11月

Rakin和Ko新的小辈世界台球冠军

Rakin和Ko新的小辈世界台球冠军
美国的玛丽Rakin和Pin伊台北Ko是世界的新的小辈冠军。他们今天采取了他们的标题在Willingen，德国在WPA世界小辈冠军的结论在2007年。
这是没有新东西为玛丽Rakin。她去年赢取了此同样事件，但上漫长的路可能重覆技艺。进入事件作为第一种子她投下了她的首先比赛(7-4)到新西兰的Denise Wilkinson。从那里她在未被击败的嬉戏去通过领域的其余。
她的第二次比赛几乎是她的路的末端，但她通过德国(7-6)的Anja · Wagner容易地然后中断惠Ching狂吠新加坡(7-2)和家伙美国Briana米勒(7-2)， 12年老奇迹以非常大未来。这放她入发信号唯一排除戏剧开始，并且那里她的第一次比赛是另关闭一的重画，因为她由唯一赛(9-8)逃脱了德国的Kristina Schagan。当她在德国(9-4)的金Witzel然后跨步它意味她再次做了决赛世界。
她的对手在最后的尝试是Tina Buhnen。奇怪地， Buhnen也丢失了她的星期的第一次比赛和对送了Rakin左的同样Denise Wilkinson! (在第五名受伤的Wilkinson。) Buhnen在找到之前容易地中断奥地利(9-4)的Sabrina Naverschnig在半决赛横跨毛毡从Rakin。当Rakin发现了她的星期的最佳的比赛和简单地拷打Buhnen赢取努力去做在9-2采取她的第二个连贯世界冠军，这不会证明一个舒适的斑点是。要求水池是否是在她的未来她回复了： “是，但不直到，在我完成学校之后。教育首先，然后合并”。按至于是否她在WPBA的门会敲，在她咧嘴的学院之后： “呀，我如此认为!”
当Yu Lun台北吴在小跑，拥有了领域并且赢取了三世界冠军年轻人注意最近三年。 When he defeated Yusuke Shibata of Japan 11-7 in the Semi-Finals it seemed a near certainty that history was about to repeat itself. But coming through the field undefeated (as had Wu) was last year’s runner-up, Pin Yi Ko, also of Chinese Taipei. Ko had to defeat another Taiwanese player, Kui Ming Lin (three of our four semi-finalists were Taiwanese) in order to get to the final stage again but after he managed that (11-8) he walked out into the main arena with an air of confidence that was palatable.
Ko took an early lead and never looked back. He won the first three racks, dropped one, and then won three more to lead 6-1 in the race to eleven. After eleven racks he led the race 8-3 in a shining match that had displayed eight break and runs to that point. Wu made a strong charge from there and brought the match close at 8-7. But then Ko took control again and won the next three racks to take the crown 11-7. How well did they play? According to Stan Shuffett, who was tracking every shot, Ko shot an Accu-Stat score of .962 (1.000 is perfect and nearly unheard of) while Wu fired an .858 in his failed bid. Adult pros shoot those same types of scores to win major titles.

The WPA wishes to heartily thank all of the sponsors whose efforts made this fine event possible. These include bwin.com, Iwan Simonis, Dynamic Billiards, Aramith Billiard Balls, Gutshoff Itterbach, the City of Willingen, Germany, The EPBF, The WPA, the IBP Foundation, and the host site, the beautiful Sauerland Stern Hotel.
RESULTS
MEN
1) Pin Yi Ko (TPE)
2) Yu Lun Wu (TPE)
3) Yusuke Shibata (JPN), Kui Ming Lin (TPE)
5) Mathew Lawrenson (GBR), Attila Bezdan (HUN), Thomas Luttich (GER), Hee Sup Kim (KOR).
9) Nico Wehner (GER), Fabian Breuer (GER), Landon Shuffett (USA), Rusian Chinahov (RUS), Tomoya Iima (JPN), Nick Pera (NZL), Petri Makkonen (FIN), Hao Xiang Han (HKG)

LADIES
1) Mary Rakin (USA)
2) Tina Buhnen (GER)
3) Sabrina Naverschnig (AUT), Kim Witzel (GER)
5) Kristina Schagan (GER), Si Ming Chen (CHN), Sina Petry (GER), Denise Wilkinson (NZL)