by wpapool-admin | Jun 18, 2012 | World 9-Ball Champs - Women
By Ted Lerner (Shenyang, China)–With short races to 7 racks, the world’s best pool talent on hand, and the pressure of a world title at stake, pool fans have come to expect plenty of upsets in the opening stages of world championships. But for Chinese...
by wpapool-admin | Jun 17, 2012 | World 9-Ball Champs - Women
By Ted Lerner (Shenyang, China)–Glitz, glamour and plenty of guts. That would be an apt description for the scene tonight in the atrium of the Richgate Shopping Center in the northeastern Chinese city of Shenyang, as 64 of the best women pool players gathered to...
by wpapool-admin | Jun 11, 2012 | World 9-Ball Champs - Women
By Ted Lerner (Shenyang, China)–It’ll be a high quality battle of east vs. west as China’s Fu Xiaofang will meet Great Britain’s Kelly Fisher in the finals of the 2012 Women’s World 9-ball Championship. The race to 11, alternate break...
by wpapool-admin | Feb 18, 2012 | World 8-Ball Champs - Men
STORY AND PHOTO BY TED LERNER (Fujairah, UAE)–Call it a case of the student surpassing the master. Taiwan’s Chang Jun Lin, who for the last ten years has been a pupil of fellow countryman Fu Chei Wei, did his pool teacher proud by winning the 2012 World...
by wpapool-admin | Feb 17, 2012 | World 8-Ball Champs - Men
BY TED LERNER (Fujairah, United Arab Emirates)- It’s never over until it’s over. Liu Haitao must surely be singing the praises of that universal phrase about now, after the hard nose Chinese turned a desperate situation around at the very last moment, and...
