The 2015
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 tenth edition of the tournament. The event was held in
York Hall
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,
London
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,
England
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, from September 22 to 27. The 2015 event was sponsored by
Dafabet.
Dafabet World Cup of Pool 2015
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Prize fund
*Winners (per pair): $60,000
*Runners-up (per pair): $30,000
*Semi-finalists (per pair): $15,000
*Quarter-finalists (per pair): $9,000
*Last 16 losers (per pair): $4,500
*Last 32 losers (per pair): $3,625
Participating nations
*Seeded teams:
*# A ( Darren Appleton & 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 ...
)
*# ( Carlo Biado & Warren Kiamco
Warren Kiamco (born May 2, 1970) is a Filipino professional pool player from Cebu, Philippines. He is known for his performances in the Southeast Asian and Asian Games.
Kiamco was a runner-up in three events of the Asian Nine-ball Tour but nev ...
)
*# ( Niels Feijen & Nick van den Berg)
*# ( Ko Pin-yi & 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 ...
)
*# (Albin Ouschan
Albin Alois Ouschan (born August 14, 1990, in Klagenfurt, Austria)
is an Austrian pool and billiards player. Ouschan was the 2016 WPA World Nine-ball Championship winner, as well as the runner-up in 2014. He also won the 14.1 Continuous European ...
& 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
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)
*# (Shane Van Boening
Shane Van Boening (; born July 14, 1983) is an American professional pool player from Rapid City, South Dakota. As of 2022, Van Boening is the number 1 ranked player in the "World Rankings" published by the Matchroom Pool and the "WPA Rankings ...
& Mike Dechaine)
*# (Nikos Ekonomopoulos
Nikos Ekonomopoulos (Greek Νίκος Οικονομόπουλος ''Nikos Ikonomopoulos'', also: ''Nick Ekonomopoulos''; born 22 February 1982 in Athens) is a Greek professional pool player. Ekonomopoulos won the Junior 8-ball World Championship ...
& Alexander Kazakis)
*# (Li Hewen
Li Hewen (; born November 30, 1981, in Liaoning, China) is a Chinese professional pool player. He made it to the finals in the Vietnam leg of the 2006 WPA Asian Nine-ball Tour, but lost to Efren Reyes.
In 2006, Li Hewen reached the semi-finals ...
& Liu Haitao)
*# ( Ralf Souquet & Thorsten Hohmann
Thorsten Hohmann (born 14 July 1979 in Fulda, West Germany) is a German professional pool player, nicknamed "the Hitman." He is a three-time world champion, winning the WPA World Nine-ball Championship in 2003, and 2013, and winning the WPA Worl ...
)
*# ( Mika Immonen & Petri Makkonen)
*# (Francisco Diaz-Pizarro
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& Francisco Sanchez Ruiz
Francisco is the Spanish and Portuguese form of the masculine given name ''Franciscus''.
Nicknames
In Spanish, people with the name Francisco are sometimes nicknamed "Paco". San Francisco de Asís was known as ''Pater Comunitatis'' (father of ...
)
*# (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 ...
& John Morra
John Morra (born May 25, 1989) is a Canadian professional pool player. Morra has represented Canada at the World Cup of Pool on seven occasions, partnering Jason Klatt in 2011, 2012 and 2015, and Alex Pagulayan in 2013, 2014, 2017 and 2019. Morra ...
)
*# (Mateusz Śniegocki
Mateusz Śniegocki (born 3 January 1985 in Poznan) is a Polish professional pool player. Śniegocki is a former 10-Ball European champion and three-time winner of events at the Euro Tour.
Career
Śniegocki started playing billiards in a club ...
& Wojciech Szewczyk)
*# (Naoyuki Oi
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*, Japanese lawyer, diplomat, academic and writer
*, Japanese samurai
* ...
& 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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)
*# B ( Mark Gray & Daryl Peach
Daryl Peach (born 8 March 1972) is an English professional pool player, from Lancashire, who resides in Blackpool, England. He won the 2007 WPA World Nine-ball Championship, where he defeated the Philippines' Roberto Gomez 17–15 in the fina ...
)
*# (Jeong Yung Hwa & Ryu Seung Wu)
*Unseeded teams:
** (Ibrahim Bin Amir & Kok Jken Yung)
** (Marcus Chamat
Marcus Chamat (; born 6 May 1975), is a Swedish professional eight-ball and nine-ball pool player. He was nicknamed "Napoleon" due to his personality and standing at tall. He is a two time European Pool Championships winner, and one of the most ...
& Christian Sparrenloev-Fischer)
** (Danieli Corrieri & Antonio Benvenuto)
** (Matt Edwards
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& Nick Pera)
** ( Stephan Cohen & Alex Montpellier
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** (Roman Hybler
Roman Hybler (born 27 December 1977 in Liberec, Czech Republic) is a Czech professional pool player. Hybler is most well known for winning the ''2002 German Open'' Euro Tour event.
Career
Hybler took up pool aged 12. His first club was t ...
& Michal Gavenciak)
** (Serge Das & Olivier Mortier)
** (Muhammad Simanjuntak & Irsal Nasution)
** ( Babken Melkonyan & Ioan Ladanyi)
** (Aloysius Yapp & Chan Keng Kwang)
** (Waleed Majid
Waleed Majid (born 22 September 1987 in Kuwait) is a Qatari professional pool player. Majid has played in several World Cup of Pool events representing Qatar, including reaching the quarter-finals at the 2015 event.
Majid has also competed at t ...
& Bashar Hussain)
** (Cristopher Tevez & Manuel Chau)
** ( Denis Grabe & Erki Erm)
** ( Raj Hundal & Amar Kang)
** ( Ruslan Chinakhov & 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 ...
)
** (Robby Foldvari & Chris Calabrese)
Tournament bracket
References
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