2011 WPA World Nine-ball Championship
The World Cup 9-Ball 2011 was the twentieth edition of this tournament and took place between 25 June and 2 July 2011 in Doha ( Qatar) instead. The normally annual World Championship is organized by the WPA ( World Pool - Billiard Association ).
Regulate
A total of 128 players participated in the tournament.
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 25 June to 29 July.
The following 32 players in the first round won once and lost twice, which means the early retirement and the seats 65 to 96.
- Qatar Mohanna Obaidly, Venezuela Yousef Jalal, Lebanon Mohamad Ali Berjaoui, People's Republic of China Fu Jian -Bo
- Portugal Manuel Gama, Uruguay Christian Tuvi, United Arab Emirates Hanni Al- Howri, Chinese Taipei Ko Ping Chung
- Vietnam Nguyen Phuong Thao, United Arab Emirates Waleed Majid, Malaysia Ibrahim Bin Amir, Germany Thomas Engert
- Hong Kong Lee Chen Man, Philippines Francisco Olita, People's Republic of China Wu Jia- Qing, India Sundeep Gulat
- Syria Mohammad Al Hazmi, Vietnam Nguyen Phuc Long, Spain Francisco Sanchez -Ruiz, Syria Mohamad Asfari
- Singapore Desmond Goh Teck, Japan Tomoo Takano, Qatar Taher Hussain, United Arab Emirates Ali Saeed
The following 32 players have lost in the first round twice, which means the early retirement and the seats 97 to 128.
- Hong Kong Andrew Kong, Hungary Vilmos Foldes, Portugal Henrique Correia, United Arab Emirates Majed Al Zaab
- Canada Jason Klatt, Qatar Abdulmajed Hussain, Finland Petri Makkonen, New Zealand Jon Grimley
- Qatar Meshal Turkey, Jordan Ahmed Naeem Ali, Canada Martin Daigle, Spain David Alcaide
- Poland Tomaz Kaplan, Saudi Arabia Mohammed Al Harthi, United Arab Emirates Jamil Hussain, Canada John Morra
- United Arab Emirates Amin Fekry, Estonia Dennis Grabe, Qatar Mohamed Buainain, Italy Bruno Muratore
- Eritrea Hamzah Al Saeed, Singapore Chan Keng Kwang, Qatar Obaidly Khamis, Saudi Arabia Omar Al Omari
- Qatar Mohammed Al Bin Ali, Saudi Arabia Badr Al Hamdan, Bangladesh Ramiz Turulja, Chinese Taipei Cheng Chieh Liu