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

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. The event was to be held for the first time in the Philippines, on a two-year deal, including the

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. The championships were hosted by the World Pool Billiard Association (WPA).

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won the championship with a 17–11 win in the final against Ralf Souquet of Germany. Defending champion Wu Chia-ching was defeated in the quarter-final by Alcano.

Tournament format

The event featured 128 players, with an . The event featured a preliminary

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format to half the field to 64; where the event changed to a knockout format.

Prize money

Preliminary round

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 *

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Rodney Morris Rodney Morris (born 25 November 1970 in Anaheim, California, USA) is a professional pool player of Chamorro - Hawaiian descent. Nicknamed "Rocket" he currently resides in Acworth, Georgia. Rodney married his wife Rheyannon in July 2020. Career I ...

(12) * Niels Feijen (18) *

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(23) * Alex Lely (25) * Chang Pei-Wei (26) *

Christian Reimering Christian Reimering is a professional pool player from Leverkusen, Germany. Reimering reached the last-16 stage of the world championship on four occasions. He did so at the 1993, 1998, and 2010 event in nine-ball, and the 2005 WPA World Eight-b ...

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Kunihiko Takahashi (born March 4, 1969 in Nagasaki) is a Japanese professional pool player and a WPA World Nine-ball Champion. Nicknamed "the Sniper". He began practicing pool at 17 and turned professional in 1996. In 1998, he won the WPA World Nine-ball Champion ...

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Final round

The qualifying 64 players would play a knockout structure over six days. 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".

Notes and references

Notes

References

External links

Live scoring at WPA-pool.com

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