Japan Open (9-Ball)

The Japan Open (also: All Japan Championship , All Japan Open Championship ) is an annual pool tournament in the 9-ball discipline . From 2012 to 2015 the men's tournament was played in the 10-ball discipline .

The Taiwanese Ko Pin-yi won the tournament three times (2011, 2013 and 2016 ). Akimi Kajitani from Japan won the women's tournament twice (2000 and 2013).

The tournaments at a glance

Men's

year	venue	winner	Result	finalist	Semi-finalists
2000	Tokyo	Satoshi Kawabata		Johnny Archer	Kunihiko Takahashi
					Akikumo Toshikawa
2001	Amagasaki	Corey Deuel		Mika Immonen
2005	not known	Efren Reyes		Rodolfo Luat	Hidenobu Takanami
					Masaaki Tanaka
2007		Wu Chia-Ching		Tōru Kuribayashi	Hayato Hijikata
					Ralf Souquet
2008	Amagasaki	Mika Immonen		Ronato Alcano	Antonio Gabica
					Naoyuki Ōi
2010		Thorsten Hohmann		Ko Ping-chung	Yukio Akakariyama
					Mika Immonen
2011		Ko Pin-yi		Wu Jiaqing	Chang Yu-Lung
					Hiroshi Takenaka
2012		Chang Jung-Lin		Yang Ching-shun	Johann Chua
					Fu Che-wei
2013		Ko Pin-yi	11:10	Chang Jung-Lin	Thorsten Hohmann
					Johann Chua
2014		Raymund Faraon	11: 8	Naoyuki Ōi	Li Hewen
					Chang Yu-Lung
2015		Johann Chua	11: 7	Ronato Alcano	Shane van Boening
					Han Haoxiang
2016		Ko Pin-yi	11: 3	Jeffrey de Luna	Thorsten Hohmann
					Cheng Yu-hsuan

Ladies

year	venue	Winner	Result	Finalist	Semi-finalists
2000	Tokyo	Akimi Kajitani		Kyoko Sone	Chung Young-sook
					Setsuko Kubota
2001	Amagasaki	Liu Shin-mei		Allison Fisher
2005	not known	Zhou Mengmeng		Miyuki Fuke
2007		Chang Shu-han		Akio Otani	Fu Xiaofang
					Yu Han
2008	Amagasaki	Pan Xiaoting		Chou Chieh-yu	Chang Shu-han
					Chihiro Kawahara
2010		Lin Hsiao-chi		Keiko Yukawa	Chihiro Kawahara
					Maki Kimura
2011		Chen Siming		Junko Mitsuoka	Chan Ya-ting
					Akimi Kajitani
2012		Chou Chieh-yu		Tan Ho-yun	Maki Kimura
					Li Jia
2013		Akimi Kajitani	9: 7	Chihiro Kawahara	Chou Chieh-yu
					Tsai Pei-jen
2014		Wu Zhi-ting	9: 3	Liu Shasha	Tsai Pei-jen
					Chihiro Kawahara
2015		Kim Ga-young	9: 2	Chihiro Kawahara	Maki Kimura
					Makiko Takagi
2016		Chen Ho-yun	9: 8	Chihiro Kawahara	Wei Tzu-chen
					Chen Siming

Japan Open

In addition to the All Japan Open , there was another tournament called the Japan Open . It was held at the New Pia Hall in Tokyo in 2009 and 2010 .

The winners of this tournament were the Filipinos Francisco Bustamante and Ramil Gallego in the men and the Taiwanese Tan Hsiang-ling and Chou Chieh-yu in the women. Chou Chieh-yu is the only player who could win both the Japan Open and the All Japan Open .

The prize money of the Japan Open was significantly lower than that of the All Japan Open. While the 2010 men's All Japan Open paid out over US $ 82,000 , of which the winner received around US $ 24,000, the winner of the 2010 Japan Open only received around US $ 17,000, with a total prize money of almost US $ 42,000. The women at the Japan Open 2010 distributed around 11,000 US dollars, of which the winner received around 4,400 dollars, while the 2010 All Japan Open women distributed over 21,000 US dollars, of which the winner received around 7,000 dollars.

Web links

• All Japan Open Championship on azbilliards.com

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1. ^ All Japan Open Championship - Event Results. In: azbilliards.com. Retrieved November 15, 2015 . 
2. ↑ Japan Open. In: azbilliards.com. Retrieved November 15, 2015 . 
3. ↑ Japan Open - Event Results. In: azbilliards.com. Retrieved November 15, 2015 . 
4. ^ Japan Open 2009 Men's Division. In: azbilliards.com. Retrieved November 15, 2015 . 
5. ^ Japan Open 2010 Men's Division. In: azbilliards.com. Retrieved November 15, 2015 . 
6. ↑ Japan Open 2009 Women's Division. In: azbilliards.com. Retrieved November 15, 2015 . 
7. ^ Japan Open 2010 Women's Division. In: azbilliards.com. Retrieved November 15, 2015 . 
8. ^ All Japan Open 2010 Men's Division. In: azbilliards.com. Retrieved November 15, 2015 . 
9. ^ All Japan Open 2010 Women's Division. In: azbilliards.com. Retrieved November 15, 2015 .