Tournament information | |
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Sport | 9-ball |
Location | al-Arabi Sports Club, Doha, Qatar [1] |
Dates | December 14, 2018–December 20, 2018 [2] |
Tournament format(s) | Double elimination / Single elimination |
Host(s) | WPA World Nine-ball Championship |
Participants | 128 |
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The 2018 WPA World Nine-ball Championship was a 9-Ball pool world Championships. The event took place between December 10 to 20, 2018 in the al-Attiya Sports Arena of the Al-Arabi Sports Club in Doha, Qatar. [1] The Qatari capital held the event for the eighth time in a row. [3]
The reigning champion was Filipino Carlo Biado, who defeated his compatriot Roland Garcia 13–5 in the 2017 final. [4] [5] Biado would reach the final of the event, defeating Shane Van Boening in the semi-final. Germany's Joshua Filler won the event, defeating Biado in the final 13–10. [6]
The event was entered by 128 participants who were initially divided into 16 groups of 8 players, in which they competed against each other from December 14 to 16 in a double elimination tournament. Four players in each group qualified for the final round, which will be played from December 17 to 20. The event was played under "alternating break" format. [7]
In the initial double-elimination round, 2003 and 2013 champion Thorsten Hohmann was eliminated, having first lost 6–9 to Jason Theron, [8] and then to 2005 champion Wu Jiaqing also 6–9, despite being ahead 6–2. [9]
Later in the event, 9-ball world number one Klenti Kaci was defeated in the round of 32 – 10–11 to 17 year old Robbie Capito. Capito was at one stage 7–1, and 10–8 down in the match, but won the final three racks to win the match. [10] [11]
The semi-finals and final were played on the December 20, 2018. [12] The reigning champion Carlo Biado defeated Shane Van Boening in the first semi-final, whilst Joshua Filler defeated Alexander Kazakis in a final rack decider. Filler would win the event; climbing to an 11–7 lead, and eventually winning 13–10. [6] [13]
The event saw a total prize pool of $200,000. [14]
Prize money [7] | |
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Winner | 40.000 US$ |
Final | 15.000 US$ |
Semi-final | ? US$ |
Quarter-final | ? US$ |
Last 16 | ? US$ |
Last 32 | ? US$ |
Last 64 | ? US$ |
Total | 200.000 US$ |
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