Pat Holtz vs Wu Chia Ching Live Coverage

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Wu wins the lag.

Both Wu and Holtz have been playing extremely well in this tournament.

Wu makes 3 on the break, has a tough cross side bank on the lowball (2ball). Wu nails it and gets perfect shape, runs out.

1-0 Wu
 
Rack 2-

Holtz wearing a flashy (not in that way) kilt. Breaks the balls well, has wide open table. Holtz plays somewhat bad position on the 7ball since the 8 is slightly blocking the pocket. Pat hits it poorly and hangs up the 7, Wu runs out.

2-0 Wu
 
Rack 3-

Wu demolishes the rack. He can see the 1ball, but cannot make it. Wu plays a masterful safe. Holtz gets jump cue out. Holtz makes contact and gets very fortunate to leave Wu safe. Wu plays masse/jump/bank shot and makes the 1,then plays a great safe on the 2. Wu is hitting the balls REALLY good. Pat can see edge of the ball but flubs the safety pretty bad.

Wu has less than half a pocket on the 3, tries to cut it in down the rail but hangs the ball up, Pat cleans up.

2-1 Wu
 
Rack 4-

Holtz breaks the balls well, gets very long testy shot on the 1ball. Holtz plays safe, leaves Wu frozen on the rail, very long shot. Wu trys to power the ball, misses it badly. Pat has very thin cut on the 1. Pat tries to play 2 rail billiard to pocket 9ball hanging in the corner. 1ball flies across the table, Wu has no shot.

Wu locks pat up, but leaves a fairly easy kick for Holtz. Holtz makes contact, Wu has a fairly tough shot on the 1. Wu makes it and gets perfect shape (fantastic shot). Wu comes up short on shape for the 5, leaves himself hooked by a centimeter. Wu makes great kick shot and sinks the 5, runs out. WOW

3-1 Wu
 
Rack 5-

Wu is breaking very well. Has a tough cut on the lowball (2). Wu misses just barely, Holtz has wide open table. Holtz plays crappy position shot to the 3, has very tough cut to the side. Holtz hangs it up, Wu runs out.

4-1 Wu
 
Rack 6-

Holtz breaks, makes the 1. Jay Helfert thinks its the 9 and starts screaming. He is quickly reminded that it's the 1ball. LOL Jay!! :D

Pat Holtz's position play is haunting him, he keeps leaving himself tough. He makes the long 7 and 8, and then a cut on the 9 for a much needed break and run.

4-2 Wu
 
Rack 7-

Wu breaks great again, alot of power and great control, but gets another tough cut on the lowball (2). Wu makes the cut, kisses off another ball and leaves himself in jail, and even worse the 9ball hangs up in the corner pocket. Wu has an almost impossible kick. Wu fouls, Holtz has easy 3-9 combo.

4-3 Wu
 
Rack 8-

Holtz breaks, has no shot on the 1. Holtz pushes out, leaves Wu extremely tough cut. Wu attempts cut, barely misses, and barely avoids scratching. The cueball is hanging in the jaws of the corner, and the 1ball is across table with almost an impossible shot. About 10 seconds later, the cueball falls in the hole. The ref respots the cueball where it was.

Pat tries to kick, misses by a decent margin. Wu has ball in hand, runs out.

5-3 Wu
 
Rack 9-

Wu hammers the rack, gets a shot on the 1. Right when Wu pulls the trigger on the 3ball, some loudmouth ***** in the audience shouts something unintelligible. Wu seems sharked, and almost hangs up the 3ball, but it falls.

Suddenly my TVU crashes. Will pick up when it starts again.
 
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Wu must have got out, Holtz trails 3-6.

Rack 10-

Holtz makes a very nice break and run through a tricky rack.

Holtz trails 4 games to 6.
 
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Rack 11-

Wu breaks percetly, but cueball gets kicked and he has no shot on the 1. Wu plays safe, leaves Holtz nothing, but he can hit the 1. Holtz plays safe, Wu can see part of the 1. Wu messes up safe, Pat can see the 1, tries to play safe again but leaves Wu a fairly easy shot. Wu makes 1, opts for a safe on the 2. Either the cueball rolls off, or Wu just hit it poorly, but he leaves pat an easy shot. Pat breaks out a cluster after making ball, but has a difficult position play from the 3 to the 4. Holtz comes up short on position, opts for a safe. Wu makes good hit, Pat tries to play safe again, and flubs it pretty bad. Wu has no shot, and plays a masterful safe. Pat goes for hit and hope shot, slams at the ball and sells out.

Wu leads 7-4.
 
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Rack 12-

This table is breaking very wet. Either the wingball OR the 1ball are dead (sometimes they get both).

Pat breaks and has wide open table, should be a routine out.

The audience seems to be the rudest I've ever seen. The referee is constantly telling people to be quiet or turn off phones, or to stop sharking the players in general. They don't seem to care.

Pat winds up on the 50 yard line on the 9, but makes it like it's a hanger.

Pat trails 5-7.
 
Rack 13-

Wu hits the break harder than ever, but loses the cueball downtable and has no shot, forced to push. Holtz plays safe, Wu can see the 1, plays good safe. Holtz has easy hit, but goes for tricky safe and misses the 1 entirely, Wu has ball in hand, runs out.

Wu is playing like a machine, but Holtz doesn't seem fazed at all.

8-5 Wu
 
Rack 14-

Pat breaks good, seems like a very routine out. Holtz seems to be getting much more confident, he is hitting the cueball very well.

Holtz trails 6-8.
 
Rack 15-

Wu breaks with perfect control, has a tough shot on the 1. Makes it, gets perfect on the 2. Wu runs out.

9-6 Wu.
 
Rack 16-

Holtz breaks, has tough shot on the 1. Holtz misses, sells out. Wu has long shot with ball near the hole, makes it but hits it too thick and kills the cueball accidentally. Has no shot, but plays very good safety. Pat jumps ball, flukes safety and puts Wu in jail. Wu plays great kick shot, goes 1 rail and rolls the cueball up onto the 2ball. Holtz plays safe again, Wu forced to kick, very tough shot. Wu plays great kick again, rolls up on 2 again. These were both twice the length of the table kick shots. Pat tries very tough cut shot, hangs up the 2. Wu plays perfect position on the 3 and runs out.

10-6 Wu
 
Rack 17-

Wu breaks, gets jacked over a ball, but spears it and gets perfect shape, and runs out like the champion he is.

Wu is looking almost unstoppable. For those of you that think his win last year was a fluke, you had better think twice before you bet against this kid. He's 17 and plays better than 95% of the top pros in the world.
 
Unstoppable is right ...

2 of the kick shots that Wu made when Pat had him snookered were simply outstanding. Not only were they on target, they were speed perfect.

The only way I see Wu getting beat is by someone that has the offensive power, but is also a lock-up artist. The only one that comes pops in my mind is Souquet, or maybe Davis (Steve is a real intelligent player). I haven't seen much defense out of Alcano, so I can't say for sure on him.

Wu plays with composure much beyond his years. I would love to see him and Efren play a match someday.
 
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2 of the kick shots that Wu made when Pat had him snookered were simply outstanding. Not only were they on target, they were speed perfect.

The only way I see Wu getting beat is by someone that has the offensive power, but is also a lock-up artist. The only one that comes pops in my mind is Souquet, or maybe Davis (Steve is a real intelligent player). I haven't seen much defense out of Alcano, so I can't say for sure on him.

Wu plays with composure much beyond his years. I would love to see him and Efren play a match someday.
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That would be great but like what many are seeing now, seems like Wu can't be stopped at this point in time. Gotta find a way to shake the kid up.
 
Put Strickland back in and up against him. That'll shake him up, make him wonder if being a pro is worth it.

I watched most of the match and fell asleep unfortunately at the end. Too bad for Pat as he was playing pretty good. Wu just played nearly perfectly though. Pat also made a few bad choices in the games I watched that perhaps could of resulted in better chances for him had he chosen a different way to play safe.

Overall though a high quality match showing that Wu is definitely for real. I think I saw a flicker of displeasure cross his face once when he rolled a bit too far. No problem though he just popped the ball int eh corner instead of the side and stunned the cueball for perfect shape on the nine.

One of the announcers said "Wu closes well and that he's always a strong front runner, and they'd like to see what happens when someone gets in front of him in a match." Um, weren't these guys present at last year's WPC where this kid was one safety away from losing and he ran six racks to close out the set? Wu might be the BEST closer the game has ever seen if he continues performances like that.

Lastly, I don't know if any of you have seen this but Wu appers to be using a diamond system for his kick and bank shots. It looks as though he is counting on the multi-rail kicks and using a double-the-rail/triangulation(for lack of a better term) system on the banks and one rail kicks.
 
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