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The World Pool Championship
Araneta Coliseum
Quezon City
Metro Manila
Philippines
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3-11 November 2007

Roberto "Superman" Gomez will battle with Daryl "The Dazzler" Peach in the final.
IT�S GOMEZ v PEACH FOR WPC GLORY

The final of the 2007 Philippines World Pool Championship will be an England v Philippines affair as Daryl Peach of Blackpool takes on Roberto Gomez of Manila in a race-to-17 match at the Araneta Coliseum at 15.30 local time on Sunday.

Both players won through their quarter and semi-final games in emphatic style in a day of pool that contained some outstanding play as well as moments of drama and controversy.

Betting firms have installed Gomez as a 1/2 favourite while Peach is the outsider at 6/4. The prize at stake is $100,000 but more importantly the title of World Pool Champion and Gomez will attempt to become the third Filipino player in four years to lift this coveted crown.

Peach becomes the first Englishman ever to reach the final and hopes to emulate the success of Thorsten Hohmann who was the last European to win the event in 2003.

The likeable Englishman put on his career-best performance to oust betting favourite Francisco Bustamante from the competition in the quarter-finals.

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The game went all the way to a deciding final rack and there was an incident in the 19th game that set the match alight as Bustamante, leading 10-9, thought that he had won the match following a 3/9 carom shot.

Welsh referee Nigel Rees though, was not so sure that the 9 ball was not contacted first � a foul shot. Rees then took an age to consult slowed down television replays before making his call, which was a foul shot with the 9 ball re-spotted and ball in hand to Peach.

When play resumed, the Englishman had to refocus as the pandemonium around the table died down. In a great showing, Peach cleared the table and then ran the final rack as the boos rang out.

In less dramatic circumstances, Peach topped Hungary�s Vilmos Foldes in the semi-final by an 11-2 scoreline. Peach was in control from start to finish and looked assured throughout.

Roberto Gomez had earlier beaten the remaining Taiwanese player Kuo Po-cheng in a 11-4 rout on Table 1. Using the soft break in the hot conditions to good effect, Gomez restricted his opponent�s opportunities while potting everything in sight.

His semi-final foe was Karl Boyes ( England ) who was making his debut in the competition. Boyes, 25, was having a fabulous run in his first ever World Pool Championship, which he only gained entry to by winning a qualifying event in Holland in September.

At 4-0 to the good against Gomez, he was off to a great start but it was not to be as Gomez put on a master class to take 11 consecutive racks.

Quarter Finals

Daryl Peach (ENG) 11 � 10 Francisco Bustamante ( PHI )
Vilmos Foldes (HUN) 11 � 7 Mika Immonen (FIN)
Karl Boyes (Eng) 11 � 8 Joven Bustamante ( PHI )
Roberto Gomez (PHI) 11 � 4 Kuo Po-cheng (TPE)

Semi Finals

Daryl Peach (ENG) 11 � 2 Vilmos Foldes ( HUN )
Roberto Gomez (PHI) 11 � 4 Kar l Boyes (Eng)

THE 2007 WORLD POOL CHAMPIONSHIPS
THE LAST 64 DRAW
Ronnie Alcano	6 : 10	Daryl Peach
Lee Kun-Fang	10 : 6	Raj Hundal
Matjaz Erculj	3 : 10	Harald Stolka
Leonardo Andam	5 : 10	Wu Yu-Lun
Francisco Bustamante	10 : 1	David Alcaide
Nick van den Berg	10 : 4	Imran Majid
Alex Pagulayan	10 : 6	Pham Tuan Ngoc
Louis Condo	10 : 2	Chan Keng-Kwang
Ko Pin-Yi	8 : 10	Goran Mladenovic
Marco Tschudi	4 : 10	Alain Martel
Mika Immonen	10 : 5	Fu Che-Wei
Tony Drago	10 : 7	Bahram Lotfy
Shane Van Boening	10 : 7	Antonio Gabica
Vilmos Foldes	10 : 2	Dejan Dabovic
Lu Hui-Chan	10 : 6	Marcus Chamat
Marlon Manalo	1 : 10	Radoslaw Babica
Luong Chi-Dung	10 : 8	Earl Strickland
Satoshi Kawabata	10 : 3	Yang Ching-Shun
Fabio Petroni	9 : 10	Wu Chia-Ching
Joven Bustamante	10 : 6	Dennis Orcollo
Konstantin Stepanov	10 : 5	Efren Reyes
Jeff De Luna	10 : 7	Leevan Corteza
Kenichi Uchigaki	7 : 10	Rye Seung-Woo
Karl Boyes	10 : 6	Sandor Tot
Ramil Gallego	5 : 10	Kuo Po-Cheng
Oliver Ortmann	10 : 7	Philipp Stojanovic
Thomas Engert	7 : 10	Chang Jung-Lin
Muhammad Zulfikri	4 : 10	Corey Deuel
Naoyuki Oi	8 : 10	Ralf Souquet
Charlie Williams	7 : 10	Niels Feijen
James Delahunty	0 : 10	Chao Fong-Pang
Roberto Gomez	10 : 1	Alex Lely

THE 2007 WORLD POOL CHAMPIONSHIPS
THE LAST 32
Daryl Peach	10 : 7	Lee Kun-Fang
Harald Stolka	10 : 2	Wu Yu-Lun
Francisco Bustamante	10 : 8	Nick van den Berg
Alex Pagulayan	10 : 2	Louis Condo
Goran Mladenovic	2 : 10	Alain Martel
Mika Immonen	10 : 6	Tony Drago
Shane Van Boening	8 : 10	Vilmos Foldes
Lu Hui-Chan	10 : 3	Radoslaw Babica
Luong Chi-Dung	3 : 10	Satoshi Kawabata
Wu Chia-Ching	8 : 10	Joven Bustamante
Konstantin Stepanov	10 : 4	Jeff De Luna
Rye Seung-Woo	8 : 10	Karl Boyes
Kuo Po-Cheng	10 : 7	Oliver Ortmann
Chang Jung-Lin	9 : 10	Corey Deuel
Ralf Souquet	2 : 10	Niels Feijen
Chao Fong-Pang	2 : 10	Roberto Gomez

THE 2007 WORLD POOL CHAMPIONSHIPS
THE LAST 16
Daryl Peach	11 : 5	Harry Stolka
Francisco Bustamante	11 : 2	Alex Pagulayan
Mika Immonen	11 : 8	Alain Martel
Vilmos Foldes	11 : 5	Lu Hui-Chan
Joven Bustamante	11 : 9	Satoshi Kawabata
Karl Boyes	11 : 4	Konstantin Stepanov
Kuo Po-Cheng	11 : 7	Corey Deuel
Roberto Gomez	11 : 0	Niels Feijen

THE 2007 WORLD POOL CHAMPIONSHIPS
THE QUARTER-FINALS
Daryl Peach	11 : 10	Francisco Bustamante
Vilmos Foldes	11 : 7	Mika Immonen
Karl Boyes	11 : 8	Joven Bustamante
Roberto Gomez	11 : 4	Kuo Po-Cheng

THE 2007 WORLD POOL CHAMPIONSHIPS
THE SEMI-FINALS
Daryl Peach	11 : 2	Vilmos Foldes
Roberto Gomez	11 : 4	Karl Boyes

THE 2007 WORLD POOL CHAMPIONSHIPS
THE FINAL
Daryl Peach	0 : 0	Roberto Gomez

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