World Pool Masters
The World Pool Masters (until 1995 European Pool Masters ) is a mostly annually held pool tournament in the 9-ball discipline . It first took place in 1993 in Plymouth , England and has since changed venues several times.
The record winner is the German Ralf Souquet , who won the tournament six times.
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Until 2009, the World Pool Masters was purely an invitation-only tournament, in which 16 pool players (and occasionally also female pool players) were nominated by the organizer. These then played against each other in the knockout system .
For 2010 the field of participants was expanded to 64. The places have now been allocated partly through invitations and partly through qualifying tournaments. First, the field in the double knockout system was reduced to 32. This means: After the first game, the players were divided into a winning round and a losing round. Whoever was in the winning round only had to prevail in one game against another player who had won in the first round to get to the final round. In the losers round, however, you first had to assert yourself against another player who lost in the first game and then win against a loser from the winning round. Even if this system is relatively complicated, it guarantees every player to be able to lose a game in the preliminary round without having to be eliminated from the tournament immediately. The second lost game within the preliminary round will in any case lead to elimination from the tournament. The field of 32 then played again in the "regular" knockout system until the final.
The original mode has been used again since 2011, with individual participants being determined through qualifying matches.
Tournament statistics
Ranking list
| space | player |  |
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|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |
 Ralf Souquet
|
6th | 2 | 0 |
| 2 |
 Shane van Boening
|
2 | 1 | 1 |
| 3 |
 David Alcaide
|
2 | 1 | 0 |
| 4th |
 Francisco Bustamante
|
2 | 0 | 1 |
|
Thomas Engert
|
2 | 0 | 1 | |
 Niels Feijen
|
2 | 0 | 1 | |
| 7th |
 Darren Appleton
|
1 | 2 | 1 |
| 8th |
 Alex Pagulayan
|
1 | 1 | 3 |
| 9 |
Earl Strickland
|
1 | 1 | 2 |
| 10 |
Alex Lely
|
1 | 1 | 1 |
|
Dennis Orcollo
|
1 | 1 | 1 | |
| 12 |
Raj Hundal
|
1 | 0 | 1 |
|
Daryl Peach
|
1 | 0 | 1 | |
 Karol Skowerski
|
1 | 0 | 1 | |
| 15th |
 Tony Drago
|
1 | 0 | 0 |
 Werner Duregger
|
1 | 0 | 0 |
Web links
- Official website
- World Pool Masters ( memento of April 8, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) on azbilliards.com
Individual evidence
- ^ World Pool Masters - History. In: matchroompool.com. Matchroom Sport , accessed February 19, 2017 .
| World championships |
8-ball • 9-ball • 10-ball • 14/1 endless • 9-ball (women) • 10-ball (women) • Juniors |
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| Continental Championships | ||
| Other tournaments |
Asian 9-Ball Tour • China Open (9-Ball) • Derby City Classic • Euro Tour (list of tournaments ) • International Challenge of Champions • Japan Open • Mosconi Cup • Predator International Championship • US Open (9-Ball) • World Cup of Pool • World Pool League • World Pool Masters |
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| Multisport events |
Asian Games • Asian Indoor & Martial Arts Games • Southeast Asian Games • World Games |
