2022 WORLD POOL CHAMPIONSHIP DRAW | OUSCHAN STARTS DEFENCE AGAINST LO HO SUM

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 

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 6^th 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 6^th 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 7^th 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 7^th April)

32 Losers from Winners’ Qualification meet 32 Winners from Losers’ Round 1

32 Winners move into Last 64

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