| WPA World 9-Ball Championship 2006 | |
| Location: | International Convention Center, Pasay, Philippines |
| Start Date: | 4 November 2006[1] |
| End Date: | 12 November 2006 |
| Sport: | 9-ball |
| Participants: | 128 |
| Tournament Format: | Round robin / Single Elimination |
| Host: | WPA World Nine-ball Championship |
| Champion: |  Ronnie Alcano[2] |
| Runner-Up1: | Ralf Souquet |
| Previous: | 2005 |
| Next: | 2007 |
The 2006 WPA World Nine-ball Championship was the seventeenth edition of the WPA World Nine-ball Championship and took place between 4 and 12 November 2006 at the Philippine International Convention Center in Pasay, Philippines. The event was to be held for the first time in the Philippines, on a two-year deal, including the 2007 WPA World Nine-ball Championship.[3] The championships were hosted by the World Pool Billiard Association (WPA).
Ronato Alcano won the championship with a 17 - 11 win in the final against Ralf Souquet of Germany.[4] [5] Defending champion Wu Chia-ching was defeated in the quarter-final by Alcano.
The event featured 128 players, with an . The event featured a preliminary round robin format to half the field to 64; where the event changed to a knockout format.
| Position | Prize | |
|---|---|---|
| First Place (champion) | $100.000 | |
| Second Place (runner-up) | $40.000 | |
| Third Place (semi-finalist) | $20.000 | |
| Fifth place (quarter finalist) | $10.000 | |
| Ninth place (loser in round of 16) | $4.500 | |
| Seventeenth place (loser in round of 32) | $3.000 | |
| Thirty Third (loser in round of 64) | $2.000 | |
| Sixty Fifth place (Third place in round robin group) | $1.000 | |
| Ninety Seventh place (Fourth place in round robin group) | $0 |
The Preliminary round was played over three days between 4 and 7 November. There were 32 groups of 4, with the first two in each group progressing. Nine top 32 players were knocked out in this section[6]
Alex Pagulayan (4)
Mika Immonen (11)
Rodney Morris (12) Jose Parica (23)
Christian Reimering (28)
Kunihiko Takahashi (29)The qualifying 64 players would play a knockout structure over six days.[6] The first two rounds were competed as "race to 10", the next three rounds as "race to 11", and the final, as a "race to 17".[6] [7]