| Country | Serbia |
| Hometown | Smederevo |
| Age | 26 |
| Height | 6ft |
| Highest Rank | 39 |
| Majors Won | 0 |
| Invitationals Won | 0 |
| Ranking Events Won | 2 |
| Prize Money | $89,300 |
Aleksa Pecelj is a Serbian nineball player from Smederevo whose record includes WNT ranking titles and two US Open semi-final appearances. His 2023 season brought victory at the Longoni Visoko Open, a last-16 finish at the World Pool Championship and a breakthrough run to the US Open’s final four.
Three years later, Pecelj produced another significant sequence of results during the Tour’s American swing. He finished runner-up to Denis Grabe at the inaugural Arizona Open in August 2026, then won the Phoenix Open before reaching a second US Open semi-final.
The Phoenix victory added another ranking trophy to his earlier success in Visoko, while the Arizona final marked a further step in his major-event record. Across those three August tournaments, Pecelj reached a final, won a title and advanced to the last four of one of nineball’s longest-established championships, strengthening his position as Serbia’s leading international player.
Selected honours and results
WNT Ranking titles: Longoni Visoko Open — 2023; Phoenix Open — 2026.
Major runner-up: Arizona Open — 2026.
Major semi-finalist: US Open — 2023, 2026.
Selected result: World Pool Championship last 16 — 2023.
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The World Pool Masters is one of nineball’s longest-running invitational tournaments. First staged in Plymouth, England in 1993, it has been won by players including Francisco Bustamante, Shane Van Boening and Joshua Filler, giving each new field a place to pursue among the sport’s established champions.
The event’s recent editions have used a straight-knockout format, placing immediate pressure on a select field: one defeat ends a player’s challenge. The 2027 tournament brings together 20 players at Songshan Cultural and Creative Park in Taipei City from 12–14 January, following the Chinese Taipei Open at the same venue.
For the first time, the Masters will feature a two-table arena, with matches from both tables available live on WNT TV. The move to Chinese Taipei opens a new chapter for a competition with more than three decades of history.
