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Monday, January 31, 2011

Change of Dates for Philippines Open

Due to a very hectic and tight schedule for international pool events in April, the event dates for the 2011 Philippine Open has been changed. The new dates for the Open is now 5 - 11 April 2011 now competed at SkyDome, SM City in Quezon City, Metro Manila. Below is the updated event fact sheet for interested parties.

Event Info (Updated) - 2011 Philippine Open

Monday, January 24, 2011

Rory finally breaks the jinx

(l-r) Lai Chee Wei and Rory Thor
Both Rory Thor and Lai Chee Wei have played each other on numerous encounters last year and it has always been Rory on the losing side. But that changed shortly into the New Year as he beats Lai in the Final of Leg 2 National Ranking Snooker Championship 2011 at De FightBlack Snooker to emerge Champion.

As the Final cued off at 830pm, the atmosphere around the table was very tensed as both finalists were working very hard not to let the each other score on the table. After one and a half hours play, the first 4 frames were shared equally between them with Lai breaking in frame 5. It was as though Lai suddenly lost all his form and Rory immediately pounced on the opening to win frame 5, needing only 1 more frame to break the jinx. In frame 6, Lai was still lost and watched helplessly as Rory cleared ball by ball to take the frame and match.

Rory takes home his first title in 2011 along with a big ang pow cash prize of RM 2,500 whilst Lai settled for the runner up's prize money of RM 1,000.

More photos of the event on our Facebook Page link.

Results for the Semi Finals and Final are as below.

Semi Finals Results
Lai Chee Wei 4 vs 2 Ng Ann Seng
13-73, 68-41, 65-5, 60-0, 13-49, 70-40

Mohd Reza 2 vs 4 Rory Thor
68-18, 19-104, 10-61, 49-68, 55-3, 25-81

Final Result
Lai Chee Wei 2 vs 4 Rory Thor
56-70, 72-37, 1-73, 79-7, 30-56, 2-57

Saturday, January 22, 2011

Top 3 makes it to Last 4

Results for the Quarter Finals stage of Leg 2 National Ranking Snooker Championship 2011 are as below. Semi Finals will be competed at 5pm followed by the Final at 8pm.

Quarter Finals Results
21 January, Friday
Lai Chee Wei 4 vs 2 Michael Tan
Patrick Ooi 1 vs 4 Ng Ann Seng
Mohd Reza 4 vs 0 Erwin Phoon
Elvin Lean 0 vs 4 Rory Thor

Semi Finals
22 January, Saturday
5pm
Lai Chee Wei vs Ng Ann Seng
Mohd Reza vs Rory Thor

Friday, January 21, 2011

Last 16 Results for Leg 2

Results for the Last 16 Stage of the Leg 2 National Ranking Snooker Championship 2011 at De FightBlack Snooker are as below.

Last 16 Results
20 January, Thursday
Lai Chee Wei 4 vs 3 Jason Cheong
Michael Tan 4 vs 1 Ben Reeves
Patrick Ooi 4 vs 1 Moh Loon Hong
Ng Ann Seng 4 vs 2 SK Keong
Mohd Reza 4 vs 1 Chooi Yew Wah
Erwin Phoon 4 vs 1 Jerry Yap
Lim Zhi Wei 1 vs 4 Elvin Lean
Rory Thor 4 vs 0 Syahid Zaman

Quarter Finals
21 January, Friday
8pm session
Lai Chee Wei vs Michael Tan
Patrick Ooi vs Ng Ann Seng
Mohd Reza vs Erwin Phoon
Elvin Lean vs Rory Thor

Thursday, January 20, 2011

Last 32 Results for Leg 2

Results for Day 3 of Leg 2 National Ranking Snooker Championship 2011 at De FightBlack are as below.

19 January, Wednesday
830pm session
Lai Chee Wei 3 vs 0 Ming Choon
William Teo 1 vs 3 Jason Cheong
Sam Chong 0 vs 3 Ben Reeves
Muhd Fithri 2 vs 3 Michael Tan
Sebastian H'ng 1 vs 3 Moh Loon Hong
Patrick Ooi 3 vs 1 Mohd Nazri
SK Keong 3 vs 0 Jimmy Teo (w/o)
Ng Ann Seng 3 vs 2 Gilbert Wu

1030pm session
Mohd Reza 3 vs 0 Nazroff
Ng U-Wern 0 vs 3 Chooi Yew Wah
Thean Mun Kit 1 vs 3 Erwin Phoon
Jerry Yap 3 vs 0 Ooi Chin Kay (match conceded)
JH Leong 0 vs 3 Lim Zhi Wei
KL Tan 0 vs 3 Elvin Lean
Eric Yap 0 vs 3 Syahid Zaman
Rory Thor 3 vs 0 Don Kamaruddin

Last 16 Stage
20 January, Thursday
5pm session
Lai Chee Wei vs Jason Cheong
Michael Tan vs Ben Reeves
Moh Loon Hong vs Patrick Ooi
SK Keong vs Ng Ann Seng

8pm session
Mohd Reza vs Chooi Yew Wah
Erwin Phoon vs Jerry Yap
Lim Zhi Wei vs Elvin Lean
Syahid Zaman vs Rory Thor

Wednesday, January 19, 2011

Sebastian and Sam crashes out in Round One

Both Sebastian H'ng and Sam Chong couldn't replicate their form in Leg One where both of them were in the Final.

Playing against former National Billiards player Moh Loon Hong, Sebastian couldn't seem to get his match play form as Moh used his years of experience on the green baize to control the whiz kid from Penang. Moh led 2-0 in the match before Sebastian could give a decent reply and struggled hard to win frame 3, narrowing the gap to 2-1. But that was all he could do as Moh showed him the old school ways of snooker and won frame 4 and match, showing Sebastian the exit.

Sam Chong on the other match just couldn't get anything going at all. Playing Ben Reeves from One Snooker, Sam was like a beginner picking up a cue starting to learn the ways, as he played directionless against Ben. Ben scored effortlessly as Sam made careless mistakes all around.

Frame 3 was a close encounter as it went down to the colours with only a few points difference. Safety plays were changing hands and towards the end Sam was 15 points up with Blue, Pink and Black left on the table, with a glimpse of hope to come back into the match. Ben had to clear all 3 colours to win and a safety that went wrong by Sam gave him the opportunity. Slow and steady, Ben paced himself to take one shot at a time and eventually potted the final Black to win the match.

Moh Loon Hong now plays former National Snooker Champion Patrick Ooi as Ben Reeves plays Michael Tan tomorrow in the Last 16 stage.

International Pool Events in Manila

World Pool Association (WPA) has recently announced that Manila will be playing host to two international 10 ball pool championship which is the 2011 Philippine Open Pool Championships and 2011 World Ten Ball Championship. The Philippine Open will be held from 15-20 April whilst the World Championship will be held from 9-15 May.

2011 Philippine Open - Qualifier Stage - 9-14 April
2011 World Ten Ball Championship - Qualifier Stage - 3-7 May

For Malaysian cue enthusiasts who are interested to participate in the Qualifier Stages for either event at Manila, kindly contact David Ong at david@xzsports.org or +6012 209 2609.

For more info on the Championships, kindly click on the link below.

Event Info - 2011 Philippine Open Pool Championship
Event Info - 2011 World Ten Ball Championship

Day 3 Results for NSRC2011 Leg 2

Results for Day 3 of Leg 2 National Ranking Snooker Championship 2011 at De FightBlack are as below.

18 January, Tuesday
830pm session
Anson Tan 2 vs 3 Ming Choon
William Teo 3 vs 0 Tan Seng Teck
Mohd Rofi 0 vs 3 Ben Reeves
Muhd Fithri 3 vs 1 Shahdani
Mohd Nizam 0 vs 3 Moh Loon Hong
CM Wong 0 vs 3 Mohd Nazri
SK Keong 3 vs 2 SH Tooh
YS Leong 2 vs 3 Gilbert Wu

1030pm session
Wui Teck Heng 0 vs 3 Nazroff
Ng U-Wern 3 vs 2 Loh Chern Su
Mohd Sepawi (w/o) 0 vs 3 Erwin Phoon
Jerry Yap 3 vs 1 Alvin Chin
JH Leong 3 vs 2 Mohd Zubir
KL Tan 3 vs 0 David Tang
Hassan Sas 1 vs 3 Syahid Zaman
Yong Weng Kei 0 vs 3 Don Kamaruddin

Tuesday, January 18, 2011

Day 2 Results for NSRC2011 Leg 2

Results for Day 2 of Leg 2 National Ranking Snooker Championship 2011 at De FightBlack are as below.

17 January, Monday
830pm session
Luw Mun Kit 0 vs 3 Ming Choon
Mohd Sheik 0 vs 3 Tan Seng Teck
Kok Keong 2 vs 3 Ben Reeves
Eddi Firdaus 0 vs 3 Shahdani
Mohd Nizam 3 vs 1 Chow How Seng
CM Wong 3 vs 0 Joanne Lee
Jack Looi 0 vs 3 SH Tooh
YS Leong 3 vs 0 Mohd Afifi

1030pm session
Azhar Ali 2 vs 3 Nazroff
Tom Tong 0 vs 3 Loh Chern Su
Kenny Chan 1 vs 3 Erwin Phoon
Danny Lim 0 vs 3 Alvin Chin
Kenny W Woon 0 vs 3 Mohd Zubir
Michael NL Tan 1 vs 3 David Tang
Hassan Sas 3 vs 0 Roy Lim (w/o)
Yong Weng Kei 3 vs 0 Chan HJ

Monday, January 17, 2011

Day 1 Results for NRSC2011 Leg 2

Results for Day 1 of Leg 2 National Ranking Snooker Championship 2011 are as below.

16 January, Sunday
830pm session
Simon Loong 1 vs 3 Luw Mun Kit
Mohd Sheik 3 vs 0 John
Kok Keong 3 vs 2 Kenny Woon
Rayment Quah 1 vs 3 Eddi Firdaus
Mohd Nizam 3 vs 0 Ali Saifuddin
CM Wong 3 vs 0 Mohd Ali
Jack Looi 3 vs 0 Kenny Lam
Johnny Loh 0 vs 3 YS Leong

1030pm session
Jack Yong 1 vs 3 Azhar Ali
Sigmund Khoo 0 vs 3 Tom Tong
Chales Lim 2 vs 3 Kenny Chan
Danny Lim 3 vs 0 Hazli Ismail
Barry Yeo 0 vs 3 Kenny W Woon
Seiko 0 vs 3 Michael NL Tan
Ben Ngo 0 vs 3 Hassan Sas
Anwar A Bakar 0 vs 3 Yong Weng Kei

Saturday, January 15, 2011

Draw for Leg 2 NRSC 2011

The Draw for Leg 2 National Ranking Snooker Championship 2011 at De FightBlack has been updated. Please click on the below link to view.

De FightBlack Snooker
Pertama Residency No 16 Lot G-07
Jalan 3/92B Taman Kobena
Cheras 56100 Kuala Lumpur

Draw - Leg 2 NRSC 2011 - De FightBlack

Wednesday, January 12, 2011

Sheldon finishes Runner up in Hong Kong

Sheldon in action during the tournament
image courtesy of SS Chua
Malaysia was recently invited to participate in a Under 16 Invitational Snooker Tournament in Hong Kong. Other countries that were also invited to the Tournament were Japan, Singapore and Thailand.

Representing Malaysia at the tournament was Sheldon Senagang from Sabah who has been playing the game since 10 years old and has a few local achievements which included winning the TKC Invitational Snooker Championship 2010 and 1st Runner up in Sabah Closed Snooker Championship 2010.

Players in the Tournament were divided into 4 groups with 3 players each. After completing all the matches, the leader in each group will then qualify into the Semi Finals. Sheldon won both his Group matches and qualified for the Semi Final where he plays Leong Man Hoi from Hong Kong. The other Semi Final match was between RatchayothinYotharuck from Thailand and Cheung Shi Lung from Hong Kong. Sheldon beat Leong 4-2 to advance into the Final whilst Ratchayothin whitewashed Cheung 4-0. In the Final, Sheldon however was unfortunate as he was on the receiving side of the whitewash as Ratchayothin beat him with the same scoreline of 4-0 to win the Tournament.

Sheldon received a Shark's cue, Runner up's trophy and a box of cue tips for his effort in the Tournament.

Sebastian first win in 2011

(l-r) Sebastian H'ng, Alex and Sam Chong
Sebastian H'ng started off his new year in style by winning the 1st Leg of the National Ranking Snooker Championship 2011 which concluded yesterday night. He beats another former professional and Asian Champion Sam Chong with the score of 4-2 at Seasons 2 Snooker Club.

Coming straight from his 2nd consecutive Final, Sam was aiming at winning his first National Ranking title and was labeled the favourite after his consistent match playing form in the earlier rounds. Sebastian, on the other side of the ring, was aiming to start the New Year by adding more one more title to his belt.

As the Final commenced, both players were on form and the match was soon leveled at 1-1. Sebastian immediately stepped up one gear and won 2 frames in a row to lead 3-1, needing only one more frame for his first title in 2011. Sam responded promptly and made a 69 break in the next frame to close the gap down to 3-2. Frame 6 was a bit slow as Sam was denying Sebastian any chances he could possibly get and sealing all exits, only to find himself falling on his own safety blunder giving Sebastian a chance to take the lead. On reaching the colour balls, Sebastian was up by 7 points and was given first chance on the Yellow. He missed it by a fraction and several safety play exchanged hands. Then Sebastian potted a long Yellow and cleared to Blue, leaving Sam requiring 2 snookers with Pink and Black left on the table. Sam tried to snooker him behind the Black but failed, giving Sebastian a long pot opportunity which went in cleanly to win frame and match.

Sebastian takes home cash prize RM 2,500, the Champion's trophy and also the Highest Break cash prize of RM 500 with his 100 points effort during the Championship. Sam can only take again the Runner up's cash prize of RM 1,000 and trophy.

More photos are available on our Facebook Page

Results for the Semi Finals and Final are as below.

Semi Finals Results
Sebastian H'ng 4 vs 3 Mohd Reza
60-19, 62-12, 0-76, 47-19, 34-81, 6-64, 67-32

Rory Thor 1 vs 4 Sam Chong
23-77, 15-66, 18-74, 67-46, 27-66

Final Result
Sebastian H'ng 4 vs 2 Sam Chong
55-7, 6-78, 63-25, 72-20, 12-80(69), 68-41

Monday, January 10, 2011

Last 16 and Quarter Finals Results

Results for the Last 16 and Quarter Finals of Leg 1 National Ranking Snooker Championship 2011 at Seasons 2 Snooker are as below. Sebastian H'ng currently holds the lead for the highest break prize with 100 points. Semi Finals will be competed tomorrow at 4pm followed by the Final at 8pm.

Last 16 Results
Moh Keen Hoo 3 vs 4 Eric Yap
Michael Tan 0 vs 4 Sebastian H'ng
Ng Ann Seng 2 vs 4 Thean Mun Kit
Thean Mun Cheong 0 vs 4 Mohd Reza
Rory Thor 4 vs 1 Jason Cheong
Elvin Lean 3 vs 4 Ooi Chin Kay
Mohd Rofi 0 vs 4 Sam Chong
Chooi Yew Wah 4 vs 3 Lai Chee Wei

Quarter Finals Results
Eric Yap 2 vs 4 Sebastian H'ng
27-63, 79-31, 61-56, 43-67, 8-67, 9-65

Mohd Reza 4 vs 1 Thean Mun Kit
73-30, 55-40, 46-59, 73-26, 45-26

Rory Thor 4 vs 0 Ooi Chin Kay
73-13, 68-24, 111-29, 48-43

Sam Chong 4 vs 3 Chooi Yew Wah
69-37, 61-32, 15-83, 25-52, 83-5, 41-69, 104-66

Semi Finals
11 January, 4pm
Sebastian H'ng vs Mohd Reza
Rory Thor vs Sam Chong

Last 32 Results for Leg 1

Results for the Last 32 Rounds are as below for Leg 1 National Ranking Snooker Championship 2011 at Seasons 2 Snooker. The Last 16 Round will be played at 4pm today followed by the Quarter Finals later at 8pm.

Last 32 Results
9 January, Sunday
830pm session
Tee Ko Hun 0 vs 3 Moh Keen Hoo
Eric Yap 3 vs 1 SK Keong
JH Leong 1 vs 3 Michael Tan
Sebastian H'ng 3 vs 0 Kenny Chan
Muhd Fithri 2 vs 3 Ng Ann Seng
Thean Mun Kit 3 vs 1 Mohd Sepawi
Thean Mun Cheong 3 vs 1 Jimmy Teo
Mohd Reza 3 vs 1 Mohd Zubir

1030pm session
Rory Thor 3 vs 0 Mohd Nazri
Mohd Raid 0 vs 3 Jason Cheong
Melvin Yap 1 vs 3 Elvin Lean
Ooi Chin Kay 3 vs 1 Hendry Tan
Mohd Rofi 3 vs 1 Lim Zhi Wei
Sam Chong 3 vs 1 SH Tooh
Chooi Yew Wah 3 vs 1 Khor Tat Siong
Syahid Zaman 2 vs 3 Lai Chee Wei

Last 16 Round
10 January, 4pm
Moh Keen Hoo vs Eric Yap
Michael Tan vs Sebastian H'ng
Ng Ann Seng vs Thean Mun Kit
Thean Mun Cheong vs Mohd Reza
Rory Thor vs Jason Cheong
Elvin Lean vs Ooi Chin Kay
Mohd Rofi vs Sam Chong
Chooi Yew Wah vs Lai Chee Wei

Sunday, January 9, 2011

Leg 1 Day 2 & 3 Results

Results for Day 2 and 3 of Leg 1 National Ranking Snooker Championship 2011 at Seasons 2 Snooker are as below.

7 January, Friday
830pm session
Kenny Woon 0 vs 3 Tee Ko Hun
Mohd Afifi 1 vs 3 Hazli Ismail
Wong Fei Hong 1 vs 3 Tom Tong
Mohd Nizam 1 vs 3 Kenny Chan
Hassan Sas 1 vs 3 Joanne Lee
Chan HJ 3 vs 1 Mohd Hizak
Jasonkitz Lim 0 vs 3 Rizal Sabidi
Nick Chong 1 vs 3 Mohd Zubir

1030pm session
Elvis Bay 3 vs 1 YS Leong
Mohd Raid 3 vs 0 Jeffrey Tan
Melvin Yap 3 vs 0 Desmond Leong
Hendry Tan 3 vs 2 SM Raja
Holmes Ng 2 vs 3 Tan Seng Teck
Alvin Cho 2 vs 3 SH Tooh
Abdullah Omar 3 vs 0 Shahdani
Syahid Zaman 3 vs 1 Mohd Sheik

8 January, Saturday
830pm session
Ng U-Wern 2 vs 3 Tee Ko Hun
SK Keong 3 vs 0 Hazli Ismail
JH Leong 3 vs 2 Tom Tong
Ben Reeves 2 vs 3 Kenny Chan
Muhd Fithri 3 vs 1 Joanne Lee
Mohd Sepawi 3 vs 1 Chan HJ
Thean Mun Cheong 3 vs 2 Rizal Zabidi
Don Kamarudin 2 vs 3 Mohd Zubir

1030pm session
Mohd Nazri 3 vs 1 Elvis Bay
Michael Tan S2 2 vs 3 Mohd Raid
Azhar Indah 2 vs 3 Melvin Yap
Jerry Yap 2 vs 3 Hendry Tan
Mohd Rofi 3 vs 2 Tan Seng Teck
Alvin Chin 1 vs 3 SH Tooh
Khor Tat Siong 3 vs 2 Abdullah Omar
Wui Teck Heng 0 vs 3 Syahid Zaman

Friday, January 7, 2011

Day 1 at NRSC2011 Leg 1

Results for Day 1 of Leg 1 National Ranking Snooker Championship 2011 at Seasons 2 are as below.

6 January, Thursday
830pm session
Kenny Woon 3 vs 2 Luw Mun Kit
David Wong 1 vs 3 Mohd Afifi
Wong Fei Hong 3 vs 1 Ali Saifuddin
Anwar A Bakar 1 vs 3 Mohd Nizam
Kenny Tan 0 vs 3 Hassan Sas
Jeffrey Ong 1 vs 3 Chan HJ
Syed Faris 0 vs 3 Jasonkitz Lim
Nick Chong 3 vs 0 Barry Yeo

1030pm session
Poo Teck Wei 1 vs 3 Elvis Bay
Jeffrey Tan 3 vs 0 Calvin Kong
Syahjaya 0 vs 3 Melvin Yap
Hendry Tan 3 vs 0 Famous Wong
Kowalski Chang 0 vs 3 Holmes Ng
Jeff Ghuffran 0 vs 3 Alvin Cho
KC Hong 0 vs 3 Abdullah Omar
Shawn Liow 1 vs 3 Syahid Zaman

Tuesday, January 4, 2011

Draw for Leg 1 NRSC 2011 at Seasons 2

Below is the Draw for Leg 1 National Ranking Snooker Championship 2011 at Seasons 2 Snooker. The Championship will be competed from 6 to 11 January.

Draw - NRSC2011 - Leg 1

Monday, January 3, 2011

NRSC2011 - Leg 2 @ De FightBlack

Event Date
16 - 21 January

Prize Money
Champion - RM 2,500 + Trophy
Runner up - RM 1,000 + Trophy
Semi Finalist - RM 500 + Trophy
Quarter Finalist - RM 200 + Trophy
Last 16 - RM 100 + Plaque
Highest Break - RM 500 + Trophy
(100 points & above)

Venue
De FightBlack Snooker
Pertama Residency No 16 Lot G-07
Jalan 3/92B Taman Kobena
Cheras 56100 Kuala Lumpur

Entry Fee RM 60
Closing & Draw Date 14 January, Friday

Entries & Enquiries
Iskandar 012 305 6657
Ng Ann Seng 012 390 7060

NRSC2011 - Leg 1 @ Seasons 2 Snooker

Event Date
6 - 11 January 2011

Prize Money
Champion - RM 2,500 + Trophy
Runner up - RM 1,000 + Trophy
Semi Finalist - RM 500 + Trophy
Quarter Finalist - RM 200 + Trophy
Last 16 - RM 100 + Plaque
Highest Break - RM 500 + Trophy
(100 points & above)

Venue
Seasons 2 Snooker & Lounge
1st Floor, PV 12 Condominium
Jalan Langkawi, Setapak
53300 Kuala Lumpur

Entry Fee RM 60
Closing & Draw Date 3 January, Monday

Entries & Enquiries
Iskandar 012 305 6657
Alex 012 256 6553