Araneta Coliseum
Quezon City
Metro Manila
Philippines
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3-11 November 2007
Daryl "The Dazzler" Peach wins historic final.
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PEACH IS 2007 WORLD POOL CHAMPION
ENGLAND’S DARYL PEACH is the 2007 Philippines World Pool Champion following a tense, exciting 17-15 win over rising star of Filipino billiards Roberto Gomez.
Played out in front of a 1,000 plus crowd at the Araneta Coliseum, Quezon City, Manila, the 35 year-old Peach battled hard throughout as both players struggled to contain their nerves.
It was one of the most thrilling World Pool finals in recent years as Peach wins $100,000 as he joins list of greats who have won this coveted trophy.
Peach said: “It was just the amazing match I’ve ever been involved in. In the end all I could think about was keeping my head still and making one shot at a time.
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“It hasn’t sunk in yet. I probably won’t sleep on the plane. This is unbelievable,” he added.
Neither player managed to play the type of free flowing pool that had seen them carve their way through the field at the event but the drama more than made up for it.
After blowing an early 8-3 lead, Peach stayed close to Gomez, with neither ever being more than two racks ahead.
Gomez, 29, opened up a three rack lead though when he ran out the 27th rack to give himself every chance of victory at 15-13.
But Peach was made of strong stuff and his temperament and nerve under what were at times hostile conditions, carried him on.
He won the next after some razor sharp safety and then ran out from the break in the next to level the scores.
There was tension in the air in the most dramatic rack of the game. Both players miss before Peach had his chance to close out the rack. He was always out of position but left himself a horrible shot on the 9 ball which failed to drop after a table length bank.
It wasn’t the hardest 9 for Gomez but he choked badly, feeling all the pressure, to leave it on for Peach who deposited to reach the hill.
The Yorkshire-born Peach closed out the match with a banked 1 ball into the centre pocket to set up his match-winning run-out.
“Gomez put in a good performance under immense pressure of the home crowd and home fans. I had a lot to prove and I think I did.
“I haven’t got the most ability and there are lots of players with more talent than me but I just used my head and tried to focus on what I’ve got.
“It was probably the worst match I’ve played since the start of the tournament and the pressure for both of us was immense.
“The atmosphere did affect me, if I said it didn’t then I would be lying. The Filipino fans were cheering for their man and that was to be expected.
“I always knew I had a strong mind and the will to win.
“You never really think you are going to win the World Championship. I dreamt it but when it comes around you have to grab it with both hands and luckily I did exactly that.
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 | | 11 : 2 | | Vilmos Foldes |
Roberto Gomez | | 11 : 4 | | Karl Boyes |
THE 2007 WORLD POOL CHAMPIONSHIPS | ||||
THE FINAL | ||||
Daryl Peach | | 17 : 15 | | Roberto Gomez |
THE FINAL | ||||
Rack-By-Rack | ||||
Daryl Peach | | 0 : 0 | | Roberto Gomez* won lag |
Daryl Peach | | 1 : 0 | | Roberto Gomez |
Daryl Peach | | 2 : 0 | | Roberto Gomez |
Daryl Peach | | 2 : 1 | | Roberto Gomez |
Daryl Peach | | 2 : 2 | | Roberto Gomez |
Daryl Peach | | 3 : 2 | | Roberto Gomez |
Daryl Peach | | 3 : 3 | | Roberto Gomez |
Daryl Peach | | 4 : 3 | | Roberto Gomez |
Daryl Peach | | 5 : 3 | | Roberto Gomez |
Daryl Peach | | 6 : 3 | | Roberto Gomez |
Daryl Peach | | 7 : 3 | | Roberto Gomez |
Daryl Peach | | 8 : 3 | | Roberto Gomez |
Daryl Peach | | 8 : 4 | | Roberto Gomez |
Daryl Peach | | 8 : 5 | | Roberto Gomez |
Daryl Peach | | 8 : 6 | | Roberto Gomez |
Daryl Peach | | 8 : 7 | | Roberto Gomez |
Daryl Peach | | 8 : 8 | | Roberto Gomez |
Daryl Peach | | 8 : 9 | | Roberto Gomez |
Daryl Peach | | 9 : 9 | | Roberto Gomez |
Daryl Peach | | 10 : 9 | | Roberto Gomez |
Daryl Peach | | 11 : 9 | | Roberto Gomez |
Daryl Peach | | 11 : 10 | | Roberto Gomez |
Daryl Peach | | 12 : 10 | | Roberto Gomez |
Daryl Peach | | 12 : 11 | | Roberto Gomez |
Daryl Peach | | 12 : 12 | | Roberto Gomez |
Daryl Peach | | 12 : 13 | | Roberto Gomez |
Daryl Peach | | 12 : 14 | | Roberto Gomez |
Daryl Peach | | 12 : 15 | | Roberto Gomez |
Daryl Peach | | 13 : 15 | | Roberto Gomez |
Daryl Peach | | 14 : 15 | | Roberto Gomez |
Daryl Peach | | 15 : 15 | | Roberto Gomez |
Daryl Peach | | 16 : 15 | | Roberto Gomez |
Daryl Peach | | 17 : 15 | | Roberto Gomez |
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