page_title: 2009 World Cup of Pool
section_title: Later rounds (quarter-final—final)
hierarchical_section_title: 2009 World Cup of Pool / Tournament summary / Later rounds (quarter-final—final)
caption_attribution_description: Filipino superstar Efren Reyes competes in the World 9-Ball Pool Championship in Doha. Picture by Vinod Divakaran www.dohastadiumplusqatar.com
context_page_description: The 2009 World Cup of Pool was a professional nine-ball pool, and the fourth World Cup of Pool, a scotch doubles knockout championship representing 32 national teams. The cup was played at the Annex of SM City North EDSA in Quezon City, Philippines from 1 to 6 September 2009. The Korean pair of Ga Young Kim and Yun Mi Lim were the first all-female team to participate at the event. The tournament featured a prize fund of $250,000 with the winner receiving $60,000. It was sponsored by online poker website partypoker.
  The defending champions were Rodney Morris and Shane Van Boening representing the US, who had won the 2008 event 11–7 over the English team of Daryl Peach and Mark Gray in the final. The USA team were defeated in the quarter-finals by the Chinese pair of Fu Jian-bo and Li He-wen 5–9. The event was won by the Filipino team of Francisco Bustamante and Efren Reyes, who defeated the Germans Ralf Souquet and Thorsten Hohmann in the 2009 final 11–9. The event was organised and later broadcast by Matchroom Sport worldwide, and locally live on Solar Sports and CS9.
context_section_description: The quarter-finals were all played on 5 September as a race-to-nine racks. Both home Philippines teams reached the quarter-finals. Alcano and Orcollo defeated the Polish team of Radosław Babica and Mateusz Śniegocki. The Philippines trailed at both 0–2 and 4–2 before eventually winning 9–5. The other Filipino team played the English side, who won only one rack, when trailing by three racks, and eventually lost 1–9. Rodney Morris and Shane Van Boening, the defending champions, were defeated by the Chinese team. China were 1–3 behind, but won seven racks in a row, and eventually won 9–5. The final quarter-final featured the German team of Ralf Souquet and Thorsten Hohmann defeating the Netherlands duo of Niels Feijen and Nick van den Berg 9–7.
  The semi-finals were played on 6 September, as race-to-nine racks matches. The first semi-final, the Chinese and Filipino teams were at hill-hill 8–8. In the deciding rack, the Chinese team had the break, but Fu missed a two-ball combination on the second shot. The Filipino team of Reyes and Bustamante ran the rest of the rack to win 9–8. The second semi-final featured the other Philippine team face the Germans. The German team prevented an all home-nation final, winning 9–6.
  The final was also played on 6 September as a race-to-11 racks match. Germany won the lag and broke first, but failed to win any of the first three racks. The German team won five straight racks to lead 5–3, before the Philippines tied the match 6–6. Rack 14 was a long rack, with a prolonged bout of safety play with Reyes and Bustamante both missing long pots. Souquet himself converted a long shot at the 9-ball to put the Germans up 8–6. The Filipino team won four of the next five racks to get to the hill at 10–9 ahead. The Filipino team won the next rack to win the match 11–9 and the tournament.
caption: Efren Reyes (pictured) and Francisco Bustamante won the tournament with a 11–9 victory in the final.
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