The 2014 WPA World Nine-ball Championship was the 23rd edition of the 9-Ball pool World Championships. It took place from June 16 to 27, 2014 in the al-Attiya Sports Arena of the Al-Arabi Sports Club in Doha. The Qatari capital was the fifth time in a row the venue for the 9-Ball Championships.
Dutch Niels Feijen defeated Austria's Albin Ouschan in the final, winning 13–10. Defending champion Thorsten Hohmann would lose in the round of 64, to Marco Teutscher.
Tournament format The tournament was attended by 128 players. In the preliminary round was played in the double elimination tournament system. Winners of these games would qualify for the final round, which is played in the knockout system.
Brackets Preliminary Round The preliminary round was played between the 21–24 June 2014.
The following players won one game in the double-elimination round, and were classified as finishing between 65 and 96.
Sumit Talwar Erik Hjorleifson Scott Cooney Jalal Yousef Abdul Rahman al-Ammar Babken Melkonyan
Kuo Po-cheng Liu Haitao Hunter Lombardo
Abdullah al-Yusef
Ko Ping-chung Tom Storm Glen Coutts Maj al-Azmi Efren Reyes Mazen Berjaoui Elvis Calasang Brandon Shuff Mohammadali Pordel Nguyen Anh Tuan Ali Obaidly Petri Makkonen Corey Deuel Tomasz Kapłan Israel Rota Omar Al-Shaheen
Omran Salem
The following players lost twice and won no matches in the double-elimination round, and were classified 97–128.
Mohammed al-Hosani Mohd Al Bin Ali John Morra Hasan Hwaida Idan Hamzaa Saeed Ali Ahmed Taufiq Mishel Turkey Fahim Sinha Yukio Akakariyama Detlef Grzella Mohamed Hamouda Eric Lee Karol Skowerski Abdulla Mohammad Vilmos Földes Nour Wasfi al-Jarrah Sayeem Hossain Denis Grabe Stefan Sprangers
Mohamed Elassal
Mohammad Ali Berjaou Christian Aguirre Bader al-Hamdan Koh Seng Ann Aaron J-Ram Alabanzas Imran Majid So Shaw
Bashar Hussain Mario Morra
Final Round The knockout round was played between the 25–27 June 2014.
References
External links WPA 9-Ball-World Championship 2014 from the World Pool-Billiard Association WPA World 9-Ball Championship 2015 at azbilliards.com