The 2006

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was an amateur

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event, sanctioned by the

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, held at the Amman Olympics Sports Centre in

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from November 5-November 15, 2006.

Results

Men

A total of 32 players qualified for finishing in the top 4 positions in eight groups. They were drawn into a 32 player knock-out bracket to decide the winner.

Women

Source: Snooker Scene

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, the 2004 champion, did not enter the event. There were twenty entries, and two qualifying groups of ten players were set, each to be played as a round-robin, with the top four from each group qualifying for the eight-player knock-out phase to decide the winner. Following withdrawals, only nine players participated in each group.

Wendy Jans Wendy Jans (born 14 June 1983, in Bree, Belgium) is a Belgian professional snooker and pool player. She has won the IBSF World Snooker Championship for women nine times. She reached her first women's world final at the 2022 World Women's Snooke ...

scored nine of the eleven top in the competition on her way to winning the title.

References

External links

Official event website
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