The Korean pair of Ga Young Kim and Yun Mi Lim were the first all-female team to participate at the event.

The defending champions were Rodney Morris and Shane Van Boening representing the US, who had won the 2008 event 11–7 over the English team of Daryl Peach and Mark Gray in the final.

The event was won by the Filipino team of Francisco Bustamante and Efren Reyes, who defeated the Germans Ralf Souquet and Thorsten Hohmann in the 2009 final 11–9.

[3][4][5] The defending champions were the USA team of Rodney Morris and Shane Van Boening who defeated Dennis Orcollo and Francisco Bustamante in the final of the 2008 event.

[13] The opening match of the tournament saw the French pair of Stephan Cohen and Vincent Facquet take an 8–1 victory over the Canadian team.

The defending champion USA duo of Rodney Morris and Shane Van Boening met the Maltese team of Alex Borg and Tony Drago in the opening match.

[17] An all-female team competed for the first time at the event, with the Koreans Ga Young Kim and Yun Mi Lim.

The pair led 3–0 before being defeated 5–8 by the ninth seed and 2007 championship winning team of Li He-wen and Fu Jian-bo from China, who won six racks in-a-row.

[14][18] The Filipino A side of Ronnie Alcano and Dennis Orcollo won their match against the Thai team 8–5, despite trailing 4–5.

[19] German Thorsten Hohmann commented that he would want to play with his partner Ralf Souquet above any other player after his first round match.

[20] In the 13th rack, with the match tied at 6–6, David Alcaide called a foul on himself that neither the referee or the English side had seen.

[21] Following the match the reigning ten-ball world championship winner Darren Appleton called Alcaide a "great sportsman".

The Italian team were trailing at 4–6, when referee Cielo Lopez deemed that the hair on Bruno Muratore's left arm had touched the cue ball.

The Philippine A side of Orcollo and Alcano won eight straight racks after trailing 0–3 to the Russians to win 8–3.

[24] The final quarter-final featured the German team of Ralf Souquet and Thorsten Hohmann defeating the Netherlands duo of Niels Feijen and Nick van den Berg 9–7.