Conventional pool wisdom dictates that players have to learn how to shrug off losses (games, matches, or tournaments) and focus on the ball, game, match in front of them. You’d have to think, though, that having spent more than just a few thousand Euros getting to and preparing to stay in Shanghai for a week, Germany’s Joshua Filler might have had some initial trouble with the refocusing idea after his first match at the World Pool Association’s (WPA) 2023 China Open in the 64-entrant, Men’s Singles division. He faced Malaysia’s Muhammad Almie Yakup and lost the match, double hill. He did, however, manage to apply the conventional wisdom and refocus quickly, magnificently as it turned out and went on to win it, downing Filipino Anthony “The Dragon” Raga in the final. It was Filler’s second China Open win, having won it previously in 2017, and his fourth overall 2023 title.
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