The 2014
World Cup of Pool
The World Cup of Pool is an annual international single-elimination tournament for doubles teams in nine-ball pool competition. The event has been dominated by the Philippines and China, with both nations winning the event on three occasions.
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was the ninth edition of the tournament. The event was once again held in England, this time at the
Mountbatten Centre
The Mountbatten Centre is a leisure centre in Portsmouth, England, which opened in 1979. The "Mountbatten Centre" is located in Hilsea, an area in Portsmouth.
Facilities
*8 lane 50 m pool
*12.5 m teaching pool
*150 station fitness gym
*5-a-s ...
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Portsmouth, from 23 to 28 September. The 2014 event was sponsored by
Betway.
Betway World Cup of Pool 2014
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Prize fund
*Winners (per pair): $60,000
*Runners-up (per pair): $30,000
*Semi-finalists (per pair): $16,000
*Quarter-finalists (per pair): $10,000
*Last 16 losers (per pair): $5,000
*Last 32 losers (per pair): $3,000
Participating nations
*Seeded teams:
*# ( Dennis Orcollo & Lee Vann Corteza)
*# ( Niels Feijen & Nick van den Berg)
*# ( Wang Can & Dang Jinhu)
*# A ( Darren Appleton & Karl Boyes
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Biography
He was a 1959 graduate of Edinboro State College and attended classes at Allegheny College and Union College. He was ...
)
*# ( Shane Van Boening & Earl Strickland
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)
*# (Chang Yu-lung
Chang Yu-lung is a Taiwanese pool (billiards), pool player, and winner of the 2015 World Cup of Pool alongside Ko Pin-yi. Yu-Lung won the 2015 ''Steinway Classic'' defeating Ko Ping-chung in the final.
Titles
* 2015 World Cup of Pool - with (Ko ...
& Hsu Kai Lun)
*# ( Ralf Souquet & Thorsten Hohmann
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)
*# ( Mika Immonen & Petri Makkonen)
*# ( Karol Skowerski & Mateusz Śniegocki)
*# (Alex Pagulayan
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& John Morra
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)
*# (Albin Ouschan
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& Mario He
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Career
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)
*# ( Hayato Hijikata & Masaaki Tanaka
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)
*# (Nikos Ekonomopoulos
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& Alexander Kazakis)
*# B (Daryl Peach
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& Chris Melling)
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& Olivier Mortier)
*# (Fabio Petroni
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Career
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& Daniele Corrieri)
*Unseeded teams:
** ( Phil Reilly & James Georgiadis)
** ( Alejandro Carvajal & Enrique Rojas
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)
** ( Ivica Putnik & Karlo Dalmatin)
** (Roman Hybler
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Career
Hybler took up pool aged 12. His first club was t ...
& Michal Gavenciak)
** ( Stephan Cohen & Alex Montpelier)
** ( Raj Hundal & Amar Kang)
** ( Irsal Nasution & Muhammad Zulfikri
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** ( Jeong Yung Hwa & Ha Minuk)
** (Ibrahim Amir
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& Alan Tan
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)
** ( Tony Drago & Alex Borg)
** ( Manuel Gama & Guilherme Sousa)
** (Waleed Majid
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Majid has also competed at t ...
& Bashar Hussain)
** (Konstantin Stepanov
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& Ruslan Chinakhov
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)
** ( David Alcaide & Francisco Diaz-Pizarro
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** ( Andreas Gerwen & Tomas Larsson)
** ( Dimitri Jungo & Ronni Regli)
Tournament bracket
References
External links
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