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KELLY CLAIMS THE GOLD!
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KELLY FISHER WINS THE 2012 WOMEN’S WORLD 9-BALL CHAMPIONSHIP WITH A 9-6 VICTORY OVER CHINA’S FU XIAOFANG

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 9-ball Championship with an emphatic 9-6 victory over Chinese superstar Fu Xiaofang, in front of a packed house inside the Richgate Shopping Center in this northeastern Chinese city.

With the victory Fisher now holds the distinction of being the only woman to ever hold the World 9 ball and World 10-ball Championships all at the same time. But perhaps more importantly, the win cemented Fisher’s status as the hottest player in the women’s game right now, and is a lasting testament to years of toil, long travel and plenty of near misses to go along with a lot of W’s. With the victory she will now claim the mantle of WPA World Number 1.

It was an all-around brilliant Thursday for the 34 year old from Yorkshire, as she took down two huge names in Chinese pool on their own turf. The opening salvo came with a dramatic match against 2009 World 9-ball Champion Liu Shasha in the semi-finals. Fisher had to slog it out for over two hours and the contest went down to the last ball, with Fisher claiming a heart stopping 9-8 win by a whisker.

The final started well for both players. Fisher won the lag and broke and ran for the early lead. Fu stepped up and did the same to tie the match at 1-1.

Fu then stepped on the gas for the next twenty minutes, performing perfectly, winning two safety battles sandwiched around a break and run, to go up 4-1.

Fu had clearly caught a gear and was well on her way to clearing the next rack for a massive 5-1 lead. But as she stretched far over the table to line up a shot, the referee called a foul, saying she had touched a ball with her shooting hand.

As so happens in pool, one small incident mysteriously sends the momentum, and the roll of the balls, over to the other side. Fisher cleared the table to cut the lead to 4-2. She then caught a break in the subsequent rack when an over-hit cue happened to land on a 6-9 combination, which she nailed.



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Fu then missed a long one ball and Fisher cleared to tie at 4-4. In rack 9, Fisher grabbed her first lead at 5-4 when Fu left a safety open.

After the pair traded break and runs, Fisher started tightening the screws. She won the next rack after she buried Fu in a lockdown safety, forcing Fu to scratch. With Fisher up 7-5, Fu lost another when she inexplicably failed to hit a rail after trying to hide the balls.

Fu cut the score to 8-6 but Fisher went out in style with a break and run to reach the holy grail. But as the last 9 ball fell, Fisher didn’t realize that she had won, as she thought match was a race to 11. Only when she looked up and saw Fu shaking her hand and the photographers furiously snapping photos did she realize she was the new World 9-ball Champion.


After receiving the golden trophy and drinking in the accolades from the throng of fans, an ecstatic Fisher said she was not only happy with her accomplishment, but also with the way she did it.

“I’m absolutely thrilled,” a beaming Fisher said. “I can’t explain what I’m feeling. I just can’t believe it. I played really solid tonight. I played solid all week. Overall I’m really happy with my performance.”

As usual with all the Chinese pool stars, Fu was the model of graciousness in defeat. She admitted, however, that the foul in rack six affected her frame of mind.

“After I fouled, the match seemed to change,” she said. “And my emotions changed. I wasn’t the same after that.”

Fu also confessed that playing in a world championship final in China with millions of fans expecting her to win brought on almost unbearable pressure.

“The finals were stressful,” Fu said. “I’m Chinese and everyone in China wants me to win.”

Fisher, who pocketed $40,000 for her win, pointed to Fu’s foul in rack six as the point where the match turned. But after a week where she played brilliantly and won two 9-8 thrillers in the knockout stage, the new world champion figured there must be a much bigger picture involved.

“She was playing well until that foul,” Fisher said. “That was the turning point. But you know this week somebody has been by my side.”


::: WOMEN'S 9 BALL WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP - DAY 4 :::

FU AND FISHER TO BATTLE FOR GLORY


CLASSIC CLASH OF EAST AND WEST FOR THE 2012 WOMEN'S WORLD 9-BALL CHAMPIONSHIP

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 showdown will take place at 7pm local time(GMT + 7).

Earlier in the day at the Richgate Shopping Center in Shenyang here in northeastern China, Fu, the 2010 World 9-ball champion, handily defeated Taiwan’s Tsai Pei Chen 9-6 in the first semi-final.

In the second semi-final Fisher barely squeaked by 2009 World 9-ball Champion Liu Shasha, 9-8, in a heart pumping match that wasn’t decided until the very last ball.

Fisher had barged into the semis via a 9-0 blowout of Taiwan’s Tan Ho Yun the night before but the circumstances were completely different today for the Brit. Liu’s safety-first approach to the game made the match a complete slog and Fisher had to fight for every rack.

Things didn’t look to be going well for Fisher early on as she fell behind 2-0, then flubbed a straight-in 9 ball which led to a 3-0 deficit. It was 40 minutes into the match before Fisher finally got a rack on the board and she finally started to battle back, taking advantage of several mistakes by the Chinese star and tying the match at 4-4.

The pair exchanged racks until Fisher finally grabbed her first lead at 7-6. While Fisher was battling, Liu was looking slightly shaky and indeed a blown 8-9 combo by Liu put Fisher on the hill up by two. Liu broke and ran to make the score 8-7, then tied it up when Fisher ran out of position and left a safety open.

With the packed crowd on the edge of their seats, the final rack produced more twists and turns than the Great Wall of China. Liu could barely hold the cue and had three chances to clear the table only to miss or leave poor position. After over hitting the cue ball, Liu had an impossible full table shot on the 7-ball and missed by a mile, leaving Fisher a three ball run out which was anything but simple. As the last 9-ball dropped, Fisher let out a scream of relief and joy as she would now be playing in her first ever final of a World 9-ball Championship.

“OMG!” Fisher said when asked what she thought about what had just happened. “When the 9-ball went in, that was an amazing feeling. It was a very tough match. I never felt like I was in control. I was calm but I couldn’t get anything off the break. I was always pushing out. And she(Liu) plays a lot of safeties. But I was patient.”

Fisher now has a chance to become the first woman to ever hold the World 9 ball and World 10 Championships simultaneously. But she’ll have to face one of the best in the business in the 24 year old Fu. Fu has been one of the top players in the world over the last two years and she usually plays steady and rock solid pool. She’ll also have the backing on tens of millions of Chinese pool fans who will be watching live on television around the country.

Fisher, though, has also been one of the top touring pros on the woman’s circuit for the last few years and has carried the air of a winner over the last week here in Shenyang. And after emerging victorious in the knockdown drag out brawl of a semi-final, the 34 year old from Yorkshire plans on having fun in the finals.

“I’m just going to go out and enjoy it,” she said. “I’m relieved.”


::: WOMEN'S 9 BALL WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP - DAY 3 :::

CHAMPIONS BREAK FOR THE FINISH LINE


FU XIAOFANG, TSAI PEI CHEN, LUI SHASHA AND KELLY FISHER REACH THE SEMI FINALS OF THE WOMEN'S WORLD 9-BALL CHAMPIONSHIP

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 has come down to the final four. And if credentials are anything to go by, fans can expect train loads of fireworks in the race to the wire on Thursday.

Fu Xiaofang, who won this event in 2010 and has been China’s and one of the world’s top players for the last two years, will take on Taiwan’s solid and capable Tsai Pei Chen in the first semi-final on Thursday.

Then in the second semi-final, the 2009 World 9-ball Champion Liu Shasha will face off with the current WPA World 10 Ball Champion, Great Britain’s Kelly Fisher, who is playing white hot pool at the moment.

Chinese pool fans are no doubt hoping that both Fu and Liu will match up for the crown, and it would indeed be a fascinating storyline to see the two former champions face each other for the gold. But Tsai and Fisher present extremely formidable obstacles and, if their play today was any indication, both have every intention of thwarting the locals dream final.

The 24 year old Fu certainly looked the goods when the day started in the round of 16 today, as she delivered a 9-1 beat down to Taiwan’s former world 9-ball champion, Lin Yuan Chun.

Fu then headed for a quarterfinal showdown with world number 1 Chen Siming, who had just issued a warning of her own as she blanked Japan’s Chichiro Kawahara 9-0. Chen’s prodigious talent often leaves onlookers in awe and after wiping the floor with Kawahara, the matchup with Fu screamed “Marquee.”

Playing on the TV table, Fu quickly put Chen on the back foot, playing marvelous safeties and controlling the cue ball with ease. Chen couldn’t get settled and the steadier Fu shot out to a 5-0 advantage. Chen woke up and got it to 5-3 on the back of some poor shots by Fu. But then the wheels slowly fell off for both players. The balls, however, seemed to favor Fu as she was rarely penalized for clear mistakes. Fu had it to 8-4 when Chen decided on one more effort and the youngster cut the lead to 8-7 and had the break. But a dry break in rack 16 was all Fu needed and the former champion put the high profile match away.

Tsai was next up on the TV table in a match against Chinese national team member Yu Han. Yu had reached the semi-finals last year in Shenyang and was playing solid pool throughout the week. But so was Tsai, who had reached the quarterfinals by winning an all-Taiwan matchup against the country’s number one player and current and two time Amway Cup champion Chou Chieh Yu.

Tsai never trailed in the match but neither could she put much distance between her and Yu. With the match tied at 5 all, the gravity of the moment caught up with both players and simple mistakes started to rear their ugly heads. But Tsai came through in the end when it counted, and won 9-7.

The next match between Korea’s Park Eunji and former champion Liu had every twist and turn imaginable. Although she hasn’t won any high profile tournaments, Park is clearly one of the rising stars in women’s pool. She plays the game with a quiet panache, confident and cool. She also has moments when the wheels fall off but then she suddenly finds a way out of the morass.

It nearly happened just like that in her match with the 19 year old Liu. Park led from the start and pushed the score line to 6-2. Liu looked completely deflated and was ready to call it a night when, out of the blue, Park missed an easy 8-ball with a five rack lead in her grasp.

Faster than you can say, “turning point”, Liu caught a gear and thirty minutes later the former champion was leading 8-6. Park broke and ran to make it 8-7. The 16th rack had the crowd in fits as both players missed with just two balls on the table. A fortunate pot on the 7 ball sealed the match and much relief for Liu.

‘I didn’t think I could win,” Liu said afterward. “I think I had a better mind when she missed that 8-ball in the seventh rack. Maybe God helped me. I’m just happy to win.”

Liu said the pressure of winning a second world title is way more intense than the first time around.

“In 2009 I was a new player, only 16 years old,” she said. “I didn’t have the experience and I didn’t have the pressure. Now everybody knows me and there’s a lot more pressure.”

Liu also knows she’s going to have to up her game in the semi-finals. That’s because she’s facing arguably the hottest player in the tournament in Kelly Fisher.


After her spectacular escape over Ga Young Kim the day before, Fisher grinded out a solid win against the USA’s Monica Webb in the round of 16 earlier, winning 9-7. In the last quarterfinal of the night, Fisher faced Taiwan’s Tan Ho Yun. Tan had reached this stage when earlier she beat Hall of Famer Allison Fisher in a nail biter, 9-8.

Fisher came roaring out of the gates and never looked back. Breaking perfect, potting with dead eyed accuracy and playing with a confidence that oozed a clear desire for greatness, Fisher put on a show for the ages, completely obliterating the Taiwanese 9-0 in a match that took no more than 45 minutes.

“I’m over the moon,” Fisher said afterward. “I was a bit edgy at the beginning but once I settled in I was as comfortable as comfortable can be. “

With plenty of playing and traveling experience under her belt, Fisher feels that this could be her moment to shine. If she wins it all on Thursday, she could be the first to ever hold the World 9-ball and World 10-ball crowns at the same time.

“I’ve been playing and traveling a lot. For the last few years, I felt that I’m ready. In the last year my game has really improved.”


::: WOMEN'S 9 BALL WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP - DAY 2 :::

AN EPIC WORTHY OF A FINAL!


KELLY FISHER WINS AN ALL-TIME CLASSIC OVER GA YOUNG KIM TO ADVANCE TO THE FINAL 16 OF THE WOMEN'S WORLD 9-BALL CHAMPIONSHIP

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 the 2012 Women’s World 9-ball Championship entered the knockout stages, the two put on a show that will surely enhance their reputations many fold for years to come.

Kim is a two time former world 9-ball champion and US Open champion who lights up arenas wherever she plays. Besides her prodigious talents on the table, Kim is about as good an ambassador as the sport will ever find. In addition to her native tongue, she speaks fluent Chinese and English. And her looks, charm and fashion sense are impeccable.

With her rugged looks and style, world number 2 Fisher can appear at first to be almost the antithesis of Kim. But the affable Brit is just as deadly on the pitch, and just as nice off of it.

So when the two met up today in the round of 32 inside the ultra hip Richgate Shopping Center here in Shenyang, the match had the feel of a finals showdown. For some reason the organizers decided not to put this match on the TV table, and instead stuck the pair in the very back of the 2nd floor trade hall where all the outside table matches have been played. Perhaps it was just as well because the barebones setting gave the match the feel of a back alley brawl, which is what it turned out to be.

The few dozen fans squeezed into the small space who watched the pair slug it out will not soon forget what they saw. Both players, who know each other’s games well, played their usual manner of fast and aggressive pool. And they combined that fan-friendly style by playing just about as perfect as one could play over the course of 17 racks.


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Up early, Kim, fiery and intense, continually repulsed every effort by Fisher to grab the lead. Along the way, Kim continually pushed her lead up then always saw it shrink back again. The pair executed one amazing shot after the next, as if the contest was a great heavyweight fight of years past, where every bomb was answered with another bomb back. Stellar banks, pots off kicks, lock down safeties, great escapes, you name it; this was championship 9-ball at its best.

Eventually Kim found herself on the hill, up 8-6. But Fisher would have the last laugh, as she pounced on Kim’s one missed shot in the match, in the last rack, and took a 9-8 win, to move into the final 16.

“That was one of the best matches I’ve ever played,“ an obviously ecstatic and relieved Fisher said afterward. “The standard was so high. I had to play that good to beat her because when she’s on fire, she’ll kill me. She has in the past.”

Fisher has to like her chances as the world championship heads into the last two days, but with the quality of the field remaining, she knows the deal.

“Just give 100% and hope that the luck is on my side,” she said. “I can win here. But this is 9-ball and anything can happen. I just have to take it one match at a time.”

Fisher will now face the lone American entry in this year’s championship, Monica Webb, on Wednesday. Webb came off the losers side in the group stages today and took down China’s Bai Ge in the round of 32, 9-4 in a fairly sloppy match.


The remaining two days are shaping up to be a fascinating slugfest of epic proportions as the race to the world title intensifies. Unlike last year where the Chinese had already taken over by the final 16, this year the remaining field is much more varied; six Chinese, four Taiwanese, two Brits, 2 Japanese, 1 Korean and 1 American.

China had 33 players in the field of 64 but the six remaining are all capable of taking the title. 18 year old Chen Siming looks like she is going to be very difficult to stop. First out on the TV table today, world number 1 Chen demolished former world champion Shin Mei Lui of Tawain, 9-3. 2010 World 9-ball Champion Fu Xiao Fang, and 2009 World 9-ball Champion Liu Shasha also looked ready for glory as they easily won their matches.

One of the surprises of the day came when Japan’s Sone Kyoko shocked the home town fans by defeating defending champion Bi Zhu Qing of China 9-7 on the TV table. Kyoko will join compatriot Chichiro Kawahara in the round of 16 after Kawahara easily beat the Philippines’ Rubilen Amit, 9-2.

Hall of Famer and four time world 9-ball champion Allison Fisher made it a bummer of a day for the Philippines, as she knocked out Iris Ranola, 9-6.

The contingent from Taiwan is looking very strong so far, especially 2008 World 9-ball champion Lin Yuan Chun and two time and current Amway champion Chou Chieh Yu, who both advanced today.

Two dark horses fans should look out for are Korea’s Park Eunji and China’s Yu Han. Yu made it to last year’s semi-final where she barely lost to Chen Siming. Yu is quietly playing strong pool and can beat anyone in the field. Park is surely a bit of a longer shot but this stylish young lady seems to have a knack for finding the finish line.

The round of 16 begins Wednesday in Shenyang at 10am local time(GMT +8 ). The field will be down to four after tomorrow’s play. The semi-finals and finals will take place on Thursday June 21. The winner will receive $40,000 while the runner up gets a check worth $20,000. The total prize fund is $160,000.

The WPA will be providing full coverage of all the action from the 2012 Women’s World 9-ball Championship in Shenyang on our website,www.wpapool.com. There you can get all the latest updates with live scoring of all matches, articles offering insights and analysis, updated brackets and photos. Fans around the world can also follow the tournament via the WPA Twitter feed, @poolwpa.




::: WOMEN'S 9 BALL WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP - DAY 1 :::

Pomp & Pageantry Open 2012 Women's World 9-Ball Championship


CHINESE WOMEN LOOK TO DOMINATE YET AGAIN IN 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 open the 2012 WPA Women’s World 9-ball Championship.

This is the 4th year running that the biggest prize in women’s pool will be contested in this former imperial city turned manufacturing and industrial hub. And if the past few years are anything to go by, fans can expect the Chinese women to dominate the proceedings yet again.

It’s been a home side winner three years running in Shenyang. In 2009 16 year old Liu Shasha came out of nowhere to win the world title. The next year Fu Xiaofang fulfilled her promise of greatness by winning the title. Then last year, tiny and boyish looking unknown Bi Zhu Qing shocked everyone by storming through the field, taking down Fu in the semis, and then 17 year old prodigy Chen Siming in the finals to take an unlikely world title.

The proceedings last year sent an ominous signal to any player not from China. 14 of the last 16 players were Chinese. In the quarterfinals China made it 7 out of 8. The semi-finals became an all-China affair.

The women’s game in China is massively popular and its biggest names, like the legend Pan Xiaoting, Fu Xiaofang, and Chen Siming offer up a potent cocktail which the Chinese public can’t get enough of; big time success and plenty of demur glamour. They have become legitimate sporting stars, known around this massive nation, hounded for pictures and autographs wherever they go. With government backed programs churning out heaps of still unknown talents by the train load, new pool stars are literally waiting around every corner.


It is in this atmosphere that the other big names in the women’s game will have to contend. Hall of Famer Allison Fisher, World Ten Ball Champion Kelly Fisher, and two time US Open Champion Ga Young Kim are all big time stars in their own right in China. But the home team seems to carry a massive advantage on Chinese soil. The numbers certainly speak for themselves. Over half the field of 64 players entered in this year’s championship is from China.

This year’s championship gets underway Monday morning at 10am local time in Shenyang(GMT +8 ). The players have been divided into 8 groups of 8 players. They will play a double elimination format in the group stage, race to seven, alternate break. The top four players from each group will progress to the final 32, where the format will become single elimination knockout, race to 9, alternate break. The final will be a race to 11.

The winner will receive $40,000 while the runner up will receive $20,000. The total prize fund is $300,000.


The opening ceremony inside the Richgate Shopping Center was a picture perfect example of the nature of women’s pool in China; part glitzy fashion show, part entertainment spectacle, and all of it covered by a wall of media and live on television.

With elegant pop music blaring throughout the arena, the players came down into the arena on the mall’s escalator one at a time, waving to a throng of local media which furiously shot photos. As the players came into the arena they walked over to the pool table in the middle of the room and posed for the cameras like it was an international movie award festival.

Later a group of sexy and scantily clad dancers performed a number, as tall leggy models handed out red wine. Organizers presented the games biggest names with miniature dolls in their own likeness while fans clamored around taking photos and having their t-shirts signed.

Yes women’s pool is big in China. And it’s fashionable too.

The WPA will be providing full coverage of all the action from the 2012 Women’s World 9-ball Championship in Shenyang on our website, www.wpapool.com. There you can get all the latest updates with live scoring of all matches, articles offering insights and analysis, updated brackets and photos. Fans around the world can also follow the tournament via the WPA Twitter feed, @poolwpa.



2012 WOMEN'S WORLD 9 BALL CHAMPIONSHIP
SHENYANG - CHINA
THE LAST 32
Chou Chieh Yu(TPE) 9 – 7 Lin Hsiao Chi(TPE)
Li Jia(CHN) 9 – 4 Han Fang(CHN)
Lin Yuan Chun(TPE) 9 – 4 Line Kjorsvik(NOR)
Chen Siming(CHN) 9 – 3 Liu Shin Mei(TPE)
Yu Han(CHN) 9 – 4 Ren Qiuyue(CHN)
Fu Xiao Fang(CHN) 9 – 4 Wei Tzu Chien(TPE)
Chichiro Kawahara(JPN) 9 – 2 Rubelin Amit(PHI)
Tsai Pei Chen(TPE) 9 – 5 Lai Hui Shan(TPE)
Kelly Fisher(GBR) 9 – 8 Ga Young Kim(KOR)
Monica Webb(USA) 9 – 4 Bai Ge(CHN)
Sone Kyoko(JPN) 9 – 7 Bi Zhu Qing(CHN)
Park Eunji(KOR) 9 – 5 Angeline Ticoalu(INA)
Lui Shasha(CHN) 9 – 4 Wu Jina(CHN)
Allison Fisher(GBR) 9 – 6 Iris Ranola(PHI)
Tan Ho Yun(TPE) 9 – 5 Caroline Roos(SWE)
Chen Xue(CHN) 9 – 5 Marika Poikkijoki(FIN)


2012 WOMEN'S WORLD 9 BALL CHAMPIONSHIP
SHENYANG - CHINA
THE LAST 16
Yu Han(CHN) 9 – 6 Li Jia(CHN)
Tsai Pei Chen(TPE) 9 – 5 Chou Chieh Yu(TPE)
Fu Xiao Fan(CHN) 9 – 1 Lin Yuan Chun(TPE)
Chen Siming(CHN) 9 – 0 Chichiro Kawahara(JPN)
Kelly Fisher(GBR) 9 – 7 Monica Webb(USA)
Liu Shasha(CHN) 9 – 4Chen Xue(CHN)
Park Eun Ji(Kor) 9 – 7 Kyoko Sone(JPN)
Tan Ho Yun(TPE) 9 – 8 Allison Fisher(USA)


2012 WOMEN'S WORLD 9 BALL CHAMPIONSHIP
SHENYANG - CHINA
THE QUARTER-FINALS
Fu Xiao Fang(CHN) 9-7 Chen Siming(CHN)
Tsai Pei Chen(TPE) 9 – 7 Yu Han(CHN)
Liu Shasha(CHN) 9 – 7 Park Eun Ji(KOR
Kelly Fisher(GBR) 9-0 Tan Ho Yun(TPE)


2012 WOMEN'S WORLD 9 BALL CHAMPIONSHIP
SHENYANG - CHINA
THE SEMI-FINALS
Fu Xiaofang(CHN) 9 – 6 Tsai Pei Chen(TPE)
Kelly Fisher(GBR) 9 – 8 Liu Shasha(CHN)


2012 WOMEN'S WORLD 9 BALL CHAMPIONSHIP
SHENYANG - CHINA
THE FINAL
Kelly Fisher(GBR) 9 – 6 Fu Xiaofang(CHN)




2012 WOMEN'S WORLD 9 BALL CHAMPIONSHIP
SHENYANG - CHINA
THE PRIZE FUND
Winner:US$40,000 x 1
Runner Up:US$20,000 x 1
Third Place:US$10,000 x 1
Fourth Place:US$8,000 x 1
Quarter-Finalists:US$5,000 x 4
Last 16:US$3,000 x 8
Last 32:US$1,500 x 16
Last 33-48:US$750 x 16
Total Prize Fund = US$150,000







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