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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 […]

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2014 Betway World Cup of Pool – Easy afternoon for Germany, Canada and the Swiss

2014 Betway World Cup of Pool – Easy afternoon for Germany, Canada and the Swiss 25 September Germany 7 – 1 Malaysia Canada 7 – 1 Malta Switzerland 7-3 Belgium THERE were comfortable wins for Germany, Canada and Switzerland at the 2014 Betway World Cup of Pool as the opening session of day three unwound at the Mountbatten Centre, Portsmouth. There is just one more round one game remaining as India and England B slug it out in the opening game of Thursday evening. In the opening game, 2011 champions Germany – Thorsten Hohmann and Ralf Souquet – had too much for Malaysia, represented by Alan Tan and Ibrahim Amir, as they coasted to a 7-1 victory. “We’re obviously very happy with the result and the performance,” said a delighted Hohmann. “I missed a bank shot in the first rack but after that we didn’t make too many mistakes. We got a little fortunate getting balls after the break, that is very important and we were able to string a few racks together so that […]

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Betway World Cup of Pool 2014

Team England A (Darren Appleton/Karl Boyes) gewinnt Betway World Cup of Pool 2014 im Finale gegen Team Holland (Niels Feijen/Nick van den Berg) mit 10-9. Bereits im letzten Jahr mussten sich Niels Feijen und Nick van den Berg im Finale geschlagen geben. Den 3. Platz belegen die Teams aus Finnland (Mika Immonen/Petri Makkonen) und Team Österreich (Albin Ouschan/Mario He). Eines der Pool Billard Top-Events steht ab nächster Woche auf dem Programm im Turnierkalender. Der von Matchroom Sport organisierte World Cup of Pool 2014 wird auch in diesem Jahr erneut ein besonderes Erlebnis. Für viele zählt der World Cup of Pool vom 23. – 28. September 2014 zusammen mit dem jährlich stattfindenden Mosconi Cup zum Besten was der Pool Billard Sport zu bieten hat. Diese Events sind sozusagen die Referenz, wenn es um Pool Billard Unterhaltung geht. Eine erstklassige Präsentation, eine ausgelassene Atmosphäre, Liveübertragungen und die besten Spieler der Welt die an Ihr Limit gehen müssen, um den Anforderungen gewachsen zu sein. Die 2014er Auflage dieses Doppel-Team Events findet im Mountbatton Centre in Großbritannien statt und […]