2018 World Cup of Pool explained

Tournament Name:	World Cup of Pool XII
Dates:	15–20 May
Venue:	Luwan Gymnasium
Location:	Shanghai
Country:	China
Organisation:	Matchroom Sport
Total Prize Fund:	$250,000
Winners Share:	$60,000
Winner:	A
Score:	10–3
Previous:	2017
Next:	2019

The 2018 World Cup of Pool was the twelfth edition of the tournament. The event took place in Luwan Gymnasium, Shanghai, China, from 15 to 20 May 2018.^[1]

Prize fund

• Winners (per pair): $60,000
• Runners-up (per pair): $30,000
• Semi-finalists (per pair): $15,000
• Quarter-finalists (per pair): $9,000
• Last 16 losers (per pair): $4,500
• Last 32 losers (per pair): $3,625

Participating nations

• Seeded teams:
  1. Austria (Mario He & Albin Ouschan)
  2. China A (Wu Jia-qing & Liu Haitao)
  3. (Chang Jung-Lin & Cheng Yu-hsuan)
  4. Philippines (Carlo Biado & Jeff de Luna)
  5. Germany (Ralf Souquet & Joshua Filler)
  6. United States (Shane Van Boening & Skyler Woodward)
  7. Spain (David Alcaide & Francisco Sánchez Ruíz)
  8. Netherlands (Niels Feijen & Marc Bijsterbosch)
  9. Canada (Jason Klatt & Alex Pagulayan)
  10. Japan (Naoyuki Ōi & Tōru Kuribayashi)
  11. Finland (Mika Immonen & Petri Makkonen)
  12. China B (Dejing Kong & Ming Wang)
  13. (Imran Majid & Mark Gray)
  14. Greece (Alexander Kazakis & Nick Malaj)
  15. (Ruslan Chinakhov & Fedor Gorst)
  16. Poland (Mateusz Śniegocki & Wiktor Zieliński)

• Unseeded teams:
  • Albania (Eklent Kaçi & Edmond Zaja)
  • (Jayson Shaw & Scott Gillespie)
  • Sweden (Christian Sparrenloev-Fischer & Tomas Larsen)
  • (Ryu Seung-woo & Jeong Young-hwa)
  • Estonia (Denis Grabe & Mark Mägi)
  • Indonesia (Arun & Feri Satriyadi)
  • Singapore (Aloysius Yapp & Toh Lian Han)
  • Thailand (Nitiwat Kanjanasri & Tanut Makkamontree)
  • Malaysia (Muhammad Almie & Darryl Chia)
  • Hong Kong (Lo Ho Sum & Robbie Capito)
  • New Zealand (Matt Edwards & Marco Teutscher)
  • Australia (James Delahunty & Justin Sajich)
  • Chile (Alejandro Carvajal & Enrique Rojas)
  • Kuwait (Bader Al Awadhi & Mohammad Al Khashawi)
  • (Dương Quốc Hoàng & Nguyễn Anh Tuấn)
  • South Africa (Richard Halliday & Jacobus Le Roux)

Notes and References

1. Web site: World Cup of Pool - Matchroom Pool . Matchroom Pool . 2018-08-21 .