Player Quoc Hoang stops at the world tournament

Quoc Hoang had a bad start and was soon leading 0-6, then pulled back a game. He had defeated Toru Kurabayashi in the previous round despite being led back five games, but this time the miracle did not appear again. Gorst showed the class of the 2019 world 9-ball pool champion, winning the last four games and ending with a 10-1 victory.

Gorst is only 23 years old, has won dozens of international titles. This Russian player has rarely competed in the past year, causing the WPA world ranking to drop to 27, and Quoc Hoang to 62. However, according to the fargo coefficient, which is calculated based on the results for the opponent. Against nearly 300,000 players in the world, Gorst is second only to Joshua Filler, with Quoc Hoang at 26th.

After defeating Quoc Hoang, Russian players won Jan van Lierop 10-7 and Denis Grabe 10-3 respectively to enter the semi-finals. The remaining quarter-final pairs are Francisco Sanchez Ruiz - Aloysius Yapp, Ko Ping Chung - Filler and Shane van Boening - Eklent Kaci.

The 2023 world 10 ball pool tournament will take place in Las Vegas, Nevada, USA from February 28 to March 4, bringing together 128 invited players. Vietnam has four representatives, in which Luong Duc Thien, Nguyen Anh Tuan and Ta Van Linh all stopped in the double qualifying round.

Quoc Hoang left the tournament with $2,000, the second highest prize money received by a Vietnamese player in the tournament's history. He won four and lost two in this tournament, with both defeats coming to the former world champion.

The next world prize in the WPA pool system is the 8-ball pool in Morocco at the end of May 2023. The next prestigious pool tournament is the Premier League (Premium Pool), taking place in Leicester, England from March 6 to March 13 with 16 players invited to attend. Vietnam has two places to attend, Nguyen Anh Tuan and Luong Duc Thien, competing against players like Filler, Albin Ouschan, Boening, Jayson Shaw or the legendary Earl Strickland.