Darren APPLETON vs David ALCAIDE - 2013 World Pool Masters 9-ball
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Match 08
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THE BUSINESS end of the
2013 PartyPoker
World Pool Masters is shaping up following the final two first round matches and the first of the quarter finals at the
Metrodome in
Barnsley on
Saturday night.
Darren Appleton and
Shane Van Boening won through to the last eight, while
Alex Pagulayan became the first player to reach the semi-finals.
The opening match of the evening saw
Mosconi Cup star Shane Van Boening come through his opening match with a solid 8-4 win against young Kuwaiti
Omar Al Shaheen.
Van Boening, who won his third
US Open title last week, was made to work for it but looked stronger in the closing stages.
Initially, it was a close match as first Al Shaheen and then Van Boening enjoyed leads but neither player dominated.
The Middle Eastern player got the score to 5-4 which was as good as it got for him.
He couldn't hold off Van Boening who took the next two racks to reach the hill. A decent break in the next spread the balls out nicely and the
American star wasted no time in running out for a tidy victory.
The final first round match was between former
Masters winner Darren Appleton and
Spain's
David Alcaide.
Appleton, was born in
Pontefract which is just up the road from the venue, and he was well supported in the stands.
The
Englishman took the opener very quickly but Alcaide took the next three to put him under some pressure. That showed as he missed a long 2 ball but Alcaide's attempt at a bank into the centre pocket failed and Appleton was happy to clear the table for 2-3.
It was all one way traffic from there as the two-time US Open champion took the next three to reach the hill at 7-3. Appleton capped an excellent performance as he broke and ran the last for the win.
The final match of the evening was the first of the four quarter finals and it was Alex Pagulayan who claimed the first spot in the last four with a win 8-4 over
England's Chris Melling.
Melling missed a slow cut on the 2 ball in the sixth and Pagulayan tied it up down table. They both had visits before
Alex scratched playing safe and Melling took to rack to give himself a much needed boost.
Pagulayan ran out to move into a 6-4 lead and become heavy favourite in the race to 8 match. He made a ball on the next but played a strange shot on the 1 ball and left it over the middle pocket. Melling couldn't capitalise though and it was Pagulayan who won the rack to leave him one away from victory at 7-4.
Melling wasn't the player of yesterday and he messed up on the 1 ball to give the table back to Pagulayan and he ran out to reach the semi-finals of the PartyPoker World Pool Masters.
This is the
21st annual running of the PartyPoker.com World Pool Masters following its inaugural event in
1993. Some of the greatest players in the modern era of pool have won this title including the likes of Souquet, Strickland, Orcollo and Appleton. With a field of 16 players there are 15 matches in total – all race to eight racks and culminating in the final on the Sunday evening.