All Japan Championship (pool)

The All Japan Championship (also known as the All Japan Open or All Japan Open Championship) is an annual pool tournament in the discipline of nine-ball. It has sometimes been called the Japan Open for short, though this was also the name of a short-lived competing event. From 2012 to 2015, the men's tournament was played in the discipline of ten-ball. In some years, the event was held twice, the earlier event as All Japan Championship and the later one as [All] Japan Open. The most successful players, with a tie at four wins each, are Ko Pin-yi (July and November 2011, November 2013, and November 2016), ^[1] and Efren Reyes (November 1990, November 1999, November 2003, and March 2005) ^[2] Akimi Kajitani has won the women's tournament the most times, twice (2000 and 2013).

Tournament history

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Men's

Year	Location	Winner	Score	Runner-up	Semi-finalists
2000	Tokyo	Antonio Lining	11-6	Chao Fong-Pang	Thomas Engert
					Moritaka Hadani
2001	Amagasaki	Corey Deuel	11-10	Mika Immonen	Warren Kiamco
					Lee Kun-Fang
2002		Francisco Bustamante	11-8	Mika Immonen	Akikumo Toshikawa
					Charlie Williams
2003		Efren Reyes	11-7	Tasuko Nishio	Thorsten Hohmann
					Jeong Young Hwa
2004		Ralf Soquet	11-9	Mika Immonen	Chao Fong-Pang
2005	Unknown	Takeshi Okumura	11-5	Mika Immonen	Hisashi Kusano
					Xia Wei-Kui
2007		Wu Jia-qing	11-3	Tōru Kuribayashi	Ralf Soquet
					Hayato Hijikata
2008	Amagasaki	Mika Immonen	11-2	Ronato Alcano	Antonio Gabica
					Naoyuki Ōi
2009		Francisco Bustamante	11-7	Antonio Lining	Kuo Po Cheng
					Chang Shu Han
2010		Thorsten Hohmann	11-8	Ko Ping-chung	Yukio Akakariyama
					Mika Immonen
2011		Ko Pin-yi	10-4	Wu Jia-qing	Chang Yu-lung
					Hiroshi Takenaka
2012		Chang Jung-lin	11-7	Yang Ching-shun	Johann Chua
					Fu Che-wei
2013		Ko Pin-yi	11:10	Chang Jung-lin	Thorsten Hohmann
					Johann Chua
2014		Raymund Faraon	11:8	Naoyuki Ōi	Li Hewen
					Chang Yu-lung
2015		Johann Chua	11:7	Ronato Alcano	Shane Van Boening
					Han Haoxiang
2016		Ko Pin-yi	11:3	Jeff de Luna	Thorsten Hohmann
					Cheng Yu-hsuan
2017		Johann Chua	11:2	Jundel Mazon	Liu Hao Tao
					Chang Yu-Lung
2018		Tomoo Takano	11:6	Toru Kuribayashi	Carlo Biado
					Ko Ping Chung
2019		Liu Cheng Chieh	11-10	Johann Chua	Anton Raga
					Kwon Ho-Jun

Ladies

Year	Location	Winner	Score	Runner-up	Semi-finalist
2000	Tokyo	Akimi Kajitani		Kyoko Sone	Chung Young-sook
					Setsuko Kubota
2001	Amagasaki	Liu Shin-mei		Allison Fisher	unknown
					unknown
2005	Unknown	Zhou Mengmeng		Miyuki Fuke	unknown
					unknown
2007		Chang Shu-han		Akio Otani	Fu Xiaofang
					Han Yu
2008	Amagasaki	Pan Xiaoting		Chou Chieh-yu	Chang Shu-han
					Chihiro Kawahara
2010		Lin Hsiao-chi		Keiko Yukawa	Chihiro Kawahara
					Maki Kimura
2011		Chen Siming		Junko Mitsuoka	Chan Ya-ting
					Akimi Kajitani
2012		Chou Chieh-yu		Tan Ho-yun	Maki Kimura
					Li Jia
2013		Akimi Kajitani	9:7	Chihiro Kawahara	Chou Chieh-yu
					Tsai Pei-jen
2014		Wu Zhi-ting	9:3	Liu Shasha	Tsai Pei-jen
					Chihiro Kawahara
2015		Kim Ga-young	9:2	Chihiro Kawahara	Maki Kimura
					Makiko Takagi
2016		Chen Ho-yun	9:8	Chihiro Kawahara	Wei Tzu-chen
					Chen Siming

Other Japan Open

In addition to the All Japan Open another tournament known as the Japan Open was held in 2009 and 2010 in the New Pia Hall. ^{[4] [5]}

Winners of this tournament were the Philippines Francisco Bustamante and Ramil Gallego in the men's event ^{[6] [7]} as well as the Taiwanese women Tan Hsiang-ling and Chou Chieh-yu were winners of the women's event. ^{[8] [9]} Chou Chieh-yu is the only player to have won both events.

The prize money of the Japan Open was significantly lower than that of the All Japan Open. During 2010, at the All Japan Open men's event, the prize purse was a total of $82,000 of which the winner received about $24,000, ^[10] The winner of the Japan Open 2010 received only $17,000 in prize money, at just under $42,000 in total prize money. In the women's at the Japan Open 2010 about $11,000 were distributed, with the winner receiving $4,400, at the All Japan Open the same year, however, were distributed over $21,000, of which the winner received about $7,000. ^[11]

References

1. "Ko Pin-Yi". Billiard Walker. Retrieved 25 November 2023.
2. "Efren Reyes". Billiard Walker. Retrieved 25 November 2023.
3. "All Japan Open Championship – Event Results". AZBilliards. 2018. Archived from the original on 8 June 2019. Retrieved 15 November 2015.
4. "Japan Open". AZBilliards. Retrieved 15 November 2015.
5. "Japan Open – Event Results". AZBilliards. Retrieved 15 November 2015.
6. "Japan Open 2009 Men's Division". AZBilliards. Retrieved 15 November 2015.
7. "Japan Open 2010 Men's Division". AZBilliards. Retrieved 15 November 2015.
8. "Japan Open 2009 Women's Division". AZBilliards. Retrieved 15 November 2015.
9. "Japan Open 2010 Women's Division". AZBilliards. Retrieved 15 November 2015.
10. "All Japan Open 2010 Men's Division". AZBilliards. Retrieved 15 November 2015.
11. "All Japan Open 2010 Women's Division". AZBilliards. Retrieved 15 November 2015.

External links

• All Japan Championship at azbilliards.com