The 2019

WPA World Nine-ball Championship The WPA World Nine-ball Championship is an annual professional nine-ball pool tournament contested since 1990. The championship is sanctioned by the World Pool-Billiard Association (WPA) and principally sponsored and organised by Matchroom Sport, ...

was a nine-ball pool championship, which took place from December 13 to 17, 2019 at the al-Arabi Sports Club in

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, Qatar. The defending champion was Germany's

Joshua Filler Joshua Filler (born 2 October 1997) is a German pool player from Bönen, Germany. In 2018 Filler defeated Carlo Biado 13–10 to win the 2018 WPA World Nine-ball Championship. The same year he was the youngest player to win the China Open and ...

, who won the 2018 event defeating

Carlo Biado Carlo Biado (born October 31, 1983) is a Filipino professional pool player. Early life Biado has roots in Rosario, La Union and/or Nueva Ecija. He started playing pool when he was age 13 and worked as a caddie at the Villamor Air Base golf cour ...

in the final 13–10. Russian

Fedor Gorst Fedor Alekseyevich Gorst (russian: Фёдор Алексеевич Горст; born May 31, 2000, in Moscow) is a Russian-born American professional pool player. Career In December 2018, Gorst reached 8th in the World Pool-Billiard Association ( ...

won the event, defeating Taipei's

Chang Jung-lin Chang Jung-lin (born May 2, 1985) is a Taiwanese 8-ball and Nine-ball pool player. He became WPA World Eight-ball Champion in 2012 and won the silver medal at the 2013 World Games for Nine-ball. Jun-Lin is a former world number 1, having don ...

in the final 13–11.

Results

Finals

The following is results from the last-16 stage onwards.

Grand Final

References

External links

{{World championships in 2019

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International sports competitions hosted by Qatar

Sports competitions in Doha