2001 World Pool Championship - Groups Announced With just 33 days to go until the start of the world's biggest pool tournament, Matchroom Sport, in conjunction with the WPA can announce the draw for the 2001 World Pool Championship. A total of 128 players, representing 44 countries, are divided into 16 groups of 8 players. All players then play each other once in a race-to-5 match and at the end of the group section the top four advance forward to the last 64 knock-out stages, where they will be seeded based on group performances. Each group was drawn to give a geographical spread and the top two players in each group are seeded. Group 1 Fong Pang Chao  Taiwan Shannon Daulton  USA Favio Luersen  Brasil Ramil Gallego  Philippines Quinten Hann  Australia Tom Storm  Sweden Andy Battams  England Bristol Qualifier 2 Group 2 Earl Strickland  USA Christian Reimering  Germany Manuel Costa  Brasil Ping Pan Shen  Taiwan Ivica Putnik  Croatia Vegar Kristiansen  Norway Tony Drago  Malta Bristol Qualifier 9 Group 3 Marcus Chamat  Sweden Alex Pagulayan  Canada Charlie Williams  USA Patrick Yuen  Malaysia Lou Condo  Australia Andreas Roschkowski  Germany Andy Richardson  England Bristol Qualifier 5 Group 4 Kunihiko Takahashi  Japan Oliver Ortmann  Germany Dan Basavich  USA Tiong Boon Tang  Singapore Dino Nair  South Africa Ralph Eckert  Germany Diego Pedro Simon  Spain Bristol Qualifier 3 Group 5 Ismael Paez  Mexico Hao Ping Chang  Taiwan Jorge Llanos  Argentina Satoshi Kawabata  Japan Evgenji Stalev  Russia Pawel Rogalski  Poland Aki Heiskanen  Finland Bristol Qualifier 8 Group 6 Mika Immonen  Finland Sin Young Park  Korea Bill Stephen  USA Rodolfo Luat  Philippines Alwi  Indonesia Dimitri Jungo  Switzerland Paul Davies  Wales Tommy Donlon  Ireland Group 7 Corey Deuel  USA Alex Lely  Holland Alain Martel  Canada Warren Kiamco  Philippines Bruce Anderson  New Zealand Radoslaw Babica  Poland Joe Johnson  England Bristol Qualifier 6 Group 8 Efren Reyes  Philippines George San Souci  USA John Horsfall  Canada Hishashi Yamamoto  Japan Sandor Tot  Hungary Raymond Hauge  Norway Rob McKenna  Wales Anthanasios Vrakas  Greece Group 9 Buddy Hall  USA Young Hwa Jeong  Korea Francisco Taylor  Nicaragua Takashi Toda  Japan Brent Wells  New Zealand Kasper Thygesen  Denmark Jimmy White  England Bristol Qualifier 6 Group 10 Ralf Souquet  Germany Steve Knight  England Danny Medina  USA Kiyotaki Ohashi  Japan Lukas Krenek  Czech Republic Robert Pleiner  Austria Jan Dulst  Belgium Scottish Qualifier Group 11 Kenichi Uchigaki  Japan Johnny Archer  USA Juan Silva  Argentina Hsiung Lai Chia  Taiwan Jimmy Henry  New Zealand Niels Feijen  Holland Fabio Petroni  Italy UKAPA Qualifier Group 12 Jon Kucharo  USA Niklas Bergendorff  Sweden Ernesto Dominguez  Mexico Akikumo Toshikawa  Japan Johl Younger  Australia Marc Holtz  Luxembourg Mark Williams  Wales Lee Tucker  England Group 13 Francisco Bustamante  Philippines Troy Frank  USA Manuel Chau  Peru Chin Ching Kang  Taiwan Robby Suarly  Indonesia Andreas Vondenhoff  Germany Vincent Facquet  France Bristol Qualifier 4 Group 14 Thomas Engert  Germany Antonio Lining  Philippines Jeremy Jones  USA Ching Shun Yang  Taiwan Warren King  Australia Peter F Neilsen  Denmark Dominic Dale  Wales Daryl Peach  England Group 15 Hui Kai Hsia  Taiwan Steve Davis  England Luc Salvas  Canada Jang Su Lee  Korea A N Other  Thailand Nick Van Den Berg  Holland Paul Smith  Spain Bristol Qualifier 7 Group 16 Paul Potier  Canada Rico Diks  Holland Dee Adkins  USA Leonardo Andam  Philippines Arnold van Staden  Namibia Michael Schmidt  Germany Paolo Martins  Portugal Bristol Qualifier 8 Tables for the World Championship are provided by Brunswick, cloth by Simonis and balls by Saluc. For further details contact Luke Riches on +44 1708 782212 / 7785 395 688