Englishman Daryl Peach beat Filipino Roberto Gomez in a race to 17 finals last night with a 17-15 victory at the Big Dome. He also took home the $100,000 cash prize. Gomez on the other hand, took home $40,000.
Peach lost to Matias Ercul of Slovakia (1-9) but eliminate Rodolfo Luat of the Philippines (9-3) and Lily (9-5) in the group stage matches . Then he eliminate last year’s champion Ronato Alcano of the Philippines (10-6) in the last 64, Lee Kun Fang of Taiwan (10-7) in the last 32, Harold Stolka of Germany (11-5), Francisco “Django” Bustamante (11-10) in the last 8 and Vilmos Voldes of Hungrary (11-2) in the last 4.
Before going to the finals Gomez had impressive wins against Neils Feijen of the Netherlands (9-6) and Dharminder Sing Lilly of India (9-4) in their group stage matches, then beat Alex Lely of the Netherlands (10-1) in the last 64, Chao Fong-pao of Taiwan (11-4) in the last 32, rematch Feijen in the last 8, Kuo Po-cheng of Taiwan in the last 16 and Karl Boyes of England (11-4) in the last.
The critical point in the match came in the 31st rack with the score of 15 all when Gomez missed the easy ball no. 5. There was yet another further twist as Peach lost position going from the 8-ball to the 9-ball. That left a tougher shot than anticipated and he then missed a table-length bank on the 9-ball. But again Gomez failed to sink a crucial 9ball that would have kept his hope alive. Peach sunk the 9-ball to move to the hill, and won the next rack to become the 2007 World Pool Champion.
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