He used a Southwest before being sponsored by Meucci. He had the Southwest in his case when i played him in Houston after he won US Open. He showed it to me after destroying me in our match.
Here is a post about it: https://thecueist.substack.com/p/an-update-on-kevin-yu-hsuan-cheng
Fedor has said it doesn't matter how good a player is, they can work to improve their fundamentals.
Repeatability is the biggest thing. More things you have working in your favor, the easier it is to achieve.
I am pretty sure Wu had a higher fargo than SVB during that time. Wu's fargo is still 836 and he hasnt been playing enough recently to be on the top 100 list.
People said fargo was flawed because SVB was number 2 when they believe he should have been number 1.
Filler hung an easy 9 ball hill hill in the 4th set that would have won him the match. With new life, Duong played pretty much flawlessly in deciding set.
Honestly I think he just put a little too much inside on it thinking that if he did run into the 8 he would be fine. The 9 is kind of a big ball if you go to the bottom rail other side of the table. He is a 725 and that was to make it hill hill vs Warren Kiamco. We will never know if he would...
I have always said that handicapping is good for pool. Even though they want to slaughter everyone, stronger players would get more out of their game if they had to play well to win every match. Most matches are so uneven that the stronger players dont even have to try and still win...