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WPA World 8-Ball Pool Championship 2010
Fujairah,
United Arab Emirates
04-10 April 2010
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Only Two Men Left in Fujairah
Credit: Jerry Forsyth
The
great eight had their shot at the spotlight in Fujairah and three of
them made the most of the early going. 45 minutes into the round Ruslan
Chinakhov led Jeff de Luna 5-1, Karl Boyes enjoyed the same lead over
Vicenancio Tanio and Darren Appleton had a 4-1 gap over Joven Alba.
Neils Feijen and Andreas Roschkowsky were being a bit more dramatic as
Feijen led their match 3-2 at that point.
None
of our leaders would ever falter. Ruslan Chinakov and Karl Boyes both
won their matches by score lines of 10-5, Darren Appleton squeked past
Joven Alba 10-8 and Niels Feijen gradually widened the gap between he
and Roschkowsky until he sank the final ten ball at 10-6.
The semi-final
rounds saw Ruslan Chinakhov facing Karl Boyes and Darren Appleton
squared off aganst Niels Feijen. Early leads would again be the order of
the day as Boyes jumped out to a 6-1 lead over Chinakhov and Feijen led
5-1 over Appleton. In a winner-breaks format such as this huge comebacks
are possible but first you have to win and gain control of the table.
Our leaders were not giving up that control.
For Ruslan
Chinakhov it was mostly an evening spent as a spectator. Karl Boyes
broke and ran the balls time and again and wound up putting on a
completely dominating display of 8-Ball and winning their match 10-2.
Boyes would be the first player to make it to finals on Saturday.
Niels Feijen
dominated his match as well. Darren Appleton did his best to make a
match of it when, at 9-4, Feijen suffered a dry break. Appleton took
that rack to draw within 4 games. He then broke and ran the next to
pull within three. But the next break left him in difficult position and
his first shot failed him, leaving a grand opportunity for Feijen. He
took that to the bank and ran the tablet to win the match 10-6 and grab
the second chair in the finals.
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