NINEBALL TOUR RANKING UPDATE | DAVID ALCAIDE BACK IN WNT TOP 20

Story by MATT LYNCH - Matchroom Multi Sport / File photo courtesy ERWIN DIONISIO

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World Pool Masters winner David Alcaide secured his first ranking event win of the 2023 campaign beating Great Britain’s Phil Burford in the final of the Jacoby 9-Ball Open in Glasgow, Scotland to move inside the World Nineball Tour Rankings top 20 at world number 19.

Alcaide, 44, bounced back from Spanish Open Pool Championship disappointment last month by clinching the title in a hill hill finish with Burford having overcome Switzerland’s number one Dimitri Jungo hill hill in the semi-finals and Great Britain’s Imran Majid in the last 16 on route to victory.

The Spaniard did it the hard way, losing out to Burford earlier in the tournament 8-5 to be sent to the losers’ side of the draw.

A diverse field made its way to Scotland for the second time this year with McGoldrick’s Pool & Sports Bar hosting the Scottish Open in May. Denmark’s number one Mickey Krause was joined by multi-disipline cueist Jack Whelan who reached the semi-finals while Great Britain’s Chris Alexander’s run to the quarter-finals sees him close in on the WNT top 100 at world number 102.

Hosts Paul Corrigan and Great Britain’s World Cup of Pool representative Elliott Sanderson both reached the quarter-finals before defeat to Alcaide and Whelan respectively.

Next Matchroom Event

The next signature Matchroom multi-table open event comes next at the European Open Pool Championship from August 8-13 at Hotel Esperanto in Fulda, Germany with the first-ever Fillers’ Junior Open taking place on August 11-12.