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WPA World Team Championship
& BILLIARD EXHIBITION 2010
Hannover Exhibition Center
Hannover Fair Ground
Hall 13
Hannover
Germany
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Tournament: 30 January - 2 February 2010
Exhibition: 3 - 7 February 2010

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WPA WORLD TEAM CHAMPIONSHIP
HANNOVER - GERMANY
THE QUARTER-FINALS
Team Philippines	beat	Team Poland
Team Russia	beat	Team Germany II
Team Great Britain	beat	Team China
Team Greece	beat	Team Switzerland

WPA WORLD TEAM CHAMPIONSHIP
HANNOVER - GERMANY
THE SEMI-FINALS
Team Philippines	beat	Team Russia
Team Great Britain	beat	Team Greece

WPA WORLD TEAM CHAMPIONSHIP
HANNOVER - GERMANY
THE FINAL
Team Great Britain	beat	Team Philippines

Day Nine of the World Team Championships

It's all about Great Britain!

In the final of the first World Team Championships in Hannover, Germany the squad with illustrious players like Darren Appleton and Daryl Peach beat the Philippines with a clear and unexpected 4:1 result.

At the beginning in the 8-Ball doubles it looked like the Asian team had everything under control. Dennis Orcollo and Warren Kiamco had no problems prevailing over Karl Boyes and Daryl Peach with an easy 6:1 win, but only a few moments later the British pairing of Darren Appleton and Mark Gray came back to beat Ronnie Alcano and Marlon Manalo with the same scoreline.

Whilst the 9-Ball singles match of Karl Boyes against Lee van Corteza was very close the other one between Mark Gray against Antonio Lining was already over after just 45 minutes. Gray made no mistakes and took all his chances. 8:2 was the final result.

In comparison, we saw a big fight at the other table, and when the score reached 7:6 in faour of the Filipino there was a one hour break for the final show of the fair that was taking place in the same hall the whole week.

Fortunately Boyes seemed to have no problems with that and after the re-start he took all his chances whilst van Corteza made a quite easy mistake. That was good enough for the young Britain to win his match 8:7 moving the overall score to 3:1.

So only one more point was needed to win the premiere event of the World Team Championships.

Darren Appleton had to play the unbeaten Dennis Orcullo, and Daryl Peach met Ronnie Alcano on the second table. Former World Champion Appleton was unbelievable in his match. He made absolutely no mistakes - every position was perfect, so that in the end every shot was easy. That's what we call "Perfect Pool." Orcollo had never a real chance and at the same time he was a little bit unhappy about his break. So Darren was in kind of a flow and potted the final ball only a few moments later.

It was WPA President Ian Anderson who handed over the big trophy to the celebrating team. The 600 spectators gave standing ovations to all the players who really deserved it.

We saw nine days of great Pool and lots of action. In particular, the "Shoot-Out" was something really new and thrilling, and all the teams, regardless of winner or loser, liked it very much - and it's the same with the audience too!

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