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WPA World 9-Ball Championship 2004
Tournament information
SportNine-ball
LocationTapei, Taiwan
DatesJuly 10, 2004–July 18, 2004
Tournament
format(s)
Round robin / Single Elimination
Host(s)WPA World Nine-ball Championship
Participants128
Final positions
ChampionCanada Alex Pagulayan
Runner-upTaiwan Chang Pei-Wei
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The WPA 9-Ball World Championship 2004 was the 15th edition of the WPA World Championship for 9-Ball Pool. It took place from July 10 to 18, 2004 in the Taiwanese capital city Taipei.[1]

Canadian Alex Pagulayan won the championship with a 17–13 victory in the final against Taiwanese Chang Pei-Wei . Defending champion Thorsten Hohmann dropped out in the round of 32 against Kang Chin-ching from Chinese Taipei.[2]

Format

The 128 participating players were divided into 16 groups, in which they competed in round robin mode against each other. The top four players in each group qualified for the final round played in the knockout system, featuring the remaining 64 players.[3]

Group stage

The following players exited the competition in the group stage:[4][5]

5. Place 6. Place 7. Place 8. Place
Group 1: Switzerland Marco Tschudi [de] Puerto Rico Alan Rolon [de] United States Tim Hall Costa Rica Giovanni Orozco [de]
Group 2: India Alok Kumar Finland Markus Juva Japan Shintaro Sugaya [de] United States Corey Harper [de]
Group 3: Poland Radosław Babica Mexico Ismael Páez Italy Vittorio De Falco [de] Australia David Reljic [de]
Group 4: England Daryl Peach Germany Michael Schmidt (pool player) Japan Kazuo Furuta [de] Argentina Gustavo Espinosa [de]
Group 5: South Africa Yulan Govender [de] South Korea Ryu Seung-woo (pool player) United Arab Emirates Hanni al-Howri [de] Canada Al Logan
Group 6: England James Kay Australia Emile Riera [de] Canada Cliff Thorburn England Anthony Ginn [de]
Group 7: Germany Thomas Engert Slovenia Marco Bacarcic [de] New Zealand Phil Wilkinson [de] United States Steve Lillis [de]
Group 8: Chinese Taipei Hsu Chun-yang [de] Republic of Ireland Tommy Donlon [de] Malaysia Ibrahim Bin Amir [de] Aruba Richard Wolff
Group 9: Hungary Vilmos Földes Malaysia Alan Tan [de] United States Mike Davis (pool player) Indonesia Kamarudin Yudharman [de]
Group 10: Japan Hiroshi Takenaka [de] New Zealand Jimmy Henry [de] Finland Stefan Selberg [de] England Kevin Hew [de]
Group 11: Japan Akikumo Toshikawa [de] Luxembourg Marc Holtz [de] England Raj Hundal Indonesia Siauw Wieto [de]
Group 12: England Kevin Smith Thailand Chachawal Rutphae [de] Canada Chris Orme [de] South Africa David Anderson
Group 13: Netherlands Niels Feijen South Korea Park Shin-young [de] New Zealand Matthew McInnes [de] Spain Gabriel Carral [de]
Group 14: Croatia Ivica Putnik [de] United States Max Eberle Chinese Taipei Chien Ming-wei [de] South Korea Lee Jang-su [de]
Group 15: South Korea Jeong Young-hwa [de] Japan Kunihiko Takahashi Australia Phil Reilly [de] Germany Sascha Trautmann [de]
Group 16: Philippines Jose Parica Denmark Kasper Kristoffersen [de] United States Jeremy Jones Thailand Surathep Phoochalam [de]

Final round

[4][6][7]

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References

  1. ^ "WPA World Nine-ball Championship, Pool (cue sports) trophy | edubilla.com". Edubilla.com. Archived from the original on October 25, 2015. Retrieved June 27, 2018.
  2. ^ "Pagulayan and Chang in WPC Final". azbilliards.com. Archived from the original on March 18, 2016. Retrieved June 27, 2018.
  3. ^ "World Champions - WPA Pool". WPA Pool. Archived from the original on June 19, 2018. Retrieved June 27, 2018.
  4. ^ a b "2004 WPA World Pool Championship" (PDF). csns.ca. Cue Sports Nova Scotia. July 20, 2015. Archived from the original (PDF; 100 KB) on September 23, 2015.
  5. ^ "World Championship List of Entrants and Groups". azbilliards.com. Archived from the original on March 17, 2016. Retrieved June 27, 2018.
  6. ^ "Accomplishments – Alex "The Lion" Pagulayan". alexpagulayan.com. Archived from the original on April 19, 2016. Retrieved June 27, 2018.
  7. ^ "WPA World Pool Championship 2004". azbilliards.com. Archived from the original on July 5, 2017. Retrieved June 27, 2018.
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