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With that said, here are the next five names of this list.
20 | YANG CHING-SHUN | CHINESE
TAIPEI
WPA WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP | 1990 TO 1999
NONE
WPA WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP | 1999 TO PRESENT
WINNER | 0
RUNNER-UP | 0
FINAL FOUR | 1
FINAL EIGHT | 1
ROUND OF 16 | 3
ROUND OF 32 | 2
ROUND OF 64 | 5
I am a fan of this guy – nicknamed The Son of Pool. He reminds
me of Sojiro Seta – the emotionless right-hand man of Makoto Shishio in the
Samurai X anime. Watching him back then, he looks like a kid with a killer’s
instinct and I think he still has those attributes in him. Anyway, Yang has yet
to win a major pool championship but he is a two-time Asian Games gold
medallist. The closest he ever got to a WPA championship was in 2002 when lost
his semifinal match to Django Bustamante.
19 | JOHNNY ARCHER | USA
WPA WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP | 1990 TO 1999
WINNER | 1992 WORLD 9-BALL CHAMPIONSHIP
WINNER | 1997 WORLD 9-BALL CHAMPIONSHIP
WPA WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP | 1999 TO PRESENT
WINNER | 0
RUNNER-UP | 0
FINAL FOUR | 1
FINAL EIGHT | 2
ROUND OF 16 | 1
ROUND OF 32 | 2
ROUND OF 64 | 3
An iconic figure in the world of billiards, Archer back then
frequently visited the Philippines to go mano y mano with Efren “Bata” Reyes.
During the first incarnation of the WPA World 9-Ball Championship, The Scorpion
became the only other player besides Earl Strickland to win the event twice.
With that said, Archer struggled to claim the title in this incarnation. In
2010, the last year he’ll get past the Round of 64, Archer would make the Final
Four only to lose to Kuo Po Chen, 11 to 10. If he won that match, Archer would
have set up a final against his other Filipino archrival Django Bustamante.
18 | RONNIE ALCANO | PHILIPPINES
WPA WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP | 1990 TO 1999
NONE
WPA WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP | 1999 TO PRESENT
WINNER | 1
RUNNER-UP | 1
FINAL FOUR | 0
FINAL EIGHT | 1
ROUND OF 16 | 0
ROUND OF 32 | 0
ROUND OF 64 | 3
In 2006, Ronnie Alcano defeated heavy favorite Ralf Souquet
and became the third person after Earl Strickland and Johnny Archer to win the
WPA World 9-Ball Championship in his homeland (Alcano is actually the first
person to accomplish the feat for the event’s updated incarnation). The Volcano
almost had a second title in 2011 but he was stopped by Yukio Akakariyama.
Alcano would also win the World 8-Ball title in 2007 – besting compatriot
Dennis Orcollo.
17 | DENNIS ORCOLLO | PHILIPPINES
WPA WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP | 1990 TO 1999
NONE
WPA WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP | 1999 TO PRESENT
WINNER | 0
RUNNER-UP | 0
FINAL FOUR | 1
FINAL EIGHT | 1
ROUND OF 16 | 3
ROUND OF 32 | 2
ROUND OF 64 | 6
There was a time in which Dennis Orcollo was recognized as
the top player in the world. He won gold in the 2010 Asian Games and in the
following year was proclaimed World 8-Ball Champion (defeating Niels Feijen).
With that said, This Filipino event earnings machine has yet to reach the final
of the World 9-Pool Championship. Dubbed as Robocop for his no-nonsense
approach, his best finish came in 2011 – where he lost to Pinoy rival and
eventual runner-up, Ronnie Alcano.
16 | DARYL PEACH | ENGLAND
WPA WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP | 1990 TO 1999
NONE
WPA WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP | 1999 TO PRESENT
WINNER | 1
RUNNER-UP | 0
FINAL FOUR | 0
FINAL EIGHT | 1
ROUND OF 16 | 1
ROUND OF 32 | 1
ROUND OF 64 | 7
Dubbed as The Dazzler, Daryl Peach became the first
Englishman to win the WPA World 9-Ball Championship when he defeated Filipino
Roberto Gomez in 2007. Peach is also the last winner before the tournament’s
two-year hiatus due to the worldwide recession. So why is The Dazzler ranked this
low? Well prior to his 2007 win, Peach barely survived the preliminary rounds.
And the only other time Peach went far was in 2011 when he lost to Dennis
Orcollo in the quarterfinal round.
TO BE CONTINUED.
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