
2014 Betway World Cup of Pool – Soaraway Finns send Poles packing
2014 Betway World Cup of Pool – Soaraway Finns send Poles packing 26 September Round 2 Finland 7-0 Poland Austria 7-5 Qatar Holland 7-4 Switzerland FINLAND registered a second 7-0 victory to set up a titanic quarter-final tussle with Philippines as Austria and 2013 finalists Holland also progressed to the last eight of the Betway World Cup of Pool at the Mountbatten Centre, Portsmouth on Friday afternoon. Mika Immonen and Petri Makkonen won the 2012 World Cup for Finland and haven’t dropped a rack yet this year. They will now meet defending champions Philippines on Saturday afternoon having barely given Poland (Karol Skowerski and Mateusz Sniegock) an opportunity to visit the table in what was expected to be a closely-fought round two battle. Earlier in the week they had seen off Korea by the same scoreline and have become the only nation to seal consecutive 7-0 wins in Betway World Cup of Pool history. Finland’s break and run in the first rack set the tone, although Immonen’s illegal break in rack two handed control to […]