Shane Van Boening produced a comeback for the ages as he came from 10-3 down to defeat Hall of Famer and former World Champion Mika Immonen 11-10 to reach the Last 16 of the 2022 World Pool Championship at the Marshall Arena, Milton Keynes. Coverage live on Sky Sports in the UK/Ireland, DAZN in the USA, Canada, Brazil, Spain, Italy, Germany, Switzerland, and Austria as well as Viaplay and networks worldwide.
Van Boening will face Chinese Taipei’s Ko Pin Yi who downed Mosconi Cup MVP Jayson Shaw in a hill-hill finish as action heated up dramatically. Shaw had taken the early lead, but it was Pin Yi who hit back to lead 8-6 before reaching the hill first at 10-7. The Brit was never down and out though after a huge fluke on the 9 ball after he kicked the 2 ball into it and in. Pin Yi though is a former World Champion, and he showed the qualities that won him that title in 2015 to beat Shaw by a slender margin to meet Van Boening next.
Elsewhere, last year’s runner-up Omar Al Shaheen made a remarkable comeback from 10-1 down to beat Daniel Guttenberger in the last rack in the Last 32 before making lightwork of Masato Yoshioka in the Last 16 to set up a clash with Oliver Szolnoki who reached the semi-finals in 2021.
Two-time champion Thorsten Hohmann will meet fellow two-timer Albin Ouschan in the opening Last 16 match tomorrow morning on Table 1 after Hohmann knocked out Live 2023 Nineball World No.1 Francisco Sanchez Ruiz in the afternoon and Ko Ping Hang in the evening. Ouschan meanwhile got the better of Nicholas De Leon and Norweigan Mats Schjetne who gave Ouschan one of his toughest matches of the tournament so far sneaking through 11-8.
Shane Van Boening (Cuetec/ANDY/Dynaspheres)｜©Taka G. Wu / Matchroom Multi Sport
Darren Appleton keeps rolling back the years overcoming Tomasz Kaplan and Lo Ho Sum only dropping three racks in the process. The former World Champion will face his sternest test to date though tomorrow against the Killer, Joshua Filler. There was drama wherever you looked at the Marshall Arena and Naoyuki Oi‘s match with Oscar Dominguez for a place in the Last 16 delivered.
Oi had cantered in front against Oscar Dominguez at 8-1 before it was the American who reached the hill first with Oi trailing by two racks at 10-8. The Japanese stalwart though showed why he renowned as one of the world’s best to book a Last 32 spot against the last remaining Pole, Konrad Juszczyszyn. Juszczyszyn proved no match for Oi who had found his groove though and now meets Chang Jung-Lin who slew Niels Feijen.
Feijen, a previous winner of the tournament himself, was frozen to his chair and 6-0 before he knew it after losing the lag, but he fought back to 6-4. It did prove to be all in vain though as Jung-Lin pushed back to make it two Chinese Taipei players in the Last 16.
Darren Appleton (Predator/Taom)｜©Taka G. Wu / Matchroom Multi Sport
SATURDAY 10, APRIL 11 am
Albin Ouschan vs Thorsten Hohmann
Shane Van Boening vs Ko Pin Yi
Table 2 – Live on Matchroom Pool YouTube
Joshua Filler vs Darren Appleton
Naoyuki Oi vs Chang Jung-Lin
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Naoyuki Oi (ANDY/ZAN)｜©Taka G. Wu / Matchroom Multi Sport
2022 世界撞球錦標賽稍早於英國的馬歇爾體育館結束了第三日爭奪。
“天王殺手” 柯秉中與“魔獸” 吳坤霖在單敗首輪的64強賽中分別以6-11及5-11落敗於 Ronald Regli (瑞士) 和 Mats Schjetne (挪威)。“黑暗騎士” 謝佳臻在11-4擊退希臘選手 Nikos Ekonomopoulos 後，32強賽不幸地以1-11敗給匈牙利年輕小將 Olivér Szolnoki，Szolnoki 曾於2021年世錦賽闖進半決賽。“末代武士” 柯秉漢單敗首輪則以11-3輕取義大利老將 Daniele Corrieri，隨後在下場比賽中4-11不敵兩屆世錦賽冠軍，德國名將 Thorsten Hohmann。
五屆美國公開賽冠軍，美國名將 Shane Van Boening 生涯至今贏得無數大小賽事卻始終欠缺一座世錦賽冠軍，2015與2016年兩度打進決賽卻都鎩羽而歸。64強賽，SVB 以11-9擊敗2018年歐錦賽8號球冠軍 Bahram Lotfy (丹麥) 後，32強中對上前世界冠軍與名人堂成員，“冰人”芬蘭名將 Mika Immonen。SVB 在3-10落後的情況下連下8局，最終以11-10驚天逆轉擊敗 Mika Immonen，取得16強門票。
Ko Pin Yi downed Jayson Shaw in a hill-hill match｜©Taka G. Wu / Matchroom Multi Sport©Taka G. Wu / Matchroom Multi Sport
SVB 在16強的對手將是 “撞球王子” 柯秉逸，柯秉逸曾於2015年卡達世錦賽的決賽中擊敗 SVB，粉碎其奪冠希望。柯秉逸在64強中以11-2橫掃捷克選手 Michal Gavenciak 後，32強迎來兩屆莫斯科尼盃MVP，“鷹眼” Jayson Shaw。Shaw 雖於比賽前段一度取得4-0領先，然而，比賽來到第14局，柯秉逸跳進1號球後清光台面，反超並取得8-6領先。第15局 Shaw 解到4號球後，母球走位過程中碰到5號球後改變其軌跡而落入底袋，失掉此局，使得比數再拉開一局差來到 9-6。第18局 Shaw 兩顆星解到2號球之後，2號球在一顆星後敲到9號球，這一敲也將9號球幸運地撞進袋，也讓 Shaw 再追回一局 (8-10)。Shaw 拿下第20局後，雙方10-10平手並進入搶尾局。第21局，柯秉逸打進長距離1號球後，台面剩下的5顆球並沒有太大問題情況下，柯秉逸不急不徐一球球地解決，打進最後一顆9號球後振臂歡呼，最終11-10力克對手晉級16強。
張榮麟先以11-3擊敗英國選手 Elliot Sanderson，接著碰上荷蘭 “終結者” Niels Feijen。開賽後張榮麟連拿6局，取得6-0大幅度領先，Feijen 雖奮力反擊，將比數追到4-6，但仍然無力回天，4-11遭到張榮麟淘汰出局。
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