2009 World Cup of Pool

The 2009 World Cup of Pool is the fourth World Cup of Pool championship. For the first time, it was held outside Europe, at The Annex of SM City North EDSA in Quezon City, Philippines, from September 1 to 6, 2009, and that an all-female duo participated.

Contents 1 Rules 2 Cash prizes 3 Participating nations 4 Tournament bracket 4.1 Upper half 4.2 Lower half 4.3 Semifinals and final 5 Events 5.1 First round 5.2 Second round 5.3 Quarterfinals 5.4 Semifinals 5.5 Final 6 References

Rules

• Winners' break.
• Teammates take shots alternately.
• Race to eight racks for matches prior to the quarterfinals.
• Race to nine racks for matches from the quarterfinals to the semifinals.
• Race to eleven racks for the Final.
• Eighty-second shot clock for the shot immediately after the break, forty seconds for other shots.
• In order for a break to be legal, two balls must pass over the head string.

Cash prizes

Stage	Prize Money (Total-US$250,000)
Winner	US$60,000
Runner Up	US$30,000
Semi Final	US$16,000
Quarter Final	US$10,000
Second Round	US$5,000
First Round	US$3,000

Participating nations

Seeded teams:  USA (Rodney Morris and Shane Van Boening)  Philippines A (Ronato Alcano and Dennis Orcollo)  Germany (Ralf Souquet and Thorsten Hohmann)  England (Darren Appleton and Imran Majid)  Philippines B (Francisco Bustamante and Efren Reyes)  Holland (Niels Feijen and Nick van den Berg)  Taiwan (Lai Chia-Hsiung and Yang Ching-Shun)  Finland (Mika Immonen and Markus Juva)  China (Fu Jian-bo and Li He-wen)  Poland (Radoslaw Babica and Mateusz Sniegocki)  Japan (Hayato Hijikata and Satoshi Kawabata)  Italy (Bruno Muratore and Fabio Petroni)  Spain (David Alcaide and Rafael Guzman)  Canada (Tyler Edey and Jason Klatt)  Russia (Ruslan Chinakhov and Konstantin Stepanov)  India (Raj Hundal and Dharminder Singh Lilly)

Unseeded teams:  Australia (Lou Condo and Greg Jenkins)  Austria (Martin Kempter and Jasmin Ouschan)  Belgium (Pascal Budo and Serge Das)  Croatia (Philipp Stojanovic and Ivica Putnik)  Denmark (Kasper Kristoffersen and Bahram Lotfy)  France (Stephan Cohen and Vincent Facquet)  Hong Kong (Kenny Kwok and Lee Chenman)  Indonesia (Muhammad Bewi Simanjuntak and Muhammad Zulfikri)  Korea (Ga-Young Kim and Yun-Mi Lim)  Malaysia (Ibrahim Bin Amir and Lee Poh Soon)  Malta (Alex Borg and Tony Drago)  Qatar (Bashar Hussain and Mohammed Ali Bin Ali)  Singapore (Chan Keng Kwang and Toh Lian Han)  Sweden (Marcus Chamat and Tom Storm)  Thailand (Nitiwat Kanjanasri and Surethep Phoochalam)  Vietnam (Luong Chi Dung and Nguyen Thanh Nam)

Tournament bracket

Upper half

	First Round					Second Round					Quarterfinals					Semifinals
	1	Morris/Van Boening	8
		Borg/Drago
						1	Morris/Van Boening	8
							Simanjuntak/Zulfikri	5
	16	Hundal/Lilly	3
		Simanjuntak/Zulfikri	8
											1	Morris/Van Boening	5
										9	Li/Fu	9
	9	Fu/Li	8
		Kim/Lim	5
						9	Li/Fu	8
						8	Immonen/Juva	3
	8	Immonen/Juva	8
		Chamat/Storm	3
																9	Li/Fu	8
															5	Bustamante/Reyes	9
	5	Bustamante/Reyes	8
		Hussain/Ali	3
						5	Bustamante/Reyes	8
						12	Muratore/Petroni	5
	12	Muratore/Petroni	8
		Kempter/Ouschan	5
											5	Bustamante/Reyes	9
										4	Appleton/Majid	1
	13	Alcaide/Guzman	8
		Condo/Jenkins	3
						13	Alcaide/Guzman	6
						4	Appleton/Majid	8
	4	Appleton/Majid	8
		Amir/Soon	4

Lower half

	First Round					Second Round					Quarterfinals					Semifinals
	3	Hohmann/Souquet	8
		Kwok/Lee
						3	Hohmann/Souquet	8
							Cohen/Facquet	4
	14	Edey/Klatt	1
		Cohen/Facquet	8
											3	Hohmann/Souquet	9
										6	Feijen/van den berg	7
	11	Hijikata/Kawabata	8
		Stojanovic/Putnik	6
						11	Hijikata/Kawabata	4
						6	Feijen/van den Berg	8
	9	Feijen/van den Berg	8
		Luong/Nguyen	3
																3	Hohmann/Souquet	9
															2	Alcano/Orcollo	6
	7	Lai/Yang	8
		Kwang/Han	6
						7	Lai/Yang	5
						10	Babica/Sneigocki	8
	10	Babica/Sniegocki	8
		Budo/Das	0
											10	Babica/Sneigocki	5
										2	Alcano/Orcollo	9
	15	Chinakov/Stepanov	8
		Kristoffersen/Lotfy	3
						15	Chinakov/Stepanov	3
						2	Alcano/Orcollo	8
	2	Alcano/Orcollo	8
		Kanjanasri/Phoochalam	5

Semifinals and final

	Semifinals					Final
	9	Li/Fu	8
	5	Bustamante/Reyes	9
						5	Bustamante/Reyes	11
						3	Hohmann/Souquet	9
	3	Hohmann/Souquet	9
	2	Alcano/Orcollo	6

Events

First round

• The all-female Korean team of Ga Young Kim and Yun Mi Lim is eliminated by the 2007 champions Chinese team of Li He-wen and Fu Jian-bo.^[1]
• The Ronnie Alcano/Dennis Orcollo duo won after the upstart Thai team led by 5–4.^[1]

Second round

• In a show of sportsmanship, Spanish David Alcaide admitted a foul to the referee that allowed the English team to pull away and win the match two racks later.^[2]
• The Filipino team of Efren Reyes and Francisco Bustamante took advantage of a call by the Filipina referee called a foul on the Italians after Bruno Muratori's hair on his arm touched the cue ball.^[3]

Quarterfinals

Semifinals

In the first semifinal, the match went to a hill-hill face-off. After the Chinese had a legal break at the final rack, Fu missed a two-ball carom on the corner pocket, that led to the run-out by the Filipino team of Reyes and Bustamante to advance to the final. In the other semifinal, the German team of Ralf Souquet and Thorsten Hohmann prevented an all-Filipino final with a 9–6 decision.^[4]

Final

In the final, the debut World Cup champions faced two former world champions in a race-to-11 affair. Germany won the lag, but the Philippines won the first three racks. The Germans caught up and even lead 5–3. The Philippines tied the match 6–all, then 16th rack became a long drawn-out safety match, with Reyes and Bustamante missing long shots. Souquet himself converted a long shot at the 9-ball to put the Germans up 8–6, but the Filipinos then reached the hill first when Souquet missed the 5-ball on the 20th rack. Reyes and Bustamante shook off earlier mistakes, with Reyes sinking the 9-ball to win the World Cup for the second time, the first time in World Cup history.^[4]

References