The defending champion, Peter Gilchrist of Singapore exhibited clinical game of billiards today morning and started his campaign in timed format of World Billiards 2014. He was playing against Wayne Doyle of Ireland where first he made a break of 103 and then the massive one 551 to reach total score of 976 in two hours game of round robin. In response to that Doyle managed 243 before losing to Gilchrist.

After completion of 150-Up format group stage of 2013 World Billiards Championship, David Causier from England gained the top-seed slot in Last 32. Total 6 players who won their matches with losing a single game are David Causier, Geet Sethi, B. Bhaskar, Rob Hall, Rupesh Shah and Alok Kumar but on the basis of better score average, Causier placed on the top. He will now be playing V. Subramanian from India who finishes as 32.