The 2009 Women's World Championships will conclude on Sunday with the Masters competition featuring the top 16 players in the All Events standings. 10 countries of the 45 present in Las Vegas will be represented in the finals which will be held in best-of-five match play format: 4 players from Doubles and Team World Champion Korea, 3 players from the host country United States including Singles World Champion Stefanie Nation, two players from Denmark, and one each from Colombia, Finland, Indonesia, Japan, Malaysia, Singapore and Sweden. The No. 1 seed, All Events World Champion Clara Guerrero (pictured left), Colombia, will meet No. 16, Siti Safiyah Amirah, Malaysia
Top seeded Clara Juliana Guerrero (pictured left), won her second individual gold in the 2009 Women's World Championships at the Cashman Center in Las Vegas when she defeated Doubles and Team World Champion Hwang Sun-Ok (right), Korea, in the Masters final, three-games-to-two. Trailing 2-1 after three games, Guerrero was able to level the match and secured the title with a 203-182 win in the decider. Hwang earned silver, while her team mates Son Yun-Hee and Gang Hye-Eun shared the bronze.
All Events champion Clara Juliana Guerrero, Colombia, targets her second gold medal of the Women's World Championships. She fired games of 248, 268 and 289 (805 for three games) to beat Son Yun-Hee (left), three-games-to-none. Guerrero is the first player who beat one of Koreans in the Masters (the only other defeat came in an all-Korean affair). She has to do it one more time against Hwang Sun-Ok, who ousted her team mate Gang Hye-Eun (right), 3-1. Hwang and Gang won the gold medal in Doubles. Son and Gang share the bronze medal.
It's Colombia vs. Korea in the Masters semifinals the 2009 Women's World Championships. All Events champion Clara Juliana Guerrero topped Putty Armein (left), 3-1, to set up a semi-final match vs. Son Yun-Hee, who eliminated Rikke Rasmussen, 3-0. In the other semifinal, Doubles champions Hwang Sun-Ok and Gang Hye-Eun face off. Hwang swept Liz Johnson, which leaves the U.S. without a medal in the Masters. Gang eliminated the fourth Korean, Jeon Eun-Hee (right) , 3-1.
Great comeback by All Events champ Clara Juliana Guerrero, who came back from being down 0-2 to defeat Siti Safiyah, 3-2, in best-of-three format. All four Koreans advanced to the Round of 4 after eliminating two Americans, Carolyn Dorin-Ballard and Stefanie Nation as well as Krista Pöllänen and Maki Nakano. Liz Johnson (right) swept Mai Ginge Jensen, while Rikke Holm Rasmussen (pictured) went the distance to beat Cherie Tan. No. 2 seed Helen Johnson lost to Putty Armein.
