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2006 World Pool Championship |
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Saturday, 25 November 2006 11:54 |
Ronato Alcano is the new world champion
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Alcano, 34, beat Ralf Souquet 17-11 and became the third Filipino to win the competition (following successes for Efren Reyes in 1999 and Alex Pagulayan in 2004). Alcano received $100,000 as well as the prestigious title of best player in the world.
Alcano described the final: "My game plan was to try and get the break working and open up a two or three rack lead. When I got a six-rack lead (at 9-3) a little bit more comfortable but I knew it was not over." |
and about Souquet: "Ralf Souquet is so controlled, even when the crowd went against him he remained focused, unlike a player like Earl Strickland, and Ralf was always so poised. At the end I was holding back tears and this is how good it feels to be the World Champion but I was successful in not breaking down and crying."
Alcano started the competition with two defeats against German Christian Reimiering and Vietnam 's Luong Chi Dung and only just made it out of the group stages. He admitted he had changed his tactics to fully use the soft break and that worked with knock-out victories against tough opponents Roberto Gomez, Efren Reyes, Kuo Po-cheng, Wu Chia-ching, Li He-wen and then the final.
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