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08/12/99 World
Championship started After three days of qualification with 114 men
and 29 women is this morning, the World Championship 9-ball officially
started by the president of the World Pool-Billiard Association, Jurgen
Sandman. For Sandman was this his last official handling, because of
professional occupation, he has to lay down is mandate as president. Women The qualification tournament of the women was
completely dominated by the Japanese. With the
victory of Etsuko Kubota, Mika Muneta, Mitsumi Kubota, Kimiko
Yamauchi, Rika Takahashi and Keiko Nishimura were allready 6 of the 8
places taken. The two other places wend to German Sandra Ortner and
Karen Corr from England. The biggest surprise came from Ortner when she
defeted World Champion Gerda Hofstätter from Austria with 9/3. Men Also in the men’s qualification tournament
came the surprise from the German player Sven Paurisch, has he defeted
Niclas Bergendorff from Sweden with 11/8. Steve Knight (England) was too
weak for Sten Järledal (Sweden) 9/11 and Evgenij Stalev (Russia) lost
to Haruyoshi Hinokiyama (Japan) with 7/11. Torsten Hohmann from Germany
lost to Imran Majid (England) 9/11. Riko Diks (Netherlands) started weak
but quickly regain is strength and won with 11/4 from Tommy Donlon
(England). Karol Augustynowicz from Poland lost with the smallest
difference from France Eric Robaine 10/11. He was the 17the
player to qualified as the 18the had a walk-over because of a forfait of
a player who didn’t turn op. Qualified players: Imran Majid (England) |
