DRAW MADE FOR 2022 WORLD CUP OF POOL

Jun 1, 2022

Germany (Joshua Filler & Thorsten Hohmann) will begin the defence of their World Cup of Pool crown against New Zealand (Matt Edwards & Simon Singleton) whilst hosts Great Britain A have been drawn a huge clash against Great Britain B in their opening encounter at the Brentwood Centre, Essex from June 14-19 live on Sky Sports in the UK and networks worldwide. Tickets are still available from £10 here.Buy Tickets



Click Here For Draw Bracket 



Teams



Efren Reyes' return for the Philippines with Carlo Biado sees them face off with South Africa (Jason Theron & Kyle Akaloo) with the winner set to face one of the two British sides. The USA's Shane Van Boening and Skyler Woodward will meet Canada's Alex Pagulayan and John Morra whilst two-time champions Austria (Albin Ouschan & Max Lechner) start out their bid for a third title against Finland (Mika Immonen & Jani Uski).







The top 16 sides were seeded based on the 2022 Nineball World Rankings with the remaining 16 teams becoming the unseeded players for the draw. Teams were picked based on the below criteria 



16 x - WPA Federation Allocations 8 x - 2022 Nineball World Rankings 8 x - Matchroom Wild Cards 



Format - Winner Break 



Round 1 - Race to 7 



Round 2 - Race to 7 



Quarter/Semi Finals - Race to 9 



Final - Race to 11 



Session Times (UK Time) 



Afternoon - 11 am - 3 pm 



Evening - 5 pm - 9 pm (except for 19, June 6 pm start) 



Match Schedule  



Tuesday, 14 June - Afternoon 



Germany (1) vs New Zealand Chinese Taipei (9) vs Argentina Albania (13) vs Italy 



Tuesday, 14 June - Evening 



USA (2) vs Canada Hungary (10) vs Czech Republic Spain (4) vs Australia 







Wednesday, 15 June - Afternoon 



Philippines (5) vs South Africa Poland (15) vs Hong Kong, China Greece (8) vs Cyprus 







Wednesday, 15 June - Evening 



Great Britain A (12) vs Great Britain B Estonia (14) vs Serbia Austria (3) vs Finland 







Thursday, 16 June - Afternoon 



Singapore (6) vs Qatar Kuwait (11) vs Vietnam Netherlands (16) vs Morocco 







Thursday, 16 June - 1 x Round 1 match / 2 x Round 2 matches 



Japan (7) vs Switzerland TBC TBC 







Friday 17 June - Round 2 - both sessions 



Saturday, 18 June - Quarter-Finals - both sessions 



Sunday, 19 June - Semi-Finals 



Sunday, 19 June - Final 



The World Cup of Pool will be broadcast live on Sky Sports, DAZN, Viaplay and Matchroom.Live, with further international broadcasters here. 



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