Recent content by jbart65

Exactly. Filler accepts more distance than any top player to make sure he’s on the right side of the ball. But also to not risk a miss to try to get better position. He has also said he doesn’t like to use a lot of spin on long shots or to try to get better position if it sharply raises the...

Filler has struggled with his 10-ball break and, it seems to me, his WNT 9-ball break. Strange chink in his armor. I seem to recall him breaking more accurately a few years ago. And yes, here he is. I've got to wonder just how many more titles he would win if he broke like Gorst.

Filler lives inside Woj's head. At least it was competitive, but he simply melts down time and again against Joshua. Manas has shown grit in this tournament for the first time I think I've ever seen. Some heartbreaking losses of one's own making might have something to do with that.

Maciol is hard to figure. He's had very good success in non-WNT events. He won the Qatar Open a few years ago. He's finished in the final four of the China Open a few times. He's had a lot of high finishes in Predator-WPA events. By and large, he's been mediocre in WNT major events. He did get...

I know Woj has lost 10 straight to Filler and I cannot find a record of him having ever beaten Josh in a singles match. Every time I've seen them play, Woj has looked intimidated. It's about time he beat Filler.

C Chia Chen, as I noted before, has been a quite a roll this year. Probably his best results every in one season. Playing like a 800-plus Fargo lately. Last I checked I think he was in high 700s range. Woj is clearly one of the best 10-ball players in the world. Gets to the quarters, though...

You had a bit more detail. I didn't hear the part about it being Mosconi related. That said, I wouldn't like to be away from my wife for a month or two. I have to wonder if he and other Americans thought they might be a target in the Middle East. Only one or two native-born Americans entered...

Filler said he had a critical Visa meeting that had been prescheduled in Germany to explain missing the Philippines Open. He also hadn’t seen his wife in a while because both had been traveling. Everyone needs to recharge.

He is 37 in the WPA rankings. Several dozen players ranked below him got in, including Hohmann.

The Final 16. Jonas Magpantay vs Wojciech Szewczyk Rocky Tullao vs - John Morra Miguel Salvilla vs Jerico Bonus Joshua Filler vs Tobias Bongers Carlo Biado vs Konrad Juszczyszyn Dương Quốc Hoàng vs Daniel Macioł Fedor Gorst vs Hsieh Chia Chen Jundel Mazon vs Aj Manas A lot of big names gone -...

These top players didn’t even make it to the final 64. Albin Ouschan Jonas Souto Max Lechner Sanjin Pehlivanovic Jayson Shaw Thorsten Hohmann Aleksa Pecelj Albin Ouschan has really fallen off the mountain. Souto has leveled out recently. Lechner is slowly losing ground in the pro ranks. Shaw...

The old format was fine, but I wasn't crazy about the one loss and out part of it. It's also a big disincentive for players to travel these days, given the cost, unless the WCP is tied to another big event. On the other hand, 32 teams in a single elimination format is as easy as it gets.

Matchroom dropped the ball with this one. Predator seized the advantage. Problem is, the Predator matches are too long. There is still an opening for Matchroom with a shorter, tighter format. I do think a reimagined WNT World Cup would need a losers round or a format in which one loss doesn't...

I've gotten used to watching matches well after they've started to avoid all the long delays between shots when a shot clock is not in effect. I just skip thru the dead space. IMO the biggest hurdle for pro pool to go from a niche sport, to a materially bigger niche sport, is a shot clock on...

The Hohmann who was world champion is not the same one today, as you surely know. I have seen him a lot the past few years. His ceiling right now is not as high as Woodward. I'd put it slightly below Bergman too, but that's debatable. Hohmann has lost to pretty much every top pro this year who...