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NEW TALENTS, OLD HANDS SHINE IN DOHA
By Ted Lerner (Doha, Qatar)--With 128 of the world's best pool players on hand contesting the 2012 World 9-ball Championship, and all playing a slew of matches in their groups and trying, over the...
THE BIG ONE IS HERE
By Ted Lerner (Doha, Qatar)--The Big One is finally here. The WPA 2012 World 9-ball Championship, considered perhaps the most prestigious title in men's professional pool, has gotten underway at the...
KELLY CLAIMS THE GOLD!
BY TED LERNER Photos Courtesy of Zhao Yue (Shenyang, China)--Capping an all around solid week of pool with yet another air tight performance, Britain's Kelly Fisher won the 2012 WPA Women's World...
CHAMPIONS BREAK FOR THE FINISH LINE
By Ted Lerner (Shenyang, China)--With plenty of high drama and jangling nerves coursing through the beautiful Richgate Shopping Center in Shenyang, China, the 2012 Women's World 9-ball championship...
AN EPIC WORTHY OF A FINAL!
By Ted Lerner Photos courtesy of Pan Yulong (Shenyang, China)--Korea's Ga Young Kim and Great Britain's Kelly Fisher are two giant names in today's world of women's professional pool. And today, as...
STARS RISE, A BIG STAR FALLS AT WOMEN’S WORLD 9-BALL CHAMPIONSHIP
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...
POMP AND PAGEANTRY OPEN 2012 WOMEN’S WORLD 9-BALL CHAMPIONSHIP
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...
FU AND FISHER TO BATTLE FOR GLORY
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...
CHANG ALL THE WAY!
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...
GREAT ESCAPE INTO THE FINAL FOUR
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...
PARTY IN CHINESE-TAIPEI!
STORY AND PHOTO BY TED LERNER (Fujairah, UAE)--World 8-ball supremacy, along with $35,000 in cash, is assured of a home in Taiwan for the next year, as Fu Che We and Chang Jun Lin both won their...
AND DOWN THEY GO!
STORY AND PHOTOS BY TED LERNER (Fujairah, UAE)--The World 8-ball Championship turned into a wide open race on Wednesday in Fujairah, United Arab Emirates, as some of the games biggest names,...
SAVING THE DAY FOR THE USA
STORY AND PHOTOS BY TED LERNER (Fujairah, UAE)--Facing elimination, and bearing the burden of having to carry the hopes of the United States squarely on his shoulders, Max Eberle proved his mettle...
‘YOU REALLY HAVE TO BEAT ME’
STORY AND PHOTOS BY TED LERNER (Fujairah, UAE)--With a long day one in the books here at the 2012 World 8-ball Championship in Fujairah, UAE, certain trends are already becoming crystal clear. The...
IT FEELS GOOD TO BE THROUGH!
STORY AND PHOTOS BY TED LERNER (Fujairah, UAE)--Judgement Day at the World 8-ball Championship in Fujairah has brought on the usual dramas that come when a slight roll of a pool ball can change your...
