Yang Fan wins the World Chinese 8-Ball Masters – 楊帆奪第三屆中式八球國際大師賽

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By CHEN Chen

Beijing Time 8th Jan 2015 evening, Joy Cup the 3rd Chinese 8-Ball Masters which hold by Joy had just finished, the final is between 2 Chinese players, Yang Fan, who was the first rank of 2015 beat Zheng Yubo and finally won the championship with 10 Break-and-Clean and won the prize money 300,000 RMB.

The 3rd Masters, all new regulation, the amount of native and international players increased from 8 to 12. Including many master-hand players from all over the world, Yang Fan who was born in 1987 promoted in to the 2nd stage as No.2 of his group, 13:11 he beat Chris Melling, 13:7 beat the defending champion Gareth Potts, entered the final.

Zheng Yubo who is 6 years younger than Yang Fan, promoted in the 2nd stage as No.2 as well, he beat Dennis Orcollo by 13:8 and 14:4 beat Wang Peng.

The first two Masters, Gareth Potts won all the championship, which left a lot of talk to all Chinese players, so before the 2015 masters kicks off, the mission of protecting the honor of the nation had became the pressure for all the Chinese players. With two Chinese players get into the final, this mission had been done.

Needs to be mentioned, Yang Fan won 2 championship of the masters tournament and became the top of the rank of 2015, and Zheng Yubo, has the same total of 2014. Two No.1 play the final, that proved the Masters is the ultimate stage of the best players.

The final takes the regulation of race to 13 with 130 mins limited, three break and clean, Yang Fan 2:1 Zheng Yubo up, the 4th frame, Zheng break and pot, but he lost change by a mistake, however Yang didn’t receive it Zheng won the frame 2:2.

Yang played very well in the next 5 ranks, 3 break and clean and 2 clean after Zheng’s break, 7:2. Zheng was not in good condition but he broke and clean in the 10th frame. 9:5.

Half time, fast mode on, Zheng won 2 frames and pull the score back to 7:9. Then Yang broke and lost chance Zheng pot the object ball but pot the cue ball as well, Yang cleaned,10:7. After that each of them played break and clean, 11:8.

The 20th rank, Yang would have chance to make bigger superiority, but he pot one ball and made himself snooker, Zheng Cleaned. Then Yang broke and clean again, 12:9 match point. The 22nd, Zheng broke, no pot, Yang got the chance and released all difficulties, and the last 8-ball in, Yang defeat Zheng with 13:9, won the 3rd Chinese 8-Ball Masters. And it’s the first time that Chinese Player won the championship.

2015 World Chinese 8-Ball Masters - Yang Fan won the title

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北京時間1月8日晚,由中式八球領導者喬氏強力打造的中國·秦皇島2015 “喬氏杯” 第三屆中式八球國際大師賽在秦皇島奧體中心全部結束。決賽首次在兩位中國球員之間展開,最終,本賽季年終排名第一的楊帆獻上10個一桿清台,13:9力克上賽季年終第一鄭宇伯,在中式八球最高舞台上稱雄,獲得高達30萬的冠軍獎。

本屆比賽是大師賽誕生以來的第三屆,在賽制上做了較大調整,國內外陣容均由8人增加到12人,囊括了更多國家的撞球大師,因此爭奪更加激烈。在第一階段的小組循環賽,楊帆以小組第二躋身8強。比賽進入第二階段淘汰賽,楊帆先是以13:11完成對梅林的復仇,再在半決賽引人矚目地13:7拿下前兩屆大師賽冠軍Potts,來到了決賽。

鄭宇伯同樣以小組第二進入第二階段。前兩輪他先以13:8戰勝菲律賓人Orcollo,之後13:4輕取王鵬,與楊帆相遇最後的決賽。

回顧前兩屆大師賽,冠軍均被英國Potts摘走,給中國選手留下沉重的話題。本屆比賽揭幕前,將冠軍留下的任務重重壓在了中國軍團的肩上。而隨著楊帆和鄭宇伯會師決賽,中國軍團提前兌現了自己的諾言。

值得一提的是,來自瀋陽的楊帆是本賽季分站賽雙冠王、年終第一;吉林選手鄭宇伯則是去年的雙冠得主和年終第一。兩個賽季的No.1會師決賽,乃是實力使然,同時也見證了大師賽不折不扣是頂尖選手的終極舞台。

決賽採用130分鐘限時賽搶13局的賽制。雙方一開始便以積極的進攻出戰,前三局上演三局一桿清台,楊帆2:1領先。第4局,鄭宇伯雖然沖球有下,但卻因一個失誤將球局主動權交由楊帆,不過楊帆未能把握住這個機會,鄭宇伯失而復得以2:2追平比分。

接下來楊帆以7:2拉開與對手的距離。反觀鄭宇伯衝球屢屢失敗,導致非常被動。不過從第10局起,鄭宇伯開球終於找回些許手感,以一杆清台止住了楊帆的攻勢,隨後雙方相互回敬,楊帆繼續9:5領先。

比賽時間過半,鄭宇伯啟動快速模式。楊帆出現波動,鄭宇伯不失時機連勝兩局將比分追至7:9。第17局,楊帆首次開球失機,接過球局的鄭宇伯不幸母球落袋,楊帆順勢清台,比分來到10:7。之後兩人各有一局清台,楊帆11:8領先。

第20局,楊帆一度有機會繼續擴大比分,然而一次進攻之後,給自己做上斯諾克,本局被鄭宇伯拿下。接下來楊帆以一桿清台及對手失誤,12:9獲得賽點。第22局,鄭宇伯開球沒有下球,從而錯失追分機會,楊帆上手不斷破解難題,期間打進組合球。在檯面只剩最後的8號球時,全場爆發出歡呼聲,楊帆定了定神,以標誌性的手勢令全場氣氛更加高漲,最終楊帆打進致勝的8號球,以13:9獲勝,奪得第三屆大師賽冠軍。這也是中國選手首次在最高舞台上封王。

 

Results:

Final – Zheng Yubo  vs  Yang Fan  9:13
Liu Yong  vs  Wang Yun  13:7

Shi Hanqing  vs  Dennis Orcollo  13:9
Karl Boyes  vs  Alex Pagulayan  12:13
Wang Peng  vs  Gareth Potts  10:13

Li  Bo  vs  Yu Longhai  13:11
Li Hui  vs  Chris Melling  13:11
Jing Yao  vs  Ralf Souquet  12:6(Time is up)
Yang Fan  vs  Gareth Potts  13:7
Wang Peng  vs  Zheng Yubo  4:13

Li  Bo  vs  Liu Yong  8:13
Yu Longhai  vs  Wang Yun  10:13
Shi Hanqing  vs  Chris Melling  13:9
Li Hui  vs  Dennis Orcollo  8:13
Jing Yao  vs  Karl Boyes  9:11(Time is up)
Ralf Souquet  vs  Alex Pagulayan  8:11(Time is up)

Rankings:

Champion – Yang Fan 楊帆

Runner-up – Zheng Yubo 鄭宇伯

3rd – Gareth Potts

4th – Wang Peng 王鵬

5th – Shi Hanqing 石漢青

6th – Dennis Orcollo

7th – Li Hui 李輝

8th – Chris Melling

9th – Liu Yong 劉勇

10th – Wang Yun  王云

11st – Li Bo 李博

12nd – Yu Longhai 禹龍海

13rd – Alex Pagulayan

14th – Karl Boyes

15th – Jing Yao 井耀

16th – Ralf Souquet

Tie for 17th – Stephen Hendry、Naoyuki Ooi 大井直幸、Darren Appleton、Earl Strickland、Chen Qiang 陳強、Wen Tiejun 溫鐵軍、Daryl Peach、Anna Mazhirina