2015 WPA World Nine-ball Championship
The 2015 WPA World Nine-ball Championship was the 24th edition of the 9-ball pool world championship. It took place September 7–18, 2015 at the al-Attiya Sports Arena, Al-Arabi Sports Club, in Doha, Qatar—the sixth year in a row the event was held there.
128 players entered. Before the main event, a qualifying tournament (September 7–10) produced 12 starting places. The other 116 spots came from world rankings, continental quotas, the Qatar federation, and WPA wildcards. The 128 players were divided into 16 groups. From September 12–15, the groups played in a double-elimination format. The top four players from each group moved to the final knockout rounds, which ran September 16–18. The event used an alternating break format.
In total, the goal was to win more racks at each stage: seven in qualifying, nine in the group stage, eleven in the later rounds, and thirteen in the final.
Ko Pin-yi of Chinese Taipei won the championship, defeating Shane Van Boening of the United States in the final, 13–11. The defending champion, Niels Feijen, was eliminated in the preliminary round.
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