2007 WPA Men's World Nine-ball Championship


The 2007 WPA Men's World Nine-ball Championship was the 18th annual international nine-ball pool tournament for men sanctioned by the World Pool-Billiard Association. It was held at the Araneta Coliseum in Quezon City, Metro Manila, Philippines from 3-11 November 2007. It was the second consecutive time the tournament has been held in the Philippines.
The tournament is sponsored by Matchroom Sport, which has sponsored the event since 1999. 128 participants from 46 WPA member countries competed for US$400,000 in total prize money, including defending champion Ronato Alcano of the Philippines. The overall winner received a purse of $100,000, the highest-ever payout for the tournament.

Format

The Format of qualifying used on 2006 was used for 2007. Several last-minute qualifying tournaments were held in the Metro Manila area a few weeks before the tournament starts.
All matches are in winner's : the winner of the previous rack will break on the next rack, it was reverted from alternate break used in 2006.
There are 32 seeded players prior to the group stages; they are distributed 2 per group. The defending champion, Ronnie Alcano, is seeded #1.
Also, a double-elimination tournament will be used for the group stages; instead of 32 groups of 4, there will be 16 groups of eight, with the top four advancing. Each player will be seeded 1–8 in their groups, with a routine double-elimination tournament following the first round; however the player that wins twice will advance to the quarterfinals and will not take part in other group matches, in contrast if a player loses two games, he is eliminated. The top four players in each group therefore would have won twice. After the group stages, the routine 64-man single elimination tournament follows.
In the initial group stages the format consists of to 9 racks. The last 64 play races to 10 racks. This is followed by the round of 16 where the races are to 11 racks. The race in the finals jumps to 17 racks.

Notable occurrences

By nation

The WPA considered the home nations of England and Scotland as separate entities for the tournament and the codes of "ENG" and "SCO" was subsequently shown in the TV broadcast instead of "GBR."
Champion
Runner-up
Semifinals
Quarterfinals
Last 16
Last 32
Last 64
Group stages

SeedNamePrevious titles2007 finish
1 Ronato Alcano1 Last 64
2 Ralf Souquet1 Last 32
3 Wu Chia-ching1 Last 32
4 Yang Ching-shunnoneLast 64
5 Thorsten Hohmann1 Group stage
6 Efren Reyes1 Last 64
7 Chang Jung-linnoneLast 32
8 Alex Pagulayan1 Last 16
9 Francisco BustamantenoneQuarterfinals
10 Thomas EngertnoneLast 64
11 Konstantin StepanovnoneLast 16
12 Mika Immonen1 Quarterfinals
13 Shane Van BoeningnoneLast 32
14 Li He-wennoneGroup stage
15 Johnny Archer2 Group stage
16 Niels FeijennoneLast 16

SeedNamePrevious titles2007 finish
17 Daryl PeachnoneChampion
18 Chao Fong-pang2 Last 32
19 Fabio PetroninoneLast 64
20 Dennis OrcollononeLast 64
21 Lee Van CortezanoneLast 64
22 Rodney MorrisnoneGroup stage
23 Imran MajidnoneLast 64
24 Corey DeuelnoneLast 16
25 David AlcaidenoneLast 64
26 Christian ReimeringnoneWithdrew
27 Tony DragononeLast 32
28 Fu Che-weinoneLast 64
29 Jonni FulchernoneGroup stage
30 Luong Chi DungnoneLast 32
31 Ronnie WisemannoneGroup stage
32 Ricky YangnoneGroup stage

Unseeded players who advanced to the round of 64

Player boldfaced made it to the final.

Group 1

Group 2

Group 3

Group 4

Group 5

Group 6

Group 7

Group 8

Group 9

Group 10

Group 11

Group 12

Knockout stages

Section 1

Section 2

Section 3

Section 4

Semifinals and final

Country representation

Final