{"id":2754,"date":"2010-04-04T15:08:09","date_gmt":"2010-04-04T21:08:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.billiardcoach.com\/home\/?p=2754"},"modified":"2010-04-03T15:09:38","modified_gmt":"2010-04-03T21:09:38","slug":"wpba-top-8-in-mini-tournament","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.billiardcoach.com\/home\/2010\/04\/04\/wpba-top-8-in-mini-tournament","title":{"rendered":"WPBA Top 8 in Mini-Tournament?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Top 8 women play in a mini-tournament?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Here&#8217;s a news clipping from the Omaha World Herald:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Published Wednesday    March 24, 2010<\/p>\n<h1 id=\"articleHeadContainer\">Billiards: Omaha Classic set for this  weekend<\/h1>\n<div>\n<p>WORLD-HERALD PRESS SERVICES<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div><script type=\"text\/javascript\">\/\/ <![CDATA[\n\tdisplayAd(12, false, false, false, false);\n\/\/ ]]><\/script> <script type=\"text\/javascript\">\/\/ <![CDATA[\n\tdisplayAd(12, false, false, false, false, true);\n\/\/ ]]><\/script><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Eight top players from the Women\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Professional Billiard Association  will compete in the Omaha Classic this weekend at Qwest Center Omaha.<\/p>\n<p>Competition  in the nine-ball tournament begins Thursday night. The semifinals and  finals are Sunday afternoon.<\/p>\n<p>Three top 10 players \u00e2\u20ac\u201d No. 4 Karen  Corr, No. 6 Allison Fisher and No. 10 Monica Webb \u00e2\u20ac\u201d are among those  competing for a $10,000 purse.<\/p>\n<p>From:\u00c2\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.omaha.com\/article\/20100324\/SPORTS\/100329796\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.omaha.com\/article\/20100324\/SPORTS\/100329796<\/a><\/p>\n<p>I think it was in conjunction with a home show:<br \/>\nTODAY AND SUNDAY<br \/>\nThe 54th annual Omaha Home Show continues  through Sunday at the Qwest Center Omaha. Show hours are: Saturday 10  a.m. to 9 p.m. and Sunday 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Admission is $9 for adults,  $5 for students (17 and under), and free for kids under 5. The show  features more than 300 exhibitors offering products and expert advice,  as well as guest speakers, a Women&#8217;s Professional Billiards Association  competition and a pet zone. The event is sponsored by the Metro Omaha  Builders Association and the Metropolitan Utilities District.  Information: www.GoToTheShows.com.<\/p>\n<p><strong>I did some looking around for the results and couldn&#8217;t find them.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>This is bad news for the WPBA and for pool in general.<br \/>\nI saw in a survey that pool\/billiards was down 12.3% in 2009 over the previous year.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/id\/36103179\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/id\/36103179<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Top 8 women play in a mini-tournament? Here&#8217;s a news clipping from the Omaha World Herald: Published Wednesday March 24, 2010 Billiards: Omaha Classic set for this weekend WORLD-HERALD PRESS SERVICES Eight top players from the Women\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Professional Billiard Association will compete in the Omaha Classic this weekend at Qwest Center Omaha. Competition in the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":63,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2754","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-announcements","category-billiard-industry-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billiardcoach.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2754","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billiardcoach.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billiardcoach.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billiardcoach.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/63"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billiardcoach.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2754"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.billiardcoach.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2754\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2759,"href":"https:\/\/www.billiardcoach.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2754\/revisions\/2759"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billiardcoach.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2754"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billiardcoach.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2754"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billiardcoach.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2754"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}