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2000 WPA WORLD
9-BALL CHAMPIONSHIPS |
| PRESS RELEASE – 2nd
Day, October 6
If during the first day of the Senior’s World 9-Ball Championship there were no major upsets to report about, already the very first round of day two was going to become so much more important. The two top-seeded Asian players, Wei-Chi Chen and I-Teh Sun, had both of them lost a match during the preliminary rounds, and therefore now were to be drawn against all of the athletes that had been marching through the winner’s bracket. As destiny would have it, they were drawn against the two most experienced European players, Gunter Geisen, Germany, and the reigning European Champion, Sten Jarledal, Sweden. Both Geisen and Jarledal won their respective matches with 11 – 7, and by that two fierce opponents were eliminated. Also another three Taiwanese players draw the shorter stick in this so very important round, that also decided who was going to be in the money, and not. Besides Geisen and Jarledal also Karl Kress, Germany, was able to best his Taiwanese opponent, Yi-Fu Kuo, 11 – 7, and both Ralf Waschkewitz, Germany, and Tony Fransson (reigning European Champion in 14.1), Sweden won their respective matches. By that altogether five European players were facing the three remaining Taiwanese athletes when it came down to the quarterfinals. The first player to force his way through to the semifinal was Gunter Geisen, who in his match against Fransson won a clear 11 – 2. Before long he was then followed by one of the three remaining Taiwanese players, Lo Sui, who in his match against the German Karl Kress, also landed a fairly comfortable 11 – 5 victory. Having already eliminated one of the top-seeded Taiwanese players, Sten Jarledal showed no fear when again facing yet another Asian player, Wen-Chung Hsu, and this time he won with an 11 – 6 margin. The final match for the day, the one between Germany’s Ralf Waschkewitz and Taiwan’s Chi-Ming Lin was going to become a very close and exciting match though. A rack had to be replayed at 7 – 7 since it could not be properly judged whether a kix must be deemed a foul or not. However, this incident was not the deciding one and both players ended up in a hill-hill situation, with the German at the break. None of them having made one single “9” on the break throughout the whole match, but this final break was going to become different. The “9” was struck by another ball and sent straight into a corner pocket, and by that Waschkewitz could raise both his arm in the air. Tomorrows semifinals will see Sten Jarledal taking on the only remaining Chinese athlete, Lo Sui, whereas the other match will be a pure German affair, between Geisen and Waschkewitz. |
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