Brad Jacobs (Sault Ste Marie, ON) finished 2-3 in the 32-team qualifying round. . In their opening game, Jacobs defeated William Lyburn (Winnipeg, MB) 6-4, then went on to lose 6-3 against Jeff Stoughton (Winnipeg, MB). Jacobs lost 6-1 to Mike McEwen (Winnipeg, MB) where Jacobs responded with a 6-2 win over Justin Stanus (Winnipeg, MB). Jacobs went on to lose 7-4 against Jialiang Zang (Harbin, CHN) in their final qualifying round match.
 
. For week 8 of the event schedule, Jacobs did not improve upon their best events, remaining at 1st place on the World Ranking Standings with 349.000 total points. Jacobs ranks 2nd overall on the Year-to-Date rankings with 85.000 points earned so far this season.