No SEA Video games gold for PH billiards for first time in historical past
FILE – Carlo Biado throughout the males’s 9-ball billiards closing within the thirty first SEA Video games in Hanoi, Vietnam. SEA GAMES POOL
MANILA, Philippines–The Philippines is not going to convey dwelling a gold medal in billiards for the primary time within the Southeast Asian Video games after the nation’s remaining bets misplaced their respective matches on Saturday in Phnom Penh, Cambodia.
Carlo Biado and Johann Chua settled for bronze in males’s 9-ball doubles after a 9-7 loss to Myanmar’s Telephone Myint Kyaw and Thaw Zin Htet within the semifinals at Aeon 2 Sen Sok regardless of erasing a pair of four-rack deficits.
Alvin Barbero fell to Thailand’s Akani Songsermsawad within the round-of-16 of males’s snooker singles to finish any hopes of salvaging at the least one gold within the thirty second version of the biennial meet.
Solely two bronzes have been produced in billiards, the opposite coming from veteran Francisco dela Cruz in males’s 3-carom.
The nation has received at the least as soon as for the reason that sport was launched within the 1987 version held in Jakarta, Indonesia.
FILE – Johann Chua throughout the males’s 9-ball billiards closing within the thirty first SEA Video games in Hanoi, Vietnam. SEA GAMES POOL
Cambodia opted to restrict billiards to solely carom and snooker with males’s 9-ball singles and doubles as the one pool occasion.
Biado and Chua have been the nation’s greatest probability of salvaging one gold after each have been eradicated in males’s 9-ball singles whereas the remainder of the Philippine contingent struggled in carom and snooker.
Hopes of advancing to the ultimate loomed when the 2 got here again from a 6-2 deficit, successful 5 straight racks to guide 7-6.
However Myanmar would take the ultimate three racks, together with the final two which got here off a pair of miscues from the Philippine pair.
A missed shot on the eight-ball with the match tied at 7-all, permitting Myanmar to reclaim the lead. Johann Chua transformed a leap shot on the four-ball on the subsequent rack, however scratched the cue ball on the similar time, nearly dealing the Filipino tandem a stinging defeat.
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