1998 WPA World Nine-ball Championship
The 1998 WPA World Nine-ball Championship was a professional pool championship that took place in 1997 in Taipei City, Taiwan. The event was won by Kunihiko Takahashi who defeated defending champion Johnny Archer in the final.[2]
| Tournament information | |
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| Dates | 11–15 November 1998 |
| City | Taipei City |
| Country | Taiwan |
| Organisation(s) | WPA World Nine-ball Championship |
| Format | Group stage, Single elimination |
| Final | |
| Champion |  JPN Kunihiko Takahashi[1] |
| Runner-up |  USA Johnny Archer |
← 1997 1999 → | |
Knockout Stages
The following is the results from the quarter-finals. Players competing had progressed through the earlier knockout round. Players in bold denote match winners. Matches were race-to-13.
| Quarterfinals | Semifinals | Finals | ||||||||||||
| Jon Kucharo
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 Antonio Lining
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| Johnny Archer
| 13 | |||||||||||||
| Jon Kucharo
| 3 | |||||||||||||
| Johnny Archer
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| Peter Nielsen
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| Johnny Archer
| 3 | |||||||||||||
| Kunihiko Takahashi
| 13 | |||||||||||||
 Yang Ching-shun
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| Akikumo Toshikawa
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| Kunihiko Takahashi
| 13 | |||||||||||||
| Akikumo Toshikawa
| 2 | |||||||||||||
 Niclas Bergendorff
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| Kunihiko Takahashi
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See also
References
- "World Champions – WPA Pool". WPA Pool. Retrieved 10 January 2019.
Nick Varner
- "World 9-Ball Championship 1998 :: ProPool.info". propool.info. Retrieved 5 February 2019.
External links
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