WPA 9 Ball World Championship 2001

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9-Ball World Championship 2001
WPA World 9-Ball Championship 2001
Billiard Picto 2-white.svg
venue Cardiff , Wales
opening July 14, 2001
Endgame July 22, 2001
discipline 9-ball
winner FinlandFinland Mika Immonen
2000
 
2002

The WPA-9-Ball-World Championship 2001 was the twelfth edition of the world championship held by the WPA in the pool discipline 9-ball . It took place from July 14-22, 2001 in the Welsh capital Cardiff .

The Finn Mika Immonen became world champion with a 17:10 win in the final against the German Ralf Souquet . Defending champion Chao Fong-Pang was eliminated in the round of 64 against the Englishman Anthony Ginn .

mode

The 128 participating players were divided into 16 groups in which they competed against each other in round robin mode . The top four players in each group qualified for the final round, which was played in the knockout system .

Preliminary round

The following 64 players were eliminated in the group stage:

5th place 6th place 7th place 8th place
Group 1: SwedenSweden Tom Storm BrazilBrazil Fabio Luersen GreeceGreece Apostolis Alexandris EnglandEngland Andy Battams
Group 2: BrazilBrazil Jorge de Souza Chinese TaipeiChinese Taipei Pan Shen-ping CroatiaCroatia Ivica Putnik NorwayNorway Vegar Kristiansen
Group 3: GreeceGreece Evangelos Vettas MalaysiaMalaysia Patrick Ooi AustraliaAustralia Lou Condo EnglandEngland Andy Richardson
Group 4: JapanJapan Kunihiko Takahashi United StatesUnited States Dan Basavich South AfricaSouth Africa Dino Nair SpainSpain Diego Pedro Simon
Group 5: PolandPoland Pavel Rogalski RussiaRussia Yevgeny Stalev GermanyGermany Daniel Dutz FinlandFinland Aki Heiskanen
Group 6: PhilippinesPhilippines Rodolfo Luat Korea SouthSouth Korea Park Shin-young WalesFlag of Wales (1959 – present) .svg Paul Davies United StatesUnited States Bill Stephen
Group 7: PhilippinesPhilippines Warren Kiamco EnglandEngland Joe Johnson CanadaCanada Gerry Watson New ZealandNew Zealand Bruce Anderson
Group 8: WalesFlag of Wales (1959 – present) .svg Rob McKenna NorwayNorway Raymond Hauge United StatesUnited States George San Souci GreeceGreece Athanasios Vrakas
Group 9: Korea SouthSouth Korea Jeong Young-hwa JapanJapan Adsushi Shiraiwa DenmarkDenmark Kasper Thygesen New ZealandNew Zealand Brent Wells
Group 10: BelgiumBelgium Jan Dulst ScotlandScotland Ross McInnes JapanJapan Kiyotaka Ohashi AustraliaAustralia Robert Pleiner
Group 11: JapanJapan Kenichi Uchigaki EnglandEngland Mark Selby New ZealandNew Zealand Jimmy Hendry ArgentinaArgentina Juan Silva
Group 12: United StatesUnited States Jon Kucharo SwedenSweden Niklas Bergendorff JapanJapan Akikumo Tashikawa WalesFlag of Wales (1959 – present) .svg Mark Williams
Group 13: Chinese TaipeiChinese Taipei Kang Chin-ching EnglandEngland Imran Majid FranceFrance Vincent Facquet PeruPeru Manuel Chau
Group 14: GermanyGermany Thomas Engert DenmarkDenmark Peter Nielsen WalesFlag of Wales (1959 – present) .svg Dominic Dale AustraliaAustralia Warren King
Group 15: ThailandThailand Surathep Phoochalam CanadaCanada Luc Salvas Korea SouthSouth Korea Lee Jang-su United StatesUnited States Paul Smith
Group 16: NetherlandsNetherlands Rico Diks United StatesUnited States Dee Adkins SlovakiaSlovakia Matjaž Erčulj NamibiaNamibia Arnold van Staden

Final round

  Round of the last 64 Round of 16 Round of 16 Quarter finals Semifinals final
                                             
 GermanyGermany Ralf Souquet 9                    
 LuxembourgLuxembourg Marc Holtz 7th  
 GermanyGermany Ralf Souquet 9
   JapanJapan Takashi Toda 8th  
 JapanJapan Takashi Toda 9
 GermanyGermany Christian Reimering 3  
 GermanyGermany Ralf Souquet 11
   Chinese TaipeiChinese Taipei Yang Ching-shun 3  
 Chinese TaipeiChinese Taipei Yang Ching-shun 9    
 IndonesiaIndonesia Dodong Alwi 2  
 Chinese TaipeiChinese Taipei Yang Ching-shun 9
   EnglandEngland Kevin Smith 6th  
 EnglandEngland Kevin Smith 9
 ArgentinaArgentina Jorge Llanos 2  
 GermanyGermany Ralf Souquet 11
   SwedenSweden Marcus Chamat 1  
 SwedenSweden Marcus Chamat 9
 CanadaCanada Paul Potier 3  
 SwedenSweden Marcus Chamat 9
   Czech RepublicCzech Republic Lukas Krenek 1  
 Czech RepublicCzech Republic Lukas Krenek 9
 NetherlandsNetherlands Nick van den Berg 8th  
 SwedenSweden Marcus Chamat 11
   GermanyGermany Andreas Roschkowsky 9  
 United StatesUnited States Earl Strickland 9    
 PhilippinesPhilippines Ramil Gallego 8th  
 United StatesUnited States Earl Strickland 7th
   GermanyGermany Andreas Roschkowsky 9  
 GermanyGermany Andreas Roschkowsky 9
 Chinese TaipeiChinese Taipei Hsia Hui-kai 4th  
 GermanyGermany Ralf Souquet 11
   Chinese TaipeiChinese Taipei Lai Chia-hsiung 2  
 SwitzerlandSwitzerland Dimitri Jungo 9
 MexicoMexico Ismael Páez 7th  
 SwitzerlandSwitzerland Dimitri Jungo 3
   SpainSpain David Alcaide 9  
 SpainSpain David Alcaide 9
 NetherlandsNetherlands Alex Lely 7th  
 SpainSpain David Alcaide 9
   United StatesUnited States Jeremy Jones 11  
 United StatesUnited States Jeremy Jones 9    
 EnglandEngland Steve Knight 1  
 United StatesUnited States Jeremy Jones 9
   United StatesUnited States Troy Frank 4th  
 United StatesUnited States Troy Frank 9
 EnglandEngland Phil Harrison 5  
 United StatesUnited States Jeremy Jones 3
   Chinese TaipeiChinese Taipei Lai Chia-hsiung 11  
 GermanyGermany Oliver Ortmann 9
 United StatesUnited States Allen Hopkins 3  
 GermanyGermany Oliver Ortmann 8th
   PhilippinesPhilippines Antonio Lining 9  
 PhilippinesPhilippines Antonio Lining 9
 JapanJapan Hishashi Yamamoto 8th  
 PhilippinesPhilippines Antonio Lining 7th
   Chinese TaipeiChinese Taipei Lai Chia-hsiung 11  
 Chinese TaipeiChinese Taipei Lai Chia-hsiung 9    
 GermanyGermany Michael Schmidt 8th  
 Chinese TaipeiChinese Taipei Lai Chia-hsiung 9
   United StatesUnited States Johnny Archer 4th  
 United StatesUnited States Johnny Archer 9
 ItalyItaly Fabio Petroni 6th  
 GermanyGermany Ralf Souquet 10
 FinlandFinland Mika Immonen 17th
 GermanyGermany Ralph Eckert 9
 United StatesUnited States Kim Davenport 8th  
 GermanyGermany Ralph Eckert 9
   GermanyGermany Thorsten Hohmann 8th  
 GermanyGermany Thorsten Hohmann 9
 CanadaCanada Alex Pagulayan 8th  
 GermanyGermany Ralph Eckert 6th
   NetherlandsNetherlands Niels Feijen 11  
 NetherlandsNetherlands Niels Feijen 9    
 AustraliaAustralia Quinten Hann 7th  
 NetherlandsNetherlands Niels Feijen 9
   PhilippinesPhilippines Efren Reyes 5  
 PhilippinesPhilippines Efren Reyes 9
 SingaporeSingapore Tiong Boon Tan 3  
 NetherlandsNetherlands Niels Feijen 7th
   FinlandFinland Mika Immonen 11  
 FinlandFinland Mika Immonen 9
 United StatesUnited States Corey Deuel 3  
 FinlandFinland Mika Immonen 9
   MaltaMalta Tony Drago 1  
 MaltaMalta Tony Drago 9
 PhilippinesPhilippines Francisco Bustamante 6th  
 FinlandFinland Mika Immonen 11
   EnglandEngland Anthony Ginn 2  
 EnglandEngland Gary Ponting 9    
 PolandPoland Radoslaw Babica 7th  
 EnglandEngland Gary Ponting 3
   EnglandEngland Anthony Ginn 9  
 EnglandEngland Anthony Ginn 9
 Chinese TaipeiChinese Taipei Chao Fong-Pang 8th  
 FinlandFinland Mika Immonen 11
 CanadaCanada Alain Martel 7th  
 Chinese TaipeiChinese Taipei Chang Hao-ping 9
 IndonesiaIndonesia Robby Suarly 6th  
 Chinese TaipeiChinese Taipei Chang Hao-ping 8th
   CanadaCanada Alain Martel 9  
 CanadaCanada Alain Martel 9
 IrelandIreland Tommy Donlon 5  
 CanadaCanada Alain Martel 11
   EnglandEngland Chris Melling 9  
 EnglandEngland Steve Davis 9    
 EnglandEngland Jimmy White 2  
 EnglandEngland Steve Davis 8th
   EnglandEngland Chris Melling 9  
 EnglandEngland Chris Melling 9
 Yugoslavia Federal Republic 1992Yugoslavia Sandor dead 8th  
 CanadaCanada Alain Martel 11
   PhilippinesPhilippines Leonardo Andam 9  
 PhilippinesPhilippines Leonardo Andam 9
 AustraliaAustralia Johl Younger 5  
 PhilippinesPhilippines Leonardo Andam 9
   JapanJapan Satoshi Kawabata 6th  
 JapanJapan Satoshi Kawabata 9
 MexicoMexico Ernesto Domínguez 4th  
 PhilippinesPhilippines Leonardo Andam 11
   United StatesUnited States Charlie Williams 9  
 United StatesUnited States Charlie Williams 9    
 EnglandEngland Daryl Peach 7th  
 United StatesUnited States Charlie Williams 9
   EnglandEngland Lee Tucker 8th  
 EnglandEngland Lee Tucker 9
 CanadaCanada John Horsfall 8th  

Web links

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