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title: "Qatar World Cup 10-Ball: Last-16 Ties to Watch on Wednesday"
url: https://billiardnews.net/qatar-world-cup-10-ball-last-16-ties-to-watch
published: 2026-10-28T01:10:43Z
updated: 2026-10-28T01:10:43Z
summary: "All eight last-16 ties run Wednesday at 11 a.m. in Doha — Magpantay vs Szewczyk headlines, with two all-Filipino matches and an all-German derby."
author: "BilliardNews Editorial"
categories: ["Tournaments"]
tags: ["10-Ball", "Philippines", "Qatar World Cup", "Tournaments", "WPA"]
lang: en
---

# Qatar World Cup 10-Ball: Last-16 Ties to Watch on Wednesday

*All eight last-16 matches run Wednesday at 11 a.m. in Doha — led by defending champion Jonas Magpantay against world No. 1 Wojciech Szewczyk.*

DOHA, Qatar — Sixteen players remain at the $450,000 Qatar World Cup 10-Ball, and Wednesday's schedule squeezes all of them into one window: the eight last-16 ties go off together at 11 a.m. Doha time (8 a.m. UTC) at the Ezdan Palace Hotel — races to 11, single elimination, losers home with $5,000.

The Philippines puts seven men into the round — nearly half the field — and is already guaranteed two quarterfinalists thanks to a pair of all-Filipino ties. Poland sends three, Germany two, while Canada, Vietnam, the United States and Taiwan hold one seat each.

## Magpantay vs Szewczyk — the tie of the round

The pick of the card needs no selling. Defending champion Jonas Magpantay, yet to lose a match all week, meets Wojciech Szewczyk — the WPA world No. 1 and two-time reigning world 10-ball champion. Magpantay cruised through the winners' side, then put away Hsu Jui An 11-4 and Alex Pagulayan 11-7. Szewczyk took the harder road, sent to the losers' bracket by Aivhan Maluto before conceding just 12 racks across his last three wins, including an 11-4 all-Polish dismissal of last year's runner-up Szymon Kural. The winner walks out of the morning session as the outright title favorite.

## Two all-Filipino ties

Miguel Salvilla meets Jerico Bonus in one guaranteed all-Filipino tie — Salvilla off an 11-10 hill-hill over England's Elliott Sanderson, Bonus off a 11-9 defeat of Poland's No. 15 seed Wiktor Zielinski. On another table, Jundel Mazon plays Albert James Manas, who ended Mustafa Alnar's giant-killing week 11-5 on Tuesday night. With Magpantay, Carlo Biado and Rocky Tullao also in action, anywhere from two to five of Wednesday's quarterfinalists could be Filipino.

## Filler vs Bongers — the all-German tie

Nobody left has had a stranger week than Joshua Filler. The No. 5 seed lost his opener to Alnar, then tore through the losers' side — three racks dropped in two elimination matches — before beating Ameer Ali and Oliver Szolnoki. His reward is a derby with Tobias Bongers, who rebuilt through the losers' bracket himself and has quietly removed Ruslan Chinakhov and Karl Gnadeberg.

## Also on the slate

No. 2 seed Carlo Biado, fresh from [dethroning No. 3 seed Francisco Sanchez Ruiz](/biado-dethrones-sanchez-ruiz-as-four-filipinos-reach-last-16), draws Konrad Juszczyszyn, who survived an all-Polish hill-hill with Dominik Jastrzab. Fedor Gorst — one rack conceded in Tuesday night's 11-1 rout of Mahmoud Charif — meets Taiwan's Hsieh Chia Chen, who owns the week's other win over Biado. Rocky Tullao's back-to-back wins over Eklent Kaci and Mario He earn him Canada's John Morra, and Vietnam's Duong Quoc Hoang — who removed No. 11 Robbie Capito — faces 2024 champion Daniel Maciol.

The full bracket with tables and session times sits on the [tournament hub](https://ncuemedia.com/qatar-world-cup-10-ball); coverage streams on the QBSF's YouTube channel.

*Pairings and session times verified against the QBSF scoring feed on Rack 9 Pool and cross-checked with Absolute Pool's coverage, October 28.*