{"id":9901,"date":"2026-10-29T10:51:17","date_gmt":"2026-10-29T17:51:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/poolhall.tv\/NEWS\/?p=9901"},"modified":"2026-10-29T10:51:17","modified_gmt":"2026-10-29T17:51:17","slug":"semi-final-sara-rocha-vs-wendy-jans-live-north-american-heyball-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/poolhall.tv\/NEWS\/2026\/10\/29\/semi-final-sara-rocha-vs-wendy-jans-live-north-american-heyball-2026\/","title":{"rendered":"SEMI-FINAL | Sara Rocha vs Wendy Jans | LIVE North American Heyball 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>USA Cue Sports<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"SEMI-FINAL | Sara Rocha vs Wendy Jans | LIVE North American Heyball 2026\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Er-3t42X1sM?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Sara Rocha takes on Wendy Jans LIVE from Toronto at the 2026 North American Heyball Open! Watch the action from Brothers Billiards as the players compete in a championship featuring a US$116,000 total prize fund across the men\u2019s and women\u2019s divisions.<\/p>\n<p>Precision potting, tactical battles, and demanding pockets\u2014every opportunity matters on the Heyball table.<\/p>\n<p>\ud83c\udfb1 EVENT DETAILS<\/p>\n<p>BRACKET LINK: https:\/\/digitalpool.com\/tournaments\/2026-mens-heyball-toronto\/viewer<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Event: 2026 North American Heyball Open<br \/>\n\u2022 Dates: October 26\u201330, 2026<br \/>\n\u2022 Venue: Brothers Billiards, Scarborough, Toronto, Canada<br \/>\n\u2022 Total prize fund: US$116,000<br \/>\n\u2022 Equal prize funds: US$58,000 each for the men\u2019s and women\u2019s events<br \/>\n\u2022 Champions\u2019 prizes: US$10,000 in each division<\/p>\n<p>\ud83c\udfc6 MATCH FORMAT<\/p>\n<p>The published men\u2019s format is a race to 7 with a 100-minute match limit and alternate breaks. A tied match at the time limit goes to a shootout.<\/p>\n<p>The tournament begins with double elimination, followed by a final-16 single-elimination stage.<\/p>\n<p>\ud83c\udf0e ABOUT WHT &amp; JOY BILLIARDS<\/p>\n<p>WHT\u2014the World Heyball Tour\u2014is operated by JOY Billiards, a Heyball table manufacturer and international tournament promoter founded in 1998.<\/p>\n<p>The North American Heyball Open forms part of JOY Billiards and the World Pool-Billiard Association\u2019s international effort to expand Heyball competition and bring the sport to audiences around the world.<\/p>\n<p>Players compete on nine-foot JOY Heyball tables with Liber Win cloth and Dynaspheres Palladium balls.<\/p>\n<p>\ud83c\udfaf NEW TO HEYBALL?<\/p>\n<p>Also known as Chinese 8-ball, Heyball combines the familiar objective of clearing your group of balls and then legally pocketing the 8-ball with the challenge of rounded, snooker-style pockets. Accurate potting, careful cue-ball control, and smart shot selection are essential.<\/p>\n<p>\ud83d\udcac Who are you backing\u2014Corey or Badr? Share your pick and tell us where you\u2019re watching from!<\/p>\n<p>\ud83d\udc4d Enjoying the match? Like the stream, subscribe, and turn on notifications for more live pool and Heyball coverage.<\/p>\n<p>\ud83d\udd17 EVENT INFORMATION &amp; LINKS<\/p>\n<p>Official tournament information:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"fgTPu8OYI7\"><p><a href=\"https:\/\/wpapool.com\/2026-north-american-heyball-open\/\">2026 North American Heyball Open<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; visibility: hidden;\" title=\"&#8220;2026 North American Heyball Open&#8221; &#8212; WPA Pool\" src=\"https:\/\/wpapool.com\/2026-north-american-heyball-open\/embed\/#?secret=FJ418lcQ78#?secret=fgTPu8OYI7\" data-secret=\"fgTPu8OYI7\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>JOY Billiards:<br \/>\nhttps:\/\/www.joybilliard.com\/<\/p>\n<p>World Heyball Tour:<br \/>\nhttps:\/\/www.youtube.com\/@WorldHeyballTour<\/p>\n<p>#Heyball #CoreyDeuel #WorldHeyballTour<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>USA Cue Sports Sara Rocha takes on Wendy Jans LIVE from Toronto at the 2026 North American Heyball Open! Watch the action from Brothers Billiards as the players compete in a championship featuring a US$116,000 total prize fund across the men\u2019s and women\u2019s divisions. Precision potting, tactical battles, and demanding [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":9902,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ub_ctt_via":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[20,7,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9901","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-heyball","category-live-stream","category-tournaments"],"featured_image_src":"https:\/\/poolhall.tv\/NEWS\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/2026-10-29_10-50-18-heyball.jpg","author_info":{"display_name":"Kenny Ash","author_link":"https:\/\/poolhall.tv\/NEWS\/author\/kash\/"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/poolhall.tv\/NEWS\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/2026-10-29_10-50-18-heyball.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/poolhall.tv\/NEWS\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9901","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/poolhall.tv\/NEWS\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/poolhall.tv\/NEWS\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poolhall.tv\/NEWS\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poolhall.tv\/NEWS\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9901"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/poolhall.tv\/NEWS\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9901\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9903,"href":"https:\/\/poolhall.tv\/NEWS\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9901\/revisions\/9903"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poolhall.tv\/NEWS\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9902"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/poolhall.tv\/NEWS\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9901"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poolhall.tv\/NEWS\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9901"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poolhall.tv\/NEWS\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9901"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}