Player: Joshua Filler
Event: UK Open
Location: Telford, UK
Date: May 29, 2026



All too often in modern sports media, the G.O.A.T. debate sucks up more oxygen than deserved. Not every discussion needs to forced into defining “the greatest” when it's much more enjoyable to just enjoy greatness.

Nobody can argue Joshua Filler is on the shortlist of greatest players of this era — and at May's U.K. Open, the German star caught a gear that left no doubt spectators were seeing 9-ball played at a level rarely seen.

Quiet and unassuming away from the table, Filler has more than earned his “Killer” nickname when he's in competition. When he's on, opponents feel defeat is inevitable.

His march to the U.K. Open crown was highlighted by a closing run that followed up 11-2 pasting of Jayson Shaw in the semifinal with a 13-1 pounding of Wojciech Szewczyk for the title. But the shot of his event came in the round of 32 against Gary Wilson (which ended 10-1 for Filler).

In the second rack, Filler faced the table shown in the diagram — the cue ball was down-table near the 9 with a clean angle on the 7. A fairly straightforward situation, he opted to play an outrageous two-way shot.

This plan included a two-rail bank on the 7 toward the right side pocket. If that didn't go, though, Filler also played a four-rail carom for the cue ball to head back down by the 9 ball, only this time it would hide behind that blocker, with the 7 returning near its starting position.

Think of the control of both cue ball and object ball to play this shot, covering that much distance, including that many angles, to a near perfect safety with the 9 ball fully blocking an angle at the 7. That's how easy Filler can make it look when he's locked in.

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