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WPA World 9-Ball Championship 2005
Tournament information
SportNine-ball
LocationKaohsiung, Tapei, Taiwan
DatesJuly 2, 2005–July 10, 2005
Tournament
format(s)
Round robin / Single Elimination
Host(s)WPA World Nine-ball Championship
Participants128[1]
Final positions
ChampionChinese Taipei Wu Chia-ching[2][3]
Runner-upChinese Taipei Kuo Po-Cheng[2]
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The WPA 9-Ball World Championship 2005 was the 16th edition of the WPA World Championship for 9-Ball Pool. It took place from July 2 to 10, 2005 in the Taiwanese capital city Taipei, at Kaohsiung.[4]

Taiwanese Wu Chia-ching won the championship with a 17–16 victory in the final against compatriot Kuo Po-Cheng. Defending champion Alex Pagulayan was eliminated by Vilmos Földes in the round of 32.

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.

Group stage

The following players exited the competition in the group stage:[2][5]

5. Place 6. Place 7. Place 8. Place
Group 1: Germany Jakob Belka [de] Netherlands Rico Diks [de] South Africa Yulan Govender [de] Chinese Taipei Pan Shen-ping [de]
Group 2: Australia Phil Reilly [de] Malaysia Patrick Ooi [de] England Steve Higton [de] Venezuela Jerry Calderon [de]
Group 3: England Imran Majid India Manan Chandra Greece Lambros Vrakas [de] United States Charlie Williams
Group 4: Chinese Taipei Kang Chin-ching [de] Philippines Efren Reyes Poland Tomasz Kapłan Denmark Jakob Lyng
Group 5: Poland Radosław Babica Wales Ben Davies Mexico Ismael Páez Japan Naoyuki Ōi
Group 6: Sweden Erik Weiselius [de] Philippines Antonio Lining Hong Kong Au Chi Wai [de] Singapore Steve Hock Chin [de]
Group 7: South Korea Kim Wong-dea [de] Finland Marko Lohtander [de] Chinese Taipei Zeng Ding-yuan [de] Canada Jeff White
Group 8: Spain Samir Kaddur [de] England Craig Osborne [de] Argentina Gustavo Espinosa [de] Malaysia Alan Tan [de]
Group 9: Belgium Jan Dulst [de] Singapore Chan Keng Kwang [de] Venezuela José Luis Perez [de] Pakistan Irfan Ahmed Khan [de]
Group 10: United States John Schmidt New Zealand Ceri Worts [de] Spain David Alcaide England Anthony Ginn [de]
Group 11: Chile Enrique Rojas [de] United Arab Emirates Hanni al-Howri [de] Austria Cetin Aslan [de] Australia Louis Condo [de]
Group 12: Italy Fabio Petroni Germany Thorsten Schober [de] South Korea Jeong Young-hwa [de] Thailand Washana Poonjaeng [de]
Group 13: Norway Roger Lysholm [de] Canada Erik Hjorleifson [de] Indonesia Siauw Wieto [de] Hong Kong Lee Chenman [de]
Group 14: Serbia and Montenegro Šandor Tot United States Shawn Putnam [de] Germany Nicolas Ottermann [de] Japan Hiroshi Takenaka [de]
Group 15: Croatia Goran Mladenovic [de] India Dharminder Singh Lilly [de] Australia Stuart Lawler [de] Sweden David Larsson [de]
Group 16: Netherlands Gilliano Smit [de] Germany Ralf Souquet Singapore Tiong Boon Tan [de] New Zealand Phil Wilkinson [de]

Final round

[2][3]

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References

  1. ^ "WPA World Pool Championship 2005". azbilliards.com. Archived from the original on September 23, 2015. Retrieved June 28, 2018.
  2. ^ a b c d "WPA World Pool Championship 2005". azbilliards.com. Archived from the original on July 5, 2017. Retrieved June 28, 2018.
  3. ^ a b Affairs, Ministry of Foreign; (Taiwan), Republic of China (May 2008). "Local pool players cue up against global competition - Taiwan Today". Taiwan Today. Archived from the original on June 28, 2018. Retrieved June 28, 2018.
  4. ^ "'Little Genius' vs. 'Little Monster' in all-Taiwan final". azbilliards.com. Archived from the original on June 28, 2018. Retrieved June 28, 2018.
  5. ^ "2005 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.
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