Filipino pool icons Efren “Bata” Reyes and Francisco “Django” Bustamante are joining fellow legends Earl Strickland and Ralf Souquet in the World Nineball Tour (WNT) Legends Showcase in Quezon City.
The Philippines is first and foremost a basketball-crazy country but there's no denying that billiard tables have also long been part of national sporting culture; spaces where Filipinos didn't just ...
The Reyes Cup and the Philippines Open will be staged again, with both events now part of the World Nineball Tour.
Billiards is one of my two lifetime sports; the other is poker, on which I may (or may not) do a column sometime. Today’s piece is on billiards, for two reasons, one being the recent Legends Cup held ...
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Bata Reyes not keen on retiring yet

AT 71, Efren “Bata” Reyes is not keen on retiring yet. Widely regarded as the greatest pool player of all time, Reyes said he will play billiards as long his body and mind allow him to. “I don’t know.
FOR someone who on Day One said he's only a shell of his old self, Earl "The Pearl" Strickland did himself quite a favor. The brash American claimed the WNT Legends title, besting Francisco "Django" ...
MANILA, Philippines — Efren “Bata” Reyes may have finished fourth and last in the WNT Legends. But there was no mistaking, even among his equally legendary peers, who the sport’s greatest of all time ...