All Japan Championship (9-Ball)

The Japan Open (also: All Japan Championship, All Japan Open Championship) is an annual pool tournament in the discipline of Nine-ball. However, from 2012 to 2015, the men's tournament was played in the discipline of Ten-ball. Ko Pin-yi is the most successful player having won the tournament three times, in 2011, 2013 and 2016. Akimi Kajitani has won the women's tournament the most times, winning twice in 2000 and 2013.

Tournament History

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Men's
Year Location Winner Score Runner-up Semi-finalists
2000 Tokyo Satoshi Kawabata Johnny Archer Kunihiko Takahashi
Akikumo Toshikawa
2001 Amagasaki Corey Deuel Mika Immonen Unknown
Unknown
2005 Unknown Efren Reyes Rodolfo Luat Hidenobu Takanami
Masaaki Tanaka
2007 Wu Jia-qing Tōru Kuribayashi Hayato Hijikata
Ralf Souquet
2008 Amagasaki Mika Immonen Ronato Alcano Antonio Gabica
Naoyuki Ōi
2010 Thorsten Hohmann Ko Ping-chung Yukio Akakariyama
Mika Immonen
2011 Ko Pin-yi Wu Jia-qing Chang Yu-lung
Hiroshi Takenaka
2012 Chang Jung-lin Yang Ching-shun Johann Chua
Fu Che-wei
2013 Ko Pin-yi 11:10 Chang Jung-lin Thorsten Hohmann
Johann Chua
2014 Raymund Faraon 11:8 Naoyuki Ōi Li Hewen
Chang Yu-lung
2015 Johann Chua 11:7 Ronato Alcano Shane Van Boening
Han Haoxiang
2016 Ko Pin-yi 11:3 Jeff de Luna Thorsten Hohmann
Cheng Yu-hsuan

Ladies
Year Location Winner Score Runner-up Semi-finalist
2000 Tokyo Akimi Kajitani Kyoko Sone Chung Young-sook
Setsuko Kubota
2001 Amagasaki Liu Shin-mei Allison Fisher unknown
unknown
2005 Unknown Zhou Mengmeng Miyuki Fuke unknown
unknown
2007 Chang Shu-han Akio Otani Fu Xiaofang
Han Yu
2008 Amagasaki Pan Xiaoting Chou Chieh-yu Chang Shu-han
Chihiro Kawahara
2010 Lin Hsiao-chi Keiko Yukawa Chihiro Kawahara
Maki Kimura
2011 Chen Siming Junko Mitsuoka Chan Ya-ting
Akimi Kajitani
2012 Chou Chieh-yu Tan Ho-yun Maki Kimura
Li Jia
2013 Akimi Kajitani 9:7 Chihiro Kawahara Chou Chieh-yu
Tsai Pei-jen
2014 Wu Zhi-ting 9:3 Liu Shasha Tsai Pei-jen
Chihiro Kawahara
2015 Kim Ga-young 9:2 Chihiro Kawahara Maki Kimura
Makiko Takagi
2016 Chen Ho-yun 9:8 Chihiro Kawahara Wei Tzu-chen
Chen Siming

Japan Open

In addition to the All Japan Open another tournament known as the Japan Open played in 2009 and 2010 in the New Pia Hall was held.[2][3]

Winners of this tournament were the Philippines Francisco Bustamante and Ramil Gallego in the men's event[4][5] as well as the Taiwanese women Tan Hsiang-ling and Chou Chieh-yu were winners of the women's event.[6][7] Chou Chieh-yu is the only player to have won both events.

The prize money of the Japan Open was significantly lower than that of the All Japan Open. During 2010, at the All Japan Open men's event, the prize purse was a total of $82,000 of which the winner received about $ 24,000,[8] The winner of the Japan Open 2010 received only $17,000 in prize money, at just under $42,000 in total prize money. In the women's at the Japan Open 2010 about $11,000 were distributed, with the winner receiving $4,400 dollars, at the All Japan Open the same year, however, were distributed over $21,000, of which the winner received about $7,000.[9]

References
  1. "All Japan Open Championship – Event Results". azbilliards.com. Retrieved 15 November 2015.
  2. "Japan Open". azbilliards.com. Retrieved 15 November 2015.
  3. "Japan Open – Event Results". azbilliards.com. Retrieved 15 November 2015.
  4. "Japan Open 2009 Men's Division". azbilliards.com. Retrieved 15 November 2015.
  5. "Japan Open 2010 Men's Division". azbilliards.com. Retrieved 15 November 2015.
  6. "Japan Open 2009 Women's Division". azbilliards.com. Retrieved 15 November 2015.
  7. "Japan Open 2010 Women's Division". azbilliards.com. Retrieved 15 November 2015.
  8. "All Japan Open 2010 Men's Division". azbilliards.com. Retrieved 15 November 2015.
  9. "All Japan Open 2010 Women's Division". azbilliards.com. Retrieved 15 November 2015.
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