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Yesteryear
from March 2021
The uninvited Orcollo crashed the WPA’s party to win the World 8-Ball title.
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+ 5 YEARS AGO +
A pair of perennial runners-up emerged victorious at the big-money China Billiard World Championships in Yushan, China.
Hanquin Shi, referred to in China as “Mr. Runner-up,”edged Britain’s luckless Mick Hill, 21-20, in the men’s finale to take home the $92,000 top prize. Shi, a converted snooker player, and Hill, an English 8-ball ace were the cream of the Chinese 8-ball field and battled to a 20-20 tie, before Hill’s dry break in the decider allowed Shi to run out. In the women’s final, Siming Chen out-shot another Brit, former world champion Kelly Fisher, 17-11, to claim the crown. The event was Fisher’s first since undergoing a double mastectomy five months earlier.
+ 10 YEARS AGO +
Uninvited but undeterred, 32-year-old Dennis Orcollo of the Philippines dominated the 112-player final field to win the World Pool-Billiard Association World 8-Ball Championship in Fujairah, United Arab Emirates.
Ranked outside the WPA’s top 16 and not among the Filipino players extended an invitation by the Asian Pocket Billiard Union, Orocllo flew to the UAE early to compete for one of nine available qualifying spots. After securing his spot in the double-elimination portion of the main event, Orcollo won five straight in the single-elimination portion of the event to reach the final, where he defeated Dutchman Niels Feijen, 10-3 to win the world title.
+ 15 YEARS AGO +
After suffering through a year in which she captured just one pro title, Karen Corr started 2006 on the right foot, topping top-ranked and longtime rival Allison Fisher, 7-5, in the final to win the Women’s Professional Billiard Association Carolina Classic at Nash Community College in Rocky Mount, N.C.
Corr rolled unbeaten through the field, which featured the WPBA’s new format — reseeding the final 16 and reducing the event to single-elimination. In the semifinals, Corr pounced on Monica Webb, 7-1, while Allison Fisher defeated Kelly Fisher, 7-4.
Thorsten Hohmann defeated surprising finalist Keith McCready to win the Turning Stone Classic in Upstate N.Y.
