Deaf mechanic world champion
BrotherAmerican player Shane Van Boening won the number one seed Albin Ouschan 13-6 in the final of the 9-ball world pool tournament on the evening of April 10.
Shane Van Boening celebrates his first world championship in his career, in Milton Keynes, England on the evening of April 10. Image: Matchroom
After the decisive turn, Boening shook Ouschan’s hand and jumped onto the table to celebrate his first world championship, after finishing second in 2015 and 2016. He became the first American player to win the world nine-ball pool championship. after 20 years, since Earl Strickland in Cardiff, Wales. And Ouschan missed the opportunity to equal Strickland’s own record of three championships.
The two players competed fiercely from the opening. Boening took a 1-0 lead but fouled the number 2 ball in the next game and was equalized 1-1. Ouschan then took a 4-2 lead, but Boening won the next three games in a row. In which, in game 9, the American player added ball 1 to ball 9 to end the first game quickly. But the Austrian hand was also not fit when he won the next two games to lead 6-5 back.
The turning point came in game 12, when Ouschan hid the cue ball behind the other two, there was no longer a straight line to the 1st ball. But Boening balanced the cue cue long to put the target ball into the hole. Since then, Boening won 8 games in a row to end the match 13-6.
The final game of the final match.
“I dreamed of the day I became a world champion,” Boening said after the final. “I received a lesson that I must try my best, follow my passion and never give up.”
On the way to the championship, Boening once thought he would have to go home soon. “The match against former champion Mika Immonen changed a lot of things,” he added. “I thought I had to go home when I was 10-3, but I still fought and won 11-10. I have no words to describe how happy I am.”
Boening surpassed Ouschan himself to become the number one player in the world. He received £60,000 ($78,000) for the championship, while Ouschan received £30,000.
Boening was born on July 14, 1983 in Rapid City, South Dakota, USA. He was born with a hearing loss, and had to wear a hearing aid while competing. He is the former number one in the world, recognized by the magazine Billiards Digest & AZBilliards chosen as the best player of the decade 2011-2020.
In 2016 in Doha, Qatar, Boening lost to Ouschan himself in the world final with a score of 6-13. He is a rare American player who regularly tours the movement in Taiwan or the Philippines, the Asian pool powerhouses.
Xuan Binh
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