Strong showing from Mika Immonen, too. He has to be the oldest player left in the tournament, I’m guessing. I’ve never been a fan of his, but taking down Biado and Ko back to back is noteworthy.
So Raga beat Wu and plays big Ko in about 3 hours. Ugh -- too late for me.
According to the game-by-game scoring it looked liked Wu was up 10-3 in that match, and Raga won the last 8 games.
... Shame US Open is full with Raga and Wu not signed up.
Hmmm...in the round of 16...we had two Changs playing each other....
...not surprisingly, Chang won...brackets don’t say whether it’s YL or JL
Could’ve had the same situation with Wu vs Wu...but Raga didn’t think it was a good idea,
In the bracket, if you click on Chang in his pairing with Li-Wen, it indicates that it is Chang Yu-Lung.
They've done that at this event in past years as well. Seems pretty weird to me.I have not watched every match, but it seems that the racking template is never removed from the table, almost as if it's glued down. Has there been any mention of this?
I have not watched every match, but it seems that the racking template is never removed from the table, almost as if it's glued down. Has there been any mention of this?
They've done that at this event in past years as well. Seems pretty weird to me.
I knew about the embedding...I watch very carefully when a ball crosses the template...
...I haven’t seen a ball roll funny yet.....has anybody else?
Raphael won his first match 9-8 over Toshiyuki Haraguchi. He plays Sharik Sayed next.
Sharik plays well. He graduated out of Mark Wilson's program at Lindenwood University.
Scott Lee
Director, SPF National Pool School Tour
You should watch a lot of the matches.
SPF has taken over.
They are so freaking disciplined now.
And some are wondering why they shoot so much better.
Some think it's some aiming magic. Hah!:grin-square:
They freaking freeze on that base of the ball a long time before even practice stroking.
Ko pin yi vs Michael feliciano now
Ko Pin became one of my new favorite players after watching this match. I mean Ko had Michael straight SHOOK. 9-0 Clinic in break and run 10 ball. It was one of the first times I have seen the Pinoy loose stroke not work. Ko played a much more composed style.
Ko Pin became one of my new favorite players after watching this match. I mean Ko had Michael straight SHOOK. 9-0 Clinic in break and run 10 ball. It was one of the first times I have seen the Pinoy loose stroke not work. Ko played a much more composed style.
Quarterfinals
Link to live scores:
https://billi-walker.jp/en/jpba/alljapan/2019/livescores
I thought when the last Japanese player was eliminated from the men's competition that they were going to live stream non Japanese players next. LOL, I was wrong, they decided to live stream the women's quarterfinals instead with the last remaining Japenese woman vs Han Yu.