![]() Ko Ping Chung joined Poland’s Mateusz Śniegocki in advancing from the winners’ side of Group 4.Īmong the other competitors who advanced to the Main Event’s final 64 from the winners’ side of the double-elimination bracket were (among many others) Poland’s Wiktor Zielinski, Canada’s Alex Pagulayan, Germany’s Thorsten Hohmann, Finland’s Mika Immonen, Canada’s John Morra, Austria’s Albin Ouschan, Estonia’s Denis Grabe, Philippine’s Carlo Biado, and Greece’s Alex Kazakis. Ko Ping Chung, in the meantime (Group 4) defeated Kuwait’s Abdullah Alqatan 9-2 and (unaffiliated) Arseni Kovalerchik 9-6. He defeated Lebanon’s Mohammad Berjaoui 9-6 and joined the Philippines’ Leonardo Hipolito in advancing from the loss side of Group 16 to single-elimination play. It would prove to be Filler’s only loss, while Koylu lost his opening-round match of single elimination to Poland’s Dominik Jastrząb (1-9).įiller moved to the loss side of Group 16 for a single match. Filler won the 10 th game, but Koylu won the three after it and advanced to single-elimination from the winners’ side of the group. Filler took the 5 th game, but Koylu responded with four straight to go up 6-3. The first four games of that match were something of a ‘Filler sandwich,’ with Koylu playing the bread (winning the 1 st and 4 th game) and Filler winning the middle two as the meat. ![]() Filler (Group 16) opened up with a 9-3 win over Lebanon’s Osama Ali and then, no doubt much to his initial dismay, he ran into Turkey’s Sami Koylu. The double-elimination bracket was broken up into 16 groups of 8, each group advancing four of its competitors (two from each side of the bracket) to the single-elimination rounds. Joshua Filler and Tapei’s Ko Ping Chung (who would finish as runner-up) began their march to the finals in the double-elimination phase of the Main Event. The Main Event, with its 128 entrants, began with a double-elimination bracket, out of which emerged 64 competitors who proceeded with a single-elimination bracket. ![]() Of the 483 that began, only 16 (four from each group) emerged to join the 112 already-qualified competitors, pre-qualified through a number of world-wide pool associations. The week and event began with four groups of competitors looking to qualify for the Main Event. Except for Wednesday (as a comparison), they didn’t in Phoenix, AZ either. Temperatures during the week in Doha never dipped below 100° (F). Its land border with Saudi Arabia is only 37 miles long. So, hot a lot of the time, although that is balanced by more than 350 miles of coastline. It is 7,460 southwest miles away from Kansas City, and on (roughly) the same latitude as the tip of Florida and somewhere in southern Mexico. Its capital, Doha, where the event was held, is located on its eastern coast, a little further north than midway up the peninsula. It is roughly the size of Connecticut, about 100 miles long and 50 miles wide at its widest point. To put it in a geographic, size and distance perspective, the country of Qatar is a relatively rectangular Middle East peninsula, surrounded on three sides by the Persian Gulf and adjacent only to Saudi Arabia at its southern border. Germany’s Joshua Filler won an international pool tournament – The 2023 Qatar Open 9-Ball Championships.
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