Germany’s Joshua Filler won an international pool tournament – The 2023 Qatar Open 9-Ball Championships. To put it in a geographic, size and distance perspective, the country of Qatar is a relatively rectangular Middle East peninsula, surrounded on three sides by the Persian Gulf and adjacent only to Saudi Arabia at its southern border. It is roughly the size of Connecticut, about 100 miles long and 50 miles wide at its widest point. Its capital, Doha, where the event was held, is located on its eastern coast, a little further north than midway up the peninsula. It is 7,460 southwest miles away from Kansas City, and on (roughly) the same latitude as the tip of Florida and somewhere in southern Mexico. So, hot a lot of the time, although that is balanced by more than 350 miles of coastline. Its land border with Saudi Arabia is only 37 miles long. Temperatures during the week in Doha never dipped below 100° (F). Except for Wednesday (as a comparison), they didn’t in Phoenix, AZ either.
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