UPA to Send Billiard Players to World 8-Ball Championships

2007 Inside POOL Magazine’s Player of the Year, Shane Van Boening (pictured), Corey Deuel and Ronnie Wiseman will participate in the World 8-Ball Pool Championships being held at the Fujairah Exhibition Center on April 18-25 of 2008.

This event will host a total field of 64 players that will be divided up into 8 groups.  The play will consist of races to eight, double elimination, alternate breaks.  The top four players who qualify from each group will move on into the final 32.  At that point, 16 players will be seeded upon performance results, while the remaining will be drawn at random to compete against the seeded individuals.

The President of the UPA, Frank Alvarez, would like to send special thanks to the BCA trade organization for helping provide the means for the players to have the opportunity to travel overseas to represent the United States in such a prestigious event.

If you would like to learn more about the UPA organization, their website is located at UPAtour.com. To contact them directly with questions, please call 480-353-6747 or e-mail info[at]upatour.com.