QATAR INTERNATIONAL OPEN 9-BALL CHAMPIONSHIP

QBSF Headquarters - Doha, Qatar
 

Results from 1st round single elimination - 3 July

1    Dennis Orcollo PHI vs Oliver Ortmann GER    11/6

16    Ronnie Alcano PHI vs Warren Kiamco PHI    7/11

9    Ramil Gallego PHI vs Kawabata Satoshi JPN    11/7

8    Francisco Bustamante PHI vs Antonio Gabica    11/2

5    Naef Al Jaween KSA vs Darren Appleton GBR     3/11

12    Efren Reyes PHI vs Ralf Souquet GER    7/11

13    Wu Chia-Ching TPE vs Alex Pagulayan PHI    10/11
4    Roberto Gomez PHI vs Vilmos Foldes HUN    11/3

3    Gandy Valle PHI vs Shane Van Boening USA    10/11 

14    Thorsten Hohmann GER vs Radoslaw Babica POL    8/11

11    Marlon Manolo PHI vs Thomas Engert GER    8/11   

6    Chang Jung Ling TPE vs Martin Kempter AUT    8/11 

7    Mika Immonen FIN vs Jeffrey de Luna PHI    6/11

10    Lee Van Corteza PHI vs Ohi Naoyuki JPN    9-11

15    Zhang Shuchun CHN vs Ko Pin-Yi TPE    6-11

2    Niels Feijen NED vs Allan Cuartero PHI    11-3

Draw for final 16 players - Friday 4 July

Dennis Orcollo vs Warren Kiamco

Ramil Gallego vs Francisco Bustamante

Darren Appleton vs Ralf Souquet

Alex Pagulayan vs Roberto Gomez

Shane Van Boening vs Radoslaw Babica

Filipino players are dominating the event, although crowd favourite, legendary Efren Reyes lost out this morning to Germany's Ralf Souquet 11-7. It was a very solid display by Souquet as he made very few mistakes and capitalised on every opportunity that he was presented with. 

Taiwanese player Wu Chia-Ching looked set for victory when he led 10-8, but Pagulayan was able to win an important frame to make it 10-9, then Wu came up dry with his break and from there was never really given another chance with Pagulayan winning 11-10.

Shane Van Boening of the USA looked down and out when he trailed 0-5, and then 2-8, before staging a great comeback to snatch victory 11-10 over Filipino Gandy Valle.

Another impressive display was from another Filipino, Francisco Bustamante breezing through his match 11-2 against fellow countryman Antonio Gabica.

Dual world champion, Filipino Ronnie Alcano was a surprise loser when beaten by fellow countryman Warren Kiamco. Kiamco's performance was very solid and is often underestimated, but to those close to game know just how competent a player Kiamco is.

Thomas Engert of Germany was impressive with his victory over Filipino Marlon Manalo 11/8. Manalo had been in top form coming into this event, but wan't given many chances fromm his German opponent.

Former world champion Mika Immonen of Finland also bit the dust, losing to yet another Filipino, Jeffrey de Luna. de Luna is in oustanding form and is quite a popular pick to win the tournament.