9-Ball Open
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It's been done before. SVB did it a few years ago and I think Mika did it too. Not unheard of and definitely not impossible. This year though....with monster players everywhere in the bracket, I don't think most people want to bet a B side player comes and wins it. Especially someone this early on the B side. Your odds of playing another monster player is probably at best a 50-50 split. You can win that maybe once or twice, but to win that type of flip 11 times in a row? Not so good.
US Open 9-Ball winners who did not go undefeated:
2016 -- Shane Van Boening (lost to Chang Jung-Lin)
2009 -- Mika Immonen (lost to Chris Bartram)
2008 -- Mika Immonen (lost to Ronnie Alcano)
2006 -- John Schmidt (lost to David Broxson)
1999 -- Johnny Archer (lost to Kim Davenport)
1997 -- Earl Strickland (lost to John Horsfall)
1995 -- Reed Pierce (lost to Rodney Morris)
1991 -- Buddy Hall (lost to Johnny Archer)
1976-1988 -- I don't know
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wow! that's great info. do you have the brackets for all the years you mentioned? i'd like to have a copy.
No. I compiled that information a year ago in response to the same question from someone else. My sources were probably whatever I could find online plus articles in a bunch of old magazines.