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You can make a case for any of the 4 winning the title.
Wiktor will be victor in the end
Gorst train runs everyone
Shaw show them who's boss
Ko KO them all
Performance stats show that the top 4 performers are the 4 semifinalists
https://digitalpool.com/tournaments/2022-international-open-9-ball-division/performance
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Gorst unbeaten here must be the best by anyone this year.
He won Bigfoot 10B by defeating
David Alcaide 11-1
Shaw 11-5
Albin Ouschan 11-6
Filler 11-7
Then he continued his run in 9B main event defeating
Zielinksi 10-0
Johann Chua 10-3
Naoyuki 10-4
He has been playing near flawless pool and what is more impressive is number of consecutive big name FR800+ he has beaten so far i.e. 7.
I don't recall any player in recent times who has beaten such a long phalanx of top notch players in a row. These days, it does not really matter how good you are, it is near impossible to maintain long unbeaten streak against the top field nowadays. Typically you see top player beat a handful like 3 or 4 top notch players and then they fall.
Which is why I think he can't maintain his unbeaten streak today and will fall to either Zielinski in semi or Shaw/Ko in final.
Zielinski was arguably the best performer in recent American 14.1 but fell at last hurdle. He has not won a major event before unlike the other 3 and having to beat Gorst and then Shaw/Ko may be tall order for him.
So my guess is the winner of Shaw/Ko semi will win whole thing. But really it is touch & go -whoever has better form/better hairday and rolls and mastery of the break can snap it off