[فن] [بونينغ] [إكليبسس] [ألكنو], إدعاءات [32ند] الولايات المتّحدة الأمريكيّة فتحت عنوان

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[فن] [بونينغ] [إكليبسس] [ألكنو], إدعاءات [32ند] الولايات المتّحدة الأمريكيّة فتحت عنوان
13-10 [فينلس] يبرشم نصرة 9 كرة أكثر يشتهى تاج للكبرياء [سوث دكوتا]

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بدأ السفر حرفيّا يوم الأحد ليلة, غير أنّ في [شن] [فن] [بونينغ] قلب كأمريكيّة بركة لاعبة, هذا المساء ينهي بحث أنّ على الأرجح بدأ [أس سون س] هو استطاع سحبت [ك بلّ] ه. ال 24 قد تلقّى [ير-ولد] من [سووإكس] سقوط, [سد], سنة مؤثّرة, ينهي [رونّر-وب] في Enjoypool.com حادث في [لس فغس] والعالم قمة البركة في نيويورك ويقدح من العالم [10-بلّ] بطولة في جاكسونفيل, [فل]. هذا المساء, مع 13-10 [فينلس] هزيمة من يسود عالم 9 كرة بطلة [رونتو] [ألكنو], [فن] [بونينغ] قد أصبح ال [32ند] الولايات المتّحدة الأمريكيّة سنويّة فتحت 9 كرة بطلة.
مع أربعة لاعبات من الأصل 233 دواخل متبقّي في البداية من اليوم, واجه [فن] [بونينغ] اليابان [توموكي] [مكري] في ال [فينل] من الرابحات' كتيفة. هزم [فن] [بونينغ] تلقّى سابقا [سلفر] [أشا], تشاد رمح, [سبركي] [فرّلّ], [مركس] [شمت], [رونّي] [ويسمن], و [كري] [ديول] قبل يحجز تذكرته إلى الحارّة مقعد نظير مع 11-4 يبعث من [ألكنو] في اجتماع أوّلهم. [جومب ووت] تخريج [مكري], [فن] [بونينغ] إلى 5-0 رصاص في أغلاط من اليابانية. [مكري] حشد مع زوج من [لوكد-ين] 9 كرات, الأخرى [أوت-ند-ووت] آنسة من طلقة خردق [ستريغت-ين] أنّ أسّس آخر جيب. [مكري] [بروك] وركض إلى حالة سحب ضمن اثنان, وبينما [فن] [بونينغ] حافظه إلى أسفل, [بروك] [مكري] وركض خارجا متأخّرا في النظير أن يقيّد هو 9-9. [مكري] افتقد محاولة مقدّرة في 1-8 إدماج في التالية, و [فن] [بونينغ] يسارا ه في كرسي تثبيته من هناك, يخلي ويكسر ويركض خارجا ل 11-9 مدخل إلى الوحيد [رس-تو-13] [فينلس].

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بما أنّ هم كان لعبوا, جعل [ألكنو] كان قليلا عمل من الوحيدة متبقّي ماض رابحة مفتوحة. [رلف] "الجراحة" [سوقوت] لعب استثنائيّا جيّدا طوال الأسبوع, غير أنّ تخريج [ألكنو], افتقد هو بعيدا أكثر غالبا و [فلّ] 11-3 إلى أرض في مكان رابعة. [مكري] كان تالية على ال [لنكي] فيليبينيّة يشطر قالب, بما أنّ [ألكنو] كسب آخر رصاص كبيرة مبكّرة, فيما بعد يكسر ويركض مرّتين بالتّتابع أن يبلغ التل إلى [مكري] بائس اثنان فوز. Alcano won 11-5 from there, Mekari’s last bit of fight enough to earn a slightly better final score and a third-place finish.
In a rematch with Van Boening, Alcano’s soft cut break gradually became as ineffective as it had in their previous match. While Van Boening lost his early 3-2 edge, he stayed with Alcano, missing only three balls to Alcano’s impressive total of two for the entire match, retaking the lead at 9-8. With a pivotal roll up 10-9, Van Boening attempting to jump to bank the 2 ball and instead kicking behind it and landing the cue ball in jail for Alcano, the South Dakotan took an 11-9 lead. His version of the soft cut break dropped four balls in the next, and Van Boening ran out to reach the hill. While his scratch on the next break gave Alcano a tenth win, the Filipino’s dry break in the next gave Van Boening a run-out to savor, and he took his time polishing off the 13-10 triumph.
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With the conclusion of play, promoter Barry Behrman handed Van Boening his oversized $50,000 check amidst a champagne toast and fan revelry.

Van Boening and Mekari reach U.S. Open Winners

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Van Boening and Mekari reach U.S. Open Winners’ Finale
Four remain for final day of play; Alcano and Souquet seek another shot

By Paul Berg, InsidePOOL Magazine Staff
With the last match of play on day six of the U.S. Open 9-Ball Championships concluding shortly after 4:30 AM here in Chesapeake, VA, four male billiard players representing four different countries have weathered the field of 233 entrants. With a chance to erase any doubt about the strength of the field in his World 10-Ball Championship victory this past summer, Shane Van Boening has reached the winners’ bracket final undefeated. His opponent will be unheralded Tomoki Mekari of Japan, who held his place on the A-side despite the grimmest of deficits in his evening matches.
Van Boening claimed his fifth and sixth victories of the Open11-8 over Corey Deuel and 11-4 over Ronato Alcano. World 10-ball credentials trumped reigning World 9-Ball champion status, as the South Dakotan was in clear command throughout his bout with the Filipino. Breaking and running twice consecutively on three occasions, Van Boening had obviously mastered his break on the Billiard Club Network live webcast table, while Alcano had trouble on his handful of opportunities snapping. Alcano found little help from Van Boening, who only made one significant error with a botched 2ball safety early on. In the end, Van Boening cleared the table after Alcano missed a tough 3ball trailing 9-4, and then broke and ran once more for the resounding 11-4 ticket to the last day of play unblemished.
Mekari’s two evening affairs were much more dicey. First, facing Atlanta resident Louis Ulrich, Mekari clawed out of a 9-4 hole. In one of two weak stretches in an otherwise stupendous tournament, Ulrich failed to either complete a runout or gain an edge in a safety battle, and Mekari improbably took seven straight and an improbable 11-9 win. Ralf “The Surgeon” Souquet was fresh off an 11-5 dissection of Dennis “The Menace” Orcollo and waited in the wings, picking up where he left off the previous set by breaking and running the first three against Mekari. Nonplussed, the Japanese steadily climbed back into the match, Souquet helping with three errors, each antithetical to his sterling play throughout the event. Once missing position, then failing in a safety, Souquet watched as Mekari tied the match at seven, and then took his first lead when Souquet missed a routine 3ball in the side. They traded racks from there, and Mekari broke and ran out the last two to reach the hot seat match with a resounding 11-8 triumph.
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Neither Alcano nor Souquet was willing to settle for a tie for fifth place. Ulrich bounced back with large margins of victory over James Walden and Orcollo, but would fall flat for a second time in a tournament where you need your best for last. Missing often against a runout machine like Alcano is a recipe for disaster, and while the Filipino heir to Efren Reyes magic did not resolve the troubles with his hard smashing break, he still shot like his idol on his way to a 10-0 edge. Ulrich managed to runout and break and run two more, but he scratched on the next break, and Alcano put Ulrich out in a tie for fifth, clearing there for an 11-3 result.
Souquet will face Alcano in the quarter-final, having actually eliminated an opponent after dealing five others their first loss. The German entered the one-loss side against a man who had ended the 32nd Open for eleven others already. Ramil Gallego lost his first round match 11-7 to Helsinki’s Markus Juva, and had since toppled three greats from his own country and contenders from a few others. Eliminating Francisco Bustamante, Thorsten Hohman, Mike Davis, Efren Reyes and Jose Parica back to back, Gallego then ended the hopes of Deuel, and had another past Open champion in his path for his seventh and final match of day six.
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Despite an impressive rally from 7-2 deficit to a 7-up knot, Gallego succumbed in the end to a pair of monster break and runs by Souquet after rattling the 1ball up the rail with his first lead. Gallego could only watch as his long trek came up two measly 9balls short, Souquet making five balls on the last break and sealing the deal 11-9 while Gallego rested his weary feet in the chair, fire in his eyes as the last ball fell and placed him in a tie for fifth. Tomorrow at 1 PM, the last standing past Open champion will try the remaining Pinoy hopeful, while Van Boening and Mekari will try to put themselves in the final race to 13 with fifty grand and a green jacket to the victor. Stay tuned to InisdePOOLmag.com for updates from the final day of the U.S. Open tomorrow.

Sixteen Shoot on at U.S. Open

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Sixteen Shoot on at U.S. Open
Undefeated ranks trimmed to eight; B-siders Immonen and Gallego win eight straight

by Paul Berg, InsidePOOL Magazine Staff
Seeking a fifth consecutive victory without a loss at the 32nd U.S. Open 9-Ball Championships, 16 of the world’s very best billiard players went to ground this afternoon. Eight are still standing, the result of impressive displays, while eight more persevere on the B-side of the chart. This year’s Open has taken exciting shape, with many prognosticated pairings having reached the end of their harrowing quarters of the draw.
Reigning world 9-ball champion Ronato Alcano and elder Filipino statesman Jose Parica will play tonight at 7 PM, both by virtue of resounding 11-3 victories during the 1 PM session over Warren Kiamco and Tyler Edey, respectively. The winner of this highly anticipated bout will face either Corey Deuel or Shane Van Boening. While Deuel has a longer curriculum vitae, with a U.S. Open to his credit from 2001 and a win at the UPA event in Valley Forge this year, recently crowned world 10-ball champ Van Boening recently edged Deuel in a high profile (not to mention high stakes) challenge match. Deuel bested Mosconi Cup team member Mike Davis 11-7 earlier, while Van Boening outdid Ronnie Wiseman 11-8.
On the other half of A-side, Louis Ulrich continues to look like the strongest hope for an American winner this year. With a resounding 11-1 defeat of Tony Robles following on the heels of his 11-0 whitewash of Ernesto Dominguez last night, Ulrich moved forward to face Japan’s last man standing, Tomoki Mekari, who upended two-time Open winner Allen Hopkins 11-6. Next to them on the board is Dennis Orcollo, arguably the most feared member of the vaunted Filipino contingent, and Ralf “The Surgeon” Souquet, German title holder at events the world over. Orcollo slowed the magnificent run of Tulsa, OK’s, James Walden with an 11-5 performance, while Souquet handed Johnny Archer an embarrassing 11-2 defeat on the Billiard Club Network television table.
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The excitement on the winners’ side is palpable, and before the evening’s play is through, only two men will stand without a loss. The other two who come back for tomorrow’s finale will have to work their way through the treacherous one-loss side. For Finnish star Mika Immonen and Filipino stalwart Ramil Gallego, it’s a rocky road well-traveled. Each has won eight straight matches facing elimination. For Gallego, today has included three 11-6 wins over Thorsten Hohmann, Francisco Bustamante, and Davis, eliminating the Frederick, MD, household name in a tie for 17th place. Immonen has ended Rodolfo Luat 11-8, Tony Crosby 11-6, and finally Robles 11-8 in a very competitive match. “The Iceman” held a commanding lead over “The Silent Assassin,” but Robles came back and took the lead before falling to some stupendous shot-making from Immonen.
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Gallego has Efren “The Magician” Reyes to look forward to, who has steamrolled his last two opponents and looks sharp after his BCn broadcast loss to Alcano last night. For Immonen, Larry Nevel awaits, having eliminated past champions Gabe Owen and Hopkins in his last two matches. The other two remaining pairings on the one-loss side will be Kiamco against Niels Feijen and Archer against Walden. Stay tuned to InsidePOOLmag.com for an update after the long night ahead at the Chesapeake Conference center, as it will get down to four men with a shot at the coveted green jacket by the end of play.

U.S. Open Winners

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U.S. Open Winners’ Bracket Halved to 16, Filipino Contingent Still Strong
Late Night Ahead for One-Loss Hopefuls in Chesapeake

by Paul Berg, InsidePOOL Magazine Staff
Deservedly under the television lights during both Billiard Club Network live matches, top 9-ballers from The Republic of the Philippines stole the show tonight at the 32nd U.S. Open 9-Ball Championships. With impressive 11-7 wins, Jose Parica and Ronato Alcano have stepped past other greats from their homeland. Both are in the same quarter of the draw, which is down to 16 undefeated billiards players, with an estimated 29 more that will wake up alive in another way if all one-loss matches are completed in the wee hours Friday morning. With dazzling performances from unbeaten threats and massive shows of heart from B-side battlers, Thursday at the Open was a sign of even better 9-ball to come.
Amidst the Filipino-laden third quarter of the draw, Parica opened a 6-3 lead against Francisco Bustamante that turned into an 11-7 victory. The match history between the two is very lopsided in Parica’s favor, a notable loss for Bustamante coming here two years ago in the semifinal match. Next for “The Leader of the Invasion” in his charge to do one better than his multiple runner-up Open finishes will be strong Canadian Tyler Edey, who defeated 2004 runner-up Thorsten Hohmann. With a 10-8 lead, Edey played a safety with just the 9 remaining on the table, leaving the cue ball on the opposite end rail and inducing a bank attempt from Hohmann that left a long 11-8 clincher for Edey.
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The other remaining pairing on their chart will be Alcano and Warren Kiamco. A veteran from Parica’s era, Kiamco jumped out to a 6-1 lead on young fellow Filipino Lee Van Corteza, and despite a rally from the offensively explosive Turning Stone Classic winner, Kiamco took charge and finished comfortably 11-6. For reigning world 9-ball champ Alcano’s part, playing under the television lights against his hero in youth Efren Reyes, things got a bit tighter.
Alcano gained a 6-3 lead when Reyes rattled the 6 ball, and he banked it home to start a clearance. Reyes took the next four games and a 7-6 lead, Alcano missing the 3 ball in the thirteenth rack after the blitz from “Bata.” Capitalizing on a pair of uncharacteristic misses, getting a fortunate roll on one of his own and out-dueling Reyes in a kick-safety contest, Alcano swept the next seven games from there for the 11-7 triumph.
Alongside Alcano in the 9 PM match time, other favorites continued to progress. Yet another feared Pinoy, Dennis Orcollo broke out of a 4-4 knot with Tony Crosby, running four racks from the break at one stretch en route to an 11-4 victory. And with a clutch 8-9 carom after Rodolfo Luat scratched with six balls left on the table, backroom great James Walden claimed an 11-10 victory to reach Orcollo and complete his sweep of last year’s Open finalists.
In their quarter of the bracket, a match was brewing since the draw went down between Johnny “The Scorpion” Archer and Ralf “The Surgeon” Souquet. Archer was in control throughout his 11-5 win over Tony Chohan. Souquet went the distance with Larry Nevel despite an early advantage for the German. With the score tied at 9 and Nevel breaking, neither player made a ball on the break nor missed a shot afterwards, the alternating run-outs resulting in an 11-10 escape for Souquet.
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Archer isn’t Atlanta’s only remaining undefeated threat. Louis Ulrich resides there these days, and with an 11-0 win over Ernesto Dominguez (a rarity as late as the fourth round of the Open), he’ll have a date with Tony Robles in the fifth round, courtesy of “The Silent Assassin” holding off Japan’s Naoyuki Oi 11-8. Japan will still be represented in their quarter of the bracket, as Tomoki Mekari advanced 11-10 over past Open winner Tommy Kennedy to reach a match with two-time Open champ Allen Hopkins, himself a winner over Chuck Raulston.
Corey Deuel just concluded the last of winners’ bracket play in an 11-10 victory over Shannon Daulton, a match that was moved from the television table to expedite play. Mike Davis is waiting for him, having hung on to a dwindling lead against Rodney Morris 11-9. Rounding out their section of the chart will be Shane Van Boening by way of an 11-3 stomping of Marcus Chamat, facing Ronnie Wiseman, who nipped John Morra 11-10 after a long-missed 9 ball when the Detroiter was up 10-7.
There is still plenty to sort out on the B-side of the chart. Many great victories have been followed by obliterations at the hands of those coming out of the winners’ bracket with something to prove. Stay tuned to InsidePOOLmag.com for an update tomorrow on the shooters taking the long road to the most coveted crown in 9-Ball.
As a special note, Dan Louie was the victim of internal distress of an as-yet-undisclosed nature earlier today when he collapsed in the midst of his match. He is in stable condition after successful surgery, and here at the Conference Center, promoter Barry Behrman stepped to the microphone to echo the prayers and thoughts of his many friends and admirers here at the storied U.S. Open.

Amidst One-Loss Paydays at the Open, Tradition and Tragedy Transpire

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Amidst One-Loss Paydays at the Open, Tradition and Tragedy Transpire
Title defense ends against local standout, past champions persevere on one-loss side

by Paul Berg, InsidePOOL Magazine Staff
At a buffet during the dinner break this evening for fans to mingle with past U.S. Open champions, 2006 winner John Schmidt was obliged to say his first words as one of the club. Despite an explosive start against top Virginia Beach billiard player Eric Moore, Schmidt fell 11-7, shortly before Dan Louie literally collapsed with an opening 2-0 lead in his one-loss match. The legendary player in the Pacific Northwest and restaurateur out of Seattle, Louie fell to the floor in the Chesapeake Conference Center, and while the nature of his ailment is unknown at this time, Louie was quickly attended to and maintained coherence throughout the wait for medical assistance.
In the mixed atmosphere of reverence and concern, the grueling Open grinds forward. In early morning play today, Gabe Owen advanced through Rob Pole Jr. to reach Steve Moore, both guaranteed their entry fees back with the loser tying at the edge of the payout in 64th/96th place. Recent buzz in the backroom Mike Dechaine eliminated Italian champion Fabio Petroni 11-5, and the mighty Alex Pagulayan stands next in his path.
In later matches, some have already punched the clock for their five hundred bucks. David Hunt fell 11-3 in a second-match victory of the day for Owen’s old friend Jeremy Jones. A few good players won their first of the day only to run into a loss, Hunter Lombardo able to eliminate local junior national champion Chris Futrell before being bumrushed 11-7 by Brandon Shuff. The UK’s Daryl Peach kept Charlie Williams out of the money earlier today but promptly made the trip to the pay window in an 11-4 loss to Chris Bartram.
Columbia, SC’s, Scott Rabon has posted two 11-8 victories over Canadian Brady Golan and New Zealander Ceri Worts to stay alive. Bouncing back from tough losses last night on the A-side, pre-tournament favorites Niels Feijen and Robb Saez are back in business. Feijen led Shawn Wilkie 10-4 at the time of Louie’s unfortunate difficulty, and playing at the nearest table, Feijen waited the longest of any of the stopped tables to resume play. He closed the set 11-4, having stared on in concern for Louie with the rest of the assembled pool family. Saez was far away from the commotion on the Billiard Club Network television table, overcoming a steady deficit to Mike Gulyassy in an 11-8 victory.
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The biggest news of the day was, of course, the ousting of Schmidt. A pair of Q-Master Billiards II employees were amongst Moore’s acquaintances in the crowd and recounted a swift three-piece that Schmidt put down to take a 4-1 lead. Moore was undaunted, and utilizing some break and runs of his own, as well as a persistent defensive game that always left Schmidt tough long looks and nearly cost him a game to three consecutive fouls, took momentum back on his way to the 11-7 shocker. Moore’s next opponent will be Rabon during a tough set of 7 PM matches determining 49th/64th place, including Shuff against Shawn Putnam and Jones against Raj Hundal. For those who have followed Moore each year when the Open comes to his town, he never disappoints, two years ago ousting Corey Deuel to uproarious crowd response.
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Deuel will play in the Chalk Off Arena at 11 PM tonight against Shannon Daulton. It will be the only undefeated action during that time slot, as the rest of the 32 remaining players without a loss will fill in the 7 and 9 PM action alongside further one-loss play. Featured matches played tonight on billiardclubnet.com courtesy of the BCN and Accu-Stats crews are Jose Parica facing Francisco Bustamante at 7 PM, and Efren Reyes against Ronato Alcano at 9 PM. Stay tuned to InsidePOOLmag.com for the latest from the 32nd U.S. Open, where the finest 9-ballers in the world will need their best tonight.