Allison won the US Open 7-4 in the finals defeating Ga Young Kim!
Congratulations Allison Fisher!
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This is Allison's 5th US Open title and first title on the WPBA tour in three years.
Wowsers .. Congrats to Allison 
Congrats to Allison for another nice win. After seeing the level of play in Asia, I would compare the WPBA tour to the Nationwide Tour in golf. The real pro tour is the one where all the Chinese women are playing. There is definitely a higher overall level of play over there. If the top ten to twelve Asian women played on the WPBA tour, it would look like the LPGA in golf with all the Korean women dominating.
Well said. Congrats Allison.
Never easy arguing with, what I consider, one of the most informed opinions out there, but on this occasion I must.
The implication that a WPBA event has become a minor league event (and certainly Nationwide Tour events are in golf) consisting of players not quite up to competing with the creme-de-la-creme is, in my view, ridiculous.
There is probably no event in women's pool that brings the WPBA players together with the many stars of Asia more than the Amway Cup. So, I decided to have a glance at this year's Amway Cup, played about twelve weeks ago. Here's what I found:
1st Ga-Young Kim, 2nd Si Meng Chen, 3rd Xiao-Fang Fu, 3rd Allison Fisher
5th Yu Ram Cha, 5th Jasmin Ouschan, 5th Xiao-Ting Pan, 5th Hui-Shan Lai
9th Tzu-Chien Wei, 9th Yuan-chun Lin, 9th Sha Sha Liu, 9th Kyoko Sone,
9th Kelly Fisher, 9th Line Kjoersvik, 9th Chieh-Yu Chou, 9th Hsiao-Chi Lin
In short, WPBA players produced 2 of the top 4 finishers, 5 of the Top 8, and 8 of the Top 16 finishers at Amway. In addition, 4 of the top 8 finishers at Amway played in the US Open this past weekend.
The hypothesis that the stars of the Asian pool scene have left the WPBA players in the dust does not stand up to scrutiny. I will not dispute you if you wish to contend that Amway, by far the most prestigious of the Women's Asian events for well over a decade, offers a tougher field than a WPBA event, but to suggest that WPBA fields are inherently inferior is, in my view, inappropirate.
I deeply respect the ladies of Asia for their increasingly exceptional play, but the ladies of the WPBA remain highly competitive with them.
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I replied to a post that tried to make it sound that WPBA events did not have strong fields, one which went as far as suggesting that winning a WPBA event was comparable to winning a Nationwide tour event in golf. Neither Jay's post nor mine touches on the performance of Americans on the WPBA tour. That's another subject entirely.
I hate it Stu. You're killing me with facts! No question the top women players of the WPBA can compete anywhere in the world. That said, I see an overall higher level of play required to win a women's event in Asia. There are a few more top level women playing over there at this time. China is rapidly churning out one great player after another. Si Meng Chen is the best woman I see playing anywhere right now. Yes, even better than Jasmin, Karen, Ga Young or Allison. Maybe she will help elevate the overall level of women's pool just like Efren did for the men 25 years ago. The top women are going to have to raise their game up a notch to compete with Si Meng and a few other of the Chinese women.
