WPA World Eight-ball Championship

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WPA World Eight-ball Championship
SportPool
Founded2004
FounderWorld Pool-Billiard Association
Most recent
champion(s)
Shane Van Boening
(2023)
Related
competitions
Nine-ball, Ten-ball
Official websitewpapool.com

The WPA World Eight-ball Championship is a professional eight-ball pool tournament sanctioned by the World Pool-Billiard Association (WPA), initially contested from 2004 to 2012 in Fujairah, United Arab Emirates.[1][2] After not being held for several years, it was announced by the WPA that the championship would return in 2017, to be held at the Olympic Centre in Jinan, China.[3] However, that event did not occur, and the championship continued to remain dormant until Predator Cues re-established the tournament as part of their Pro Billiard Series, beginning with the 2022 edition of the tournament.

Winners[edit]

Year Host Final Semifinalists
Winner Score Runner-up
2004  United Arab Emirates Philippines
Efren Reyes
11–4 Philippines
Marlon Manalo
Philippines
Francisco Bustamante
Philippines
Alex Pagulayan
2005 Chinese Taipei
Wu Jiaqing
11–5 Netherlands
Nick van den Berg
Philippines
Francisco Bustamante
Netherlands
Niels Feijen
2007 Philippines
Ronnie Alcano
11–8 Philippines
Dennis Orcollo
Netherlands
Niels Feijen
Philippines
Joven Bustamante
2008 Germany
Ralf Souquet
13–9 Philippines
Ronnie Alcano
Sweden
Marcus Chamat
Philippines
Dennis Orcollo
2010 England
Karl Boyes
13–12 Netherlands
Niels Feijen
Russia
Ruslan Chinachov
England
Darren Appleton
2011 Philippines
Dennis Orcollo
10–3 Netherlands
Niels Feijen
Spain
David Alcaide
England
Darren Appleton
2012 Chinese Taipei
Chang Jung-lin
11–6 Chinese Taipei
Fu Che-wei
England
Chris Melling
China
Liu Haitao
2022  Puerto Rico Spain
Francisco Sánchez Ruíz
10–6 Poland
Wiktor Zielinski
Scotland
Jayson Shaw
Austria
Mario He
2023  Austria United States
Shane Van Boening
10–7 Bosnia and Herzegovina
Sanjin Pehlivanović
Poland
Wojciech Szewczyk
Austria
Max Lechner

Top performers[edit]

Name Nationality Winner Runner-up Semi-final
or better
Dennis Orcollo  Philippines 1 1 3
Ronnie Alcano  Philippines 2
Chang Jung-Lin  Chinese Taipei 0 1
Efren Reyes  Philippines
Karl Boyes  England
Ralf Souquet  Germany
Francisco Sánchez Ruíz  Spain
Shane Van Boening  United States
Wu Jiaqing  China
  • Active participants are shown in bold.
  • In the event of identical records, players are sorted in alphabetical order by first name.

Wheelchair champions[edit]

Year Winner
2003 Sweden Henrik Larsson
2004 Belgium Kurt Deklerck
2003 Austria Emil Schranz

References[edit]

  1. ^ "World 8 Ball Pool Championship 2007 Fujairah". World8BallChampionship.com. WPA. March 2007. Archived from the original on 16 March 2008. Retrieved 1 March 2011.
  2. ^ "World 8-Ball Championship - Men - Fujaira UAE - 19-26 Feb 2011". WPA-Pool.com. World Pool-Billiard Association (WPA). 26 February 2011. Archived from the original on 2011-02-21. Retrieved 1 March 2011.
  3. ^ "World Pool-Billiard Association". Archived from the original on 2016-10-16. Retrieved 2016-10-16.