named after a legend, and then BECAME one. Eddy Merckx has been one of the most feared competitors in 3-cushion billiards since the nineties, an iron-willed player with a stroke that is the stuff of legends.