Favorites advance to A Mild third round<\/p>\n
Moch. N. Kurniawan, The Jakarta Post, Kuta, Bali<\/p>\n
Several top-ranked players advanced to the third round of the
\nmain draw at the A Mild Billiard Bali International Open at
\nParadiso Bowling and Billiard Center here on Wednesday.<\/p>\n
Among players with easy wins were world No. 3 Alex Pagulayan
\nof Canada, world No. 5 Efren Reyes of the Philippines, world No.
\n7 Fransisco Bustamante of the Philippines, 13th-ranked Mika
\nImmonen of Finland and world No. 32 Chao Fong-Pang of Taiwan.<\/p>\n
Pagulayan, Reyes, Bustamante and Chao cruised through at the
\nexpense of the Indonesian players.<\/p>\n
Pagulayan sent home Eddy \"Dino\" Hartono 7-5; Reyes defeated
\nRamli H. 7-3; and Bustamante edged out Jimmy J. 7-4; Chao won 7-2
\nagainst Teddy Sutansyah.<\/p>\n
Immonen, meanwhile, beat Jason Ahmad of Australia 7-4.<\/p>\n
Dino had to abandon his chase in the tournament after he
\nsomehow lost concentration while in the lead.<\/p>\n
Ahead by 5-4, he missed the chance to pocket the second ball
\nin frame 10.<\/p>\n
\"Afterwards, Pagulayan did not waste his chance to pull out
\nsome shots and seal the game,\" Dino said. \"I had really motivated
\nmyself to beat him, but once again I failed.\"<\/p>\n
Immonen conceded a slightly shaky performance early on to
\nallow Ahmad to level the score at 4-4 before regrouping in the
\nremaining frames.<\/p>\n
\"There was a pressure early for me to win the game, but later
\non I gained in composure and took the last three frames for a 7-4
\nvictory,\" he said.<\/p>\n
Other Indonesian contenders, Siaw Wieto and Muhammad Zulkifli,
\nalso failed to find winning form. Tournament champion in 2004,
\nSiaw was beaten 4-7 by Vincent Goh T. Kiat of Singapore, while
\nZulkifli lost 3-7 to 1998 Asian Games champion Gandy Valle of the
\nPhilippines.<\/p>\n
Siaw found tough opposition in Vincent and the matched leveled
\nat 3-3 before the Indonesian champion the began to falter, making
\nbad breaks and missing chances to pocket easy balls.<\/p>\n
He could only take one more frame before losing out to the
\nFilipino.<\/p>\n
\"I made too many bad breaks. That affected my confidence,\" he
\nsaid.\"<\/p>\n
Despite the defeat, under the double elimination play format,
\nSiaw still had a chance of qualifying for the last 32 if he could
\nwin a match against another loser later on the day.<\/p>",
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