• The 2011 WPA World Nine-ball Junior Championships was the 20th hosting of the Junior World Championship in the pool discipline 9-Ball. The event ran from...
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  • The World Nine-ball Championships are held annually, and are sanctioned by the World Pool-Billiard Association. Events have been held for boys and women...
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    the World Pool-Billiard Association (WPA), with multiple regional tours. The most prestigious nine-ball tournaments are the WPA World Nine-ball Championship...
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    Ralf Souquet (category WPA World Nine-ball Champions)
    by German President Roman Herzog. In 1996, Souquet won the WPA World Nine-ball Championship where he triumphed over Tom Storm of Sweden. He also reached...
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  • Ko Pin-yi (category WPA World Nine-ball Champions)
    multiple World Champion in the disciplines of Nine-ball and Ten-ball in 2015. Ko won the World Nine-ball Junior Championship twice in his junior career...
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    Ko Ping-chung (category WPA World Ten-ball Champions)
    Poland Sebastian Batkowski [de] to become Junior World 9-ball Champion. At the 2014 WPA World Nine-ball Championship Ko Ping-chung lost in the preliminary...
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    Oliver Ortmann (category WPA World Nine-ball Champions)
    is a three-time world champion, winning the 1995 WPA World Nine-ball Championship and the 2007 and 2010 World Straight Pool Championship. Ortmann became...
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  • championship and the 2009 European Championship Girls Nine-ball championship. She later finished as runner-up at the 2011 WPA World Nine-ball Junior Championship...
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  • Oliwia Zalewska (category Competitors at the 2022 World Games)
    professional pool player. Zalewska is a former WPA World Nine-ball junior champion, winning the ladies event in 2011. She also reached the final the following...
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  • 2010 Super Billiards Expo Nine-ball Champion (women's); former multi-year BEF Junior National Champion and 2010 WPA World Juniors runner-up; pro-am competitor...
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    Francisco Bustamante (category WPA World Nine-ball Champions)
    powerful break shot. In 1999, Bustamante finished third in the WPA World Nine-ball Championship after losing to Efren Reyes, who went on to win. A few months...
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  • Aloysius Yapp (category World Games bronze medalists)
    quarter-finals of the 2021 WPA World Ten-ball Championship, Yapp defeated Jayson Shaw, which moved him up to 8th in the world rankings; he ultimately finished...
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    jaws of the WPA-type pocket are often used exactly like a horizontal version of the backboard of a basketball goal, to rebound the ball into the pocket;...
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  • final match World championship World cup List of world championships in mind sports List of world cups and world championships for juniors and youth List...
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    Wu Jia-qing (category WPA World Nine-ball Champions)
    also won the 2005 WPA World Eight-ball Championship. Previously, he was the runner-up at the 2004 Juniors Nine-ball World Championship. He placed second...
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  • the original on August 24, 2013. Retrieved January 13, 2007. "IPT World Open 8-Ball 2006". Azbilliards.com. Archived from the original on August 25, 2013...
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    at the age of 17, he won his first world championship, winning the junior 2009 WPA World Nine-ball Championship, winning 11–7 in the final. The following...
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  • Nikos Ekonomopoulos 9–4. World Championships WPA World Ten-ball Championship (2022) PRP Nine-Ball Open (2023) Longoni 9-Ball League - with (Mieszko Fortuński)...
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    in the 2006 WPA Men's World Nine-ball Championship, and later the 2008 WPA World Eight-ball Championship. The 2007 World Pool Championship was launched...
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  • founding of the WPA as the international governing body for pool and their successful organization of the first WPA World Nine-ball Championship in 1990, Gagnaux...
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    Steve Davis (category Winners of the professional snooker world championship)
    smaller cue ball than the other balls, although he is happy with the game when played with uniform balls. At the 2000 WPA World Nine-ball Championship, Davis...
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    David Freese (category National League Championship Series MVPs)
    with 10 home runs and 55 RBIs during 2011, a season capped off by the Cardinals' 2011 World Series championship over the Texas Rangers, in which Freese...
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    (RPS) USA Powerlifting (USAPL) World Drug-Free Powerlifting Federation (WDFPF) World Powerlifting Alliance (WPA) World Powerlifting Congress (WPC) Of...
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  • the semifinals. September 8 – Rubilen Amit wins the 2024 WPA Women's World Nine-ball Championship in Hamilton, New Zealand after defeating Chen Siming of...
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    Mariano Rivera (category American League Championship Series MVPs)
    added (WPA) in the postseason with 11.7, nearly three times the total of the next-closest player. He also ranks first all time in championship WPA in the...
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    DelFarraro with her 1994 Masters World Championship racer Image of Phil Raber's 1976 Junior World Championship car Image of 1936 World Champion Herbert Muench's...
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    (7–12) allowed nine runs to the Cincinnati Reds in 2⁄3 inning on September 4 that led to an eventual 12–5 Astros loss at Great American Ball Park. On September...
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  • player Ronato Alcano defeated Ralf Souquet in the 2006 WPA Men's World Nine-ball Championship in Pasay, 17 racks to 11. November 18, Boxing – Manny Pacquiao...
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  • best-of-35 match. In 9-ball, a player must win a certain number of racks to win a match. In the WPA World Nine-ball Championship, nine racks are needed to...
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    no women. With work projects close to the city, Hooverville grew and the WPA settled into the city. A movement of women arose from Seattle during the...
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