WPA 9 Ball World Championship 2015
9-Ball World Championship 2015 WPA World 9-Ball Championship 2015 |
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venue |
al-Arabi Sports Club , Doha , Qatar |
opening | September 7, 2015 |
Endgame | 18th September 2015 |
discipline | 9-ball |
winner | Ko Pin-yi |
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The WPA 9-Ball World Championship 2015 (officially: WPA World 9-Ball Championship 2015 ) was the 24th edition of the World Championship in the pool 9-ball discipline hosted by the WPA . It took place from 7 to 18 September 2015 at the al-Arabi Sports Club in the Qatari capital Doha .
The Taiwanese Ko Pin-yi became world champion with a 13:11 win over the American Shane van Boening . Kos's brother Ko Ping-chung and the Chinese Wu Jiaqing also reached the semi-finals .
The defending champion was Niels Feijen from the Netherlands, who was eliminated in the preliminary round after losing to Alexander Kazakis and Ryu Seung-woo . Ralf Souquet reached the round of the last 64 as the best German. The best Austrian was Albin Ouschan , who was eliminated in the round of 32 against Wu Jiaqing.
mode
A qualification tournament took place from September 7th to 10th, in which 128 participants played twelve starting places in three knockout competitions . The remaining 116 starting places were previously allocated via the world rankings or according to a quota from the continental federations, the Qatari federation and as wildcard places from the WPA. The 128 players qualified for the main tournament were initially divided into 16 groups in which they competed against each other from September 12th to 15th in the double knockout system . Four players from each group qualified for the final round, which took place from September 16 to 18 and was played in a knockout system. The game was played with an alternating break. The goal was seven games in the qualification, nine games in the preliminary round as well as eleven games in the final round and 13 games in the final.
Prize money
Prize money | |
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winner | US $ 30,000 |
finalist | US $ 15,000 |
Semi-finalist | US $ 7,500 |
Quarter finalist | US $ 5,000 |
Round of 16 | US $ 3,000 |
Last 32 | US $ 2,000 |
Last 64 | US $ 1,500 |
65–96. space | US $ 500 |
total | US $ 200,000 |
Tournament course
Preliminary round
Aloysius Yapp from Singapore provided the first major surprise of the tournament . In the first round, the reigning junior world champion defeated world number two and former 9-ball world champion Darren Appleton in a high-class game with 9: 5. After a loss to Mark Gray , Yapp qualified for the second time for the final round of a 9-ball World Cup by beating Kuwaiti Omar al-Shaheen . Appleton meanwhile won both games of the losers' round, making it into the round of 64.
Defending champion Niels Feijen from the Netherlands lost 8: 9 to the reigning 10-ball European champion Alexander Kazakis after his opening win and then met the South Korean Ryu Seung-woo in the losing round . After Feijen had meanwhile led 5: 1 and 8: 5, Ryu won the game 9: 8 and qualified for the fourth time in a row for the final round of a 9-ball World Cup. For the first time since 2010 , the defending champion was eliminated in the preliminary round.
In addition to Appleton and Feijen, eight other former 9-ball world champions took part. While Yukio Akakariyama , Mika Immonen and Wu Jiaqing reached the final round directly via the winning round, Chao Fong-Pang and Ralf Souquet each lost their second match and only got into the knockout phase via the loser's round. Oliver Ortmann , Thorsten Hohmann and Daryl Peach were eliminated in the preliminary round. Ortmann lost to Immonen in the winning round and Denis Grabe in the losing round . After his first round victory, Hohmann surprisingly lost against Venezuelan Jalal Yousef and then retired against reigning 9-ball European champion Francisco Díaz-Pizarro . Peach lost after his opening win against Mike Dechaine and Mishel Turkey , who was the only one of the eight participating Qataris to reach the round of 64 after the elimination of Waleed Majid and Bashar Hussain .
Abdul Rahman al-Amar caused another surprise. In his second World Cup participation, he defeated Hichem Benaissa and world number twelfth Johann Chua , making him the second Saudi Arabian to reach the final of a 9-ball World Cup. The reigning 10-ball world champion Ko Pin-yi , his brother Ko Ping-chung and 10-ball runner-up Carlo Biado , last year's semi-finalist Chang Yu-Lung , and World Pool Masters winner Shane van Boening also reached and the 8-ball world champion from 2011 Dennis Orcollo the final round to the winning round, while the 8-ball world champions Karl Boyes and Chang Jung-Lin were eliminated in the preliminary round.
The world number one Albin Ouschan from Austria was defeated by the Japanese Satoshi Kawabata 8: 9 after his opening win and thus missed the direct qualification for the final round. In the losing round he defeated the Indonesian Irsal Nasution 9: 8 and thus only narrowly escaped the preliminary round. Mario He reached after his first round defeat to John Morra the round of 64 over the losers round.
With Niels Feijen, Albin Ouschan, Ralf Souquet as well as David Alcaide , Nick van den Berg and Roman Hybler , six Bundesliga players took part in the World Cup, of which Alcaide, Ouschan and Souquet reached the final round. After Oliver Ortmann's elimination in the preliminary round, the Dutchman Marco Teutscher was the only player in the 2nd Bundesliga to reach the round of 64.
Final round
The German Ralf Souquet was defeated in the round of the last 64 to the Englishman Mark Gray with 10:11, after he had meanwhile led with 9: 7. Gray lost in the round of sixteen against John Morra . In addition, eliminated the Austrian Mario Hey , Ryu Seung-woo , the two-time 9-Ball champion Chao Fong-pang , Abdul Rahman al-Amar , Johann Chua , Marco Teutscher , the Qatari Mishel Turkey and living in Qatar Filipino Antonio Gabica in the round of 64 out.
In the round of 32 there was a new edition of the 10-ball World Cup final from February 2015. Carlo Biado , who had defeated the 10-ball vice world champion from 2009, Lee Van Corteza in the previous round , lost with 4: 11 against Ko Pin-yi . Ko then defeated Warren Kiamco and John Morra, reaching a World Cup semi-finals for the second time in his career.
The Chinese Wu Jiaqing won in the sixteenth finals with 11: 6 against the world number leader Albin Ouschan from Austria and then reached the semifinals after victories against his compatriot Wang Can and Aloysius Yapp . Yapp had won in the round of 16 with 11:10 against the 10-ball European champion Alexander Kazakis .
Ko Ping-chung , who had defeated Mario He in the round of 64, won 11: 9 in the round of sixteen against former world champion Yukio Akakariyama and after a narrow knockout 16 win against Mike Dechaine with a 11: 5 win in the quarter-finals against Wojciech Szewczyk made it to the semi-finals. In the round of 16, Szewczyk defeated the last player in the German Bundesliga with Spaniard David Alcaide with 11:10.
The fourth semi-finalist was Shane van Boening from the USA. After 11: 5 wins against 9-ball European champion Francisco Díaz-Pizarro and last year's third Chang Yu-Lung , he won the quarterfinals against Dennis Orcollo 11: 1 and reached the semi-finals of a world championship for the first time in his career. Since Johnny Archer in 2010 , he was also the first American to finish in the last four at a World Cup.
In the semifinals, Shane van Boening won a one-sided game 11-1 against Ko Ping-chung. In the other semi-final Ko Pin-yi managed to turn a 4-6 deficit against Wu Jiaqing and win 11:10. The final between van Boening and Ko Pin-yi turned out to be very even. After it was 8: 8 and 10:10 in the meantime, Ko won the game with 13:11 and became world champion for the second time.
Preliminary round
Group 1
2nd losing round | 1st losing round | Main round | Winning round | |||||||||||
Albin Ouschan | 9 | |||||||||||||
Khaled Farag | 5 | |||||||||||||
Khaled Farag | 5 | Albin Ouschan | 8th | |||||||||||
Hunter Lombardo | 9 | Hunter Lombardo | 9 | Satoshi Kawabata | 9 | |||||||||
Bashar Hussain | 8th | Satoshi Kawabata | 9 | |||||||||||
Hunter Lombardo | 6th | |||||||||||||
Losers round | Winning round | |||||||||||||
Bashar Hussain | 9 | |||||||||||||
Irsal Nasution | 8th | Irsal Nasution | 5 | |||||||||||
Albin Ouschan | 9 | Irsal Nasution | 9 | Bashar Hussain | 4th | |||||||||
Konstantin Stepanov | 5 | Wu Kun-lin | 9 | |||||||||||
Konstantin Stepanov | 7th | |||||||||||||
Wu Kun-lin | 9 |
Group 2
2nd losing round | 1st losing round | Main round | Winning round | |||||||||||
Wang Can | 9 | |||||||||||||
Tōru Kuribayashi | 6th | |||||||||||||
Tōru Kuribayashi | 9 | Wang Can | 9 | |||||||||||
Tōru Kuribayashi | 9 | Mohd Al Bin Ali | 8th | Marc Bijsterbosch | 4th | |||||||||
Radoslaw Babica | 8th | Marc Bijsterbosch | 9 | |||||||||||
Mohd Al Bin Ali | 4th | |||||||||||||
Losers round | Winning round | |||||||||||||
Radoslaw Babica | 9 | |||||||||||||
Abdullah al-Yousef | 8th | Abdullah al-Yousef | 3 | |||||||||||
Marc Bijsterbosch | 9 | Abdullah al-Yousef | 9 | Radoslaw Babica | 8th | |||||||||
Bader al-Awadhi | 6th | Rubén Bautista | 9 | |||||||||||
Rubén Bautista | 9 | |||||||||||||
Bader al-Awadhi | 7th |
Group 3
2nd losing round | 1st losing round | Main round | Winning round | |||||||||||
Li Hewen | 9 | |||||||||||||
Roman Hybler | 8th | |||||||||||||
Roman Hybler | 7th | Li Hewen | 9 | |||||||||||
Mehdi Rasekhi | 5 | Mehdi Rasekhi | 9 | Justin Campbell | 2 | |||||||||
Yang Ching-shun | 9 | Justin Campbell | 9 | |||||||||||
Mehdi Rasekhi | 2 | |||||||||||||
Losers round | Winning round | |||||||||||||
Waleed Majid | 6th | |||||||||||||
Waleed Majid | 5 | Yang Ching-shun | 9 | |||||||||||
Justin Campbell | 9 | Waleed Majid | 9 | Yang Ching-shun | 6th | |||||||||
Francisco Sánchez | 5 | Yukio Akakariyama | 9 | |||||||||||
Francisco Sánchez | 8th | |||||||||||||
Yukio Akakariyama | 9 |
Group 4
2nd losing round | 1st losing round | Main round | Winning round | |||||||||||
Raymund Faraon | 9 | |||||||||||||
Francois Ellis | 3 | |||||||||||||
Francois Ellis | 3 | Raymund Faraon | 9 | |||||||||||
Mohammad Saeed | 5 | Mohammad Saeed | 9 | Pordel Mohammadali | 4th | |||||||||
Zhou Long | 9 | Pordel Mohammadali | 9 | |||||||||||
Mohammad Saeed | 6th | |||||||||||||
Losers round | Winning round | |||||||||||||
Nikos Ekonomopoulos | 9 | |||||||||||||
Marco Teutscher | 9 | Mohamed Shareef | 1 | |||||||||||
Pordel Mohammadali | 3 | Mohamed Shareef | 0 | Nikos Ekonomopoulos | 9 | |||||||||
Marco Teutscher | 9 | Zhou Long | 6th | |||||||||||
Marco Teutscher | 7th | |||||||||||||
Zhou Long | 9 |
Group 5
2nd losing round | 1st losing round | Main round | Winning round | |||||||||||
Warren Kiamco | 9 | |||||||||||||
Vegar Kristiansen | 2 | |||||||||||||
Vegar Kristiansen | 9 | Warren Kiamco | 5 | |||||||||||
Vegar Kristiansen | 6th | Jeong Young-hwa | 7th | Wojciech Szewczyk | 9 | |||||||||
Oliver Medenilla | 9 | Jeong Young-hwa | 2 | |||||||||||
Wojciech Szewczyk | 9 | |||||||||||||
Losers round | Winning round | |||||||||||||
Wu Jiaqing | 9 | |||||||||||||
Shannon Ducharme | 6th | Shannon Ducharme | 5 | |||||||||||
Warren Kiamco | 9 | Shannon Ducharme | 9 | Wu Jiaqing | 9 | |||||||||
Mohanna Obaidly | 8th | Oliver Medenilla | 2 | |||||||||||
Mohanna Obaidly | 2 | |||||||||||||
Oliver Medenilla | 9 |
Group 6
2nd losing round | 1st losing round | Main round | Winning round | |||||||||||
Chang Jung-Lin | 8th | |||||||||||||
Ralf Souquet | 9 | |||||||||||||
Chang Jung-Lin | 9 | Ralf Souquet | 1 | |||||||||||
Chang Jung-Lin | 6th | Mohammad Sharif | 4th | Mateusz Śniegocki | 9 | |||||||||
Johann Chua | 9 | Mateusz Śniegocki | 9 | |||||||||||
Mohammad Sharif | 8th | |||||||||||||
Losers round | Winning round | |||||||||||||
Johann Chua | 9 | |||||||||||||
Ali Obaidly | 5 | Ali Obaidly | 7th | |||||||||||
Ralf Souquet | 9 | Ali Obaidly | 9 | Johann Chua | 7th | |||||||||
Hichem Benaissa | 3 | Abdul Rahman al-Amar | 9 | |||||||||||
Hichem Benaissa | 3 | |||||||||||||
Abdul Rahman al-Amar | 9 |
Group 7
2nd losing round | 1st losing round | Main round | Winning round | |||||||||||
Nick van den Berg | 5 | |||||||||||||
Naoyuki Ōi | 9 | |||||||||||||
Nick van den Berg | 9 | Naoyuki Ōi | 9 | |||||||||||
Nick van den Berg | 4th | Abdultif Fawal | 3 | Tom Teriault | 2 | |||||||||
Ruslan Tschinachow | 9 | Tom Teriault | 9 | |||||||||||
Abdultif Fawal | 7th | |||||||||||||
Losers round | Winning round | |||||||||||||
Lee Van Corteza | 6th | |||||||||||||
Lee Van Corteza | 9 | Ruslan Tschinachow | 9 | |||||||||||
Tom Teriault | 2 | Lee Van Corteza | 9 | Ruslan Tschinachow | 4th | |||||||||
Mohamed al-Hosani | 7th | Liu Cheng-chieh | 9 | |||||||||||
Mohamed al-Hosani | 8th | |||||||||||||
Liu Cheng-chieh | 9 |
Group 8
2nd losing round | 1st losing round | Main round | Winning round | |||||||||||
Daryl Peach | 9 | |||||||||||||
Muhammad Simanjuntak | 2 | |||||||||||||
M. Simanjuntak | 9 | Daryl Peach | 5 | |||||||||||
M. Simanjuntak | 9 | Alejandro Carvajal | 5 | Mike Dechaine | 9 | |||||||||
Daniele Corrieri | 7th | Mike Dechaine | 9 | |||||||||||
Alejandro Carvajal | 4th | |||||||||||||
Losers round | Winning round | |||||||||||||
Carlo Biado | 9 | |||||||||||||
Mishel Turkey | 9 | Fahad Khalaf | 6th | |||||||||||
Daryl Peach | 5 | Fahad Khalaf | 5 | Carlo Biado | 9 | |||||||||
Mishel Turkey | 9 | Daniele Corrieri | 5 | |||||||||||
Daniele Corrieri | 9 | |||||||||||||
Mishel Turkey | 6th |
Group 9
2nd losing round | 1st losing round | Main round | Winning round | |||||||||||
Ko Pin-yi | 9 | |||||||||||||
Denis grave | 4th | |||||||||||||
Denis grave | 9 | Ko Pin-yi | 9 | |||||||||||
Denis grave | 9 | Rajandran Nair | 4th | Matey Ullah | 6th | |||||||||
Oliver Ortmann | 7th | Rajandran Nair | 6th | |||||||||||
Matey Ullah | 9 | |||||||||||||
Losers round | Winning round | |||||||||||||
Mika Immonen | 9 | |||||||||||||
Zhu Xihe | 6th | Amir Rota | 4th | |||||||||||
Matey Ullah | 9 | Amir Rota | 8th | Mika Immonen | 9 | |||||||||
Zhu Xihe | 9 | Oliver Ortmann | 5 | |||||||||||
Oliver Ortmann | 9 | |||||||||||||
Zhu Xihe | 2 |
Group 10
2nd losing round | 1st losing round | Main round | Winning round | |||||||||||
Ko Ping-chung | 9 | |||||||||||||
Marcus Chamat | 5 | |||||||||||||
Marcus Chamat | 6th | Ko Ping-chung | 9 | |||||||||||
Cheng Yu-hsuan | 9 | Cheng Yu-hsuan | 9 | Christopher Tevez | 2 | |||||||||
Richard Jones | 6th | Christopher Tevez | 9 | |||||||||||
Cheng Yu-hsuan | 5 | |||||||||||||
Losers round | Winning round | |||||||||||||
Shane van Boening | 9 | |||||||||||||
Omran Salem | 9 | Omran Salem | 6th | |||||||||||
Christopher Tevez | 7th | Omran Salem | 9 | Shane van Boening | 9 | |||||||||
Hassan Shafraz | 8th | Richard Jones | 5 | |||||||||||
Hassan Shafraz | 1 | |||||||||||||
Richard Jones | 9 |
Group 11
2nd losing round | 1st losing round | Main round | Winning round | |||||||||||
John Morra | 9 | |||||||||||||
Mario Hey | 8th | |||||||||||||
Mario Hey | 9 | John Morra | 9 | |||||||||||
Mario Hey | 9 | Mazen Berjaoui | 6th | Toh Lian Han | 4th | |||||||||
Hesam Abdulaziz | 2 | Toh Lian Han | 9 | |||||||||||
Mazen Berjaoui | 6th | |||||||||||||
Losers round | Winning round | |||||||||||||
Chu Bingjie | 3 | |||||||||||||
Chu Bingjie | 8th | David Alcaide | 9 | |||||||||||
Toh Lian Han | 9 | Chu Bingjie | 9 | David Alcaide | 9 | |||||||||
Khalid Yousuf | 6th | Hesam Abdulaziz | 6th | |||||||||||
Hesam Abdulaziz | 9 | |||||||||||||
Khalid Yousuf | 8th |
Group 12
2nd losing round | 1st losing round | Main round | Winning round | |||||||||||
Dang Jinhu | 9 | |||||||||||||
Ryu Seung-woo | 5 | |||||||||||||
Ryu Seung-woo | 9 | Dang Jinhu | 9 | |||||||||||
Ryu Seung-woo | 9 | Hamzaa Saeed Ali | 2 | Tomasz Kapłan | 4th | |||||||||
Niels Feijen | 8th | Hamzaa Saeed Ali | 5 | |||||||||||
Tomasz Kapłan | 9 | |||||||||||||
Losers round | Winning round | |||||||||||||
Niels Feijen | 9 | |||||||||||||
Francisco Felicilda | 7th | Francisco Felicilda | 4th | |||||||||||
Tomasz Kapłan | 9 | Francisco Felicilda | 9 | Niels Feijen | 8th | |||||||||
Mohammad Berjaoui | 7th | Alexander Kazakis | 9 | |||||||||||
Alexander Kazakis | 9 | |||||||||||||
Mohammad Berjaoui | 1 |
Group 13
2nd losing round | 1st losing round | Main round | Winning round | |||||||||||
Dennis Orcollo | 9 | |||||||||||||
Francisco Díaz-Pizarro | 4th | |||||||||||||
Francisco Díaz-Pizarro | 9 | Dennis Orcollo | 9 | |||||||||||
Francisco Díaz-Pizarro | 9 | Fahad al-Hejeli | 3 | Hosain Sayeem | 6th | |||||||||
Thorsten Hohmann | 4th | Hosain Sayeem | 9 | |||||||||||
Fahad al-Hejeli | 7th | |||||||||||||
Losers round | Winning round | |||||||||||||
Thorsten Hohmann | 9 | |||||||||||||
Goh Chin Teck | 9 | Nizar Mosbah Tamimi | 3 | |||||||||||
Hosain Sayeem | 5 | Nizar Mosbah Tamimi | 5 | Thorsten Hohmann | 8th | |||||||||
Goh Chin Teck | 9 | Jalal Yousef | 9 | |||||||||||
Goh Chin Teck | 7th | |||||||||||||
Jalal Yousef | 9 |
Group 14
2nd losing round | 1st losing round | Main round | Winning round | |||||||||||
Karl Boyes | 5 | |||||||||||||
Lo Ho Sum | 9 | |||||||||||||
Karl Boyes | 9 | Lo Ho Sum | 6th | |||||||||||
Karl Boyes | 7th | Sameer al-Madhi | 2 | Imran Majid | 9 | |||||||||
Chao Fong-Pang | 9 | Imran Majid | 9 | |||||||||||
Sameer al-Madhi | 4th | |||||||||||||
Losers round | Winning round | |||||||||||||
Liu Haitao | 5 | |||||||||||||
Liu Haitao | 9 | Chao Fong-Pang | 9 | |||||||||||
Lo Ho Sum | 5 | Liu Haitao | 9 | Chao Fong-Pang | 8th | |||||||||
Meshal al-Murdhi | 2 | Karol Skowerski | 9 | |||||||||||
Karol Skowerski | 9 | |||||||||||||
Meshal al-Murdhi | 4th |
Group 15
2nd losing round | 1st losing round | Main round | Winning round | |||||||||||
Chang Yu-Lung | 9 | |||||||||||||
Sundeep Gulati | 4th | |||||||||||||
Sundeep Gulati | 8th | Chang Yu-Lung | 9 | |||||||||||
Petri Makkonen | 2 | Petri Makkonen | 9 | Matthew Edwards | 3 | |||||||||
Jason Klatt | 9 | Petri Makkonen | 8th | |||||||||||
Matthew Edwards | 9 | |||||||||||||
Losers round | Winning round | |||||||||||||
Jason Klatt | 9 | |||||||||||||
Andreas Gerwen | 9 | Ali Hussein Ali | 4th | |||||||||||
Matthew Edwards | 7th | Ali Hussein Ali | 4th | Jason Klatt | 6th | |||||||||
Andreas Gerwen | 9 | Jeffrey Ignacio | 9 | |||||||||||
Andreas Gerwen | 7th | |||||||||||||
Jeffrey Ignacio | 9 |
Group 16
2nd losing round | 1st losing round | Main round | Winning round | |||||||||||
Antonio Gabica | 9 | |||||||||||||
Omar al-Shaheen | 3 | |||||||||||||
Omar al-Shaheen | 9 | Antonio Gabica | 9 | |||||||||||
Omar al-Shaheen | 5 | Bader al-Hamdan | 4th | Sinha Fahim | 6th | |||||||||
Aloysius Yapp | 9 | Sinha Fahim | 9 | |||||||||||
Bader al-Hamdan | 3 | |||||||||||||
Losers round | Winning round | |||||||||||||
Darren Appleton | 5 | |||||||||||||
Darren Appleton | 9 | Aloysius Yapp | 9 | |||||||||||
Sinha Fahim | 2 | Darren Appleton | 9 | Aloysius Yapp | 7th | |||||||||
Mohamed Elmola | 3 | Mark Gray | 9 | |||||||||||
Mark Gray | 9 | |||||||||||||
Mohamed Elmola | 1 |
Final round
Web links
- WPA 9-Ball World Championship 2015 on the World Pool Billiard Association website
- 2015 World 9-Ball Championship on the Qatar Billiards & Snooker Federation website
- WPA World 9-Ball Championship 2015 on azbilliards.com
- 2015 WPA World 9 Ball Championship on sixpockets.de
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