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, 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.
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.
ROUND 1 FIXTURES
| Albin Ouschan (1) vs Lo Ho Sum |
| David Alcaide (2) vs Benji Buckley |
| Shane Van Boening (3) vs Waleed Majid |
| Max Lechner (4) vs Jani Uski |
| Aloysius Yapp (5) vs Dimitri Jungo |
| Naoyuki Oi (6) vs Roberto Bartol |
| Ko Ping Chung (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 (11) vs Veronika Ivanovskaia |
| Omar Al-Shaheen (12) vs JJ Faul |
| Ko Pin-Yi (13) vs Jakub Koniar |
| Jayson Shaw (14) vs Vincent Halliday |
| Oliver Szolnoki (15) vs Hassan Shaaz Mohamed |
| Skyler Woodward (16) vs Daniele Correiri |
| Francisco Sanchez Ruiz (17) vs Besar Spahiu |
| Denis Grabe (18) vs Ruben Bautista |
| Chang Yu-Lung (19) vs Petri Makkonen |
| Mieszko Fortunski (20) vs Jeff Beckley |
| 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 |
| 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 Ivo Aarts |
| Sharik Sayed (47) vs Hsie Hchia Chen |
| 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 |
| Michael Schneider (54) vs Eylul Kibaroglu |
| Wu Kun Lin (55) vs So Shaw |
| Toh Lian Han (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 (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
