2022 WORLD POOL CHAMPIONSHIP DRAW | OUSCHAN STARTS DEFENCE AGAINST LO HO SUM
Mar 30, 2022
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.
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 Rankings24 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 Hum SumDavid Alcaide (2) vs Benji BuckleyShane Van Boening (3) vs Waleed MajidMax Lechner (4) vs Jani UskiAloysius Yapp (5) vs Dimitri JungoNaoyuki Oi (6) vs Roberto BartolKo Ping Chung (7) vs Tobias BongersJoshua Filler (8) vs Chirs MellingEklent Kaçi (9) vs Mycherif Zine El AbidineAlexander Kazakis (10) vs Nicholas De LeonChang Jung-Lin (11) vs Veronika IvanovskaiaOmar Al-Shaheen (12) vs JJ FaulKo Pin-Yi (13) vs Jakub KoniarJayson Shaw (14) vs Vincent HallidayOliver Szolnoki (15) vs Hassan Shaaz MohamedSkyler Woodward (16) vs Daniele CorrieriFrancisco Sanchez Ruiz (17) vs Besar SpahiuDenis Grabe (18) vs Ruben BautistaChang Yu-Lung (19) vs Petri MakkonenMieszko Fortunski (20) vs Jeff BuckleyDennis Orcollo (21) vs Pia FillerNiels Feijen (22) vs Elliott SandersonMario He (23) vs Amalia MatasAlex Pagulayan (24) vs Sebastian BatkowskiMarc Bijsterbosch (25) vs Imran MajidJohn Morra (26) vs Adrian PrasadKonrad Juszczyszyn (27) vs Mason KochRalf Souquet (28) vs Ronald RegliSanjin Pehlivanović (29) vs Casper MatikainenMika Immonen (30) vs Ana GradisnikWiktor Zielinski (31) vs Daniel GuttenbergerThorsten Hohmann (32) vs Mats SchjetneTomasz Kaplan (33) vs Monica WebbTyler Styer (34) vs Philip StojanovicKelly Fisher (35) vs Justin ToyeBader AlAwadhi (36) vs Marcel PriceJonas Souto Comino (37) vs Max EberleHunter Lombardo (38) vs Mohamed ShareefMarco Teutscher (39) vs Moritz NeuhausenChris Reinhold (40) vs Darryl Chia Soo YewDarren Appleton (41) vs Chetan ChhabraPijus Labutis (42) vs Ko Pin HangCorey Deuel (43) vs Bashar Hussein AbdulmajeedMickey Krause (44) vs Ivan Meng LiBilly Thorpe (45) vs Ip Tung PongDaniel Schneider (46) vs April LarsonSharik Sayed (47) vs Hsie Hchia ChenMichael Yednak (48) vs Dang Than H KienDimitris Loukatos (49) vs Ali Al ObaidliAbdullah Alyousef (50) vs Quoc Hoang DwongMateusz Sniegocki (51) vs Michal GavinciakWojciech Szewczyk (52) vs Roman HyblerRobbie Capito (53) vs Yukio AkagariyamaMichael Schneider (54) vs Eylul KibarogluWu Kun Lin (55) vs So ShawToh Lian Han (56) vs Francesco CandelaOscar Dominquez (57) vs Dino NairBahram Lotfy (58) vs Adam SmithNikos Ekonomopoulos (59) vs Matthew EdwardsRadoslaw Babica (60) vs Chris AlexanderMasato Yoshioka (61) vs Jorge TinocoJan Van Lierop (62) vs Kyle AkalooShane Wolford (63) vs Fabio PetroniDaniel 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
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