Jeff De Luna and Roberto Gomez posted hard-fought victories to arrange a quarterfinal showdown in the 2025 Las Vegas 10-Ball Open at the Rio All Suite Hotel and Casino in Nevada.

De Luna, a silver medalist in the 2006 Doha Asian Games, walloped Radoslaw Babica of Poland after a gruelling three-hour, 46-minute duel, 4-1, 4-2, 4-3, while Gomez survived Dimitris Loukatos of Greece in a marathon four-hour match, 2-4, 4-1, 4-1, 4-3.

The win kept their respective title campaigns alive as the only two Filipinos standing in this $125,000 tournament. But only one of them can inch closer to the crown.

Other quarterfinalists pit Greece’s Alex Kazakis and Poland’s Wojciech Szewczyk, Germany’s Joshua Filler against Netherlands’ Marco Teutscher, and Germany’s Stefan Kasper over Estonia’s Denis Grabe.

Meanwhile, women’s action fires off Wednesday, Feb. 26 (Philippine time) with Chezka Centeno defending her title and Rubilen Amit seeking her shot at the crown.

Centeno, the 2023 world women’s 10-ball champion, opens her campaign against Nicolle Cuellar of the United States, while Amit, a two-time world 10-ball winner, also faces an American in Ada Lio.

Last year, Centeno prevailed over former world champion Chen Siming for the crown.