Araneta Coliseum
Quezon City
Metro Manila
Philippines
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3-11 November 2007
TWO BRITISH PLAYERS IN SEMI-FINALS OF HISTORIC WPC
Daryl Peach and Karl Boyes have both won their Quarter-Finals matches in spectacular fashion to advance into the Semi-Finals of the 2007 World Pool Championships in Manila.
The history-making achievement is the best result for a British player ever - let alone two players, and we send our heart-felt congratulations from all the Pro9'ers back here to the two Pro9'ers over there!
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Peach's Quarter-Final match had a very controversial interruption with the score at 10-9 in the Filipino's favour, as Bustamante and his huge army of fans in the audience thought he had luckily managed to pot the final 9-ball when escaping a snooker.
The celebrations had already started and the crowd were going wild, when referee Nigel Rees asked to see video replays - again and again - until he was totally sure that it was a foul - correctly adjudging that Bustamante had hit the nine-ball first.
Following correct etiquette, Bustamante respectfully asked to speak to the Tournament Director, Thomas Overbeck, about the decision, and Peach requested a 5 minute time-out to compose himself.
After both were satisfied, the match was resumed, and Daryl managed to hold his nerve to close out the match, booking his berth not only in the final of the World Pool Championship, but also "unofficially" into the European 2007 Mosconi Cup Team as highest finishing European player at the WPC.
Peach couldn't help shedding a little tear as the enormity of his achievement dawned on him after the most tense scenes of the tournament so far.
THE 2007 WORLD POOL CHAMPIONSHIPS | ||||
THE LAST 64 DRAW | ||||
Ronnie Alcano |  | 6 : 10 |  | Daryl Peach |
Lee Kun-Fang |  | 10 : 6 | | Raj Hundal |
Matjaz Erculj |  | 3 : 10 |  | Harald Stolka |
Leonardo Andam | | 5 : 10 | | Wu Yu-Lun |
Francisco Bustamante | | 10 : 1 |  | David Alcaide |
Nick van den Berg |  | 10 : 4 | | Imran Majid |
Alex Pagulayan | | 10 : 6 |  | Pham Tuan Ngoc |
Louis Condo |  | 10 : 2 |  | Chan Keng-Kwang |
Ko Pin-Yi | | 8 : 10 |  | Goran Mladenovic |
Marco Tschudi |  | 4 : 10 |  | Alain Martel |
Mika Immonen |  | 10 : 5 | | Fu Che-Wei |
Tony Drago |  | 10 : 7 |  | Bahram Lotfy |
Shane Van Boening |  | 10 : 7 | | Antonio Gabica |
Vilmos Foldes |  | 10 : 2 | | Dejan Dabovic |
Lu Hui-Chan | | 10 : 6 |  | Marcus Chamat |
Marlon Manalo | | 1 : 10 |  | Radoslaw Babica |
Luong Chi-Dung | | 10 : 8 | | Earl Strickland |
Satoshi Kawabata |  | 10 : 3 | | Yang Ching-Shun |
Fabio Petroni |  | 9 : 10 | | Wu Chia-Ching |
Joven Bustamante | | 10 : 6 | | Dennis Orcollo |
Konstantin Stepanov |  | 10 : 5 | | Efren Reyes |
Jeff De Luna | | 10 : 7 | | Leevan Corteza |
Kenichi Uchigaki | | 7 : 10 |  | Rye Seung-Woo |
Karl Boyes | | 10 : 6 | | Sandor Tot |
Ramil Gallego | | 5 : 10 | | Kuo Po-Cheng |
Oliver Ortmann | | 10 : 7 |  | Philipp Stojanovic |
Thomas Engert | | 7 : 10 | | Chang Jung-Lin |
Muhammad Zulfikri |  | 4 : 10 | | Corey Deuel |
Naoyuki Oi | | 8 : 10 | | Ralf Souquet |
Charlie Williams | | 7 : 10 | | Niels Feijen |
James Delahunty | | 0 : 10 | | Chao Fong-Pang |
Roberto Gomez | | 10 : 1 | | Alex Lely |
THE 2007 WORLD POOL CHAMPIONSHIPS | ||||
THE LAST 32 | ||||
Daryl Peach | | 10 : 7 | | Lee Kun-Fang |
Harald Stolka | | 10 : 2 | | Wu Yu-Lun |
Francisco Bustamante | | 10 : 8 | | Nick van den Berg |
Alex Pagulayan | | 10 : 2 | | Louis Condo |
Goran Mladenovic | | 2 : 10 | | Alain Martel |
Mika Immonen | | 10 : 6 | | Tony Drago |
Shane Van Boening | | 8 : 10 | | Vilmos Foldes |
Lu Hui-Chan | | 10 : 3 | | Radoslaw Babica |
Luong Chi-Dung | | 3 : 10 | | Satoshi Kawabata |
Wu Chia-Ching | | 8 : 10 | | Joven Bustamante |
Konstantin Stepanov | | 10 : 4 | | Jeff De Luna |
Rye Seung-Woo | | 8 : 10 | | Karl Boyes |
Kuo Po-Cheng | | 10 : 7 | | Oliver Ortmann |
Chang Jung-Lin | | 9 : 10 | | Corey Deuel |
Ralf Souquet | | 2 : 10 | | Niels Feijen |
Chao Fong-Pang | | 2 : 10 | | Roberto Gomez |
THE 2007 WORLD POOL CHAMPIONSHIPS | ||||
THE LAST 16 | ||||
Daryl Peach | | 11 : 5 | | Harry Stolka |
Francisco Bustamante | | 11 : 2 | | Alex Pagulayan |
Mika Immonen | | 11 : 8 | | Alain Martel |
Vilmos Foldes | | 11 : 5 | | Lu Hui-Chan |
Joven Bustamante | | 11 : 9 | | Satoshi Kawabata |
Karl Boyes | | 11 : 4 | | Konstantin Stepanov |
Kuo Po-Cheng | | 11 : 7 | | Corey Deuel |
Roberto Gomez | | 11 : 0 | | Niels Feijen |
THE 2007 WORLD POOL CHAMPIONSHIPS | ||||
THE QUARTER-FINALS | ||||
Daryl Peach | | 11 : 10 | | Francisco Bustamante |
Vilmos Foldes | | 11 : 7 | | Mika Immonen |
Karl Boyes | | 11 : 8 | | Joven Bustamante |
Roberto Gomez | | 11 : 4 | | Kuo Po-Cheng |
THE 2007 WORLD POOL CHAMPIONSHIPS | ||||
THE SEMI-FINALS | ||||
Daryl Peach | | 0 : 0 | | Vilmos Foldes |
Karl Boyes | | 0 : 0 | | Roberto Gomez |
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