WPA 9 Ball World Championship 2015

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9-Ball World Championship 2015
WPA World 9-Ball Championship 2015
Billiard Picto 2-white.svg
venue al-Arabi Sports Club ,
Doha , Qatar
opening September 7, 2015
Endgame 18th September 2015
discipline 9-ball
winner Chinese TaipeiChinese Taipei Ko Pin-yi
2014
 
2016

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
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
                             
     AustriaAustria Albin Ouschan 9  
   EgyptEgypt Khaled Farag 5  
   EgyptEgypt Khaled Farag 5        AustriaAustria Albin Ouschan 8th
 United StatesUnited States Hunter Lombardo 9      United StatesUnited States Hunter Lombardo 9      JapanJapan Satoshi Kawabata 9
 QatarQatar Bashar Hussain 8th      JapanJapan Satoshi Kawabata  9
   United StatesUnited States Hunter Lombardo 6th  
Losers round Winning round
   QatarQatar Bashar Hussain 9  
 IndonesiaIndonesia Irsal Nasution 8th        IndonesiaIndonesia Irsal Nasution 5  
 AustriaAustria Albin Ouschan 9      IndonesiaIndonesia Irsal Nasution 9        QatarQatar Bashar Hussain 4th
     RussiaRussia Konstantin Stepanov 5      Chinese TaipeiChinese Taipei Wu Kun-lin 9
   RussiaRussia Konstantin Stepanov 7th
   Chinese TaipeiChinese Taipei Wu Kun-lin 9  

Group 2

  2nd losing round 1st losing round Main round Winning round
                             
     China People's RepublicPeople's Republic of China Wang Can 9  
   JapanJapan Tōru Kuribayashi 6th  
   JapanJapan Tōru Kuribayashi 9        China People's RepublicPeople's Republic of China Wang Can 9
 JapanJapan Tōru Kuribayashi 9      QatarQatar Mohd Al Bin Ali 8th      NetherlandsNetherlands Marc Bijsterbosch 4th
 PolandPoland Radoslaw Babica 8th      NetherlandsNetherlands Marc Bijsterbosch  9
   QatarQatar Mohd Al Bin Ali 4th  
Losers round Winning round
   PolandPoland Radoslaw Babica 9  
 KuwaitKuwait Abdullah al-Yousef 8th        KuwaitKuwait Abdullah al-Yousef 3  
 NetherlandsNetherlands Marc Bijsterbosch 9      KuwaitKuwait Abdullah al-Yousef 9        PolandPoland Radoslaw Babica 8th
     KuwaitKuwait Bader al-Awadhi 6th      MexicoMexico Rubén Bautista 9
   MexicoMexico Rubén Bautista 9
   KuwaitKuwait Bader al-Awadhi 7th  

Group 3

  2nd losing round 1st losing round Main round Winning round
                             
     China People's RepublicPeople's Republic of China Li Hewen 9  
   Czech RepublicCzech Republic Roman Hybler 8th  
   Czech RepublicCzech Republic Roman Hybler 7th        China People's RepublicPeople's Republic of China Li Hewen 9
 IranIran Mehdi Rasekhi 5      IranIran Mehdi Rasekhi 9      AustraliaAustralia Justin Campbell 2
 Chinese TaipeiChinese Taipei Yang Ching-shun 9      AustraliaAustralia Justin Campbell  9
   IranIran Mehdi Rasekhi 2  
Losers round Winning round
   QatarQatar Waleed Majid 6th  
 QatarQatar Waleed Majid 5        Chinese TaipeiChinese Taipei Yang Ching-shun 9  
 AustraliaAustralia Justin Campbell 9      QatarQatar Waleed Majid 9        Chinese TaipeiChinese Taipei Yang Ching-shun 6th
     SpainSpain Francisco Sánchez 5      JapanJapan Yukio Akakariyama 9
   SpainSpain Francisco Sánchez 8th
   JapanJapan Yukio Akakariyama 9  

Group 4

  2nd losing round 1st losing round Main round Winning round
                             
     PhilippinesPhilippines Raymund Faraon 9  
   South AfricaSouth Africa Francois Ellis 3  
   South AfricaSouth Africa Francois Ellis 3        PhilippinesPhilippines Raymund Faraon 9
 QatarQatar Mohammad Saeed 5      QatarQatar Mohammad Saeed 9      IranIran Pordel Mohammadali 4th
 China People's RepublicPeople's Republic of China Zhou Long 9      IranIran Pordel Mohammadali  9
   QatarQatar Mohammad Saeed 6th  
Losers round Winning round
   GreeceGreece Nikos Ekonomopoulos 9  
 NetherlandsNetherlands Marco Teutscher 9        MaldivesMaldives Mohamed Shareef 1  
 IranIran Pordel Mohammadali 3      MaldivesMaldives Mohamed Shareef 0        GreeceGreece Nikos Ekonomopoulos 9
     NetherlandsNetherlands Marco Teutscher 9      China People's RepublicPeople's Republic of China Zhou Long 6th
   NetherlandsNetherlands Marco Teutscher 7th
   China People's RepublicPeople's Republic of China Zhou Long 9  

Group 5

  2nd losing round 1st losing round Main round Winning round
                             
     PhilippinesPhilippines Warren Kiamco 9  
   NorwayNorway Vegar Kristiansen 2  
   NorwayNorway Vegar Kristiansen 9        PhilippinesPhilippines Warren Kiamco 5
 NorwayNorway Vegar Kristiansen 6th      Korea SouthSouth Korea Jeong Young-hwa 7th      PolandPoland Wojciech Szewczyk 9
 PhilippinesPhilippines Oliver Medenilla 9      Korea SouthSouth Korea Jeong Young-hwa  2
   PolandPoland Wojciech Szewczyk 9  
Losers round Winning round
   China People's RepublicPeople's Republic of China Wu Jiaqing 9  
 CanadaCanada Shannon Ducharme 6th        CanadaCanada Shannon Ducharme 5  
 PhilippinesPhilippines Warren Kiamco 9      CanadaCanada Shannon Ducharme 9        China People's RepublicPeople's Republic of China Wu Jiaqing 9
     QatarQatar Mohanna Obaidly 8th      PhilippinesPhilippines Oliver Medenilla 2
   QatarQatar Mohanna Obaidly 2
   PhilippinesPhilippines Oliver Medenilla 9  

Group 6

  2nd losing round 1st losing round Main round Winning round
                             
     Chinese TaipeiChinese Taipei Chang Jung-Lin 8th  
   GermanyGermany Ralf Souquet 9  
   Chinese TaipeiChinese Taipei Chang Jung-Lin 9        GermanyGermany Ralf Souquet 1
 Chinese TaipeiChinese Taipei Chang Jung-Lin 6th      SudanSudan Mohammad Sharif 4th      PolandPoland Mateusz Śniegocki 9
 PhilippinesPhilippines Johann Chua 9      PolandPoland Mateusz Śniegocki  9
   Palastina autonomous areasPalestine Mohammad Sharif 8th  
Losers round Winning round
   PhilippinesPhilippines Johann Chua 9  
 QatarQatar Ali Obaidly 5        QatarQatar Ali Obaidly 7th  
 GermanyGermany Ralf Souquet 9      QatarQatar Ali Obaidly 9        PhilippinesPhilippines Johann Chua 7th
     AlgeriaAlgeria Hichem Benaissa 3      Saudi ArabiaSaudi Arabia Abdul Rahman al-Amar 9
   AlgeriaAlgeria Hichem Benaissa 3
   Saudi ArabiaSaudi Arabia Abdul Rahman al-Amar 9  

Group 7

  2nd losing round 1st losing round Main round Winning round
                             
     NetherlandsNetherlands Nick van den Berg 5  
   JapanJapan Naoyuki Ōi 9  
   NetherlandsNetherlands Nick van den Berg 9        JapanJapan Naoyuki Ōi 9
 NetherlandsNetherlands Nick van den Berg 4th      QatarQatar Abdultif Fawal 3      CanadaCanada Tom Teriault 2
 RussiaRussia Ruslan Tschinachow 9      CanadaCanada Tom Teriault  9
   QatarQatar Abdultif Fawal 7th  
Losers round Winning round
   PhilippinesPhilippines Lee Van Corteza 6th  
 PhilippinesPhilippines Lee Van Corteza 9        RussiaRussia Ruslan Tschinachow 9  
 CanadaCanada Tom Teriault 2      PhilippinesPhilippines Lee Van Corteza 9        RussiaRussia Ruslan Tschinachow 4th
     United Arab EmiratesUnited Arab Emirates Mohamed al-Hosani 7th      Chinese TaipeiChinese Taipei Liu Cheng-chieh 9
   United Arab EmiratesUnited Arab Emirates Mohamed al-Hosani 8th
   Chinese TaipeiChinese Taipei Liu Cheng-chieh 9  

Group 8

  2nd losing round 1st losing round Main round Winning round
                             
     EnglandEngland Daryl Peach 9  
   IndonesiaIndonesia Muhammad Simanjuntak 2  
   IndonesiaIndonesia M. Simanjuntak 9        EnglandEngland Daryl Peach 5
 IndonesiaIndonesia M. Simanjuntak 9      ChileChile Alejandro Carvajal 5      United StatesUnited States Mike Dechaine 9
 ItalyItaly Daniele Corrieri 7th      United StatesUnited States Mike Dechaine  9
   ChileChile Alejandro Carvajal 4th  
Losers round Winning round
   PhilippinesPhilippines Carlo Biado 9  
 QatarQatar Mishel Turkey 9        BahrainBahrain Fahad Khalaf 6th  
 EnglandEngland Daryl Peach 5      BahrainBahrain Fahad Khalaf 5        PhilippinesPhilippines Carlo Biado 9
     QatarQatar Mishel Turkey 9      ItalyItaly Daniele Corrieri 5
   ItalyItaly Daniele Corrieri 9
   QatarQatar Mishel Turkey 6th  

Group 9

  2nd losing round 1st losing round Main round Winning round
                             
     Chinese TaipeiChinese Taipei Ko Pin-yi 9  
   EstoniaEstonia Denis grave 4th  
   EstoniaEstonia Denis grave 9        Chinese TaipeiChinese Taipei Ko Pin-yi 9
 EstoniaEstonia Denis grave 9      South AfricaSouth Africa Rajandran Nair 4th      NorwayNorway Matey Ullah 6th
 GermanyGermany Oliver Ortmann 7th      South AfricaSouth Africa Rajandran Nair  6th
   NorwayNorway Matey Ullah 9  
Losers round Winning round
   FinlandFinland Mika Immonen 9  
 China People's RepublicPeople's Republic of China Zhu Xihe 6th        PhilippinesPhilippines Amir Rota 4th  
 NorwayNorway Matey Ullah 9      PhilippinesPhilippines Amir Rota 8th        FinlandFinland Mika Immonen 9
     China People's RepublicPeople's Republic of China Zhu Xihe 9      GermanyGermany Oliver Ortmann 5
   GermanyGermany Oliver Ortmann 9
   China People's RepublicPeople's Republic of China Zhu Xihe 2  

Group 10

  2nd losing round 1st losing round Main round Winning round
                             
     Chinese TaipeiChinese Taipei Ko Ping-chung 9  
   SwedenSweden Marcus Chamat 5  
   SwedenSweden Marcus Chamat 6th        Chinese TaipeiChinese Taipei Ko Ping-chung 9
 Chinese TaipeiChinese Taipei Cheng Yu-hsuan 9      Chinese TaipeiChinese Taipei Cheng Yu-hsuan 9      PeruPeru Christopher Tevez 2
 EnglandEngland Richard Jones 6th      PeruPeru Christopher Tevez  9
   Chinese TaipeiChinese Taipei Cheng Yu-hsuan 5  
Losers round Winning round
   United StatesUnited States Shane van Boening 9  
 United Arab EmiratesUnited Arab Emirates Omran Salem 9        United Arab EmiratesUnited Arab Emirates Omran Salem 6th  
 PeruPeru Christopher Tevez 7th      United Arab EmiratesUnited Arab Emirates Omran Salem 9        United StatesUnited States Shane van Boening 9
     PakistanPakistan Hassan Shafraz 8th      EnglandEngland Richard Jones 5
   PakistanPakistan Hassan Shafraz 1
   EnglandEngland Richard Jones 9  

Group 11

  2nd losing round 1st losing round Main round Winning round
                             
     CanadaCanada John Morra 9  
   AustriaAustria Mario Hey 8th  
   AustriaAustria Mario Hey 9        CanadaCanada John Morra 9
 AustriaAustria Mario Hey 9      LebanonLebanon Mazen Berjaoui 6th      SingaporeSingapore Toh Lian Han 4th
 EgyptEgypt Hesam Abdulaziz 2      SingaporeSingapore Toh Lian Han  9
   LebanonLebanon Mazen Berjaoui 6th  
Losers round Winning round
   China People's RepublicPeople's Republic of China Chu Bingjie 3  
 China People's RepublicPeople's Republic of China Chu Bingjie 8th        SpainSpain David Alcaide 9  
 SingaporeSingapore Toh Lian Han 9      China People's RepublicPeople's Republic of China Chu Bingjie 9        SpainSpain David Alcaide 9
     United Arab EmiratesUnited Arab Emirates Khalid Yousuf 6th      EgyptEgypt Hesam Abdulaziz 6th
   EgyptEgypt Hesam Abdulaziz 9
   United Arab EmiratesUnited Arab Emirates Khalid Yousuf 8th  

Group 12

  2nd losing round 1st losing round Main round Winning round
                             
     China People's RepublicPeople's Republic of China Dang Jinhu 9  
   Korea SouthSouth Korea Ryu Seung-woo 5  
   Korea SouthSouth Korea Ryu Seung-woo 9        China People's RepublicPeople's Republic of China Dang Jinhu 9
 Korea SouthSouth Korea Ryu Seung-woo 9      EritreaEritrea Hamzaa Saeed Ali 2      PolandPoland Tomasz Kapłan 4th
 NetherlandsNetherlands Niels Feijen 8th      EritreaEritrea Hamzaa Saeed Ali  5
   PolandPoland Tomasz Kapłan 9  
Losers round Winning round
   NetherlandsNetherlands Niels Feijen 9  
 PhilippinesPhilippines Francisco Felicilda 7th        PhilippinesPhilippines Francisco Felicilda 4th  
 PolandPoland Tomasz Kapłan 9      PhilippinesPhilippines Francisco Felicilda 9        NetherlandsNetherlands Niels Feijen 8th
     LebanonLebanon Mohammad Berjaoui 7th      GreeceGreece Alexander Kazakis 9
   GreeceGreece Alexander Kazakis 9
   LebanonLebanon Mohammad Berjaoui 1  

Group 13

  2nd losing round 1st losing round Main round Winning round
                             
     PhilippinesPhilippines Dennis Orcollo 9  
   SpainSpain Francisco Díaz-Pizarro 4th  
   SpainSpain Francisco Díaz-Pizarro 9        PhilippinesPhilippines Dennis Orcollo 9
 SpainSpain Francisco Díaz-Pizarro 9      Saudi ArabiaSaudi Arabia Fahad al-Hejeli 3      BangladeshBangladesh Hosain Sayeem 6th
 GermanyGermany Thorsten Hohmann 4th      BangladeshBangladesh Hosain Sayeem  9
   Saudi ArabiaSaudi Arabia Fahad al-Hejeli 7th  
Losers round Winning round
   GermanyGermany Thorsten Hohmann 9  
 SingaporeSingapore Goh Chin Teck 9        JordanJordan Nizar Mosbah Tamimi 3  
 BangladeshBangladesh Hosain Sayeem 5      JordanJordan Nizar Mosbah Tamimi 5        GermanyGermany Thorsten Hohmann 8th
     SingaporeSingapore Goh Chin Teck 9      VenezuelaVenezuela Jalal Yousef 9
   SingaporeSingapore Goh Chin Teck 7th
   VenezuelaVenezuela Jalal Yousef 9  

Group 14

  2nd losing round 1st losing round Main round Winning round
                             
     EnglandEngland Karl Boyes 5  
   Hong KongHong Kong Lo Ho Sum 9  
   EnglandEngland Karl Boyes 9        Hong KongHong Kong Lo Ho Sum 6th
 EnglandEngland Karl Boyes 7th      BahrainBahrain Sameer al-Madhi 2      EnglandEngland Imran Majid 9
 Chinese TaipeiChinese Taipei Chao Fong-Pang 9      EnglandEngland Imran Majid  9
   BahrainBahrain Sameer al-Madhi 4th  
Losers round Winning round
   China People's RepublicPeople's Republic of China Liu Haitao 5  
 China People's RepublicPeople's Republic of China Liu Haitao 9        Chinese TaipeiChinese Taipei Chao Fong-Pang 9  
 Hong KongHong Kong Lo Ho Sum 5      China People's RepublicPeople's Republic of China Liu Haitao 9        Chinese TaipeiChinese Taipei Chao Fong-Pang 8th
     KuwaitKuwait Meshal al-Murdhi 2      PolandPoland Karol Skowerski 9
   PolandPoland Karol Skowerski 9
   KuwaitKuwait Meshal al-Murdhi 4th  

Group 15

  2nd losing round 1st losing round Main round Winning round
                             
     Chinese TaipeiChinese Taipei Chang Yu-Lung 9  
   IndiaIndia Sundeep Gulati 4th  
   IndiaIndia Sundeep Gulati 8th        Chinese TaipeiChinese Taipei Chang Yu-Lung 9
 FinlandFinland Petri Makkonen 2      FinlandFinland Petri Makkonen 9      New ZealandNew Zealand Matthew Edwards 3
 CanadaCanada Jason Klatt 9      FinlandFinland Petri Makkonen  8th
   New ZealandNew Zealand Matthew Edwards 9  
Losers round Winning round
   CanadaCanada Jason Klatt 9  
 SwedenSweden Andreas Gerwen 9        IraqIraq Ali Hussein Ali 4th  
 New ZealandNew Zealand Matthew Edwards 7th      IraqIraq Ali Hussein Ali 4th        CanadaCanada Jason Klatt 6th
     SwedenSweden Andreas Gerwen 9      PhilippinesPhilippines Jeffrey Ignacio 9
   SwedenSweden Andreas Gerwen 7th
   PhilippinesPhilippines Jeffrey Ignacio 9  

Group 16

  2nd losing round 1st losing round Main round Winning round
                             
     PhilippinesPhilippines Antonio Gabica 9  
   KuwaitKuwait Omar al-Shaheen 3  
   KuwaitKuwait Omar al-Shaheen 9        PhilippinesPhilippines Antonio Gabica 9
 KuwaitKuwait Omar al-Shaheen 5      Saudi ArabiaSaudi Arabia Bader al-Hamdan 4th      BangladeshBangladesh Sinha Fahim 6th
 SingaporeSingapore Aloysius Yapp 9      BangladeshBangladesh Sinha Fahim  9
   Saudi ArabiaSaudi Arabia Bader al-Hamdan 3  
Losers round Winning round
   EnglandEngland Darren Appleton 5  
 EnglandEngland Darren Appleton 9        SingaporeSingapore Aloysius Yapp 9  
 BangladeshBangladesh Sinha Fahim 2      EnglandEngland Darren Appleton 9        SingaporeSingapore Aloysius Yapp 7th
     EgyptEgypt Mohamed Elmola 3      EnglandEngland Mark Gray 9
   EnglandEngland Mark Gray 9
   EgyptEgypt Mohamed Elmola 1  

Final round

  Round of the last 64 Round of 16 Round of 16 Quarter finals Semifinals final
                                             
 PhilippinesPhilippines Raymund Faraon 9                    
 PhilippinesPhilippines Warren Kiamco 11  
 PhilippinesPhilippines Warren Kiamco 11
   VenezuelaVenezuela Jalal Yousef 7th  
 VenezuelaVenezuela Jalal Yousef 11
 China People's RepublicPeople's Republic of China Zhou Long 10  
 PhilippinesPhilippines Warren Kiamco 9
   Chinese TaipeiChinese Taipei Ko Pin-yi 11  
 PhilippinesPhilippines Carlo Biado 11    
 PhilippinesPhilippines Lee Van Corteza 5  
 PhilippinesPhilippines Carlo Biado 4th
   Chinese TaipeiChinese Taipei Ko Pin-yi 11  
 Chinese TaipeiChinese Taipei Ko Pin-yi 11
 AustraliaAustralia Justin Campbell 7th  
 Chinese TaipeiChinese Taipei Ko Pin-yi 11
   CanadaCanada John Morra 6th  
 FinlandFinland Mika Immonen 11
 SingaporeSingapore Goh Chin Teck 3  
 FinlandFinland Mika Immonen 11
   Chinese TaipeiChinese Taipei Wu Kun-lin 9  
 Chinese TaipeiChinese Taipei Wu Kun-lin 11
 Korea SouthSouth Korea Ryu Seung-woo 9  
 FinlandFinland Mika Immonen 8th
   CanadaCanada John Morra 11  
 CanadaCanada John Morra 11    
 United Arab EmiratesUnited Arab Emirates Omran Salem 2  
 CanadaCanada John Morra 11
   EnglandEngland Mark Gray 10  
 EnglandEngland Mark Gray 11
 GermanyGermany Ralf Souquet 10  
 Chinese TaipeiChinese Taipei Ko Pin-yi 11
   China People's RepublicPeople's Republic of China Wu Jiaqing 10  
 JapanJapan Naoyuki Ōi 9
 SingaporeSingapore Aloysius Yapp 11  
 SingaporeSingapore Aloysius Yapp 11
   PhilippinesPhilippines Jeffrey Ignacio 6th  
 PhilippinesPhilippines Jeffrey Ignacio 11
 CanadaCanada Jason Klatt 5  
 SingaporeSingapore Aloysius Yapp 11
   GreeceGreece Alexander Kazakis 10  
 EnglandEngland Imran Majid 10    
 China People's RepublicPeople's Republic of China Liu Haitao 11  
 China People's RepublicPeople's Republic of China Liu Haitao 9
   GreeceGreece Alexander Kazakis 11  
 GreeceGreece Alexander Kazakis 11
 Chinese TaipeiChinese Taipei Chao Fong-Pang 10  
 SingaporeSingapore Aloysius Yapp 7th
   China People's RepublicPeople's Republic of China Wu Jiaqing 11  
 PhilippinesPhilippines Antonio Gabica 5
 RussiaRussia Ruslan Tschinachow 11  
 RussiaRussia Ruslan Tschinachow 7th
   China People's RepublicPeople's Republic of China Wang Can 11  
 China People's RepublicPeople's Republic of China Wang Can 11
 JapanJapan Tōru Kuribayashi 7th  
 China People's RepublicPeople's Republic of China Wang Can 9
   China People's RepublicPeople's Republic of China Wu Jiaqing 11  
 JapanJapan Satoshi Kawabata 7th    
 AustriaAustria Albin Ouschan 11  
 AustriaAustria Albin Ouschan 6th
   China People's RepublicPeople's Republic of China Wu Jiaqing 11  
 China People's RepublicPeople's Republic of China Wu Jiaqing 11
 IndonesiaIndonesia Muhammad Simanjuntak 3  
 Chinese TaipeiChinese Taipei Ko Pin-yi 13
 United StatesUnited States S. van Boening 11
 Chinese TaipeiChinese Taipei Ko Ping-chung 11
 AustriaAustria Mario Hey 5  
 Chinese TaipeiChinese Taipei Ko Ping-chung 11
   JapanJapan Yukio Akakariyama 9  
 JapanJapan Yukio Akakariyama 11
 PhilippinesPhilippines Johann Chua 5  
 Chinese TaipeiChinese Taipei Ko Ping-chung 11
   United StatesUnited States Mike Dechaine 9  
 China People's RepublicPeople's Republic of China Li Hewen 7th    
 EstoniaEstonia Denis grave 11  
 EstoniaEstonia Denis grave 10
   United StatesUnited States Mike Dechaine 11  
 United StatesUnited States Mike Dechaine 11
 Chinese TaipeiChinese Taipei Cheng Yu-hsuan 10  
 Chinese TaipeiChinese Taipei Ko Ping-chung 11
   PolandPoland Wojciech Szewczyk 5  
 SpainSpain David Alcaide 11
 Chinese TaipeiChinese Taipei Yang Ching-shun 8th  
 SpainSpain David Alcaide 11
   SingaporeSingapore Toh Lian Han 7th  
 Saudi ArabiaSaudi Arabia Abdul Rahman al-Amar 8th
 SingaporeSingapore Toh Lian Han 11  
 SpainSpain David Alcaide 10
   PolandPoland Wojciech Szewczyk 11  
 Chinese TaipeiChinese Taipei Liu Cheng-chieh 11    
 SwedenSweden Andreas Gerwen 5  
 Chinese TaipeiChinese Taipei Liu Cheng-chieh 8th
   PolandPoland Wojciech Szewczyk 11  
 PolandPoland Wojciech Szewczyk 11
 NetherlandsNetherlands Marco Teutscher 8th  
 Chinese TaipeiChinese Taipei Ko Ping-chung 1
 United StatesUnited States Shane van Boening 11  
 Chinese TaipeiChinese Taipei Chang Yu-Lung 11
 NetherlandsNetherlands Marc Bijsterbosch 4th  
 Chinese TaipeiChinese Taipei Chang Yu-Lung 11
   PhilippinesPhilippines Oliver Medenilla 4th  
 PolandPoland Karol Skowerski 4th
 PhilippinesPhilippines Oliver Medenilla 11  
 Chinese TaipeiChinese Taipei Chang Yu-Lung 5
   United StatesUnited States Shane van Boening 11  
 United StatesUnited States Shane van Boening 11    
 PolandPoland Tomasz Kapłan 3  
 United StatesUnited States Shane van Boening 11
   SpainSpain Francisco Díaz-Pizarro 5  
 China People's RepublicPeople's Republic of China Dang Jinhu 10
 SpainSpain Francisco Díaz-Pizarro 11  
 United StatesUnited States Shane van Boening 11
   PhilippinesPhilippines Dennis Orcollo 1  
 PolandPoland Mateusz Śniegocki 10
 United StatesUnited States Hunter Lombardo 11  
 United StatesUnited States Hunter Lombardo 7th
   PhilippinesPhilippines Dennis Orcollo 11  
 PhilippinesPhilippines Dennis Orcollo 11
 QatarQatar Mishel Turkey 1  
 PhilippinesPhilippines Dennis Orcollo 11
   EnglandEngland Darren Appleton 2  
 MexicoMexico Rubén Bautista 3    
 EnglandEngland Darren Appleton 11  
 EnglandEngland Darren Appleton 11
   GreeceGreece Nikos Ekonomopoulos 7th  
 GreeceGreece Nikos Ekonomopoulos 11
 NorwayNorway Matey Ullah 7th  

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  7. ^ Ted Lerner: It's Knockouts for the New Guys. (No longer available online.) In: wpa-pool.com. World Pool-Billiard Association, September 14, 2015, archived from the original on September 26, 2015 ; accessed on September 16, 2015 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.wpa-pool.com
  8. Ted Lerner: Pool's best get ready to run the Gauntlet. (No longer available online.) In: wpa-pool.com. World Pool-Billiard Association, September 16, 2015, archived from the original on September 21, 2015 ; Retrieved September 18, 2015 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.wpa-pool.com
  9. ^ Ted Lerner: A four way Showdown for Pool History. (No longer available online.) In: wpa-pool.com. World Pool-Billiard Association, September 17, 2015, archived from the original on September 21, 2015 ; Retrieved September 18, 2015 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.wpa-pool.com
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