Albin Ouschan will start the defence of his World Pool Championship crown at the Marshall Arena, Milton Keynes from April 6 to April 10 against Hong Kong’s Lo Ho Sum in the opening match of the tournament.
The two-time World Champion will get the action underway at 10 am UK time, a week today live on Sky Sports in the UK and DAZN in all available territories along with the strongest list of broadcasters worldwide to date.
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Other standout matches from Round 1 see the 2021 World Cup of Pool winner Joshua Filler meet 2012 Mosconi Cup MVP Chris Melling in the second match on Table 1. Elsewhere, Table 2 action will get underway live on the Matchroom Pool YouTube with Dennis Orcollo up against Pia Filler before fans will get to see Ko Pin-Yi face-off with Slovakia’s Jakub Koniar.
Albin Ouschan (file)｜©Taka Wu/Matchroom Multi Sport
2021 runner-up Omar Al-Shaheen faces South Africa’s JJ Faul and two-time Mosconi Cup MVP Jayson Shaw will meet South Africa’s, Vincent Halliday. The top two American seeds Shane Van Boening and Skyler Woodward will face Waleed Majid K Alars and Daniele Corrieri respectively.
No. 2 seed David Alcaide takes on Great Britain’s Benji Buckley and Chang Jung-Lin will meet Germany’s Veronika Ivanovskaia to start the tournament out. Current World Pool Masters champion, Alexander Kazakis meets Nicholas De Leon of the USA.
The Nineball World Rankings structure and seed the event, with 64 players seeded as follows:
- Top 40 off the 2022 Nineball World Rankings
- 24 determined by the WPA Rankings
Double elimination matches are all race to 9, with all matches from the Last 64 a race to 11 except the final, which is a race to 13.
David Alcaide (file)｜© Taka Wu/Matchroom Multi Sport
2022 世界撞球錦標賽將於下周三 4月6日至10日於英國舉辦，128名選手將在馬歇爾體育館展開一輪又一輪的激烈廝殺。
簽表已於英國時間30日下午由 Matchroom 於 Faceook 進行直播下完成抽籤。衛冕冠軍 Albin Ouschan 首戰對戰香港選手盧浩琛，收穫亞軍的科威特好手 Omar Al-Shaheen 則碰上南非的 JJ Faul；2號種子 David Alcaide 將迎戰英國的 Benji Buckley，現任世界撞球大師賽冠軍 Alexander Kazakis 則將對陣美國選手 Nicholas De Leon。美國兩位頂尖選手 Shane Van Boening 和 Skyler Woodward 將分別面對卡達選手 Waleed Majid K Alars 與義大利老將 Daniele Corrieri。
七位征戰英國的台灣選手，“天王殺手” 柯秉中首場比賽對上來自德國的 Tobias Bongers，哥哥柯秉逸將遇上斯洛伐克的 Jakub Koniar，弟弟柯秉漢則迎來立陶宛選手 Pijus Labutis，玉面飛龍對戰芬蘭前世界盃代表選手 Petri Makkonen，謝佳臻碰上 Sharik Sayed (新加坡)，“魔獸” 吳坤霖要對陣 So Shaw，而 “火雲邪神” 則將迎來德國女子球員 Veronika Ivanovskaia 的挑戰。
Ko Pin-Yi, 2015 Champion (file)｜©Richard Walker
其他亞洲選手方面，日本一哥大井 直幸首輪迎戰克羅埃西亞選手 Roberto Bartol，香港20歲小將 Robbie Capito 將對上日本老將赤狩山 幸男 ，斬獲2021 CSI密西根公開賽冠軍的新加坡之星葉浚惟 (Aloysius Yapp) 將對上瑞士老將 Dimitri Jungo。
女子選手方面，世錦賽冠軍 Kelly Fisher 迎來前美國青少年世錦賽代表 Justin Toye，德國選手 Pia Filler 碰上菲律賓名將 Dennis Orcollo，Ana Gradisnik 對陣名人堂成員 Mika Immonen，Amalia Matas 將挑戰來自奧地利的2021 FargoRate 俄亥俄公開賽冠軍 Mario He，另外在今年歐錦賽有不錯表現的土耳其選手 Eylul Kibaroglu 則對上瑞士的 Michael Schneider，最後，多次代表美國參加青少年世錦賽的 April Larson 則要迎戰另一位瑞士選手 Daniel Schneider。
比賽將採雙敗淘汰，搶9局制，決出的最後64強進入單敗淘汰階段後改搶11局直至半決賽，決賽則搶13局，總獎金方面也從25萬美元增加至32萬5千美元，獲勝選手將抱回6萬美元，亞軍選手也將收穫3萬美元將金。
主桌賽事將透過世界各地電視頻道進行轉播，台灣則可於博斯體育台收看轉播。另外副桌 (Table 2) 將在 Matchroom YouTube 進行直播。
ROUND 1 FIXTURES 首輪對陣表
| Albin Ouschan (1) vs Lo Hum Sum 盧浩琛 |
| David Alcaide (2) vs Benji Buckley |
| Shane Van Boening (3) vs Waleed Majid |
| Max Lechner (4) vs Jani Uski |
| Aloysius Yapp 葉浚惟 (5) vs Dimitri Jungo |
| Naoyuki Oi 大井 直幸 (6) vs Roberto Bartol |
| Ko Ping Chung 柯秉中 (7) vs Tobias Bongers |
| Joshua Filler (8) vs Chirs Melling |
| Eklent Kaçi (9) vs Mycherif Zine El Abidine |
| Alexander Kazakis (10) vs Nicholas De Leon |
| Chang Jung-Lin 張榮麟 (11) vs Veronika Ivanovskaia |
| Omar Al-Shaheen (12) vs JJ Faul |
| Ko Pin-Yi 柯秉逸 (13) vs Jakub Koniar |
| Jayson Shaw (14) vs Vincent Halliday |
| Oliver Szolnoki (15) vs Hassan Shaaz Mohamed |
| Skyler Woodward (16) vs Daniele Corrieri |
| Francisco Sanchez Ruiz (17) vs Besar Spahiu |
| Denis Grabe (18) vs Ruben Bautista |
| Chang Yu-Lung 張玉龍 (19) vs Petri Makkonen |
| Mieszko Fortunski (20) vs Jeff Buckley |
| Dennis Orcollo (21) vs Pia Filler |
| Niels Feijen (22) vs Elliott Sanderson |
| Mario He (23) vs Amalia Matas |
| Alex Pagulayan (24) vs Sebastian Batkowski |
| Marc Bijsterbosch (25) vs Imran Majid |
| John Morra (26) vs Adrian Prasad |
| Konrad Juszczyszyn (27) vs Mason Koch |
| Ralf Souquet (28) vs Ronald Regli |
| Sanjin Pehlivanović (29) vs Casper Matikainen |
| Mika Immonen (30) vs Ana Gradisnik |
| Wiktor Zielinski (31) vs Daniel Guttenberger |
| Thorsten Hohmann (32) vs Mats Schjetne |
| Tomasz Kaplan (33) vs Monica Webb |
| Tyler Styer (34) vs Philip Stojanovic |
| Kelly Fisher (35) vs Justin Toye |
| Bader AlAwadhi (36) vs Marcel Price |
| Jonas Souto Comino (37) vs Max Eberle |
| Hunter Lombardo (38) vs Mohamed Shareef |
| Marco Teutscher (39) vs Moritz Neuhausen |
| Chris Reinhold (40) vs Darryl Chia Soo Yew |
| Darren Appleton (41) vs Chetan Chhabra |
| Pijus Labutis (42) vs Ko Pin Hang 柯秉漢 |
| Corey Deuel (43) vs Bashar Hussein Abdulmajeed |
| Mickey Krause (44) vs Ivan Meng Li |
| Billy Thorpe (45) vs Ip Tung Pong |
| Daniel Schneider (46) vs April Larson |
| Sharik Sayed (47) vs Hsie Hchia Chen 謝佳臻 |
| Michael Yednak (48) vs Dang Than H Kien |
| Dimitris Loukatos (49) vs Ali Al Obaidli |
| Abdullah Alyousef (50) vs Quoc Hoang Dwong |
| Mateusz Sniegocki (51) vs Michal Gavinciak |
| Wojciech Szewczyk (52) vs Roman Hybler |
| Robbie Capito (53) vs Yukio Akagariyama 赤狩山幸男 |
| Michael Schneider (54) vs Eylul Kibaroglu |
| Wu Kun Lin 吳坤霖 (55) vs So Shaw |
| Toh Lian Han 卓連瀚 (56) vs Francesco Candela |
| Oscar Dominquez (57) vs Dino Nair |
| Bahram Lotfy (58) vs Adam Smith |
| Nikos Ekonomopoulos (59) vs Matthew Edwards |
| Radoslaw Babica (60) vs Chris Alexander |
| Masato Yoshioka 吉岡 正登 (61) vs Jorge Tinoco |
| Jan Van Lierop (62) vs Kyle Akaloo |
| Shane Wolford (63) vs Fabio Petroni |
| Daniel Maciol (64) vs Jose Alberto Delgado |
This year sees a new format for the double-elimination stage of the World Pool Championship as below
New Structure for Days 1 & 2
Round 1 (Day 1 – Wednesday 6th April)
Seeded 64 will play unseeded 64 with the with winner progressing to Winners’ Qualification and Losers going to Losers’ Round 1
Winners’ Qualification (Day 1 – Wednesday 6th April)
64 winners from Round 1 face off to make Last 64 for a guaranteed $1,500.
32 Losers go to Losers’ Qualification
Losers’ Round 1 (Day 2 – Thursday 7th April)
The 64 losers from Round 1 face off to move into Losers’ Qualification
Winners progress to Winners’ Qualification whilst Losers are eliminated
Losers’ Qualification (Day 2 – Thursday 7th April)
32 Losers from Winners’ Qualification meet 32 Winners from Losers’ Round 1
32 Winners move into Last 64