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PHOTO: Matchroom Sport THE Philippine pair of Roberto Gomez and Jeff De Luna overcame a 0-5 deficit to defeat Billy Thorpe and Skyler Woodward of the United States, 7-5, to advance to the quarterfinals of the 2021 World Cup of Pool at the Stadium MK in Milton Keynes, England. Gomez and De Luna had a sluggish start, giving up the first five racks of the match, but went on a roll in the round-of-16 match in remarkable fashion against the seventh-ranked Americans. The Philippines, seeded No. 10 in the $250,000 competition, will next face Estonia, which defeated Great Britain-A, 7-6. The Filipin...

Great Britain 7-4 Belarus Great Britain A survived a huge first round scare against Belarus to advance to the second round of the World Cup of Pool, while Great Britain C and USA also progressed on Tuesday evening. Mosconi Cup MVP Jayson Shaw was joined by Chris Melling on Great Britain A but they found themselves struggling against Belarus’ all-female pairing of Margarita Fefilova and Yana Halliday, whose husband Richard had represented South Africa earlier in the evening. Belarus showed early in the match that they certainly weren’t here to make up the numbers, taking two of the first f...

7 Kuwait Italy dumped World Cup of Pool third seeds Spain out in the first round of the event at Stadium MK, Milton Keynes, while there were wins on Monday evening for Germany, who survived a Lithuanian fightback, and Kuwait, who shocked Poland with a 7-3 victory. Italy (Fabio Petroni and Daniele Corrieri) led for much of the evening’s first match against Francisco Sanchez-Ruiz and World Pool Masters champion David Alcaide and it was a Corrieri golden break that got them to 4-1. They moved to the hill with a healthy 6-2 lead, and it turned out that they would need it.

Van Boening Confirmed For Masters, Thorpe & Woodward Line-Up For USA At World Cup Skyler Woodward and Billy Thorpe will represent Team USA at this year’s World Cup of Pool, while Woodward and Shane van Boening have both been confirmed for the World Pool Masters. Two-time Mosconi Cup MVP Woodward will be joined for the first time at the World Cup of Pool by Thorpe, who has been a Mosconi Cup team-mate of Woodward every year since 2017. The pair are close off the table and teamed up on it for a memorable 5-1 doubles win over Niels Feijen and Alexander Kazakis at the 2019 Mosconi Cup, a result...

Quote o' the Day: John Schmidt (OT)(Update) "People ask me if I have groupies. Oh, I've got 'em. They're all sixty-year-old men with chili stains on their shirts, but I've got 'em." — the Roger Maris of pool, who in 2019 broke Willie Mosconi's longstanding record from 1954 for the highest run of all time in straight pool Thought that was funny. That's pool for you. Speaking of pool, the carpet/rug is in: It's a remnant of commercial carpet but it has variegated greens and browns and is quite handsome. And according to Billy the carpet guy "wears like iron." And this doesn't look like much,...