2007 WPA Men's World Nine-ball Championship - Format

Format

The Format of qualifying used on 2006 was used for 2007. Several last-minute qualifying tournaments were held in the Metro Manila area a few weeks before the tournament starts.

All matches are in winner's break: the winner of the previous rack will break on the next rack, it was reverted from alternate break used in 2006.

There are 32 seeded players prior to the group stages; they are distributed 2 per group. The defending champion, Ronnie Alcano, is seeded #1.

Also, a double-elimination tournament will be used for the group stages; instead of 32 groups of 4, there will be 16 groups of eight, with the top four advancing. Each player will be seeded 1-8 in their groups, with a routine double-elimination tournament following the first round; however the player that wins twice will advance to the quarterfinals and will not take part in other group matches, in contrast if a player loses two games, he is eliminated. The top four players in each group therefore would had won twice. After the group stages, the routine 64-man single elimination tournament follows. The players are seeded in the round of 64 by basis of their group stage matches; the two players that won all of their games are seeded either #1 or #2, while the other two are seeded #3 and #4. The pairings are as follows:

• Group 1's #1 vs. Group 16's #4
• Group 1's #2 vs. Group 16's #3
• Group 1's #3 vs. Group 16's #2
• Group 1's #4 vs. Group 16's #1
• Group 8's #1 vs. Group 9's #4
• Group 8's #2 vs. Group 9's #3
• Group 8's #3 vs. Group 9's #2
• Group 8's #4 vs. Group 9's #1

and so on.

In the initial group stages the format consists of races to 9 racks. The last 64 play races to 10 racks. This is followed by the round of 16 (quarterfinals and semifinals) where the races are to 11 racks. The race in the finals jumps to 17 racks.