{"id":666,"date":"2008-05-02T19:03:25","date_gmt":"2008-05-03T02:03:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.billiardcoach.com\/home\/?p=6"},"modified":"2008-07-05T16:28:43","modified_gmt":"2008-07-05T23:28:43","slug":"updates-from-the-us-open-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.billiardcoach.com\/home\/2008\/05\/02\/updates-from-the-us-open-2","title":{"rendered":"Updates from the U.S. Open"},"content":{"rendered":"

I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m currently at the 2007 US Open 9 Ball Championships<\/a> in Chesapeake, Virginia where the room is chilly but the pool is HOT!<\/p>\n

Even though the tournament room is kept so cold you can almost see your breath, the weather outside has been in the gorgeous high 70s and the pool is smokin\u00e2\u20ac\u2122!<\/p>\n

It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Day 5 at the event and the long hours have kept me from posting sooner.<\/p>\n

I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve been busy taking tons of photos for Inside Pool<\/a> and helping out on the set of the Inside Pool Xtreme Press Box where they\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re reporting live twice a day.<\/p>\n

Here are some highlighted photos I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve taken so far. The rest of my work can be found at the Inside Pool Magazine Photo Gallery<\/a>.
\n\"USOpenDay4_142.jpg\"<\/a>\"USOpenDay4_037.jpg\"<\/a>\"USOpenDay4_006.jpg\"<\/a>\"USOpenDay4_004.jpg\"<\/a>\"USOpenDay3_137.jpg\"<\/a>\"USOpenDay3_045.jpg\"<\/a>
\n\"USOpenDay2_162.jpg\"<\/a>\"USOpenDay2_149.jpg\"<\/a>\"USOpenDay2_066.jpg\"<\/a>\"USOpenDay1_193.jpg\"<\/a>\"USOpenDay1_146.jpg\"<\/a>\"USOpenDay1_76.jpg\"<\/a>
\nMy own results were not as thrilling as I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122d hoped. I lost hill-hill to a very solid Canadian player, Tyler Edey<\/a> (who still happens to be on the winner\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s side). I played steady and neither one of us made very many mistakes. When it was 9-9 we each missed the 9-ball. He gave me a shot after the break on the 1 ball and I ran the rack. In the last game of the match, I failed to make a ball on the break and Tyler maneuvered through nicely for the win.<\/p>\n

My second match was against Charlie Williams on the TV Table. I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve never experienced that kind of heat or pressure before. Due to the actual heat from all the lights, the table played extremely tough. The pressure of being on center court made the pockets play even tighter.<\/p>\n

Even though the match was earlier in the day and the stands were fairly empty, it was still just as pressure packed.<\/p>\n

The most memorable out of that match came when Charlie played a safety on the 8 ball while down 9-8. I shot a jump bank with my full cue leaving me a tough back cut on the 9 ball in side, which I made to tie it up 9-9.<\/p>\n

I felt I could\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve won that match had it not been my first time playing on the TV Table. A couple mental errors and a few tight strokes due to the pressure were all that stood between me and winning that match.<\/p>\n

Not that I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m done with the competing part of the tournament my main focus has been on taking tons of photographs as well as filming some instructional segments with Samm<\/a>. These finished products will include a series of several two to three minute instructional snippets called Xtreme Instruction<\/a> and can be found on InsidePoolMag.com.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m currently at the 2007 US Open 9 Ball Championships in Chesapeake, Virginia where the room is chilly but the pool is HOT! Even though the tournament room is kept so cold you can almost see your breath, the weather outside has been in the gorgeous high 70s and the pool is smokin\u00e2\u20ac\u2122! It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Day […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[18,14,16,20,17,19],"class_list":["post-666","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-announcements","category-tournament-reports","tag-chesapeake-virginia","tag-edey","tag-pool","tag-tournament","tag-tv-table","tag-us-open"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.billiardcoach.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/666","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.billiardcoach.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.billiardcoach.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.billiardcoach.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.billiardcoach.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=666"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.billiardcoach.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/666\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.billiardcoach.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=666"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.billiardcoach.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=666"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.billiardcoach.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=666"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}