The Philippines’ Efren “Bata” Reyes and Rubilen Amit broke out of a seven-all deadlock and turned back Team Korea’s Charlie Williams and Park Eun Ji, 9-7, in a thrilling showdown in the 2009 World Mixed Doubles Classic at the Nuvo City Lifestyle Center in Libis, Quezon City last night. Reyes and Amit bucked a pair of scratches from breaks and a slew of missed shots in carving out the victory .
Amit, the reigning women’s world 10-ball titlist, sank a difficult shot on the left …

The Philippines’ Efren “Bata” Reyes and Rubilen Amit played a near-flawless game this time as they overpowered Team Europe’s Mika Immonen of Finland and Borana Andoni of Albania, 7-1, yesterday to arrange a title showdown with Team Korea in the 2009 World Mixed Doubles Classic at the Nuvo City Lifestyle Center in Libis, Quezon City.
The one-sided victory was far from their error-prone 7-4 win over the Japanese pair of Hayato Hijikata and Kaori Ebe in the opener of the event where the Filipinos needed …

GB9 Leagues, Britains first official 9 Ball League is launched today. In association with Rileys Snooker and Pool and several Independent clubs, GB9 Leagues will run in over 120 Clubs throughout Great Britain.
Its aim to attract over a thousand members to play team league 9 Ball, and a further 256 to play in Regional Teams to qualify for the main GB9 Ball Tour.
As well as fantastic discounts and offers from our sponsors, their will be an estimated prize fund of £40,000 between the two divisions with prize money being paid …

fren Reyes and Rubilen Amit will face off against Team Japan’s Hayato Hijikata and Kaori Ebe. Reyes and Amit both are reigning World Champions…

The 2009 US Open Champion, Mika Immonen, has continued his astonishing few months by lifting the World Ten Ball Championships in Manila today.
In the final ‘The Iceman’ defeated Lee Van Corteza of the Philippines 11-6 to take the crown.
Earlier in the day Immonen booked his place in the final with a 9-7 victory over Antonio Lining, Corteza defeated Spaniard Davud Alcaide by the same scoreline.
Further details will follow later.

The first order of business today at the WPA World Ten Ball Championship was to winnow the field of 32 down to the Sweet Sixteen. Comebacks seemed to be the order of the day as Lee Van Corteza, who had trailed Yu Lung Chang 7-2, roared back with a display of break and runs to win the match 9-8. Daryl Peach had trailed Satoshi Kawabata 5-1 but turned that around and won 9-7 after denying any control of the table to Kawabata in the second half of the match. Finally …

There are always surprises at this stage of a tournament but perhaps the biggest one is the survival of Chinese player Jin Hu Dang. He got in this championship as an alternate to the qualifiers by filling the slot of a player who did not make the trip to Manila and he has made the most of the opportunity. Tonight he beat Ching Shun Yang (TPE) to progress to the round of 32.
Tomorrow he faces another heavyweight in the form of Sweden’s Marcus Chamat. Chamat beat Po Cheng Kuo 9-7 …

After three hard days of play the final field of 64 has now been determined. Thirty-two of these players are thus far undefeated and will be seeded into the final brackets according to their performance up to this point. The other 32 players are subjected to a blind draw to determine whom they will face in the matches tomorrow.
There will be many exciting matches on Saturday. Filipino hotshot Jericho Banares will play Thorsten Hohmann on the first TV match of the day. Other TV matches will feature Lee Van Corteza …

This was the first day that any players could be eliminated from competition by going two and out. Perhaps the biggest surprise was the early exit by American player Shane Van Boening. Van Boeing lost today to young Russian superstar Konsatntin Stepanov 9-6.  Martin Kempter of Austria also left the room today after dropping his match on the hill to Tey Choon Kat of Singapore.  Another disappointment to the crowd came when local hero Demosthenes Pulpul faced off against Ronnie Alcano in a match that had to eliminate one Filipino. …

Some big names have hit the bricks at the WPA World Ten Ball Championships in Manila. Ralf Souquet of Germany is now on the one-loss side after dropping his first match 9-6 to Thomasz Kaplan of Poland. He is joined there by Shane Van Boening of the USA, Jeff De Luna of the Philippines, and Ronnie Alcano of the Philippines. Van Boening lost 9-8 to Nguyen Anh Tuan of Viet Nam, and Alcano lost 9-7 to Dang Jin-Hu of China.
While some of our names have met with early misfortune, others …