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POOL’S BEST GET READY TO RUN THE GAUNTLET
By Ted Lerner WPA Press Officer Photos Courtesy Richard Walker (Doha, Qatar)-- So you want to be the champion of the world? Well good because now comes the hard part. After a day of weeding out the...
JUDGEMENT DAY BRINGS SURPRISES APLENTY
By Ted Lerner WPA Press Officer Photos Courtesy Richard Walker (Doha, Qatar)--Ryu Seang Woo has about as unassuming a personality as you can find in pool. So when the low key 30 year old South...
FROM SINGAPORE, WITH SERIOUS TALENT
By Ted Lerner WPA Press Officer Photos Courtesy Richard Walker (Doha, Qatar)-- Each year at the World 9-ball Championship seems to bring pool fans a revelation, a new talent who makes his mark on...
IT’S KNOCKOUTS FOR THE NEW GUYS
By Ted Lerner WPA Press Officer Photos Courtesy Richard Walker (Doha, Qatar)--If the results of Day 3 at the 2015 World 9-ball Championship are any indication, change in the sport of pool is most...
TOP GUNS SHOW THEIR CLASS
By Ted Lerner WPA Press Officer Photos Courtesy Richard Walker (Doha, Qatar)--Like all the top players, Canada's John Morra just wanted to get out of the starting gates on Day 1 of the 2015 World...
DEAL WITH IT, AND YOU BECOME KING
By Ted Lerner WPA Press Officer Photos Courtesy Richard Walker (Doha, Qatar)--On the eve of the 24th running of the World 9-ball Championship, the hot discussion of pool fans around the globe is...
FEIJEN: I’M PREPARING FOR POOL WAR
By Ted Lerner WPA Press Officer Photos Courtesy Richard Walker When the Netherlands Niels Feijen arrived in blazing hot Doha in June of 2014 he was, without a doubt, playing the best pool on the...
THE BIG ONE IS FINALLY HERE!
BY TED LERNER WPA Press Officer Photos Courtesy Richard Walker Pool fans you've waited long enough. Now, the big one you've been longing for, is just about here. 15 months after Holland's Niels...
KO FINALLY FULFILLS THE DREAM
By Ted Lerner WPA Press Officer Photos Courtesy Dong Secuya/philboxing.com and Bob Guerrero (General Santos City, Philippines)--He's always had plenty of promise. Now's he's reached the promised...
EIGHT GUNNING FOR THE BIG PRIZE
By Ted Lerner WPA Press Officer Photos Courtesy Dong Secuya/philboxing.com (General Santos City, Philippines)--After a long and tense day of duels at the highest levels of the professional game, the...
JUST LIKE OLD TIMES
By Ted Lerner WPA Press Officer Photos Courtesy Bob Guerrero (General Santos City, Philippines)--From the late 1990's to the late 2000's, the name ’Marcus Chamat' regularly featured on pool leader...
ORCOLLO PULLS A SECOND GREAT ESCAPE
By Ted Lerner WPA Press Officer Photos Courtesy Dong Secuya/philboxing.com (General Santos City, Philippines)--Filipino pool players have a standard answer when asked by the media, "How did you...
STRIDING, AND STUMBLING, OUT OF THE GATES
By Ted Lerner WPA Press Officer (General Santos City, Philippines)--One thing that is a constant in any world championship in the sport of pool is good old pressure. But as the 2015 MP Cup World...
PINOYS POISED TO MAKE MASSIVE HAUL
By Ted Lerner WPA Press Officer (General Santos City, Philippines)--With the professional game all but dead in his homeland, boxing legend Manny Pacquiao started putting his ample cash into...
MANNY PACQUIAO TO BRING WPA WORLD 10-BALL CHAMPIONSHIP TO THE PHILIPPINES IN FEBRUARY
By Ted Lerner WPA Press Officer Photo Courtesy Wendell Rupert Alinea (Manila, Philippines)--After a four year absence, the World 10-ball championship is back. And the man who made it happen is none...
