Qatar World Cup 10-Ball: Last-64 Field Set, Knockout Begins Tuesday
Shaw, Hohmann and Pecelj all fell within one win of the knockout draw as Monday's losers' qualification filled the last 32 places in Doha.
The Qatar World Cup 10-Ball has its knockout field. Monday's 32 losers' qualification matches at the Ezdan Palace Hotel filled the last places in the last 64 — and closed a brutal day for the sport's decorated names, with Jayson Shaw, Thorsten Hohmann and Aleksa Pecelj all beaten within one win of the single-elimination draw.
Dakkak ends Shaw's week
Wisam Dakkak produced the result of the night. The Syrian qualifier, who had kept his own tournament alive earlier in the day with a 9-6 losers'-round win over Ibrahim Al Qaed, beat Shaw 9-7 to send the Scot home at one win and two losses. Shaw had already been pushed to the brink on the winners' side by Saudi Arabia's Mohammed Baabad — a 7-9 defeat in the afternoon — and could not complete the escape.
The evening session claimed two more stars. Spain's Juan Carlos Expósito routed Aleksa Pecelj 9-2, days after the Serb sealed a Mosconi Cup debut with Team Europe in Manila, and Taiwan's Hsu Jui An ended two-time world champion Thorsten Hohmann's week 9-6. Around them went Sanjin Pehlivanović — 5-9 to Filipino qualifier Rocky Tullao — and Maximilian Lechner, edged 8-9 in a hill-hill decider by Poland's Dominik Regieli. Raymund Faraon, the man who ended Albin Ouschan's tournament, followed him out 6-9 to Jefrey Roda.
The seeded survivors took the long road
The big names who needed two wins on Monday mostly got them — and emphatically. Joshua Filler dropped three racks across two elimination matches (9-1 over Mohammed Albalushi, then 9-2 over Jan Van Lierop), world No. 2 Carlo Biado won an all-Filipino decider 9-6 over Mark Estiola, Niels Feijen raced past Jordan's Zein Eddin 9-1, Alex Pagulayan beat the Emirates' Abdulla Juma 9-1 and Wojciech Szewczyk ended Mi Le's run 9-5.
David Alcaide (9-7 over Lazar Kostic), Naoyuki Oi (9-5 over Hayder Abdulsattar), Wiktor Zielinski (9-4 over Habib El Hussein), Bernie Regalario (9-3 over Amr Rashad Abdeltouab) and Roda also came through, while Jundel Mazon produced the round's only whitewash, 9-0 over India's Shahbaaz Adil Khan. Kuwait's Bader Alawadhi gave the regional crowd a winner, beating Hubert Łopotko 9-6.
The last-64 draw
The bracket pairs each unbeaten qualifier against a losers'-side survivor. Play opens on Tuesday in two sessions — 11:00 and 14:00 in Doha (08:00 and 11:00 UTC) — with every match raced to 11.
Tuesday, 11:00 Doha
| Match | Table |
|---|---|
| Jonas Magpantay vs Hsu Jui An | 3 |
| Ali Alobaidli vs Alex Pagulayan | 17 |
| Juri Pisklov vs Wojciech Szewczyk | 5 |
| Szymon Kural vs Jerson Cumayas | 4 |
| Mario He vs Alex Montpellier | 6 |
| Eklent Kaci vs Rocky Tullao | 7 |
| John Morra vs Mohamed Gamal Emara | 15 |
| Walter Laikre vs Wisam Dakkak | 16 |
| Aivhan Maluto vs Miguel Salvilla | 10 |
| Mohammed Baabad vs Elliott Sanderson | 14 |
| Kledio Kaci vs Wiktor Zielinski | 2 |
| Jerico Bonus vs Sambor Stachowiak | 9 |
| Ameer Ali vs Joshua Filler | 13 |
| Olivér Szolnoki vs Niels Feijen | 1 |
| Daniel Guttenberger vs Karl Gnadeberg | 8 |
| Ruslan Chinakhov vs Tobias Bongers | 11 |
Tuesday, 14:00 Doha
| Match | Table |
|---|---|
| Francisco Sanchez Ruiz vs Marlon Cañeda | 9 |
| Mateusz Śniegocki vs Carlo Biado | 1 |
| Dominik Jastrząb vs Dominik Regieli | 3 |
| Alexander Kazakis vs Konrad Juszczyszyn | 2 |
| Robbie Capito vs David Alcaide | 17 |
| Dương Quốc Hoàng vs Maks Benko | 4 |
| Khalid Alghamdi vs Jefrey Roda | 16 |
| Daniel Macioł vs Bader Alawadhi | 13 |
| Fedor Gorst vs Marco Teutscher | 6 |
| Mahmoud Charif vs Naoyuki Oi | 10 |
| Dimitrios Loukatos vs Ruben Cuna | 7 |
| Hsieh Chia Chen vs Mieszko Fortuński | 5 |
| Wu Kun Lin vs Jundel Mazon | 14 |
| Denis Grabe vs Juan Carlos Expósito | 8 |
| Bashar Hussain vs Albert James Manas | 11 |
| Mustafa Alnar vs Bernie Regalario | 15 |
Standout ties: defending champion Magpantay opens against Hohmann's conqueror Hsu Jui An; Filler meets Ameer Ali; Capito vs Alcaide pairs two WNT top-20 names; world No. 2 Biado draws Śniegocki; and Alnar — the man who beat Filler and Feijen — gets the 19-year-old Regalario. BilliardNews counts 13 Filipinos and 10 Poles in the 64 — more than a third of the field.
What happens next
Single elimination runs through the week: the last 64 play Tuesday, and the champion is crowned Thursday, October 29 in a race to 13 worth $100,000 from the $450,000 fund. Every player in Tuesday's draw is already guaranteed $3,000.
The full bracket, plus how the field was built, lives on our Qatar World Cup 10-Ball hub. For how Monday unfolded, read the first-wave recap and the second-wave report on Souquet's exit. A second account of the decisive round is BilliardNews' report on Dakkak's win over Shaw.
Who is out of the Qatar World Cup 10-Ball?
Sixty-four players have been eliminated. The headliners are Jayson Shaw (7-9 to Wisam Dakkak), Thorsten Hohmann (6-9 to Hsu Jui An) and Aleksa Pecelj (2-9 to Juan Carlos Expósito), who joined earlier exits Ralf Souquet and Albin Ouschan.
Did Jayson Shaw get knocked out?
Yes. Shaw lost 7-9 to Syrian qualifier Wisam Dakkak in Monday's losers' qualification round — his second defeat of the day after a 7-9 loss to Mohammed Baabad on the winners' side.
When does the last 64 start in Doha?
Tuesday, October 27, in two sessions at 11:00 and 14:00 Doha time (08:00 and 11:00 UTC), all races to 11. The final is Thursday, October 29, raced to 13.
When were these results recorded?
At approximately 21:00 UTC on Monday, October 26, 2026, from QBSF live scoring via Rack 9 Pool, cross-checked with BilliardNews. A snapshot, not a live tracker.
