Don't know if anybody's been watching any of this, but Savannah Easton's game has taken a quantum leap in this tournament. She's into the Finals after beating Wei 8-3. I've watched her last 4 matches and I haven't seen her play anything close to this level before.
If the Ref sees the CB going off the tangent line of the 8 ball last, then they ARE calling what they see. Referees should have the highest level of knowledge of anyone when it comes to knowing how to tell a good hit from a bad one. In your theory, all Yapp had to do was hit the balls 100...
Like the OP said, if you have pool knowledge, the foul is self evident. You can't always tell which ball is hit first by the naked eye, but you can tell which ball was hit last by the path of the cueball - it comes off the tangent line of the ball hit 2nd. It went to Yapp's left off the...
Zhao Ruliang is 24, and both of the finalists are younger than him. I think the guy who lost the match is only 21, not sure about the winner, although 891014+1 said he was 21. Might be a little older than that
The big 9 ball players are lucky these chinese guys don't take up american 9 ball.
Filler and Gorst could compete with these guys for sure if they played Joy Heyball and Duya 9 ball full time (Wu does pretty well), but there are so many monster players, and more young ones being added all the...