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Johann Chua in the course of the males’s 9-ball billiards ultimate within the thirty first SEA Video games in Hanoi, Vietnam. SEA GAMES POOL
HANOI — Philippine billiards has gone previous successful the golds medals within the thirty first Southeast Asian Video games right here. It’s now within the enterprise of placing up a present.
On Friday evening, its greatest gamers led by legends Efren “Bata” Reyes and Francisco “Django” Bustamante headlined exhibition matches after a deluge of requests from native followers right here.
And there’s completely nothing mistaken with the sideshow. The Philippine team can sleepwalk by means of its final two finals matches and nonetheless win the gold within the males’s and girls’s 10-ball occasion after making the hunt for gold in each title matches an all-Filipino affair.
“We’re actually thrilled by our efficiency right here,” stated team manager Roy Malinao after pool stars Rubilen Amit and Chezka Centeno breezed by means of their girls’s semifinals, and Carlo Biado and Johann Chua did the identical within the males’s bracket.
Amit and Centeno conflict at 10 a.m., Saturday whereas Biado and Chua sq. off in a rematch of their 9-ball ultimate at 2 p.m. It doesn’t matter what occurs in each matches, the Filipino pool sharks will go home with 4 gold medals, three silvers and two bronzes.
Amit claimed the gold in girls’s 9-ball, whereas Chua took the lads’s aspect. Reyes and Francisco dela Cruz nabbed bronzes in 1-cushion carom.
The presence of the nation’s prime pool gamers heightened the game’s recognition right here as folks would refill the Ha Dong Gymnasium, particularly each time Reyes took centerstage.
That made the choice to repay the adoring followers a no brainer, thus the pleasant matches.
Former world champion Reyes and Biado had been paired up whereas Bustamante, additionally an ex-world titlist, and Chua joined fingers taking part in towards totally different native tandems.
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