BY TED LERNER WPA PRESS OFFICER Photos courtesy Vinod DivaKaran, Doha Stadium Sports Weekly and Richard Walker (Doha, Qatar)--Playing with a laser-like focus and an intensity that spoke of a clear...
HOHMANN RAISES THE BAR!
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World 9-Ball Champs – Men
THEY’RE GOING ‘GA GA’ OVER GABICA
BY TED LERNER WPA PRESS OFFICER Photos Courtesy of Takayamo Takao/onthehill.jp, Richard Walker and the WPA (Doha, Qatar)--Over a 15-plus year professional career, Antonio Gabica has often been...
PLAYERS FEEL THE HEAT FROM ON HIGH
BY TED LERNER WPA PRESS OFFICER Photos Courtesy Takayama Takao/onthehill.jp (Doha, Qatar)--When players and fans talk about the "pool gods," they're referring to that mysterious force that seems to...
THE BIG DANCE STARTS TO TAKE SHAPE
BY TED LERNER WPA PRESS OFFICER Photos Courtesy Richard Walker, Takayama Takao/onthehill.jp (Doha, Qatar)--Relief and pure joy were two emotions on wide display on Day 3 of the 2013 World 9-ball...
BREAKING TOWARDS SOME BIG TIME SHOWDOWNS
BY TED LERNER WPA PRESS OFFICER Photos Courtesy of QBSF, Takayama Takao/onthehill.jp, and Richard Walker (Doha, Qatar)--As the long, slow grind of this week-long World 9-ball championship wound its...
KICK OFF RIGHT ON SCRIPT
BY TED LERNER WPA PRESS OFFICER Photos Courtesy of Richard Walker and Takayamo"Mathilda" Takao/onthehill.jp (Doha, Qatar)--Fans of the World 9-ball Championship have become accustomed to the fun of...
‘I KEEP PINCHING MYSELF’
BY TED LERNER WPA PRESS OFFICER (Doha, Qatar)--I first met Darren Appleton back in 2007 before anyone in the pool world had ever heard of the Brit. I was covering the qualifiers for the 2007 World...
THE 9-BALL JEWEL IN THE DESERT IS HERE
By Ted Lerner WPA Press Officer If you like the very best in professional pool squaring off for ultimate supremacy on the felt pitch, then the next 11 days will be nothing short of Valhalla. The...
IT’S DYANMITE IN DOHA!
By Ted Lerner Photos courtesy Vinod DivaKaran, Doha Stadium Sports Weekly (Doha, Qatar)--In one of the most thrilling and surreal finals ever witnessed in pool history, England's Darren Appleton won...
THE GANG OF FOUR GOES FOR GLORY
By Ted Lerner (Doha, Qatar)--After a brutally taxing day of championship pool at the highest levels, England's Darren Appleton, Japan's Nayoki Ohi, Germany's Ralf Souquet and China's Lee He Wen all...
IT’S APPLETON AND LEE FOR WORLD 9-BALL SUPREMACY
By Ted Lerner (Doha, Qatar) --After clocking in workmanlike performances, England's Darren Appleton and China's Lee He Wen have advanced to the final of the 2012 WPA World Pool Championship in Doha,...
IT’S A RACE TO THE FINISH LINE
By Ted Lerner Photos by Michael Neumann (Doha, Qatar)--In a long day of hard core pool and tense drama, the grind that is the toughest pool competition in the world kicked into high gear on...