| Alias | The Killer |
| Country | Germany |
| Hometown | Bönen |
| Age | 29 |
| Height | 5ft 7in |
| Highest Rank | 8 |
| Majors Won | 5 |
| Invitationals Won | 7 |
| Ranking Events Won | 5 |
| Prize Money | $166,090 |
Joshua Filler is a German world champion whose nineball record includes the US Open, World Pool Masters and two UK Open titles. Known as “The Killer”, he won the World Pool Championship in 2018 and the US Open in 2019 before adding the Masters and inaugural UK Open in 2022.
His success has continued across the WNT calendar. Filler won the nineball division at the Derby City Classic in 2024 and 2025, and the Knight Shot Dubai Open in 2024. He then claimed the 2025 European Open in Sarajevo and won the UK Open again in 2026, with Naoyuki Oi and Wojciech Szewczyk respectively finishing runner-up.
Filler won the Mosconi Cup and its MVP award on his debut for Team Europe in 2017. He earned further MVP awards in 2022 and 2023 and was part of Europe’s winning side again in 2025, establishing a team record to complement his individual titles. His quarter-final appearance at the 2026 US Open added another deep major run to a season already highlighted by his second UK title.
Selected honours and results
Major titles: World Pool Championship — 2018; US Open — 2019; UK Open — 2022, 2026; European Open — 2025.
Invitational title: World Pool Masters — 2022.
WNT Ranking titles: Derby City Classic nineball — 2024, 2025; Knight Shot Dubai Open — 2024.
Team distinction: Multiple Mosconi Cup titles with Team Europe, including 2017 and 2025; MVP — 2017, 2022, 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.
