The miracle named Duong Quoc Hoang has not ended at the World Pool Championship 2023 taking place in Poland.
Facing the number one candidate for the championship, Shane van Boening in the 1/8 round on the evening of February 4 (Hanoi time), Quoc Hoang continued to show extremely high performance with the fulcrum of breakthroughs. good ball (break). This powerful weapon helped Hoang “star” to take the lead quite early with 2 consecutive games of clearing the table.
Unlike rival Wojciech Szewczyk, who was overwhelmed and lost 1-11 in the round of 16, Shane van Boening proved the bravery of the world’s number one hand when calmly chasing Quoc Hoang. The biggest distance the Vietnamese hand has created before the American opponent is 3 wins.
| 1st seed ball, Shane van Boening, of Duong Quoc Hoang. |
When the score was 6-3 in favor of Quoc Hoang, the Vietnamese hand was reminded by the referee because of the light way of breaking the ball. Immediately after the influence of the referee, Quoc Hoang lost the game to Van Boening. The American muscleman showed extreme class when he won 6 games to lead 9-6.
Thought this would be the end of Quoc Hoang, but the player born in 1987 showed his bravery when he took advantage of Van Boening’s fatal mistake in the 6th game to shorten the score to 7-9, thereby winning. right to destroy marbles.
With psychological momentum, Quoc Hoang won 3 games in a row to equalize the score 9-9 with the highlight of decisive ball jumps. In the 19th game, Quoc Hoang ran a bullet that was not dangerous enough and let Van Boening eat ball 2, thereby increasing the score to 10-9.
The supreme bravery of Quoc Hoang was revealed in the last two games. Game 20, Quoc Hoang broke Van Boening’s “bullet run” phase with a high-class A-ball jump, thereby clearing the table to bring the match to the decisive game.
In game 21, Quoc Hoang used a skillful safety shot, causing Van Boening to make a mistake. The highlight of this decisive game was a ball jump situation when Quoc Hoang entered the set very quickly to eat the 2nd ball in a position that was obscured by the 8th ball.
With a suffocating victory on 11-10, Quoc Hoang equalized the history of Luong Chi Dung and Do The Kien when both reached the quarterfinals of the World Pool Championship. Quoc Hoang’s opponent in the quarterfinals is Ku Lin Wu (Taiwan), who beat Max Lechner (Austria) with a score of 11-9. The match takes place at 2 am on 5/2 (Hanoi time).