Saw him 2times in Cardiff, very quiet and elegant player and he tooks JA out of the tournament.
RIP Son of Pool and also not forgotten Hao Ping Chang RIP
RIP Son of Pool and also not forgotten Hao Ping Chang RIP
RIP Yang 1978-2023
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Very sad news, i remember him from 2002 worlds,he also played in world pool league 2002 and 2003. just came from nowhere. He played some of the best pool, you will see.
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I loved watching this guy play. I recall a match I saw on video about 16 years ago, or thereabouts.
The tournament was in Asia, not sure where. Big place, guilded, high ceilings.
Yang was playing a guy from Vietnam or Cambodia. Race to 7.
Yang wins the lag and breaks and runs 6 racks. He makes a ball on his next break but the layout is funny.
He makes a few balls and then tries a foolish shot just trying to run out the set. He misses.
Opponent clears the table and then breaks and run the next 6 racks. Wins 7-6. 13 games, 0 safeties, 1 miss, 12 break and runs.
The tournament was in Asia, not sure where. Big place, guilded, high ceilings.
Yang was playing a guy from Vietnam or Cambodia. Race to 7.
Yang wins the lag and breaks and runs 6 racks. He makes a ball on his next break but the layout is funny.
He makes a few balls and then tries a foolish shot just trying to run out the set. He misses.
Opponent clears the table and then breaks and run the next 6 racks. Wins 7-6. 13 games, 0 safeties, 1 miss, 12 break and runs.
Wow and ow!
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Watched Yang at the 2002 World Pool Championships in Cardiff. Absolute incredible player. Was a favourite to run a set in two innings.
Stanjames made bets on the matches possible this year. We picked like a 10 game bet and I placed 20 pounds. (We were on some small budget being students, flying over from Germany for 20 Euro and staying in a hostel.) All games came through (with some nail biter at the end from Earl and Alex where we joked, we'd need a heart pacemaker, if we win our bet). So I cashed 480 pounds and thought, this is too much adrenaline. Why not pick one sure bet and bet all the money on it.
The match that qualified for this sure bet was Yang vs Souquet (Souquet being just the steadiest player from Europe probably at this time with his meticulous approach.) So Stanjames hat Souquet a 3:1 favorite and I happily bet all the money I just won on Yang.
Souquet won the lag and ran first three racks. Broke dry and never saw a ball again in the set. Yang won 9:3 (I made 2000 pounds and put it all into Accu-Stats tapes.)
Finished with betting after just winning a small fortune but continued watching Yang on his way to his title. He ran over Archer in 2 innings winning 11-2 and was only stopped by Bustamante in some incredible match, where Yang ran first game, missed a bank in second rack to see Bustamante pull to 5-1. Came back to 7-5. Played a bad safety and saw Bustamante run out the set to the end score of 11-7.
Stanjames made bets on the matches possible this year. We picked like a 10 game bet and I placed 20 pounds. (We were on some small budget being students, flying over from Germany for 20 Euro and staying in a hostel.) All games came through (with some nail biter at the end from Earl and Alex where we joked, we'd need a heart pacemaker, if we win our bet). So I cashed 480 pounds and thought, this is too much adrenaline. Why not pick one sure bet and bet all the money on it.
The match that qualified for this sure bet was Yang vs Souquet (Souquet being just the steadiest player from Europe probably at this time with his meticulous approach.) So Stanjames hat Souquet a 3:1 favorite and I happily bet all the money I just won on Yang.
Souquet won the lag and ran first three racks. Broke dry and never saw a ball again in the set. Yang won 9:3 (I made 2000 pounds and put it all into Accu-Stats tapes.)
Finished with betting after just winning a small fortune but continued watching Yang on his way to his title. He ran over Archer in 2 innings winning 11-2 and was only stopped by Bustamante in some incredible match, where Yang ran first game, missed a bank in second rack to see Bustamante pull to 5-1. Came back to 7-5. Played a bad safety and saw Bustamante run out the set to the end score of 11-7.
I remember watching that last match live on sky, it was incredible. And the breaking from both was phenomenal. That match could of went either way!! One jump shot and one safety, was the difference.