The Final 16

[Snapshot9]

Just finished watching Alcano beating Efren, and he played real well. Efren had his share of misses.

Souquet had a close one, but had a real good last break to mop up the rest of the table to continue in the last 16. (I want to see a closeup picture of Ralf's new cue, man, it is loaded with inlays).

A little disappointed by Manalo miss on that 7 ball, but really felt he was short on the shape to begin with. He used low right, and low left would have straightened up that 7 ball shot some. Then he would have been breaking, and would be right back in the match. He has a powerful stroke though, that stun follow on that 3 to get on the 4 was one for the books.

I am a Scottish sympathizer since that is my heritage, so I will be pulling for Pat Holtz tomorrow against Wu. He will have to bring his best 'A' game though.

 

[kenl]

Its funny that Ronnie lost the cueball on almost all his breaks, scratch on one and nearly on two other occasions, yet still managed to beat Efren.

 

[the_eradicator]

i think Alcano intentionally draws the cue ball on the break to get shape on the one... very intelligent play, IMO.

 

[mjantti]

i think Alcano intentionally draws the cue ball on the break to get shape on the one... very intelligent play, IMO.

I agree, on most of his breaks he drew the cueball exactly the same 2 rails in the center of the table near the 1-ball.

 

[gopi-1]

Last 16. Here are the match-ups:




*UPPER BRACKET*




Ronato "Ronnie Calamba" Alcano vs. Juo Po-Cheng

Pat Holtz vs. Wu Chia-Ching

Jeff "Bata" De Luna vs. Luong Chi Dung

Sander Tot vs. Li He-Wen

 

[gopi-1]

*LOWER BRACKET*




Tyler Edey vs. Liu Cheng-Chuan

Ralf Souquet vs. Konstantin Stepanov

Rodolfo "Boy Samson" Luat vs. David Alcaide

Fu Che-Wei vs. Steve Davis

 

[Renegade]

Man, this is a completely different set of players i expected to reach the final 16, that is, except for wu, kuo, and, of course souquet who's always a good bet to win it all. will wu repeat? it's very, very possible...not hard to comtemplate at all. or will this be the year steve davis finally gets his 9-ball crown after all these years of flirting with the game? Now that would be great news!

 

[Nostroke]

Man, this is a completely different set of players i expected to reach the final 16, that is, except for wu, kuo, and, of course souquet who's always a good bet to win it all. will wu repeat? it's very, very possible...not hard to comtemplate at all. or will this be the year steve davis finally gets his 9-ball crown after all these years of flirting with the game? Now that would be great news!

Stan James Likes WU-then the Kaiser- I like the Kaiser but I have Alcaide at 250-1 so i may have to root a bit for him also.


Wu, Chia Ching 7/2
Souquet, Ralf 9/2
Kuo, Po Cheng 6/1
Luat, Rodolfo 8/1
Fu, Che Wei 8/1
Liu, Chun-Chiang 10/1
Alcano, Ronnie 12/1
Li, He-Wen 14/1
Davis, Steve 20/1
Dung, Luong-Chi 20/1
De Luna, Jeff 22/1
Tot, Sandor 33/1
Alcaide, David 40/1
Stepanov, Konstantin 50/1
Holtz, Pat 66/1
Edey, T 80/1

 

[raemondo]

Souquet had a close one, but had a real good last break to mop up the rest of the table to continue in the last 16. (I want to see a closeup picture of Ralf's new cue, man, it is loaded with inlays).

A little disappointed by Manalo miss on that 7 ball, but really felt he was short on the shape to begin with. He used low right, and low left would have straightened up that 7 ball shot some.

I didn't understand how Ralf could be using a new cue, isn't he sponsored by Seyberts? I think Seyberts and Joss and Predator even came up with Ralf's own line of Joss RS 314s.

What do you mean low left would have straightened up the 7 ball? I might be thinking of something else. I think low right would have straightened it out. He was trying to do was to kill the shot by throwing the ball in, and holding the cue ball. If he used low left he would have been all over the place. He slow spinned the cue ball and the contact point on the 7 ball was just wrong...definitely happens when you lose focus. Such a shame too, after all those tough shots.