The full field has been confirmed for the upcoming World Pool Championship in Saudi Arabia, with 128 players competing for the historic $1million prize fund.
The top 100 on the World Nineball Tour rankings will be accompanied by 13 Saudi representatives as well as those who received wildcards from promoters Matchroom, the World Pool Association or national federations.
All of the household names in the sport will be heading to the Middle East for the crown jewel of nineball pool, including world number one and defending champion Francisco Sanchez Ruiz and former winners Fedor Gorst, Joshua Filler and Shane van Boening.
Albin Ouschan, who has reached a record four World Championship finals, is also amongst those involved, as well as last year’s runner-up Mohammad Soufi, US Open winner Ko Ping-Chung and newly-crowned UK Open champion Robbie Capito.
UK Open semi-finalist Petri Makkonen has been named amongst the wildcards, which also include former world 10-ball champion Wojciech Szewczyk, Poland’s Daniel Maciol, Kuwait’s Bader Al-Awadhi and female star Pia Filler.
Teenager Khalid Al-Ghamdi, a junior champion on the World Nineball Tour and a former Premier League Pool participant, headlines the host nation representatives alongside Abdullah Al-Shammari.
The World Pool Championship begins on Monday, June 3 at the Prince Abdullah Al-Faisal Sports City in Jeddah, with the prestigious tournament lasting six days until the semi-finals and final on Saturday, June 8.
2024 WORLD POOL CHAMPIONSHIP FIELD
WNT Top 100
Francisco Sanchez Ruiz
Fedor Gorst
Shane van Boening
Ko Ping-Chung
Jayson Shaw
Albin Ouschan
Joshua Filler
David Alcaide
Aloysius Yapp
Mario He
Wiktor Zielinski
Ko Pin-Yi
Eklent Kaçi
Moritz Neuhausen
Max Lechner
Skyler Woodward
Alex Kazakis
Mieszko Fortunski
Pijus Labutis
Niels Feijen
Jonas Souto
Sanjin Pehlivanovic
Robbie Capito
Carlo Biado
Naoyuki Oi
Michael Feliciano
Aleksa Pecelj
Tyler Styer
Mohammad Soufi
John Morra
Duong Quoc Hoàng
Konrad Juszczyszyn
Oliver Szolnoki
Oscar Dominguez
Chang Jung-Lin
Marc Bijsterbosch
Thorsten Hohmann
Anton Raga
Wu Kun-Lin
Denis Grabe
Dang Jinhu
Abdullah Al-Yousef
Shane Wolford
Ralf Souquet
BJ Ussery
James Aranas
Jani Uski
Lee Van Corteza
Dimitri Jungo
Alex Pagulayan
Billy Thorpe
Mickey Krause
Roland Garcia
Tobias Bongers
Imran Majid
Chris Melling
Dimitris Loukatos
Hsieh Chia-Chen
Chang Yu-Lung
Johann Chua
Darren Appleton
Francesco Candela
Elliott Sanderson
Kyle Amoroto
Besar Spahiu
Liu Ri Teng
Emil-Andre Gangfløt
Jeremy Sossei
Jan van Lierop
Marco Teutscher
Omar Al-Shaheen
Joao Grilo
Mustafa Alnar
Lo Ho-Sum
Hunter Lombardo
Sullivan Clark
Nguyễn Anh Tuan
Georgi Georgiev
Bernie Regalario
Michael Schneider
Patric Gonzales
Fitim Haradinaj
Jeffrey Ignacio
Tim De Ruyter
Nikos Ekonomopoulos
Ajdin Piknajc
Toh Lian Han
Daniel Guttenberger
Jefrey Roda
Karl Gnadeberg
Masato Yoshioka
Fu Che-Wei
Riku Romppanen
AJ Manas
Phạm Phuong Nam
Kledio Kaçi
Luong Dục Thiên
Nicholas De Leon
Kuo Po-Cheng
Ko Ping-Han
Saudi Representatives
Ahmed Al-Jabar
Hussein Mustafa
Othman Al-Zahrani
Fahad Al-Harbi
Ahmed Zahid
Nawaf Shamardal
Khalid Al-Otaibi
Ahmed Al-Ahmadi
Khalid Al-Ghamdi
Saad Al-Dress
Fahad Al-Dhayan
Abdullah Al-Shammari
Waleed Al-Balkhi
Wildcards
Pia Filler
Sam Henderson
Alvin Anggito
Petri Makkonen
Daniel Maciol
Wojciech Szewczyk
DJ McGinley
James Georgiadis
Mubarak Al-Wahaibi
Ali Al-Obaidli
Husain Maroom
Bader Al-Awadhi
Talal Al-Blooshi
Ameer Ali
Hamzaa Ali
