American 14.1 Straight Pool Championship

The International Straight Pool Open formerly known as the American Straight Pool Championship is a prestigious professional straight pool (also known as continuous 14.1 pool) tournament held in the United States since 2014. It is organized by promoter Peter Burrows.[1][2]

Format

The tournament has been held in the fall over a 4 or 5 day period.

42 or 48 players are subjectively ranked by skill level and evenly distributed into groups of 6 or 7 players for the initial round-robin phase. After, the players with the best records from each group move on to a 24 players single-elimination tournament. The 8 players with the best records get a bye. Matches are races to 125 during the round-robin phase and to 150 during the single-elimination tournament except for the final which is a race to 175 or 200.[1]

In 2021, a women's division was added to the format. Fifteen women competed in 3 groups during the round-robin and eight of them move to a single elimination tournament. Kelly Fisher defeated Pia Filler in the finals with a score of 100-46.[3]

Events

Men[2][4]

Year Date Venue Location Winner Runner-up Score
2014 September 12-14 Diamond Billiards Midlothian, VA, USA England Darren Appleton Northern Ireland Karen Corr 150-28
2015 October 22-25 Diamond Billiards Midlothian, VA, USA England Darren Appleton (2) Germany Thorsten Hohmann 150-94
2016 October 12-16 Diamond Billiards Midlothian, VA, USA Netherlands Niels Feijen Finland Mika Immonen 150-114
2017 October 17-21 Diamond Billiards Midlothian, VA, USA Poland Konrad Juszczyszyn Philippines Dennis Orcollo 150-87
2018 October 16-19 Carom Cafe Billiards New York City, NY, USA Albania Eklent Kaçi Germany Thorsten Hohmann 200-168
2019 October 22-26 Q-Master Billiards Virginia Beach, VA, USA Russia Ruslan Chinakhov Canada Alex Pagulayan 175-(-2)
2020 Not held due to the COVID-19 pandemic
2021 October 19-23 Q-Master Billiards Virginia Beach, VA, USA Germany Joshua Filler Russia Fedor Gorst 150-89
2022 October 24-29 Q-Master Billiards Virginia Beach, VA, USA Switzerland Dimitri Jungo Poland Wiktor Zielinski 175-132
2023 October 25-31 Q-Master Billiards Virginia Beach, VA, USA Austria Mario He Philippines Lee Vann Corteza 150-48
2024 November 23-26 Renaissance Resort Saint Augustine, FL, USA Austria Mario He Austria Max Lechner 150-131

Women[2][4]

Year Date Venue Location Winner Finalist Score
2021 October 19-23 Q-Master Billiards Virginia Beach, VA, USA England Kelly Fisher Germany Pia Filler 100-46
2022 October 24-29 Q-Master Billiards Virginia Beach, VA, USA Russia Kristina Tkach Northern Ireland Karen Corr 100-14

References

  1. ^ a b "Home page". American 14.1 Straight Pool Championship. Retrieved 20 October 2018.
  2. ^ a b c "AMERICAN 14.1 STRAIGHT POOL CHAMPIONSHIP". AzBilliards. Retrieved 23 December 2018.
  3. ^ "American 14.1 Women's Championship". Cue Score. October 23, 2021. Retrieved February 20, 2022.
  4. ^ a b "Players". American 14.1 Straight Pool Championship. Archived from the original on 7 October 2016. Retrieved 20 October 2018.