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Tuesday-Sunday 22-27 September 2015

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England A through as Japan oust Holland

Round 1 Scores

England B (15) 7-4 Sweden

Round 2 Scores

Japan (14) 7-6 Holland (3)
England A (1) 7-0 Korea (16)

ENGLAND A AND JAPAN became the first two teams through to the quarter finals of the 2015 Dafabet World Cup of Pool as they enjoyed contrasting victories against Korea and Holland respectively. England A, closing the evening, trounced Korea in the only white-wash of the event so far while Japan won a fabulous hill-hill battle against the Dutch.

England can look forward to Romania or Indonesia in Saturday�s quarter finals while Japan face either Qatar or the Czech Republic. In the other match of the evening England B completed the first round of matches with a 7-4 win over Sweden.

Taking place at the York Hall in London, the Dafabet World Cup of Pool features 32 two-man teams from around the globe competing for a $250,000 prize fund. Televised live in over 40 countries around the world, the event is now entering its tenth year.

Holland won�t be repeating their recent runs to the semi-finals of the World Cup of Pool as they lost a thrilling round two match, 7-6 to Japan. The Japanese team consisting of the flamboyant joker Naoyuki Oi and the more restrained Toru Kurabayashi seemed to enjoy every minute of it as they held off the highly fancied Niels Feijen and Nick van den Berg to squeeze out the win.

Japan lead 3-1, 5-3 and then 6-4 before Holland squared it up with Feijen breaking for the match. A loose break though saw the cue ball squirt into the centre pocket to give ball in hand to the Japanese.

With a 7/9 combo set perfectly, they worked their way through the balls until Kurabayashi came to the game ball. �9 ball! Can�t miss!� shouted Oi which heaped the pressure on his partner but he steadied himself to seal a superb win.

Oi was delighted to reach his country�s third quarter-final in the ten years of the World Cup; �We are thrilled to get through! Holland is one of the best teams here and they gave us a very tough game but we came through.

�We like to have fun and make the crowd have fun and it is great to play to this audience. We want to carry on playing in this way and we believe we can win this World Cup.

�When I set up the 7/9, I knew Toru would not miss it and he didn�t. There were some big moments in that match but we took our chance when it came at hill-hill,� he added.

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