Jakobsen Battles Back in Final to Regain Danish National Snooker Championship Title

William Bjerregaard Jakobsen recovered from three down with four to play in the final to oust Jakob Lund Andersen 5-4 and win the 2025 Danish National Snooker Championship.

It is the second time that 23-year-old Jakobsen has claimed Denmark’s top domestic snooker honour having initially won it as a teenager in 2021.

A competition first held in 1990, this year’s Championship – organised by the Danish Billiard Union – took place across four days at the Aarhus Snooker and Pool venue.

Runner-up twelve months earlier, Jakobsen didn’t drop a single frame en route to his third final appearance, defeating Martin Oszust 4-0 in his opening match before eliminating multiple-time former champion Daniel Kandi 4-0 in the last 16. In the previous round, Kandi registered a run of 101, which stood as the tournament’s highest break.

Jakobsen then saw off Asif Iqbal and Bo Jarlstrom in the quarter and semi-finals respectively, both 4-0. Elsewhere in that half of the draw, 2024 champion Christopher Vejlager’s title defence came to a close in the last 16 when he was defeated 4-3 by Thomas Bogeskov.

Having focused more on playing pool in recent times, Andersen returned to bigger table action, but first had to navigate the qualifying phase to reach the last 32. In the main draw, Andersen got the better of Robin Tønnessen (4-1), Gilbert Albersten (4-1), Per Micki Christensen (4-0) and then Martin Søndergaard (4-2) in the last four to reach the final for the second time.

The title decider was a rematch of the final from 2021 that Jakobsen shaded 4-3. Their latest encounter would also go all the way.

Andersen took control of the final early on as he established a 3-0 lead, but Jakobsen crucially won the frame before the mid-session interval to get on the board and keep in touch.

On resumption, Andersen deposited frame five to go 4-1 up and one away from glory, but Jakobsen dug deep, battling back to trail by just one at 4-3 down, before winning a tense eighth frame on the colours to force a decider.

Jakobsen commanded the ninth and final frame, getting to the stage of his opponent requiring penalty points. However, there was more drama to come, as Andersen successfully laid the snooker he needed, on the final red, which Jakobsen failed to escape from.

With the tie back in the balance, Jakobsen later steadied himself to brilliantly pot the final red from distance, and after a short, subsequent passage of play, Andersen graciously offered his hand in concession.

A few weeks later, in Odense, Jakobsen celebrated a double as he defeated Søndergaard 5-1 in the final to also win the Danish national 6-red snooker title.

Article by Michael Day.