Standby for live daily reports from Fujairah in the United Arab Emirates and follow all the action as the 64 best players from all over the world make their challenge for the title of the WPA Damas World 8 Ball Championship and a share of the 110,000 pound prize money.
"Mad" Max Eberle from California says he prefers to play 8 Ball, "because there's more strategy? In 8 Ball you've got to have a game plan, but you can change your strategy after every shot".
Mexico's Ernesto Dominguez hasn't been practicing much, but says, "There are no favourites here for me, everyone is dangerous, and everyone is easy - if you make the balls you win". A sharp contrast to his countryman Ismael Paez who says, "I practice all the time" but only time will tell who's strategy prevails.
Elmer Hoya, one of the twelve U.A.E. qualifiers mentions that the quality of the field is stratospherically high this year, "it is much harder than before, so many (former) World Champions" and was also concerned about the talented, "young players with such good eyes".
Raj Hundal from England, replacing Ronnie O'Sullivan as predicted, is probably one of those talented young players. Still flushed with the success of winning the prestigious World Pool Masters he said, "That's something I've been dreaming of all my life" and has just reported a run of nine consecutive racks of 8 Ball in practice.
FINAL PLAYER LIST - BY COUNTRY
PHIL REILLY, Australia
LUC SALVAS, Canada
MIKA IMMONEN, Finland
KEVIN SMITH, Great Britain
KEVIN HEW, Great Britain
RAJ HUNDAL, Great Britain
DARYL PEACH, Great Britain
MICHAEL SCHMIDT, Germany
JORN KAPLAN, Germany
ANDREAS ROSCHKOWSKI, Germany
CHRISTIAN REIMERING, Germany
THORSTEN HOHMANN, Germany
KEVIN BECKER, Germany
RALF SOUQUET, Germany
VILMOS FOLDES, Hungary
SANDOR TOT, Hungary
SHERVIN RAHIMI, Iran
KAMRAN SHAWLA , Iran
FABIO PETRONI, Italy
SATOSHI KAWABATA, Japan
HISASHI KUSANO, Japan
PHIL-HYUN CHO, Korea
JEONG YOUNG HWA, Korea
PATRICK OOI, Malaysia
IBRAHIM BIN AMIR, Malaysia
ERNESTO DOMINGUEZ, Mexico
ISMAEL PAEZ, Mexico
NEILS FEIJEN, Netherlands
ALEX LELY, Netherlands
NICK VAN DEN BERG, Netherlands
PHIL WILKINSON, New Zealand
MUHAMMAD KHAN, Pakistan
IMRAN BASHEER, Pakistan
EFREN REYES, Philippines
ALEX PAGULAYAN, Philippines
JOEBERT PANGA, Philippines
FRANCISCO BUSTAMANTE, Philippines
MARLON MANALO, Philippines
RADOSLAW BABICA, Poland
TOMASZ KAPLAN, Poland
JASON THERON, Republic of South Africa
WARREN HORSLEY, Republic of South Africa
NAIF ALJENA, Saudi Arabia
ROSS Mc INNES, Scotland
MATJAZ ERCULJ, Slovenia
MARCO TSCHUDI, Switzerland
MARCUS CHAMAT, Sweden
LIU CHENG CHUAN, Chinese Taipei
CHANG-JUNG LIN, Chinese Taipei
CHIANG CHIA WU, Chinese Taipei
MOHAMMAD AL HOSANI, United Arab Emirates
JOVEN BUSTAMANTE, United Arab Emirates
ELMER HOYA, United Arab Emirates
HANNI AL HOWRI, United Arab Emirates
JAMES ORTEGA, United Arab Emirates
JUN BONGABONG, United Arab Emirates
OMARAN SALEM, United Arab Emirates
ISAMEL YAQOOB, United Arab Emirates
AMIN FIKREE, United Arab Emirates
JALAL YOUSIF, United Arab Emirates
ELVIS CALASANG, United Arab Emirates
ABDULLAH YOUSIF, United Arab Emirates
MIKE MASSEY, United States of America
MAX EBERLE, United States of America
