2025 Reyes Cup, Oct 16-19, Manilla. Team Asia vs Team World

𝐑𝐄𝐘𝐄𝐒 𝐂𝐔𝐏 𝟐𝟎𝟐𝟓 — 𝐃𝐀𝐘 𝟑 𝐎𝐑𝐃𝐄𝐑 𝐎𝐅 𝐏𝐋𝐀𝐘

Match 8 — Singles
🇻🇳 Duong Quoc Hoang vs 🇺🇸 Skyler Woodward

Match 9 — Doubles
🇸🇬 Aloysius Yapp & 🇵🇭 Carlo Biado vs 🇪🇸 Francisco Sánchez Ruiz & 🇨🇭 Moritz Neuhausen

Match 10 — Team Match
Team Asia vs Team Rest of the World

Match 11 — Singles
🇸🇬 Aloysius Yapp vs 🇬🇧 Jayson Shaw

Match 12 — Doubles
🇻🇳 Duong Quoc Hoang & 🇸🇬 Aloysius Yapp vs 🇬🇧 Jayson Shaw & 🇪🇸 Francisco Sánchez Ruiz
 
gopi-1 said:
𝐑𝐄𝐘𝐄𝐒 𝐂𝐔𝐏 𝟐𝟎𝟐𝟓 — 𝐃𝐀𝐘 𝟑 𝐎𝐑𝐃𝐄𝐑 𝐎𝐅 𝐏𝐋𝐀𝐘

Match 8 — Singles
🇻🇳 Duong Quoc Hoang vs 🇺🇸 Skyler Woodward

Match 9 — Doubles
🇸🇬 Aloysius Yapp & 🇵🇭 Carlo Biado vs 🇪🇸 Francisco Sánchez Ruiz & 🇨🇭 Moritz Neuhausen

Match 10 — Team Match
Team Asia vs Team Rest of the World

Match 11 — Singles
🇸🇬 Aloysius Yapp vs 🇬🇧 Jayson Shaw

Match 12 — Doubles
🇻🇳 Duong Quoc Hoang & 🇸🇬 Aloysius Yapp vs 🇬🇧 Jayson Shaw & 🇪🇸 Francisco Sánchez Ruiz
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Looks like they're trying to make a three day telecast and forget the fourth day. Or, they may play three or four matches and call it a day, depending on whether ROW can win a match or two. What if!!! ROW won all five matches! And elephants might fly through the arena too.
 
Folks, BREAKING NEWS!!
After only 2 days, Wolf Blitzer is projecting the winner for Reyes Cup 2025


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Biado’s out against Shaw on Day 3 teams match… one of the most spectacular outs I’ve ever seen considering the tight pockets, the great safety laid down, and… how easily Biado attacked it. Relatively little fanfare.

Biado on the 2-ball, and it seemed like never a doubt.
 

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Sad to learn Manas will play no more today. He was the main reason I watched yesterday and he was fabulous.

Today, I suspect Team Asia will make sure that Team ROW gets at least a couple of points.

The chance of the event ending today are, in my opinion, zero. The origin of shortening the sessions comes from the massacre that was the 2013 Mosconi Cup. I was there, and I'm sure some other forum members were, too. It ended on Day 3 and, along with every other attendee that had bought a ticket for Day 4, I got a refund for that ticket.

Barry Hearn, with whom I had a drink at the Mosconi after party that year, was not in a very good mood that day and the practice of shortening sessions when a rout was on subsequently became the norm. I'd venture a guess that the good folks at Matchroom promised themselves that the refund scenario would never recur. It sucked for the fans, too, as most of us had to scramble to book a plane home one day earlier, many of us incurring a charge for modifying our bookings.

Even if one ignores the damage to the brand that is the Reyes Cup that a continuation of this massacre would cause, I'm sure all involved understand that it is time for some mercy on the part of Asia, and that is what I expect.

More than anything, I'd like to see Neuhausen find a moment in the sun.
 
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The comeback is on! Nice to see Neuhausen beat Yapp at double hill of the team match. Finally, someone on Team ROW was up to the pressure. It's 7-1 now.

Funnier things have happened than this potential comeback ..... or maybe they have not.
 
So Team ROW finally wins a match (team match) and they all jump on the table like they've won the cup lol. To them, it must feel like winning the cup I guess, getting one on the board.
 
ROW gets their first point, winning the Team Match Day 3, 5-4. After being up 4-2. Moritz with a great out, showing no nerves.

But then Team ROW climbed on the table. The whole team. WTF? I get doing it at the end of the tourney. If they damage the table in any way, cut the cloth, whatever… it’s the end of the tournament. But mid tournament? After being slaughtered down 7-1???

I know it’s entertainment, and maybe MR told them to do that? But it’s a silly move, IMO.
 
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ROW gets their first point, winning the Team Match Day 3, 5-4. After being up 4-2. Moritz with a great out, showing no nerves.

But then Team ROW climbed on the table. The whole team. WTF? I get doing it at the end of the tourney. If they damage the table in any way, cut the cloth, whatever… it’s the end of the tournament. But mid tournament? After being slaughtered down 7-1???

I know it’s entertainment, and maybe MR told them to do that? But it’s a silly move, IMO.
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Safe bet they were asked to jump on the table, as jumping upon the table in mid-session is just plain disrespectful of both the game and the opponent, and every single one of Team ROW knows it. Still, as Team ROW has been beaten to a pulp by this pool table for two days, I'll view this as a matter of revenge.

Amusing but embarrassing.
 
Duong seems to be on board with the mercy idea, having made three consecutive errors in rack one vs Woodward, the third of them with ball in hand.
 
Cornerman said:
But then Team ROW climbed on the table. The whole team. WTF?
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WTF is the only thing that popped in my head as well. I can't imagine MR asking them to do this and risk damaging/unleveling the table, possibly delaying subsequent matches. But then again I can't imagine any of the individual players instigating this action. Well, maybe with the exception of Shaw, and the rest felt they had to go on with it. WTF is right.
 
I find it strange that the ROW players are all acting like it's just fun and games. Smiles all around and they are still getting drilled 7-1. Maybe their coaching is to just have a good time and enjoy the show. I would have expected a little more serious demeanor due to their present predicament.

In game two Skyler missed a very easy 3-9 combo that an APA 5 would be a favorite to make. He pounded the ball when a soft stroke was all that was necessary.

On this table you just can't jack up and power the cue ball back. The pockets spit those shots out, and yet I see some of them trying to do exactly that. You would think they know that by now. You have to stroke the balls in the hole, Efren style.
 
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