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It's Official. it's Asia versus Europe once again for the second consecutive year.
I congratulate both Gomez and Peach. they both deserve to be in the finals. both played great 9-ball. I will cheer for both players, be it the winner and the loser. it all comes down to sinking the Final 9 Ball of the tournament.
So it's Superman versus his arch-enemy Lex Luthor. hope that Lex doesn't use any Kryptonite or it's bye bye Superman.
here is the WPC record finals since 99 up to the present,
1999 - Asia Vs. Asia = Asia
2000 - Asia Vs. Mexico = Asia
2001 - Europe Vs. Europe = Europe
2002 - Asia Vs. U.S = U.S.
2003 - Asia Vs. Europe = Europe
2004 - Asia Vs. Asia = Asia
2005 - Asia Vs Asia = Asia
2006 - Asia Vs. Europe = Asia
2007 - Asia Vs. Europe = ?
so that's it. for the past 9 WPCs' , Asian Players reached the the finals 8 times and won it 5 times. 2 for the Europeans and 1 for the Americans. the only Asian losses came from Pagulayan versus Thorsten and Bustamante versus Earl. can't wait for next year's event and again I will fail to watch it. that just sucks. I was hoping they are going to hold it in Italy. too bad that ain't going to happen next year.
I congratulate both Gomez and Peach. they both deserve to be in the finals. both played great 9-ball. I will cheer for both players, be it the winner and the loser. it all comes down to sinking the Final 9 Ball of the tournament.
So it's Superman versus his arch-enemy Lex Luthor. hope that Lex doesn't use any Kryptonite or it's bye bye Superman.
here is the WPC record finals since 99 up to the present,
1999 - Asia Vs. Asia = Asia
2000 - Asia Vs. Mexico = Asia
2001 - Europe Vs. Europe = Europe
2002 - Asia Vs. U.S = U.S.
2003 - Asia Vs. Europe = Europe
2004 - Asia Vs. Asia = Asia
2005 - Asia Vs Asia = Asia
2006 - Asia Vs. Europe = Asia
2007 - Asia Vs. Europe = ?
so that's it. for the past 9 WPCs' , Asian Players reached the the finals 8 times and won it 5 times. 2 for the Europeans and 1 for the Americans. the only Asian losses came from Pagulayan versus Thorsten and Bustamante versus Earl. can't wait for next year's event and again I will fail to watch it. that just sucks. I was hoping they are going to hold it in Italy. too bad that ain't going to happen next year.
chilli66 said:
maybe I'm the one who needs glasses. but definitely, he had hair, no mistake about it.
chilli66 said:Well, goodnight all. Look forward to seeing you all again for the final.
As for my pic question, keep guessing. Hail Mary Shot is on the right track but I think he's confused somewhere!!
Shhhhh..... just to make it more confusing ! I know who he is. you won't expect that it was the one with ... .......secret !!!
chilli66 said:
LOL !!!
!ok, cyah next time bloody chillin. too bad I won't be able to watch the match tommorow. I'll just check it on Monday.
Superman Soars
If this blog is true, then expect hard breaks in the finals tonight. This might give the advantage to Peach. However, Gomez has proven last night that he can adjust his game depending on the condition of the table.
http://sportsaddick.wordpress.com/2007/11/10/day-8-superman-soars/
After all that hullabaloo, and with Hungarian Vilmos Foldes accounting for 2001 champion Finland?s Mika Immonen (11-7, Immonen started cold and never really got going), only one Asian was going to make the final four, either Roberto Gomez or Kuo Po-Cheng.
For the record, since the since the tournament moved to Asia, Asians have held sway - Alex Pagulayan in Taipei in 2004 (beating Chang Pei-Wei), Wu Chia-Ching in Kaohsiung in 2005 (beating Kuo) and Ronnie Alcano last year here in Manila (beating Ralf Souquet). In the five years in Cardiff prior to this, what I would consider the golden age of pool on TV, Reyes and Chao won in 99 and 2000, then Immonen, Strickland and Hohmann. So it has been a dry spell for non-Asians, not a prolonged one though.
Kuo or Gomez? The Pinoy Superman, the player I introduced on TV as The Reporter for the Genting leg of the Guinness 9-Ball Tour (my bad), continued where he left off the evening before. Kuo was staring down the barrel of a shutout before he broke the duck egg, or balut for the locals. The final score of 11-4 to Gomez is a good reflection of what happened at the table.
The Taiwanese team leader Sherman Liu said to Kuo after the match that Gomez looked so comfortable clearing the table time and again, while Kuo looked ill at ease with his runouts. Kuo was disappointed though not despondent. ?I think I simply wanted it too much. In the end, I just seized up. I wasn?t feeling it anymore in the end. Maybe next year.?
Yes, maybe next year. But meantime, there was there is still this year, and the business is yet unfinished. Four men remain: Peach plays Foldes and Boyes plays Gomez. And it had to be done today.
At the main TV table, Foldes was struggling. And Peach, well, pardon me the pun, he was having a peach of a time. 11-2, Foldes folds. We have an Englishman in the final.
Meanwhile, the action was at TV Table 2 where Karl Boyes had sprung to a 4-0 lead. Was this going to be an all English final, an all-Blackpool final? C?mon!!!
The crowd cheered when Gomez got on board. Then again, and again. 4-0 became 4-4. Then 6-4. Gomez was in full flight once again. Feeding off the crowd who cheered every successful break and runout, he took 11 straight racks to reach the biggest match of his life.
Roberto Gomez is a passionate man. Go past that chunky physique, he?s handsome, certainly trumps Efren, Django and Ronnie Alcano in the looks stakes, and perhaps Alex too. He could be the next big Philippine superstar if he gets the job done tomorrow against Daryl Peach. And he knows he is the favourite to do it. His last five matches in the knockout stages has been 11-4 (Boyes); 11-4 (Kuo); 11-0 (Feijen), 11-2 (Chao) and 11-1 (Alex Lely). You can say he?s knocked them out cold.
Dux and I first saw Gomex play in Genting Highlands in June when he lost a hill-hill quarter-final match to Ricky Yang. He?d be gunning for an opportunity to play in the Guinness Tour right from the start but for reasons best known to the people who run cuesports in the Philippines, he?d not been unleashed until the third leg of the Tour. Gomez was 8-6 up against R Yang, playing alternate breaks, mind you, before crumbling 9-8. I heard he?d gone to his room and cried his heart out. Dux and I both agreed then that Gomez may have the game to win the World Pool Championship.
In Singapore a month later, Gomez again made the final eight, and went 5-0 against Alex Pagulayan. Alex closed back to 5-3, Gomez won another rack and hit the wall. Alex took six straight racks to win 9-6. It?s not surprising to string a few racks together in winner?s break, like we?re playing right now for the Worlds, but on alternate rack, you?ve got to have a major meltdown for that to happen. Stunned, Gomez again went back to his room and sobbed. At the time, I thought, maybe I ain?t any good at assessing the players after all, he had game, that goes without saying, but does he have the head for it?
Gomez made the final eight in Shanghai where he met Yang Ching-Shun. Needing to win through to at least the final four to make the Grand Final in Bali, Gomez made a heroic run from 5-8 down to tie the score. But again he fell short. Don?t ask me about the crying game, I wasn?t there in Shanghai, I was busy managing the Media Centre at the Singapore Women?s Squash Masters and celebrating Nicol David?s win. But is you ask me about Gomez, I?d happily tell you that had the Filipino pool authories entered Gomez for the first two legs, he?d have qualified for Bali in a canter. The politics of Filipino cuesports is one I would not go near. It?s messy and unbelievably short-sighted at times; they were lucky that Lee Vann Corteza even got to Bali to accompany Ronnie Alcano. They could?ve had more players for sure.
So here we are now, in Manila, on the eve of the 2007 World Pool Championship final. It?s Daryl Peach vs Roberto Gomez. Can the Pinoy Superman hold it together for yet another day?
If you have read this far, and thank you all six of you who are reading, here?s the big news for tomorrow.
The tables are being swapped! In the interest of making it more of a game, seeing as how all the players seemed to have mastered the break on TV Table 1 (soft break, control the cue-ball, run out), the tournament organisers have decided to finally do something. The Main TV Table is right this very moment being dismantled, and TV Table 2 where the players have been breaking a lot harder will be the one used for the final. It will be moved over.
At the same time, the air-conditioning at the Araneta Coliseum will be kept off until 2 hours before the game, and the TV lights kept off as well. Daryl Peach has been informed, and he?s fine with that. The man from Matchroom is getting hold of Gomez?z manager to inform her about it, and I have just confirmed that Gomez is aware of the swap.
What we?d all be hoping for tomorrow is a harder break, more ball action, and an end to what the Taiwanese call the ?bird-break?. That, hopefully, should be the end of all that limp-wristed stuff that we?ve seen ALL the power breakers deliver over the past few days. Listen out for the loud cracks as we race to 17 tomorrow!
If this blog is true, then expect hard breaks in the finals tonight. This might give the advantage to Peach. However, Gomez has proven last night that he can adjust his game depending on the condition of the table.
http://sportsaddick.wordpress.com/2007/11/10/day-8-superman-soars/
After all that hullabaloo, and with Hungarian Vilmos Foldes accounting for 2001 champion Finland?s Mika Immonen (11-7, Immonen started cold and never really got going), only one Asian was going to make the final four, either Roberto Gomez or Kuo Po-Cheng.
For the record, since the since the tournament moved to Asia, Asians have held sway - Alex Pagulayan in Taipei in 2004 (beating Chang Pei-Wei), Wu Chia-Ching in Kaohsiung in 2005 (beating Kuo) and Ronnie Alcano last year here in Manila (beating Ralf Souquet). In the five years in Cardiff prior to this, what I would consider the golden age of pool on TV, Reyes and Chao won in 99 and 2000, then Immonen, Strickland and Hohmann. So it has been a dry spell for non-Asians, not a prolonged one though.
Kuo or Gomez? The Pinoy Superman, the player I introduced on TV as The Reporter for the Genting leg of the Guinness 9-Ball Tour (my bad), continued where he left off the evening before. Kuo was staring down the barrel of a shutout before he broke the duck egg, or balut for the locals. The final score of 11-4 to Gomez is a good reflection of what happened at the table.
The Taiwanese team leader Sherman Liu said to Kuo after the match that Gomez looked so comfortable clearing the table time and again, while Kuo looked ill at ease with his runouts. Kuo was disappointed though not despondent. ?I think I simply wanted it too much. In the end, I just seized up. I wasn?t feeling it anymore in the end. Maybe next year.?
Yes, maybe next year. But meantime, there was there is still this year, and the business is yet unfinished. Four men remain: Peach plays Foldes and Boyes plays Gomez. And it had to be done today.
At the main TV table, Foldes was struggling. And Peach, well, pardon me the pun, he was having a peach of a time. 11-2, Foldes folds. We have an Englishman in the final.
Meanwhile, the action was at TV Table 2 where Karl Boyes had sprung to a 4-0 lead. Was this going to be an all English final, an all-Blackpool final? C?mon!!!
The crowd cheered when Gomez got on board. Then again, and again. 4-0 became 4-4. Then 6-4. Gomez was in full flight once again. Feeding off the crowd who cheered every successful break and runout, he took 11 straight racks to reach the biggest match of his life.
Roberto Gomez is a passionate man. Go past that chunky physique, he?s handsome, certainly trumps Efren, Django and Ronnie Alcano in the looks stakes, and perhaps Alex too. He could be the next big Philippine superstar if he gets the job done tomorrow against Daryl Peach. And he knows he is the favourite to do it. His last five matches in the knockout stages has been 11-4 (Boyes); 11-4 (Kuo); 11-0 (Feijen), 11-2 (Chao) and 11-1 (Alex Lely). You can say he?s knocked them out cold.
Dux and I first saw Gomex play in Genting Highlands in June when he lost a hill-hill quarter-final match to Ricky Yang. He?d be gunning for an opportunity to play in the Guinness Tour right from the start but for reasons best known to the people who run cuesports in the Philippines, he?d not been unleashed until the third leg of the Tour. Gomez was 8-6 up against R Yang, playing alternate breaks, mind you, before crumbling 9-8. I heard he?d gone to his room and cried his heart out. Dux and I both agreed then that Gomez may have the game to win the World Pool Championship.
In Singapore a month later, Gomez again made the final eight, and went 5-0 against Alex Pagulayan. Alex closed back to 5-3, Gomez won another rack and hit the wall. Alex took six straight racks to win 9-6. It?s not surprising to string a few racks together in winner?s break, like we?re playing right now for the Worlds, but on alternate rack, you?ve got to have a major meltdown for that to happen. Stunned, Gomez again went back to his room and sobbed. At the time, I thought, maybe I ain?t any good at assessing the players after all, he had game, that goes without saying, but does he have the head for it?
Gomez made the final eight in Shanghai where he met Yang Ching-Shun. Needing to win through to at least the final four to make the Grand Final in Bali, Gomez made a heroic run from 5-8 down to tie the score. But again he fell short. Don?t ask me about the crying game, I wasn?t there in Shanghai, I was busy managing the Media Centre at the Singapore Women?s Squash Masters and celebrating Nicol David?s win. But is you ask me about Gomez, I?d happily tell you that had the Filipino pool authories entered Gomez for the first two legs, he?d have qualified for Bali in a canter. The politics of Filipino cuesports is one I would not go near. It?s messy and unbelievably short-sighted at times; they were lucky that Lee Vann Corteza even got to Bali to accompany Ronnie Alcano. They could?ve had more players for sure.
So here we are now, in Manila, on the eve of the 2007 World Pool Championship final. It?s Daryl Peach vs Roberto Gomez. Can the Pinoy Superman hold it together for yet another day?
If you have read this far, and thank you all six of you who are reading, here?s the big news for tomorrow.
The tables are being swapped! In the interest of making it more of a game, seeing as how all the players seemed to have mastered the break on TV Table 1 (soft break, control the cue-ball, run out), the tournament organisers have decided to finally do something. The Main TV Table is right this very moment being dismantled, and TV Table 2 where the players have been breaking a lot harder will be the one used for the final. It will be moved over.
At the same time, the air-conditioning at the Araneta Coliseum will be kept off until 2 hours before the game, and the TV lights kept off as well. Daryl Peach has been informed, and he?s fine with that. The man from Matchroom is getting hold of Gomez?z manager to inform her about it, and I have just confirmed that Gomez is aware of the swap.
What we?d all be hoping for tomorrow is a harder break, more ball action, and an end to what the Taiwanese call the ?bird-break?. That, hopefully, should be the end of all that limp-wristed stuff that we?ve seen ALL the power breakers deliver over the past few days. Listen out for the loud cracks as we race to 17 tomorrow!
So, to my midnight posters (midnight my time), should we continue posting on this thread for the finals?
Do we initiate a new thread?
Would it be better to go to LIVE CHAT, the button up above on this forum?
The LIVE CHAT on AzBilliards works GREAT.
What say you?
JAM
Do we initiate a new thread?
Would it be better to go to LIVE CHAT, the button up above on this forum?
The LIVE CHAT on AzBilliards works GREAT.
What say you?
JAM