2009 World Professional Billiards Championship
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The 2009 World Professional Billiards Championship
World Professional Billiards Championship
The World Billiards Championship is an international cue sports tournament in the discipline of English billiards. It has been played annually since 1980, is one of the oldest sporting World Championships in the world, dating in earnest to the mid-19th century...

, the top international professional competition in English billiards
English billiards
English billiards, called simply billiards in many former British colonies and in Great Britain where it originated, is a hybrid form of carom and pocket billiards played on a billiard table. Billiards is less well known as "the English game", "the all-in game" and "the common game".The game is for...

, was held at the Northern Snooker Centre in Leeds
Leeds
Leeds is a city and metropolitan borough in West Yorkshire, England. In 2001 Leeds' main urban subdivision had a population of 443,247, while the entire city has a population of 798,800 , making it the 30th-most populous city in the European Union.Leeds is the cultural, financial and commercial...

, England
England
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, between 2 and 6 September 2009. The 17 players were divided into three groups of four, and one group of five, with the top two in each group advancing into the knock-out round.

Pankaj Advani
Pankaj Advani
Pankaj Arjan Advani is an Indian Billiards and Snooker player. A winner of seven World Titles in Billiards and Snooker, he is considered to be the one of the best Billiards Player India has produced...

 won his first World Professional Billiards Championship
World Professional Billiards Championship
The World Billiards Championship is an international cue sports tournament in the discipline of English billiards. It has been played annually since 1980, is one of the oldest sporting World Championships in the world, dating in earnest to the mid-19th century...

 title after beating defetending champion Mike Russell in the final 2030–1253.

Group A

Player Score Player Score
  Mike Russell 945   Rupesh Shah 215
  Devendra Joshi 615   Ian Williamson 237
  Mike Russell 889   Ian Williamson 269
  Devendra Joshi 309   Rupesh Shah 485
  Ian Williamson 249   Rupesh Shah 480
  Mike Russell 703   Devendra Joshi 439

Rank Player P W L F A
1   Mike Russell 3 3 0 2537 919
2   Rupesh Shah 3 2 1 1176 1503
3   Devendra Joshi 3 1 2 1363 1425
4   Ian Williamson 3 0 3 1176 1503

Group B

Player Score Player Score
  Sourav Kothari 333   B. Bhaskar 779
  Gary Rogers 171   Martin Goodwill 654
  Sourav Kothari 394   Martin Goodwill 413
  B. Bhaskar 529   Gary Rogers 295
  Martin Goodwill 567   B. Bhaskar 400
  Sourav Kothari 730   Gary Rogers 317

Rank Player P W L F A
1   Martin Goodwill 3 3 0 1634 965
2   B. Bhaskar 3 2 1 1708 1195
3   Sourav Kothari 3 1 2 1457 1509
4   Gary Rogers 3 0 3 783 1913

Group C

Player Score Player Score
  Peter Gilchrist 927   Bernard French 240
  Mark Hirst 513   Bernard French 314
  Peter Gilchrist 789   Mark Hirst 471
  David Causier 982   Bernard French 299
  David Causier 862   Mark Hirst 332
  David Causier 982   Peter Gilchrist 467

Rank Player P W L F A
1   David Causier 3 3 0 2826 1098
2   Peter Gilchrist 3 2 1 2183 1693
3   Mark Hirst 3 1 2 1316 1965
4   Bernard French 3 0 3 853 2422

Group D

Player Score Player Score
  Geet Sethi
Geet Sethi
Geet Siriram Sethi of India is a professional player of English billiards who dominated the sport throughout much of the 1990s, and a notable amateur snooker player. He is a six-time winner of the professional-level and a three-time winner of the amateur World Championships, and holder of two...

383   Dhruv Sitwala 629
  Pankaj Advani
Pankaj Advani
Pankaj Arjan Advani is an Indian Billiards and Snooker player. A winner of seven World Titles in Billiards and Snooker, he is considered to be the one of the best Billiards Player India has produced...

787   Robert Hall 394
  Dhruv Sitwala 957   Micheal Kreuziger 154
  Geet Sethi
Geet Sethi
Geet Siriram Sethi of India is a professional player of English billiards who dominated the sport throughout much of the 1990s, and a notable amateur snooker player. He is a six-time winner of the professional-level and a three-time winner of the amateur World Championships, and holder of two...

1329   Robert Hall 206
  Pankaj Advani
Pankaj Advani
Pankaj Arjan Advani is an Indian Billiards and Snooker player. A winner of seven World Titles in Billiards and Snooker, he is considered to be the one of the best Billiards Player India has produced...

1169   Micheal Kreuziger 159
  Dhruv Sitwala 1010   Robert Hall 228
  Geet Sethi
Geet Sethi
Geet Siriram Sethi of India is a professional player of English billiards who dominated the sport throughout much of the 1990s, and a notable amateur snooker player. He is a six-time winner of the professional-level and a three-time winner of the amateur World Championships, and holder of two...

1247   Micheal Kreuziger 185
  Pankaj Advani
Pankaj Advani
Pankaj Arjan Advani is an Indian Billiards and Snooker player. A winner of seven World Titles in Billiards and Snooker, he is considered to be the one of the best Billiards Player India has produced...

495   Dhruv Sitwala 731
  Micheal Kreuziger 222   Robert Hall 690
  Geet Sethi
Geet Sethi
Geet Siriram Sethi of India is a professional player of English billiards who dominated the sport throughout much of the 1990s, and a notable amateur snooker player. He is a six-time winner of the professional-level and a three-time winner of the amateur World Championships, and holder of two...

482   Pankaj Advani
Pankaj Advani
Pankaj Arjan Advani is an Indian Billiards and Snooker player. A winner of seven World Titles in Billiards and Snooker, he is considered to be the one of the best Billiards Player India has produced...

818

Rank Player P W L F A
1   Dhruv Sitwala 4 4 0 3327 1260
2   Pankaj Advani
Pankaj Advani
Pankaj Arjan Advani is an Indian Billiards and Snooker player. A winner of seven World Titles in Billiards and Snooker, he is considered to be the one of the best Billiards Player India has produced...

4 3 1 3269 1766
3   Geet Sethi
Geet Sethi
Geet Siriram Sethi of India is a professional player of English billiards who dominated the sport throughout much of the 1990s, and a notable amateur snooker player. He is a six-time winner of the professional-level and a three-time winner of the amateur World Championships, and holder of two...

4 2 2 3441 1838
4   Robert Hall 4 1 3 1518 3348
5   Micheal Kreuziger 4 0 4 720 4063

Knock-out round

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