cuycuy said:
Mr. Tu (Yung-Hui Tu) is the leader of the Chinese Taipei Billiard Association (CTBA) and the former president of APBU.
2007 Amway Women's World 9-Ball Championships
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Mr. Tu (Yung-Hui Tu) is the leader of the Chinese Taipei Billiard Association (CTBA) and the former president of APBU.
The Taiwanese are dropping like flies (pardon the pun). Ya-Ting Chan lost to
Rubilen Amit (1-7), I-Yun Su lost to Yukiko Hamanishi of Japan (3-7), and Hui-
Shan Lai just lost to Kim White (3-7). They've got 4 more to play later, Shu-
Han Chang against Kelly Fisher, Pei-Chun Tsai against Sung-Hyun Jung of
Korea, and an all Taiwanese match-up, Pei-Chun Lin vs. Shin-Mei Lui.
Rubilen Amit (1-7), I-Yun Su lost to Yukiko Hamanishi of Japan (3-7), and Hui-
Shan Lai just lost to Kim White (3-7). They've got 4 more to play later, Shu-
Han Chang against Kelly Fisher, Pei-Chun Tsai against Sung-Hyun Jung of
Korea, and an all Taiwanese match-up, Pei-Chun Lin vs. Shin-Mei Lui.
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cuycuy said:
There is some involvement but not a professional arrangement I believe.
Some of Mr Tu's staff are helping with the event.
gopi-1 said:
Saw the last rack of Kelly Fisher. The 5-ball on the last rack was a tough shot. With her experience, she'll be one of the faves going into the final eight.
From an organizer perspective (we hosted the World Pool Championships here in the Philippines), I do wish the best for the Taiwanese on this endeavour. I do hope they get at least one Taiwanese player (most likely Liu-Shin Mei) to the finals so that they get good viewership. It's tough to get sponsors to commit as it is. Just in case all of them lose, I hope Pan Xiaoting or Ga-Young Kim (Ga-Young studied in Taiwan for awhile and speaks a bit of the local lingo) to be in the thick of things.
From a national perspective, Go Rubilen!
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Updates, the short version.
Kelly Fisher squeaks by SC Chang. 7:6 after trailing all match and watching SC Chang set up on a relatively easy 5:6 combo to win. SC missed the combo with Kelly at down 6:4. SC almost hooks Kelly anyway but Kelly has a shot and gets out there.
Kelly had scratched twice on the break in the match and come up dry once. So for the FIRST time in the tournament she checks the rack and finds it to be not frozen. The ref reracks several times until Kelly is happy and she makes the one on the break, and shoots a perfect reverse draw to set up a 5:9 combo.
Then she breaks and makes two balls has a tricky one where she misses trying to get better shape on the 3 to get to 4 afterward. SC Chang has a thin cut and she misses badly and leaves Kelly and open shot. Kelly ends up frozen to the rail on the 4, takes tough position on the 5, gets awkward on the 7, plays four three rail shape around the eight and nine and then kills the cueball for perfect shape on the nine.
Wins 7:6.
Kim White won her match 7:3 against Hui Shi Lan.
Monica lost 7:2 against Xiao Ting Pan.
Kelly has Xiao Ting next.
Kelly Fisher squeaks by SC Chang. 7:6 after trailing all match and watching SC Chang set up on a relatively easy 5:6 combo to win. SC missed the combo with Kelly at down 6:4. SC almost hooks Kelly anyway but Kelly has a shot and gets out there.
Kelly had scratched twice on the break in the match and come up dry once. So for the FIRST time in the tournament she checks the rack and finds it to be not frozen. The ref reracks several times until Kelly is happy and she makes the one on the break, and shoots a perfect reverse draw to set up a 5:9 combo.
Then she breaks and makes two balls has a tricky one where she misses trying to get better shape on the 3 to get to 4 afterward. SC Chang has a thin cut and she misses badly and leaves Kelly and open shot. Kelly ends up frozen to the rail on the 4, takes tough position on the 5, gets awkward on the 7, plays four three rail shape around the eight and nine and then kills the cueball for perfect shape on the nine.
Wins 7:6.
Kim White won her match 7:3 against Hui Shi Lan.
Monica lost 7:2 against Xiao Ting Pan.
Kelly has Xiao Ting next.
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Allison and Gerda were sitting in the stands and fans were mobbing them for autographs, one guy climbed over the back of the bleacher wall and had his friends handing him souvenirs to sign. Kelly just signed three pairs of jeans after her match.
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BlowFish said:
Yeah Chang came out firing. She didn't make many mistakes and she matched Kelly safe for safe. I was told be Helena that she is one of the best players in Taipei.
She breaks good and runs the balls the right way. She looks to also have a snooker background and plays with a snooker cue that has a pool ferrule.
cuycuy said:......
From an organizer perspective (we hosted the World Pool Championships here in the Philippines), I do wish the best for the Taiwanese on this endeavour. I do hope they get at least one Taiwanese player (most likely Liu-Shin Mei) to the finals so that they get good viewership. It's tough to get sponsors to commit as it is. Just in case all of them lose, I hope Pan Xiaoting or Ga-Young Kim (Ga-Young studied in Taiwan for awhile and speaks a bit of the local lingo) to be in the thick of things. ...
Pan Xiao-Ting's coach is the former taiwanese pro player, Ga-Young Kim and her young sister have stayed in taiwan for many years. She can speaks "very fluent" Chinese, not only "a bit", and we always call her a language talent. I think Lui, Pan and Kim are all taiwanese favorites.
liekdi2588 said:
She's fluent in Fookien or Mandarin? What was Ga-Young Kim speaking in the interview? Sorry for the "a bit" comment. She speaks "a bit" of English as well.
Oh yeah, speaking of Korean players. No Yuram Cha and Bo Ram Cha. Wonder what happened to those two.
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John Barton said:
I noticed the snooker cue with pool ferrule as well. The deciding factor was her mistake on rack 12th, 5-6 combo and rack 13th, the horrible bank on the 2 that KF overcut previously.
KF reminds me of my former boss, looks exactly like KF (even the hair style, except my boss was blondy) abit smaller.
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Ga Young also speaks English very well. Amost as if she had lived in the USA for many years. Sometimes there is almost no accent.
I will try and give you all the notes on Kim White and Kelly's matches. Right now I need to go home and relax for a while.
I will try and give you all the notes on Kim White and Kelly's matches. Right now I need to go home and relax for a while.
John Barton said:
Chang's grandfather (also her coach) was a snooker player. Snooker was more popular than pool before Okumura and other japanese introduced 9-ball into taiwan many many years ago.) Chang, Lui and Lin (eliminsted by another taiwanese player Su) are taiwanse top 3.
Except Lui and Lin, I think most young taiwanse players all still lacked the experience in the international tournments. Sad
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Tai-Pei Chun vs. Sung
TP Chun from Taipei just recovered from being down 6:2 to win her match 7:6. The guys in the press room were cheering every shot like basketball fans.
It's great to see non-poolplaying newspaper reporters going nuts over pool and their favorite players! They are all on the phone and their computers reporting the news.
TP Chun from Taipei just recovered from being down 6:2 to win her match 7:6. The guys in the press room were cheering every shot like basketball fans.
It's great to see non-poolplaying newspaper reporters going nuts over pool and their favorite players! They are all on the phone and their computers reporting the news.
liekdi2588 said:Chang's grandfather (also her coach) was a snooker player. Snooker was more popular than pool before Okumura and other japanese introduced 9-ball into taiwan many many years ago.) Chang, Lui and Lin (eliminsted by another taiwanese player Su) are taiwanse top 3.
Except Lui and Lin, I think most young taiwanse players all still lacked the experience in the international tournments. Sad
At least many of the Taiwanese ladies play in international pro tournaments like All-Japan. Our top three (Filipinas Rubilen Amit, Iris Ranola and Mary Ann Basas) play in international medal competitions and not a lot of professional tournaments in other countries. No other Filipina women players play outside of the country.
We've seen Lin Yuan-Chen before when she played here in the Philippines. We were impressed. Too bad she fell early in the competition.
