| Snooker men's singles at the 2013 World Games | |||||||
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| Venue | Unidad Deportiva Alberto Galindo, Cali, Colombia | ||||||
| Dates | 26–30 July 2013 | ||||||
| Competitors | 16 from 11 nations | ||||||
| Medalists | |||||||
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The men's singles snooker competition at the 2013 World Games took place from 26 to 30 July at the Unidad Deportiva Alberto Galindo in Cali, Colombia. [1]
| Round of 16 | Quarter-finals | Semi-finals | Final | |||||||||||
 Brendan O'Donoghue | 2 | |||||||||||||
 Joe Perry | 3 | |||||||||||||
| Joe Perry | 2 | |||||||||||||
 Aditya Mehta | 3 | |||||||||||||
 Luis Lemus | 0 | |||||||||||||
| Aditya Mehta | 3 | |||||||||||||
| Aditya Mehta | 3 | |||||||||||||
 Dechawat Poomjaeng | 1 | |||||||||||||
 Pedro Rolim Bohm | 0 | |||||||||||||
| Dechawat Poomjaeng | 3 | |||||||||||||
| Dechawat Poomjaeng | 3 | |||||||||||||
| Pankaj Advani | 1 | |||||||||||||
 Ajeya Prabhakar | 1 | |||||||||||||
| Pankaj Advani | 3 | |||||||||||||
| Aditya Mehta | 3 | |||||||||||||
 Liang Wenbo | 0 | |||||||||||||
 Peter Francisco | 2 | |||||||||||||
| Nigel Bond | 3 | |||||||||||||
| Nigel Bond | 0 | |||||||||||||
| Liang Wenbo | 3 | |||||||||||||
| Noppon Saengkham | 1 | |||||||||||||
| Liang Wenbo | 3 | |||||||||||||
| Liang Wenbo | 3 | |||||||||||||
| Igor Figueiredo | 0 | Third place | ||||||||||||
| Lyu Haotian | 3 | |||||||||||||
 Hossein Vafaei | 0 | |||||||||||||
| Lyu Haotian | 1 | Dechawat Poomjaeng | 3 | |||||||||||
| Igor Figueiredo | 3 | Igor Figueiredo | 2 | |||||||||||
 Alex Borg | 1 | |||||||||||||
| Igor Figueiredo | 3 | |||||||||||||
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