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World Pool LIU MAKES IT TWO!

Liu Shasha wins her second WPA Women’s World 9-ball Championship with a thrilling 9-8 win over Chen Siming.

2014 WPA Women's World 9-ball Champion Liu Shasha

By Ted Lerner
WPA Press Officer

Photos Courtesy Tai Chengzhe

(Guilin, China)–Lui Shasha did it again.

Not only did the diminutive and feisty 21 year old win her second WPA Women’s World 9-ball Championship tonight, but it was also the second time in the last 15 months that she defeated rival and fellow national team member Chen Siming by one rack in a major tournament final in China.

In what amounted to a repeat of the China Open final in Shanghai in June of 2013, albeit with much more riding on the line, Liu and Chen battled toe to toe in a classic for the biggest prize in women’s pool. For 90 minutes practically nothing stood between these two greats of the women’s game, until the last 20 minutes of the match when Liu, displaying the heart of a hungry lion, won the last three racks and eked out the win and the world championship, 9-8.

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Snooker India and Advani

Ace Indian cueist Pankaj Advani today said that anyone among Jaiveer Dhingra,Aditya Agarwal and Dhvaj Haria has the potential to replace him in future but advised the young guns to emerge as champions and winners in order to rise and shine.

“Between Jaiveer, Aditya and Dhvaj, we will definitely find a champion, but it all depends who comes out as a champion and as a winner. Any one can take my place in future. They are future of India. Sometimes you have the ability but don’t have the quality to win,” Advani told PTI in an exclusive interview on the sidelines of the unveiling of world’s first-ever vegan discount card, PETA’s V-Card, here.

However, Advani said he had not thought of replacing anybody when he played his debut World Cup event in 2003.

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Trump takes heart from final defeat

judd trump snooker and billiards

Romford-based Judd Trump says he will take plenty of positives from his Dafabet Champion of Champions final defeat to defending title holder Ronnie O’Sullivan.

The 25-year-old Trump, who trains regularly at Groves Snooker Academy in Ashton Road, went down 10-7 against ‘The Rocket’ at the Ricoh Arena last Sunday.

It looked very much that O’Sullivan, the five-time world champion from Chigwell, was on his way to securing a comfortable victory, but Bristol-born Trump clawed his way back from 8-3 down to win four successive frames, with back-to-back centuries.

However O’Sullivan, the current world number four, claimed the two frames he required to claim the £100,000 top prize with breaks of 63 and 109.

Trump, who qualified for the event by winning the Championship League and Australian Open, defeated Stephen Macguire, current world champion Mark Selby and fellow Grove Academy professional Australian Neil Robertson en route to the final.

“It was a good game, I really enjoyed it,” said Trump, who is currently ranked number 11 in the world.

“It was probably one of the only games where I am not really too disappointed about losing.

“100 per cent I would have won if it was against anyone else, I would have won comfortably.

“For me, that is what the game is all about, getting that sort of opponent to bring you on and in other sports there is that kind of rivalry and I think I need Ronnie to push myself to the next level.

“I knew I was playing okay at 8-3 down but it just wasn’t going right for me. Then he missed one or two and that was it, I got a bit of confidence and momentum, got back into the game and then even at 8-7 I nearly nicked that frame and that would have been a big frame.

“The way he shut out the match was just typical Ronnie.

“I showed a lot of maturity this week. At times I wasn’t playing great stuff, but I just stuck in there, which I probably wouldn’t have done a few seasons ago.

“The way I came back under pressure, there is a lot to take and a lot to look forward to.”

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Kamui Owner visits World Cue Sports

masato from Kamui tips at world cue sports

Kamui tips Owner and founder visited World Cue Sports Australia on the 11/11/2014. After going over the products we settled down for a coffee and played a few games of Snooker which was different to what Masato usually Plays. Masato liked it so much and got thinking about how he could fit a table in his house! ( he stayed for over 6 hrs so i think he had a great time and also played Ian Barber)

Masato started Kamui 8 years ago and is now one of the leaders in laminated cue tips so his marketing expertise is out of this world.

As  well as the Kamui brand tips he also now has a pool room recently opened in Hiroshima Japan, and the factory employees over 20 people all of who he has hand selected with a passion for cue sports.He also has a marketing business which is his main business and you can see with what he’s done with Kamui he’s one hell of a clever marketing genius!

In speaking with Masato you can see he loves his Job and has a great passion for cue sports and it was great to meet someone that has achieved so much in building a brand from nothing into what it is now.