Rubilen Amit — SEA GAMES POOL
Rubilen Amit must settle for what the desk provides her.
A staple within the medal ceremonies of Southeast Asian (SEA) Video games billiards competitions for almost 20 years, Amit won’t be able to compete in her pet occasions—9-ball and 10-ball singles—on this yr’s Cambodia internet hosting of the regional meet.
“For ladies, these occasions gained’t be performed,’’ stated Amit, who claimed the gold medals within the 9-ball and 10-ball occasions of the SEA Video games final yr in Hanoi, Vietnam.
The primary Filipino girl who turned a world pool champion additionally dominated the 9-ball singles and 9-ball doubles with Chezka Centeno throughout the 2019 SEA Video games version in Manila and obtained a silver medal behind Centeno within the 10-ball singles.
The ten-time ladies’s pool gold winner within the 11-nation sportsfest will now attempt to money in on different occasions.
“I’ll play within the carom as a substitute. In actual fact, I’ve been coaching for fairly a while now,’’ stated Centeno, who’s entered within the one-cushion and three-cushion occasions throughout the billiards competitions on Could 7 to 14 at J Snooker Corridor in Phnom Penh.
Cambodian organizers scratched ladies’s pool off the record of occasions, whereas on the boys’s occasions, retained 9-ball singles and doubles, snooker, english billiards and carom.
Filipino billiards legend Efren “Bata’’ Reyes has been enlisted within the one-cushion and three-cushion of males’s carom along with Francisco dela Cruz.
Reyes introduced house a bronze medal with Dela Cruz within the one-cushion carom throughout the earlier Hanoi SEA Video games.
“It’s my first time enjoying carom and I’m hoping to get a medal,’’ stated Amit, a two-time ladies’s world 10-ball champion.
Amit topped the SEA Video games 9-ball singles 4 occasions and the 10-ball occasion six occasions, a streak that started when Manila hosted the biennial Video games in 2005.
Centeno dominated the 10-ball singles in 2015 in Singapore earlier than retaining the identical title on the 2017 Video games in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. INQ
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