Wednesday, June 13, 2007 3 Pinoys in top 10 after two legs in Guinness 9-Ball Tour ‘07
THREE Filipinos, including Davao City's Lee Vann Corteza, made it to the top 10 of the 2007 Guinness 9-Ball Tour that will open its third leg at the Genting Highlands Resort in Malaysia on Friday to Sunday.
Kaohsiung, Chinese Taipei leg champion Yang Ching-Shun is leading the Tour with a total of 90 points while Jakarta, Indonesia leg champion Chang Jung-Lin was in second with 85 points.
Chao Fong Pang, a 6-11 loser to Yang in the Taipei finals, is in third place with 80 points while RP's 2006 World 9-Ball and 2007 World 8-Ball champion Ronato Alcano amassed 70 points for the fourth spot.
Alcano was a semi-finalist in Kaohsiung and a quarter-finalist in Jakarta.
Former world pool champion Wu Chia-Ching is occupying the fifth spot with 60 points while reigning All-Japan Open champion Corteza is in sixth with 50.
Corteza, who settled for the Jakarta leg runner-up honors after suffering from a 5-11 loss to Chang, did not see action in Kaohsiung which prevented him from gaining more points and improving his place in the individual standing in the five-leg tour.
Indonesian Ricky Yang also had 50 points for seventh place, followed by Singaporean Bernard Tey Choon Kiat in eighth, Hong Kong's Au Chi Wai in ninth and reigning World Pool League champion Dennis Orcollo of Surigao at 10th place.
Trailing behind were Chinese Taipei's Wu Yu Lun, Japan's Naoyuki Oi, Vietnam's Luong Chi Dung, Malaysia's Ibrahim Bin Amir, Indonesia's Jimmy Jusman and Muhammad Zulfikri, Singapore's Chan Keng Kwang, Taipei's Lu Hui Chan, Thailand's Nitiwat Kanjanasri, Korea's Ryu Seung Woo; Malaysia's Patrick Ooi, Indonesia's Dharminder Singh Lilly, RP's Antonio Lining, Japan's Uchigaki Kenichi, Singapore's Tan Tiong Boon, China's Liu Hai Tao, RP's Jeffrey De Luna, China's Li He Wen, RP's Alex Pagulayan and Antonio Gabica and Indonesia's Siauw Wieto and Mohammed Bewi Simanjuntak. (MLSA)
