Women's World 9 Ball Championship Update.

By: Erik Hjorleifson 

The Women's World Championships is underway in Gulin, China. The event features 64 of the Worlds top Women vying for a piece of the $170 000 prize which boasts a $42 000 first prize and a $20 000 second prize which must be noted is higher than what is on offer a the Men's World Championships.

In recent years the Asian women have emerged as the number 1 contenders  for Women's international titles. The Front runners of those Asian of those Asian countries include China, Taiwan, Korea and Japan and a good number of those players are under 25. Alongside the perennial Asian threats Allison Fisher, Kelly Fisher, Jasmine Ouschan,Monica Webb and Brittany Bryant head up the hopes for the western side. Surprisingly Karen Corr is absent this year for reasons unknown.

This years championships follows the typical WPA format in recent years with players drawn into double knockout groups of 8 with 4 advancing to the single knockout final 32 stage. The group stages were played on the 4th and 5th and here are some notable results.

Undefeated Players

Pan Xiaoting

Chen Siming

Jasmine Ouschan

Rubilen Amit

Chieh You Chou

Liu Sha Sha

Han Yu

Fu Xiao Fang

Allison Fisher

Ga Young Kim

Notable players failing to advance to the single knockout stages

Kelly Fisher

Jenninfer Baretta

Emily Duddy

Brittany Bryant

Shin Mei Liu

Monica Webb

The first round of the single knockout stages was also completed yesterday and here are some notable scores

Chezka Centeno (young filipino up and comer) 9 Zhou do Do 6

Chieh Yeh Chou 9 Kamila Khodejeva (2014 World Junior Champion) 7

Han Yu 9 Yuan Chun Lin (2014 Amway Cup champion) 1

Gao Meng (15 year old Chinese prodigy 9 Jiang Teng 7

This brings us down to the final 16 and every match will be tough from here, there is a free streaming link at http://alison-chang.com/the-womens-9-ball-world-championship-2015-is-set-to-kick-off-in-a-brand-new-battlefield/#more-14544  and the stream is fairly good quality. All the draws and results can be seen at http://alison-chang.com/ special thanks to Alison Chang for up to date coverage on this event