Efren “Bata” Reyes and Marlon “Marvelous” Manalo, are now ready to face their respective opponents at the knock-out stage of the World 9-Ball Championship in Doha, Qatar on Wednesday, September 11, 2013.
Bata Reyes defeated Jeong Young Hwa of Korea 9-4, last Tuesday to advance to Final 64, while Manalo subdued Poland’s Mateusz Sniegocki, 9-4. For the knock-out stage, Reyes will face Nick van den Berg of Netherlands in the single elimination or knock-out format.
Marlon “Marvelous” Manalo on the other hand will face off against Omar Al Shaheen of Kuwait. Filipino cue master and former world no. 1 Francisco “Django” Bustamante faile to reach the the Final 64 after losing to Thorsten Hohmann of Germany, 6-9.
Meanwhile here’s the other Final 64 Matches:
- • Antonio Gabica vs Nguyen Anh Tuan of Vietnam
- • Marlon Villamor vs Karl Boyes of Great Britain
- • Raymund Faraon vs Manuel Gama of Portugal
- • Lee Vann Corteza vs Daryl Peach of Great Britain
- • Jeffrey de Luna vs Ruslan Chinakhov of Russia
- • Dennis Orcollo vs John Morra of Canada
- • Ramil Gallego vs Enrique Rojas of Chile
- • Carlo Biado vs Ralf Souquet of Germany
- • Israel “Amay” Rota versus fellow Filipino Mark Antony