page_title: 2011 WPA World Nine-ball Championship
section_title: Later rounds (quarter-finals–final)
hierarchical_section_title: 2011 WPA World Nine-ball Championship / Tournament summary / Knockout rounds / Later rounds (quarter-finals–final)
caption_attribution_description: English: picture taken by en:User:Exec8 as one of the audience in the 2006 WPC in PICC, Philippines.
context_page_description: The 2011 WPA World Nine-ball Championship was a professional nine-ball pool tournament held from June 25 to July 1, 2011 at the Al Sadd Sports Club in Doha, Qatar. A series of qualifying tournaments were held from June 21 to 23. The competition was the 2011 edition of the WPA World Nine-ball Championship, which was first held in 1990. The event was organized by the World Pool-Billiard Association and Matchroom Sport.
  The defending champion was Filipino Francisco Bustamante who had defeated Kuo Po-cheng in the final of the 2010 WPA World Nine-ball Championship 13–7. Bustamante lost to Dennis Orcullo in the last 32. Japanese Yukio Akakariyama defeated Ronnie Alcano of the Philippines 13–11 in the final to become the first Japanese world pool champion since 1998 when Takahashi Kunihiko defeated Johnny Archer. The event featured a prize fund of $250,000 with the winner receiving $30,000.
context_section_description: The quarter-finals to the final were all played on the last day of competition, July 1. In the quarter-finals, Dennis Orcullo led 5–0 against Daryl Peach early in the match, and later won 11–2. Mark Gray played Shane van Boening and held a 4–0 lead before van Boening won five racks in-a-row to lead 5–4. Gray then won the next four racks and led 10–6. Van Boening won the next three frames, but in rack 20, but missed a shot using the bridge. The two took their time studying the shot on the nine-ball, but van Boening made an errant safety allowing Gray to capitalize and win the match. Tōru Kuribayashi trailed Ronnie Alcano 7–3 but won five of the next six to level the match at 8-8, which later became 10-10. Kuribayashi broke for the game but the two got locked in a safety battle. After a fluke on the 3-ball, Alcano ran the rack to win 11–10.
  Yukio Akakariyama lead Vinacio Tanio throughout the match, until 8-8 when he lost the next rack to trail 9–8, and 10–9, but the match went to a decider after a break and run. Tanio broke in rack 21, but ran out of position on the 8-ball. He sank the 8-ball but then faced on another difficult shot on the 9-ball. Tanio missed and Akakariyama faced on a table's length shot on the 9-ball. Akakariyama took more than ten minutes to study the shot before potting it to win 11–10.
  The first semi-final saw Orcullo face Alcano. Alcano won the first two racks, and remained at least two racks ahead throughout, as he led 8-4 and 10–6. Orcullo won three racks in-a-row, before Alcano won rack 20 to win 11–9. After the match, Alcano said that his game had improved due to no longer having a manager, but instead working with Manny Pacquiao, a Filipino boxer commenting "all I need is just a little bit of Manny's good fortune and I can win the World Championship. I just have to win one more match." The second semi-final went to a deciding rack between Yukio Akagariyama and Mark Gray. Yukio led 6-2 and 8-3 before Gray won five racks in-a-row to level the match at 8-8. In rack 17, Gray attempted a bank shot on the 9-ball, but missed, allowing Yukio to win the rack and then the next to go 10-8 ahead. Gray won the next two racks, and had the break in rack 21. On his break, the cue ball scratched allowing Yukio to clear the table to win 11–10.
  The final was played at 7p.m. local time (GMT+3), as a race-to-13 racks with an alternating break between Yukio and Alcano. The lag was won by Alcano, and the racks were won on break until rack nine, with Yukio taking a 5–4 lead. He also won the next frame after a failed jump shot by Alcano. Breaking to have a three rack lead, Yukio went in-off when potting the 9-ball allowing Alcano to win the rack. Yukio won the next two to take a 9–6 lead, but Alcano won three in-a-row to tie the match at 9-9. In rack 19, Alcano missed a shot on the 8-ball that traveled the length of the table, and Yukio won the next two to lead 11–9. Alcano tied the match with some safety play in the next two racks for 11-11. Breaking in rack 23, Alcano missed a shot on the 2-ball into the middle pocket, with Yukio running the rest of the rack. Yukio broke in rack 24, but ran the balls in order to win 13–11.
caption: The 2006 champion Ronato Alcano lost in the final of the event
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