2014 WPA World Nine-ball Championship explained

WPA World 9-Ball Championship 2014
Location:	al-Arabi Sports Club, Doha, Qatar
Start Date:	June 16, 2014
End Date:	June 27, 20164^[1]
Sport:	9-ball
Participants:	128
Tournament Format:	Double elimination / Single elimination
Host:	WPA World Nine-ball Championship
Champion:	Niels Feijen
Runner-Up1:	Albin Ouschan
Previous:	2013
Next:	2015

The 2014 WPA World Nine-ball Championship was the 23rd edition of the 9-Ball pool World Championships. It took place from June 16 to 27, 2014 in the al-Attiya Sports Arena of the Al-Arabi Sports Club in Doha. The Qatari capital was the fifth time in a row the venue for the 9-Ball Championships.

Dutch Niels Feijen defeated Austria's Albin Ouschan in the final, winning 13 - 10.^[2] Defending champion Thorsten Hohmann would lose in the round of 64, to Marco Teutscher.^[3]

Tournament format

The tournament was attended by 128 players. In the preliminary round was played in the double elimination tournament system.^[4] Winners of these games would qualify for the final round, which is played in the knockout system.^{[5] [6]}

Brackets

Preliminary Round

The preliminary round was played between the 21–24 June 2014.

The following players won one game in the double-elimination round, and were classified as finishing between 65 and 96.

• India Sumit Talwar
• Canada Erik Hjorleifson
• Scott Cooney
• Jalal Yousef
• Abdul Rahman al-Ammar
• Romania Babken Melkonyan
  • Kuo Po-Cheng
• China Liu Haitao
• United States Hunter Lombardo
  • Venezuela, Bolivarian Republic of Abdullah al-Yusef
  • Netherlands Ko Ping-chung
• Sweden Tom Storm
• New Zealand Glen Coutts
• Maj al-Azmi
• Efren Reyes
• Mazen Berjaoui
• Elvis Calasang
• United States Brandon Shuff
• Iran, Islamic Republic of Mohammadali Pordel
• Nguyen Anh Tuan
• Qatar Ali Obaidly
• Finland Petri Makkonen
• United States Corey Deuel
• Poland Tomasz Kapłan
• Israel Rota
• Omar Al-Shaheen
  • • Ukraine Omran Salem

The following players lost twice and won no matches in the double-elimination round, and were classified 97-128.

• Mohammed al-Hosani
• Qatar Mohd Al Bin Ali
• Canada John Morra
• Iraq Hasan Hwaida Idan
• Eritrea Hamzaa Saeed Ali
• Ahmed Taufiq
• Qatar Mishel Turkey
• Fahim Sinha
• Japan Yukio Akakariyama
• Detlef Grzella
• Egypt Mohamed Hamouda
• Hong Kong Eric Lee
• Poland Karol Skowerski
• Abdulla Mohammad
• Hungary Vilmos Földes
• Jordan Nour Wasfi al-Jarrah
• Sayeem Hossain
• Estonia Denis Grabe
• Netherlands Stefan Sprangers
  • Egypt Mohamed Elassal
  • Austria Mohammad Ali Berjaou
• Ecuador Christian Aguirre
• Bader al-Hamdan
• Koh Seng Ann Aaron
• J-Ram Alabanzas
• Imran Majid
• So Shaw
  • • Hong Kong Qatar Canada Mario Morra

Final Round

The knockout round was played between the 25 - 27 June 2014.

External links

• WPA 9-Ball-World Championship 2014 from the World Pool-Billiard Association
• WPA World 9-Ball Championship 2015 at azbilliards.com

Notes and References

1. Web site: 2014 World 9-Ball Supremacy Up For Grabs In Doha . azbilliards.com . 2018-08-14 .
2. Web site: The Terminator Snaps It Off . azbilliards.com . 2018-08-14 .
3. Web site: Now It's Anybody's Ball Game . azbilliards.com . 2018-08-14 .
4. Web site: Preliminary rounds brackets . World Pool-Billiard Association . qbsf.qa . 2018-08-14 . World Pool-Billiard Association . March 4, 2016 . https://web.archive.org/web/20160304064315/http://www.qbsf.qa/en/downloads/2014/2014_W9BC_Group_Round.pdf . dead .
5. Web site: WPA World 9-Ball Championship 2014 . azbilliards.com . 2018-08-14 .
6. Web site: Knockout Rounds bracket . World Pool-Billiard Association . qbsf.qa . 2018-08-14 . World Pool-Billiard Association . August 14, 2018 . https://web.archive.org/web/20180814232736/http://www.qbsf.qa/en/downloads/2014/2014_W9BC_Final_round_format.pdf . dead .