The WPA World Eight-ball Championship is a professional eight-ball pool tournament sanctioned by the World Pool-Billiard Association (WPA), initially contested from 2004 to 2012 in Fujairah, United Arab Emirates.^[1][2] After not being held for several years, it was announced by the WPA that the championship would return in 2017, to be held at the Olympic Centre in Jinan, China.^[3] However, that event did not occur, and the championship continued to remain dormant until Predator Cues re-established the tournament as part of their Pro Billiard Series, beginning with the 2022 edition of the tournament.

Winners

Year	Host		Final				Semifinalists
			Winner	Score	Runner-up
2004	United Arab Emirates		Efren Reyes	11–4	Marlon Manalo		Francisco Bustamante	Alex Pagulayan
2005			Wu Jiaqing	11–5	Nick van den Berg		Francisco Bustamante	Niels Feijen
2007			Ronnie Alcano	11–8	Dennis Orcollo		Niels Feijen	Joven Bustamante
2008			Ralf Souquet	13–9	Ronnie Alcano		Marcus Chamat	Dennis Orcollo
2010			Karl Boyes	13–12	Niels Feijen		Ruslan Chinachov	Darren Appleton
2011			Dennis Orcollo	10–3	Niels Feijen		David Alcaide	Darren Appleton
2012			Chang Jung-lin	11–6	Fu Che-wei		Chris Melling	Liu Haitao
2022	Puerto Rico		Francisco Sánchez Ruíz	10–6	Wiktor Zielinski		Jayson Shaw	Mario He
2023	Austria		Shane Van Boening	10–7	Sanjin Pehlivanović		Wojciech Szewczyk	Max Lechner

Top performers

Name	Nationality	Winner	Runner-up	Semi-final or better
Dennis Orcollo	Philippines	1	1	3
Ronnie Alcano	Philippines			2
Chang Jung-Lin	Chinese Taipei		0	1
Efren Reyes	Philippines
Karl Boyes	England
Ralf Souquet	Germany
Francisco Sánchez Ruíz	Spain
Shane Van Boening	United States
Wu Jiaqing	China

• Active participants are shown in bold.
• In the event of identical records, players are sorted in alphabetical order by first name.

Wheelchair champions

Year	Winner
2003	Henrik Larsson
2004	Kurt Deklerck
2003	Emil Schranz

References