2007 WPA Men's World Nine-ball Championship
The World Cup 9-Ball 2007 was the eighteenth edition of this tournament and took place between the 3rd and 11th November 2007 at the Araneta Coliseum in Quezon City (Philippines ) instead. The annual World Championship is organized by the WPA ( World Pool - Billiard Association ). World Champion Daryl Peach of England was by a 17:15 victory in the final against Roberto Gomez of the Philippines.
Regulate
A total of 128 players from 46 nations participated in the tournament.
It was played with winner break. This means that players do not alternate trigger ( as was the case in 2006 ), but the player initiates, who won the previous game.
In the preliminary round, the number of players was reduced from 128 to 64. It was played first in a double - whacked system. This means: After the first game, the players were divided into winners and losers bracket round. Who was in the winning round, just had to have in a game against another player, who won in the first round by set to enter the final round. In the losers bracket, you had to first, however, against another player, who had lost in the first game, and then win against a claim losers of the winning round.
Although this system is relatively complicated, it guarantees every player to be able to lose a game in the preliminary round without having to resign immediately from the tournament. The second game lost in the first round lead, however, in any case, to withdraw from the tournament.
In the final round was played in the knockout system, so every defeat led to the exit from the tournament.
Preliminary round
The first round took place from the 3rd to the 6th of November.
The following 32 players in the first round won once and lost twice, which means the early retirement and the seats 65 to 96.
- The Serge (Belgium ), Mike Davis (United States), Tyler Edey (Canada), Jonni Fulcher (Scotland )
- Kazuo Furuta (Japan), Brady Gollan (Canada), Pat Holtz (Scotland ), Chu Hung- Ming (Chinese Taipei )
- Edwin Montal (Canada), Rodney Morris ( USA ), Craig Osbourne (England ), David Reljic (Australia )
- Robb Saez (United States), Dharminder Singh Lilly ( India), Alan Tan ( Malaysia), Lian- Han Toh (Singapore )
- Wojciech Trajdos (Poland), Ronnie Wiseman (Canada), Ceri word ( New Zealand), Ricky Yang (Indonesia)
The following 32 players have lost in the first round twice, which means the early retirement and the seats 97 to 128.
- David Alcoberro (Spain ), Saeed Ahmed Al- Mutawa (United Arab Emirates), Dodong Alwi (Indonesia), Tepwin Arrunath (Thailand )
- Prince Al- Muhtadee Billah (Brunei ), Charles Bryant (United States), Stephen Capaldi (Scotland ), Alejandro Carvajal (Chile),
- Carlos Castro (Nicaragua ), Chang Pei- Wei (Chinese Taipei ), Chang Yau Mau (Chinese Taipei ), Vittorio De Falco (Italy ),
- Hisashi Kusano (Japan), Thorsten Hohmann ( Germany ), Greg Jenkins (Australia), Kenny Kwok ( Hong Kong)
- Liu Cheng- Chuan (Chinese Taipei ), Rodolfo Luat (Philippines), Fahad Mohammadi (Qatar ), Hamza Mohammed (Eritrea),
- John Morra ( Canada ), Bruno Muratore (Italy ), Kay Reike ( Germany ), Tony Robles (United States )
- Enrique Rojas (Chile ), Michael Schmidt ( Germany ), Farhad Shahverdi (Iran), Bernard Tey Choon Kiat (Singapore )
Final round
November 7, 2007
November 8, 2007
November 9, 2007
November 10, 2007
November 10, 2007
November 11, 2007