The China Open 9-Ball Championship takes place from September 18-22 at the Tangzhen Cultural and Sports Centre in Shanghai, as the world’s elite compete in one of the biggest WPA-sanctioned events.
Joshua Filler and three-time winner Han Yu will be defending their respective men’s and women’s titles in China, with this year’s men’s champion receiving $40,000 and the women’s winner pocketing $36,000.
Despite numerous players having decided to boycott events associated with the WPA, a strong field of players have assembled in Shanghai, including the likes of Carlo Biado, Naoyuki Oi, Sanjin Pehlivanovic and Alex Kazakis.
Poland will be strongly represented as World Pool Championship semi-finalist Wojciech Szewczyk, Daniel Maciol, Konrad Juszcyszyn and Mieszko Fortunski have travelled, while 2012 champion Dennis Orcollo and China’s own Dang Jinhu are also amongst the notable names.
Meanwhile, women’s world number one Chou Chieh-Yu headlines the female field, which is a star-studded one and features the likes of three-time champion Chen Siming and newly-crowned women’s world champion Rubilen Amit.
Chezka Centeno, Kristina Tkach and Pia Filler will also be involved, as will the likes of Wei Tzu-Chien, 2013 winner Liu Shasha, Jasmin Ouschan, Kristina Zlateva, Seo Seoa and Chen Chia-Hua.
The format will be double elimination until the last 32 in the men’s and the last 16 in the women’s tournament, with alternate break and race-to-seven racks, before increasing to race-to-eleven for the single elimination phase.
The tournament will see matches played in accordance with the current WPA rules and regulations, nine ball on the spot, no break box and the three-point rule will be enforced.
It will be streamed via Chinese social media, and somewhat available to overseas viewers via the Billiard Pool VN YouTube channel.
2024 CHINA OPEN 9-BALL CHAMPIONSHIP
Men’s Draw Bracket
Click here for the full draw bracket via the China Open website
Last 32
🇨🇳 Fu Jianbo 5-11 Chang Jung-Lin 🇹🇼
🇨🇳 Xue Zhenqi 9-11 Dang Jinhu 🇨🇳
🇵🇭 Carlo Biado 2-11 Wojciech Szewczyk 🇵🇱
🇨🇱 Maximiliano Ossandon 4-11 Naoyuki Oi 🇯🇵
🇹🇼 Wu Kun-Lin 11-7 Kuo Po-Cheng 🇹🇼
🇯🇵 Hayato Hijikata 11-7 Zhu Xihe 🇨🇳
🇵🇱 Daniel Maciol 11-9 Shi Wenhai 🇨🇳
🇯🇵 Toru Kuribayashi 9-11 Hsu Jui-An 🇹🇼
🇵🇱 Konrad Juszczyszyn 11-6 Pham Phuong Nam 🇻🇳
🇹🇼 Lin Ta-Li 11-8 Luca Menn 🇩🇪
🇧🇦 Sanjin Pehlivanovic 4-11 Jeffrey de Luna 🇵🇭
🇨🇭 Julian Serradilla 5-11 Alex Pagulayan 🇨🇦
🇬🇷 Alexander Kazakis 5-11 Dimitris Loukatos 🇬🇷
🇰🇼 Bader Al-Awadhi 6-11 Mieszko Fortunski 🇵🇱
🇩🇪 Joshua Filler 11-4 Sergey Lutsker 🇷🇺
🇨🇳 Yang Zhe 11-10 Denis Grabe 🇪🇪
Last 16
🇹🇼 Chang Jung-Lin 11-8 Dang Jinhu 🇨🇳
🇵🇱 Wojciech Szewczyk 10-11 Naoyuki Oi 🇯🇵
🇹🇼 Wu Kun-Lin 9-11 Hayato Hijikata 🇯🇵
🇵🇱 Daniel Maciol 8-11 Hsu Jui-An 🇹🇼
🇵🇱 Konrad Juszszyszyn 11-10 Lin Ta-Li 🇹🇼
🇵🇭 Jeffrey de Luna 11-8 Alex Pagulayan 🇨🇦
🇬🇷 Dimitris Loukatos 8-11 Mieszko Fortunski 🇵🇱
🇩🇪 Joshua Filler 11-1 Yang Zhe 🇨🇳
Quarter-Finals
🇹🇼 Chang Jung-Lin 6-11 Naoyuki Oi 🇯🇵
🇯🇵 Hayato Hijikata 11-9 Hsu Jui-An 🇹🇼
🇵🇱 Konrad Juszczyszyn 11-6 Jeffrey de Luna 🇵🇭
🇵🇱 Mieszko Fortunski 7-11 Joshua Filler 🇩🇪
Semi-Finals
🇯🇵 Naoyuki Oi 6-11 Hayato Hijikata 🇯🇵
🇵🇱 Konrad Juszczyszyn 5-11 Joshua Filler 🇩🇪
Final
🇯🇵 Hayato Hijikata 6-11 Joshua Filler 🇩🇪
Women’s Draw Bracket
Click here for the full draw bracket via the China Open website
Last 16
🇹🇼 Wei Tzu-Chien 9-3 Ayala Soledad 🇦🇷
🇹🇼 Wang Wan-Ling 4-9 Han Yu 🇨🇳
🇵🇭 Rubilen Amit 9-3 Jasmin Ouschan 🇦🇹
🇧🇬 Kristina Zlateva 3-9 Chihiro Kawahara 🇯🇵
🇨🇳 Wang Xiaotong 9-3 Seo Seoa 🇰🇷
🇨🇳 Chen Siming 9-7 Fu Xiaofang 🇨🇳
🇹🇼 Chen Chia-Hua 9-8 Xia Yuying 🇨🇳
🇹🇼 Chou Chieh-Yu 9-8 Chezka Centeno 🇵🇭
Quarter-Finals
🇹🇼 Wei Tzu-Chien 4-9 Han Yu 🇨🇳
🇵🇭 Rubilen Amit 9-5 Chihiro Kawahara 🇯🇵
🇨🇳 Wang Xiaotong 9-7 Chen Siming 🇨🇳
🇹🇼 Chen Chia-Hua 5-9 Chou Chieh-Yu 🇹🇼
Semi-Finals
🇨🇳 Han Yu 9-3 Rubilen Amit 🇵🇭
🇨🇳 Wang Xiaotong 9-8 Chou Chieh-Yu 🇹🇼
Final
🇨🇳 Han Yu 9-8 Wang Xiaotong 🇨🇳
Men’s Prize Fund
Champion – $40,000
Runner-up – $20,000
Semi-finalists – $10,000
Quarter-finalists – $6,000
Last 16 – $3,000
Last 32 – $2,000
Total – $160,000
Women’s Prize Fund
Champion – $36,000
Runner-up – $18,000
Semi-finalists – $9,000
Quarter-finalists – $5,400
Last 16 – $2,700
Total – $115,200
