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ool_ball_rack.jpg — Delta13Rack, Public domain.The losers’ door slammed shut overnight at the Bali International Convention Centre, and the Kamui WPA Women’s 9-Ball World Championship finally has its last sixteen. Elsewhere on the same floor, Vietnam’s Dương Quốc Hoàng shoved Fedor Gorst into the Aramith Men’s Open losers’ bracket — a rude wake-up for one of nineball’s heaviest hitters.
Women’s Worlds: Losers Qualification done, L16 set
All eight Losers Qualification ties finished in the early Bali hours (race to two). Through to the single-elimination last sixteen:
- Rubilen Amit blanked Meng-Hsia Hung 2–0
- Shi Tianqi blanked Pia Filler 2–0 — ending Filler’s run after her winners-side loss to Annita Kanjaya
- Huang Qing Ning blanked Kristina Zlateva 2–0
- Xin-Yu Hong edged Chia-Chia Chou 2–1
- Aleksandra Guleikova blanked Venus Lim 2–0
- Silviana Lu beat host Julia Permata Sari 2–1
- Shui Ching Chiang beat Yuki Hiraguchi 2–1
- Chihiro Kawahara beat Zhu Qing Bi 2–1
They join winners-side qualifiers Seoa Seo, Chezka Centeno, Kristina Tkach, Tzu-Chien Wei, Chia Hua Chen, Savannah Easton, Chieh-Yu Chou and Annita Kanjaya.
Last sixteen draw (waiting):
- Seoa Seo vs Shui Ching Chiang
- Chezka Centeno vs Shi Tianqi
- Kristina Tkach vs Rubilen Amit
- Tzu-Chien Wei vs Aleksandra Guleikova
- Chia Hua Chen vs Xin-Yu Hong
- Savannah Easton vs Chihiro Kawahara
- Chieh-Yu Chou vs Silviana Lu
- Annita Kanjaya vs Huang Qing Ning
Aramith Men’s Open: Dương dumps Gorst; Biado & Filler through
On the men’s winners’ board, Dương Quốc Hoàng beat Fedor Gorst 2–1 in Winner Round 1 — Gorst immediately into losers’ play (later listed against So Shaw). Other overnight WR1 notes from CueScore: Carlo Biado blanked Toan Nguyen 2–0; Joshua Filler beat Albert Januarta 2–1; Eklent Kaçi blanked Jokubas Silantjevas 2–0; Francisco Sanchez Ruiz blanked Wiktor Fortuński 2–0; David Alcaide blanked Arseni Sevastyanov 2–0; Naoyuki Oi edged Thorsten Hohmann 2–1; Denis Grabe blanked Ponco Manurung 2–0. Albin Ouschan dropped 0–2 to Paolo Gallito and headed to the losers’ side.
Loser Round 2 was still chewing through survivors as London woke up.
India names Commonwealth Cue Sports squad for Ahmedabad
Away from Bali, the Billiards & Snooker Federation of India has named an 18-member squad for the second Commonwealth Cue Sports Championships (7–10 October, Veer Savarkar Sports Complex, Ahmedabad) — the first time the multi-discipline meet lands in India, across English billiards, snooker, 10-ball, heyball and blackball.
Direct-entry medal hopes include Vidya Pillai (women’s heyball gold in Mauritius 2025), Shivam Arora (men’s heyball silver) and Chitra Magimairaj (women’s 10-ball silver). Women’s billiards is led by IBSF world snooker champion Anupama Ramachandran; Asian women’s snooker champion Keerthana Pandian headlines women’s snooker. Men’s names include Siddharth Parikh, Rayaan Razmi, Laxman Rawat, Aditya Mehta, Paras Gupta, Divya Sharma and Sundeep Gulati.
Also on the board
Reyes Cup: Matchroom / WNT confirm Fedor Gorst returns for Team Rest of the World at the Roobet Reyes Cup (15–18 October, Makati Coliseum), joining Francisco Sanchez Ruiz, Shane Van Boening and Joshua Filler under captain Ralf Souquet — one wildcard still open. Live on WNT TV.
IEPF wrap (Marrakech): Northern Ireland’s Declan Brennan took the World Singles crown 11–5 over Morocco’s Abderrahmane Chorfy; England’s Barbara Taylor completed a women’s hat-trick 8–5 against Emma Cunningham. (Team gold already went to Morocco over NI.)
Shenzhen Open: Last-16 day on the WST calendar (Thu 1 Oct) — among the ties: Trump–Si Jiahui, Selby–Maguire, Murphy–Slessor, Walden–Wu Yize, Wakelin–N. Robertson, Holt–K. Wilson.
Where to watch
- Bali Women’s Worlds / Doubles / Aramith Men’s Open — Pro Billiard TV / PBS live scores via CueScore
- Reyes Cup (from 15 Oct) — WNT TV
- Shenzhen Open — WST platforms
Sources: CueScore / Pro Billiard Series Bali; AZBilliards (Reyes Cup); BSFI / ANI (Commonwealth squad); Totally Snookered (IEPF); WST schedule.
