WPA 9 Ball World Championship

The WPA-9-Ball World Championship (officially: WPA World 9-Ball Championship ) is a pool tournament in the 9-ball discipline that has been held annually since 1990 and is hosted by the World Pool Billiard Association .

history

In the years 2000 to 2005 the world championship was organized in cooperation with Matchroom Sport , which previously organized a similar tournament with the World Professional Pool Championship in 1999. From 2006, the Filipino promoter Raya Sports received the hosting rights. In 2008, however, Raya Sports decided to return the rights to Matchroom Sport and instead host a 10-ball World Cup for the first time .

The fact that there was no 9-ball World Cup in 2008 for the first time since 1990 was due to the fact that Matchroom Sport was unable to win sponsors due to the financial crisis and the newly formed 10-Ball World Cup. It was also not clear for a long time whether the 2009 World Cup could be held again; ultimately she was suspended again. A new edition took place in 2010; this time in the Qatari capital Doha , which secured the hosting rights until 2014. The hosting rights have been extended several times, most recently as part of the 2017 World Cup , so that Doha will be the venue until 2021.

In the current mode, there is a total prize money of 200,000 US dollars to win, of which $ 40,000 will go to the winner. The final is played in best-of-25 mode, i.e. on 13 games won.

The record winner is the American Earl Strickland , who has won the World Cup three times so far. Thorsten Hohmann is the most successful German with two wins .

A women's world championship is also held annually. The record winner is Allison Fisher from England, who won the tournament in 1996, 1997, 1998 and 2001. There is also a youth world championship for women and men and a world championship for the disabled.

The tournaments at a glance

year	venue	World Champion	Result	finalist	Semi-finalists
1990	Bergheim	Earl Strickland		Jeff Carter	Kim Davenport
					Nick Varner
1991	Las Vegas	Earl Strickland	9: 7	Nick Varner	Johnny Archer
					Takashi Toda
1992	Taipei	Johnny Archer		Robert Hunter	Kim Davenport
					Efren Reyes
1993	Koenigswinter	Chao Fong-Pang		Thomas Hash	Herbert Friedemann
					Ralf Souquet
1994	Chicago	Takeshi Okumura		Itsuzaki Yasunari	Tom Storm
					Mike Zuglan
1995	Taipei	Oliver Ortmann		Dallas West	Craig Duffy
					Lee Kun-fang
1996	Bor length	Ralf Souquet	11: 1	Tom Storm	Rolf Alex
					Craig Duffy
1997	Chicago	Johnny Archer		Lee Kun-fang	Reed Pierce
					Ralf Souquet
1998	Taipei	Kunihiko Takahashi		Johnny Archer	Akikumo Toshikawa
					Jon Kucharo
1999	Alicante	Nick Varner	13: 8	Jeremy Jones	Dieter Johns
					Vegar Kristiansen
2000	Cardiff	Chao Fong-Pang	17: 6	Ismael Páez	Corey Deuel
					Earl Strickland
2001		Mika Immonen	17:10	Ralf Souquet	Alain Martel
					Lai Chia-hsiung
2002		Earl Strickland	17:15	Francisco Bustamante	Takeshi Okumura
					Yang Ching-shun
2003		Thorsten Hohmann	17:10	Alex Pagulayan	Earl Strickland
					Tony Drago
2004	Taipei	Alex Pagulayan	17:13	Chang Pei-Wei	Kuo Po-Cheng
					Marcus Chamat
2005	Kaohsiung	Wu Chia-ching	17:16	Kuo Po-Cheng	Marlon Manalo
					Rodney Morris
2006	Pasay	Ronato Alcano	17:11	Ralf Souquet	Li Hewen
					Fu Che-wei
2007	Quezon City	Daryl Peach	17:15	Roberto Gomez	Vilmos Földes
					Karl Boyes
2010	Doha	Francisco Bustamante	13: 7	Kuo Po-Cheng	Antonio Lining
					Johnny Archer
2011		Yukio Akakariyama	13:11	Ronato Alcano	Mark Gray
					Dennis Orcollo
2012		Darren Appleton	13:12	Li Hewen	Naoyuki Ōi
					Ralf Souquet
2013		Thorsten Hohmann	13: 6	Antonio Gabica	Carlo Biado
					Karl Boyes
2014		Niels Feijen	13:10	Albin Ouschan	Elmer Haya
					Chang Yu-Lung
2015		Ko Pin-yi	13:11	Shane van Boening	Wu Jiaqing
					Ko Ping-chung
2016		Albin Ouschan	13: 6	Shane van Boening	Alex Pagulayan
					Cheng Yu-hsuan
2017		Carlo Biado	13: 5	Roland Garcia	Wu Kun-lin
					Eklent Kaçi
2018		Joshua Filler	13:10	Carlo Biado	Alexander Kazakis
					Shane van Boening
2019		Fyodor Gorst	13:11	Chang Jung-Lin	Ko Ping-chung
					Liu Haitao
2020
2021

Ranking list

space	player
1	Earl Strickland	3	0	2
2	Johnny Archer	2	1	2
3	Chao Fong-Pang	2	0	0
	Thorsten Hohmann	2	0	0
5	Ralf Souquet	1	2	3
6th	Alex Pagulayan	1	1	1
	Nick Varner	1	1	1
	Carlo Biado	1	1	1
9	Ronato Alcano	1	1	0
	Francisco Bustamante	1	1	0
	Albin Ouschan	1	1	0
12	Takeshi Okumura	1	0	1
	Wu Jiaqing 1st	1	0	1
14th	Oliver Ortmann	1	0	0
	Kunihiko Takahashi	1	0	0
	Mika Immonen	1	0	0
	Daryl Peach	1	0	0
	Yukio Akakariyama	1	0	0
	Darren Appleton	1	0	0
	Niels Feijen	1	0	0
	Ko Pin-yi	1	0	0
	Joshua Filler	1	0	0
	Fyodor Gorst	1	0	0

¹Wu Jiaqing competed for Taiwan under his maiden name Wu Chia-ching until 2011 .

Web links

• World 9-Ball Championship on azbilliards.com

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