World Eight Ball Federation is Useless

It really annoys me when you're looking for more information about what's going on with the world eight-ball titles and what the new events and winners are and all you can find are results from last years final.

I was just on their latest news story about Mick Hill thinking I was reading something recent until I realised that the article was from last year!

No latest news from the world eight ball federation since July 2010?

Come on, we need to see better news reporting than this, especially since we're almost only a month away from the June 2011 world 8 ball title being held.

Does that mean we'll only get one news release about 8 ball for this year as well?

8 ball world champs 2011

The WEPF have been happy to announce that the 2011 World Championships will be taking place on 25th June 2011at the Barceló Imperial Hotel, Blackpool.

Should be good to see how things go this year, its been a while since we've followed the 8 ball world champs but having them in Blackpool does mean we'll get some good shots for the players.

MickHill 2010 8-ball title winner

Press release from World Eight Ball Federation:

World Eightball Pool Federation

HILL IS KING OF THE WORLD

Mick Hill's decision to turn his back on American Pool to return to his English roots paid off in Blackpool tonight.

The Dudley born star ended a six year wait to double up his solitary Foster's World 8-Ball title with an 11-8 victory over Stoke potter Gareth Potts.

Hill avenged his defeat in the 2007 showpiece and stopped Potts winning a fourth world crown.

He also becomes the first player in the history of the sport to win the Foster's World title and World Masters in the same year.

Indeed, Hill remained unbeaten in a total of 14 matches in the two events.

His back to back wins at the Imperial Hotel were worth £15,000.

"I have never been as focussed or as happy at a tournament as I have been here this week," said the delighted 30-year-old who, until recently, spent six months on the 9-Ball circuit.

"The saying 'you don't know what you have got until its gone, couldn't be more true regarding me and 8-Ball pool.

"Who knows whether I will pick up American Pool again in the future.

"But for the time being I am going to stick with 8-Ball.

"When I won my first world title I was convinced I would have this purple match and win four or five world titles.

"And because I did it once early, people expected me to win more.

"So, I'm pleased for a number of reasons.

"You start to wonder whether you can do it when I am under it.

"So, it's a big thing to prove to yourself you have still got it.

"You always know Gareth is going to come out playing well in a world final.

"And in the last couple of finals I've had a stinker.

"That's not happened so I am going to savour this victory and the World Masters.

"To do the double is great. If it ever happens again, then fantastic for that person.

"But it can never be bettered.

"Someone can win 10 world titles but I have done something that may never be done again.

"And this ranks higher than when I won the three tours again."

There was never more than two frames between the duo in one of the highest quality finals in the history of the event.

In fact, probably only Chris Melling's breathtaking victory over Jason Twist in 2003 topped tonight's showpiece.

Potts led 2-1 and 5-4 but trailed 8-6. He fought back to 8-8 only for the 'Machine' to claim the last three frames.

WEPF 2010 Championships

Here's the schedule for the current WEPF world championships 2010 that are going on at the moment:

MENS SINGLES
1st Quarter Final 8pm 27th July Sky Sports Extra
2nd Quarter Final 8pm 28th July Sky Sports Extra
3rd Quarter Final 8pm 3rd August Sky Sports Extra
4th Quarter Final 8pm 4th August Sky Sports Extra
1st Semi Final 6pm 9th August Sky Sports 3
2nd Semi Final 6.30pm 10th August Sky Sports 3
MENS SINGLES FINAL 11pm 11th August Sky Sports Extra

10-ball World Championship 2009 Winner

Mika Immonen has won the 2009 World 10-Ball Championship in an amazing 11-6 win over Lee Van Corteza who was the Filipino favorite.

Immonen was slow on the start as Corteza took the lead however Immonen came back to win the 10-ball World Championship for 2009 after her tied them up at 2-2.

2009 10-ball world championship update..

Ok, we haven't been updating everyone as much as we should on the pool tournaments for 2009 but it's becoming increasingly difficult to keep up with all of the changes to scheduled events across the year. Particularly when we now have previous years' tournaments happening in the same year!

Here's some detail on a few of the 2009 world pool championships;

- The World 10-Ball Championship are on at the moment as you may already know in Manila. Running from November 25 - 30th for 2009 at the World Trade Center Metro Manila in the Philippines.

At the time of writing this the World 10-Ball Champs is down to the final four with the semi-finals showing Corteza facing Alcaide and Lining up against Immonen.

- The WPA World Junior Championships for 2009 were held this month and the WPA announced two new world champions were created with Ruslan Chinakhov of Russia and Keng-Chun Lin of Taipei becoming the new WPA World Junior Champions.

Qatar International Open 9-Ball Champion

The Qatar International Open 9-ball has been running from June 27 to July 7 2009;

Mika Immonen from the country of Finland won the 2009 Qatar International Open 9-Ball championship on July 6. Mika beat Ko Pin Yi of Chinese Taipei 13-9 in a competitive final 9 ball championship game.

Well done!

China Open 2009

The WPA China Open is currently running (8/6/2009 - 14/6/2009) in Shanghai.

Earlier this year Peter Ebdon won the Bank of Beijing 2009 World Snooker China Open.