The 2013 WPA World Nine-ball Championship was the 22nd event in the annual WPA World Nine-ball Championship. The event took place from September 2 to 13, 2013 in Doha, Qatar.
Germany's Thorsten Hohmann became world champion by a 13–6 victory over Philippine Antonio Gabica, in the final. This was Hohmann's second 9-ball World championship, having also won the 2003 WPA World Nine-ball Championship. Hohmann defeated defending champion Darren Appleton in an early stage of the event.
Format The 128 participating players were divided into 16 groups, in which they competed in a double elimination tournament against each other. The remaining 64 players in each group qualified for the final round played in the knockout system.
Prize money The event's prize money stayed similar to that of the previous years, with winner Thorsten Hohmann winning $36,000. Position Prize First Place (champion) $36,000 Second Place (runner-up) $18,000 Third Place (semi-finalist $10,000 Fifth place (quarter finalist) $6,000 Ninth place (loser in round of 16) $4,000 Seventeenth place (loser in round of 32) $2,500 Thirty Third (loser in round of 64) $2,000 Sixty Fifth (loser in preliminaries) $500
Results Preliminary round The following 32 players won once in the preliminary round and lost twice, which means early retirement and places 65 to 96:
Hanni Al Howri Kuo Po-cheng Jason Klatt Hayato Hijikata Liu Haitao Yukio Akakariyama
Waleed Majid Bader al-Awadi Hunter Lombardo Mateusz Śniegocki
So Shaw Radosław Babica Maghsoud Ali Tomasz Kapłan
Robb Saez Fu Che-wei Bashar Hussain Salaheideen Alrimawi Mhana Al Obaidly Li Hewen Aloysius Yapp Mario Morra Francisco Bustamante Abdullah Alyousef
Nico Erasmus Petri Makkonen
The following 32 players lost twice in the preliminary round, which means early retirement and places 97–128.
Sayeem Hossain Shaun Wilkie K. A. Faray
Roman Hybler Jasem al-Hasawi Ryouji Hori Abdulatif Fawal Zayed Mohamed Meshari Albuqayli Giorgio Margola Saleh Ameen Sibongiseni Gumede Khamis al-Obaidly Naif Abdulafou
Mohammad Abdullah Nick Pera Ricky Puro Mehdi Rasheki Ali al-Obaidly Mohd al-Buainan
Syed Habib Albin Ouschan
Badr Alhamdan Nour al-Jarrah Muhammed Al Bin Ali Fahim Sinha Gharegozlou
Knockout round
References
External links Tournament at azbilliards.com