The 2010 World Cup of Pool was the fifth
World Cup of Pool championship. It was held at the
Robinsons Place Manila in
Manila,
Philippines, from September 7 to 12, 2010. China won this year's event.
Rules
*Winners' break.
*Teammates take shots alternately.
*Race to eight racks for matches prior to the quarterfinals.
*Race to nine racks for matches from the quarterfinals to the semifinals.
*Race to ten racks for the Final.
*Eighty-second shot clock for the shot immediately after the break, forty seconds for other shots.
*In order for a break to be legal, two balls must pass over the head string.
Prize fund
Participating nations
*Seeded teams:
*# A (
Efren Reyes and
Francisco Bustamante
Francisco Bustamante (born December 29, 1963) is a Filipino professional pool player from Tarlac, Central Luzon and the 2010 World Nine-ball Champion, nicknamed "Django", after the lead character of the 1966 film of the same name, )
*# (
Rodney Morris and
Johnny Archer)
*# B (
Roberto Gomez and
Dennis Orcollo)
*# (
Daryl Peach and
Karl Boyes
Karl W. Boyes (March 1, 1936 – May 11, 2003) was a Republican member of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives.
Biography
He was a 1959 graduate of Edinboro State College and attended classes at Allegheny College and Union College. He was ...
)
*# B (
Ralf Souquet and
Oliver Ortmann)
*# (
Niels Feijen and
Huidji See)
*# (
Ko Pin-yi and
Chang Jung-lin)
*# (
Fu Jian-bo and
Li He-wen)
*# (
Fabio Petroni
Fabio Petroni (born 30 March 1972 in Rome, Italy) is an Italian professional pool player.
Career
Fabio Petroni was born in 1972 in Rome, Italy and began playing billiards when he was 13 years old. In 1993, he became the first Italian champion ...
and
Bruno Muratore)
*# (
Naoyuki Oi
Naoyuki (written: 直之, 直行, 直幸, 尚幸, 尚之, 尚志, 尚往 or なおゆき in hiragana) is a masculine Japanese given name. Notable people with the name include:
*, Japanese lawyer, diplomat, academic and writer
*, Japanese samurai
* ...
and
Toru Kuribayashi TORU or Toru may refer to:
*TORU, spacecraft system
*Toru (given name), Japanese male given name
*Toru, Pakistan, village in Mardan District of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan
*Tõru
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)
*# (
Mika Immonen and
Markus Juva
Markus Juva (born 4 June 1975 in Helsinki, Finland) is a professional Finnish pool player. At the 2007 World Cup of Pool, Juva and partner Mika Immonen reached the final, only to lose 11–10., and competed in the event on four other occasions. ...
)
*# (
John Morra and
Jason Klatt
Jason Klatt (Born 18. April 1986) is a Canadian professional pool player. Klatt has represented Canada at three straight World Cup of Pool events, between 2009 and 2011. Klatt's best performance at a world championship came at the 2014 WPA World ...
)
*# (
Stephan Cohen and
Francois Cottance)
*# (
David Alcaide and
Francisco Sanchez Ruiz
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Nicknames
In Spanish, people with the name Francisco are sometimes nicknamed "Paco". San Francisco de Asís was known as ''Pater Comunitatis'' (father of ...
)
*# (
Radosław Babica
Radosław Babica (Born 18 July 1979) is Polish professional pool player from Kielce, who reached number 12 in the World Pool-Billiard Association world rankings in 2009.
Career
Babica final reached the European Pool Championships final of the ...
and
Mariusz Skoneczny Mariusz is a Slavic-language masculine name, and may refer to:
* Mariusz Czerkawski (b. 1972), Polish ice hockey player
*Mariusz Duda (b. 1975), Polish musician
* Mariusz Fyrstenberg (b. 1980), Polish tennis player
*Mariusz Jędra
*Mariusz Jop
*Mari ...
)
*# (
Muhammad Zulfikri
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and
Ricky Yang)
*Unseeded teams:
** (James Delahunty and Ricky Emery)
** (
Mario He
Mario He (Born 3 August 1993, Rankweil, Austria) is an Austrian professional pool player. He is a former winner of the European Pool Championships, and winner of both the 2017 and 2019 World Cup of Pool events alongside Albin Ouschan.
Career
...
and
Jasmin Ouschan)
** (Serge Das and Noel Bruynooghe)
** (Carlo Dalmatin and Philipp Stojanovic)
** (Lee Chenman and Kenny Kwok)
** (
Raj Hundal
Raj Hundal (Born 30 September 1981 in London) is an English-born Indian professional pool player. Hundal is most famous for winning the 2005 World Pool Masters, where he defeated Rodney Morris in the final 9–8.
Hundal also represented Europ ...
and Dharminder Singh Lilly)
** (
Yu Ram Cha and
Ga Young Kim)
** (Ibrahim Bin Amir and Lee Poh Soon)
** (
Tony Drago and
Alex Borg)
** (Mohammad Al Bin Ali and Bashar Hussain)
** (
Konstantin Stepanov
Konstantin Stepanov (born 26 September 1983) (russian: Константин Степанов) is a Russian professional pool player. In 2002 he was the Russian 8-ball champion. During the 2006 WPA Men's World Nine-ball Championship he survived th ...
and
Ruslan Chinakhov
Ruslan Yuryevich Chinakhov (russian: Руслан Юрьевич Чинахов; born 25 January 1992) is a Russian professional primarily nine-ball pool player. Ruslan was the world nine-ball Juniors champion in 2009. Chinakhov has won several ...
)
** (Chan Keng Kwang and
Toh Lian Han Toh, TOH, or ToH may refer to:
* Tarso Toh, a volcano field in Chad
* '' This Old House'', an American home improvement magazine and television series
* Tonga language (Mozambique) (ISO-639: toh)
* Top-of-hour (TOH) station identification, a lega ...
)
** (Matjaz Erculj and Matej Sulek)
** (
Marcus Chamat and Thomas Mehtala)
** (Nitiwat Kanjanasri and Surethep Phoochalam)
** (
Luong Chi Dung
Liang (Romanization used in China, ) is an East Asian surname of Chinese origin. The surname is often transliterated as Leung (in Hong Kong) or Leong (in Macau, Hong Kong, Malaysia, Singapore, and the Philippines) according to its Cantonese and ...
and Do Hoang Quan)
Tournament bracket
References
External links
Official Site
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2010
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