At the tournament going on in Poland, Duong Quoc Hoang played sublimely and got impressive victories. The most outstanding match of Hoang “star” was the upstream performance in the last games to defeat the world number 1 Shane van Boening dramatic 11-10 when pitted once morest each other in the 1/8 round on the evening of 4. /2 (local time).
With this outstanding achievement, Duong Quoc Hoang is expected by Vietnamese billiards fans to have another spectacular overthrow when he meets the more highly rated Wu Lin Kun (world No. 63) in the quarterfinals. However, that did not happen in the match that took place at dawn on February 5 (local time).
Duong Quoc Hoang was unable to surprise Wu Lin Kun. Photo: Matchroom
In this match, Wu Lin Kun won the right to clear the ball first. The Taiwanese player started very well when he broke the ball correctly and did not make any mistakes. That helped Wu Lin Kun quickly take a 5-0 lead and put great pressure on Duong Quoc Hoang.
At a disadvantage, Duong Quoc Hoang had to wait for his opponent to make a mistake so he might enter the competition and find an opportunity to shorten the gap. Even so, Wu Lin Kun played extremely stably while the Vietnamese hand failed in some difficult situations.
After shortening the score to 1-5, Duong Quoc Hoang broke a muscle in game 7. Taking advantage of the opportunity very quickly, Wu Lin Kun won and restored the gap of 5 games.
In the following games, Duong Quoc Hoang showed great effort. However, the big difference helped Wu Lin Kun to perform very mischievous “bullet runs” and then take full advantage of the opportunity to “clear the table”.
At the time when the score was 4-7, Duong Quoc Hoang made a mistake when he damaged ball 6. This made Wu Lin Kun win the right to hit the ball and this player played extremely sublime, winning all 4 remaining games. once more.
Losing the final 4-11, Duong Quoc Hoang stopped in the quarterfinals and received 10,000 USD in prize money. Meanwhile, Wu Lin Kun reached the semi-finals and met Mohammad Soufi. The Syrian player was the phenomenon of the tournament when he beat former world champion Albin Ouschan 11-9 in the quarterfinals. The other semi-final is between Niels Feijen and Chang Jung Lin.