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[8 Feb 2010 | One Comment | 189 views]
Great Britain Win the World Team Championships

The Great Britain team made up of Darren Appleton, Imran Majid, Daryl Peach, Mark Gray and Karl Boyes have put their names into the history books…

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[5 Jan 2010 | No Comment | 112 views]

From the 30th January to the 7th February the inaugural WTC event will take place in Hanover, Germany. With prize money of $400,000 on offer, it assures the very best players from all around the world will be competing. This event is supported and sanctioned by the WPA.
It promises to be very exciting, and could well be the most interesting event ever with its unique format. All countries have to opportunity to nominate a four, five or six person team, and all matches will …

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[30 Nov 2009 | No Comment | 150 views]
Mika Immonen Wins World 10-ball Title

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.

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[30 Nov 2009 | No Comment | 115 views]
Appleton Falls in Defence of Ten Ball Title

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 …

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[30 Nov 2009 | No Comment | 71 views]
Dang! The Name on Everyone’s Lips

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 …

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[30 Nov 2009 | No Comment | 63 views]
128 Becomes 64 at World Ten Ball Championships

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 …

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[13 Nov 2009 | No Comment | 510 views]
World Mixed Doubles Classic Comes to Nuvo City, Philippines

For the first time ever some of the greatest men and women cueists will be paired up in the World Mixed Doubles Classic…

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[12 Oct 2009 | No Comment | 147 views]
World Pool Association Choose Manila for General Assembly

The World Pool-Billiard Association (WPA) has recognized the Philippines as one of the prime movers of the sport…

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[11 Sep 2009 | No Comment | 309 views]
Predator International 10-Ball Tour - Day One Complete

The format of this stop on the Predator International 10-Ball Tour features four brackets, A through D. A and B have been played all the way down to the final four players out of each bracket (final two on the winners side and final two on the one-loss side) who will be placed in the field of the final sixteen on Saturday. Brackets C and D will be played out on Friday.
Bracket A contained some very impressive names. Ralf Souquet (Germany), Jasmin Ouschan (Austria), Rodney Morris (USA), Stephan Cohen (France) …

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[19 Aug 2009 | One Comment | 302 views]
Appleton and Majid Fall in Ten Ball Showdown

World Ten Ball Champion and World Number 1, Darren Appleton and partner Imran Majid fell short of victory in the £10,000 Scotch Doubles showdown against Karl Boyes and Chris Melling.
Once again the fantastic Club 147 was the host for this enthralling nights entertainment. The main event kicked off at 8pm Saturday 15th August to a packed house of american pool fans. In addition the action was going out live on the Internet via Cuesport TV’s new dedicated channel American Pool TV.
Boyes and Melling were given a 5 rack start in …