Action from the $200,000 WPA World 9-ball Championship at Al Arabi Stadium in Doha yesterday. The second stage and final stage of the championship began yesterday with 128 best players from the world, drawn from 40 countries vying for the coveted crown. The winner of the 2015 World 9-ball Championship will receive $30,000. The runner-up will get $15,000. The players have been divided into 16 groups of 8 playing a race-to-9, alternate break, double elimination format. Four players from each group will make up the final 64, which marks the start of the always tense and dramatic single elimination phase of the tournament. Matches will then become race to 11, alternate break. The final, which takes place on September 18, will be a race to 13. Defending champion Niels Feijen of Netherlands, Darren Appleton of England, Thorsten Hohmann of Germany and Finland’s Mika Immonen are some of the top players competing for the crown. PICTURES BY: SYED OMAR
