WSF Championship 2018
WSF Championship 2018
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| Tournament type: | Amateur tournament |
| Attendees: | 90 |
| Venue: | Dolmen Resort Hotel, Qawra , Malta |
| Opening: | 18th March 2018 |
| Endgame: | March 24, 2018
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| Winner: |
 Luo Honghao
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| Finalist: |
 Adam Stefanów
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| Highest Break: | 131 ( Igor Figueiredo )
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The WSF Championship 2018 was an amateur snooker tournament of the World Snooker Federation , which was held from March 18 to 24 in the Dolmen Resort Hotel in San Pawl il-Baħar on the north coast of the island of Malta . The winner was the Chinese Luo Honghao , who won the final against Adam Stefanów from Poland 6-0.
The tournament was the first amateur championship of the new snooker association WSF, which was introduced in October 2017 as a representative of amateur and professional snooker. Because of disputes with the amateur federation IBSF about the conditions of membership not all national federations had joined. So although Andreas Ploner was a player from Austria at the start, Germany did not send any representatives to Malta.
The WSF championship consisted of three tournaments. First, the World Women's Championship was held in cooperation with the women's snooker association WLBS and the WSF Seniors Championship. Some of the quarter-finalists of the two competitions and the players nominated by the national associations then entered the main tournament, the WSF Mixed Championship.
The WSF Championship also replaced the IBSF World Snooker Championship as a qualifying tournament for the Snooker Main Tour . The tournament winner Luo Honghao got the right to start in the professional tournaments of the following two seasons 2018/19 and 2019/20 . Furthermore, the winners of the women's and senior tournaments , Ng On Yee and Igor Figueiredo , and the four semi-finalists of the mixed-gender tournament were allowed to participate in the qualification of the professional world championship.
Prize money
A total of € 17,000 was awarded for the women's and senior tournaments, and a total of € 28,300 for the main tournament. The winner received € 10,000, with only half of the amount paid out immediately, the other half being linked to participation in the 2018/19 professional season .
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| winner | 10,000 € a |
| finalist | € 4,000 |
| Semi-finalist | 1,800 € |
| Quarter finalist | € 1,000 |
| Round of 16 | 400 € |
| Last 32 | € 200 |
| Highest break | € 300 |
| All in all | € 28,300 |
Main tournament
90 players from 24 national associations were eligible to take part in the mixed gender tournament. In the first phase 5 players each played against each other in 18 groups. The last two in the group were eliminated.
Round 1
The top 10 seeded players were seeded for round 2. The remaining 44 players competed against each other in Round 1.
Round of 32 to final
finalAdam Stefanów was the top seeded player of the tournament. He had already taken part in the Q School several times to become a professional. His opponent Luo Honghao had missed the professional qualification last year when he lost the final of the U21 World Cup . The 18-year-old Chinese, who had won all the main rounds except for the semi-finals, also dominated the final. With two high breaks he secured the first two frames, only the third frame was more competitive, but also went to Luo. With two more breaks of over 50 points, he made the preliminary decision. Although the Pole showed resistance again in the sixth frame, he still lost 0: 6 without a frame gain.
Century breaksThere were 10 breaks of at least 100 points during the entire tournament. Eight of them went to the account of the two ex-professionals Kristján Helgason and Igor Figueiredo . The two other century breaks had already been achieved by the finalists Luo Honghao and Adam Stefanów in their group matches.
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