The International Straight Pool Open formerly 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
editThe 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
edit| Year | Date | Venue | Location | Winner | Runner-up | Score | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | September 12-14 | Diamond Billiards | Midlothian, VA, USA |  Darren Appleton
|
 Karen Corr
|
150-28 | |
| 2015 | October 22-25 | Diamond Billiards | Midlothian, VA, USA | Darren Appleton (2)
|
 Thorsten Hohmann
|
150-94 | |
| 2016 | October 12-16 | Diamond Billiards | Midlothian, VA, USA |  Niels Feijen
|
 Mika Immonen
|
150-114 | |
| 2017 | October 17-21 | Diamond Billiards | Midlothian, VA, USA |  Konrad Juszczyszyn
|
 Dennis Orcollo
|
150-87 | |
| 2018 | October 16-19 | Carom Cafe Billiards | New York City, NY, USA |  Eklent Kaçi
|
Thorsten Hohmann
|
200-168 | |
| 2019 | October 22-26 | Q-Master Billiards | Virginia Beach, VA, USA |  Ruslan Chinakhov
|
 Alex Pagulayan
|
175-(-2) | |
| 2020 | Not held due to the COVID-19 pandemic | ||||||
| 2021 | October 19-23 | Q-Master Billiards | Virginia Beach, VA, USA | Joshua Filler
|
Fedor Gorst
|
150-89 | |
| 2022 | October 24-29 | Q-Master Billiards | Virginia Beach, VA, USA |  Dimitri Jungo
|
Wiktor Zielinski
|
175-132 | |
| 2023 | October 25-31 | Q-Master Billiards | Virginia Beach, VA, USA |  Mario He
|
Lee Vann Corteza
|
150-48 | |
| 2024 | November 23-26 | Renaissance Resort | Saint Augustine, FL, USA | Mario He
|
Max Lechner
|
150-131 | |
| Year | Date | Venue | Location | Winner | Finalist | Score |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | October 19-23 | Q-Master Billiards | Virginia Beach, VA, USA | Kelly Fisher
|
Pia Filler
|
100-46 |
| 2022 | October 24-29 | Q-Master Billiards | Virginia Beach, VA, USA | Kristina Tkach
|
Karen Corr
|
100-14 |
References
edit- ^ a b "Home page". American 14.1 Straight Pool Championship. Retrieved 20 October 2018.
- ^ a b c "AMERICAN 14.1 STRAIGHT POOL CHAMPIONSHIP". AzBilliards. Retrieved 23 December 2018.
- ^ "American 14.1 Women's Championship". Cue Score. October 23, 2021. Retrieved February 20, 2022.
- ^ a b "Players". American 14.1 Straight Pool Championship. Archived from the original on 7 October 2016. Retrieved 20 October 2018.