The young Spaniard, Zapata WINS!
SPANISH DAVID ZAPATA (28) ON BEAT BEST PAID BILLION OF ALL TIME
SEOUL - The less than 30-year-old Spaniard David Zapata is immediately the best-paid billiard of all time. Even the legendary Belgian Raymond Ceulemans with his 21 tri-cushion titles has never earned as much with his rich palmares of championships as true the not even world famous Juan David Zapata today, Saturday March 6, 2021, on a historic day In South Korea it was very happy with it on the PBA Tour stage. The cheque of 220.000 euros, a huge amount of millions in Korean won, has completely turned the history of carom pooling in discipline three-ties on its head. From nowhere, as a young Spaniard, David Zapata was the first ever winner of the ' PBA ' World Cup ', a title contested in circles of the traditional UMB (world union), but proudly announced in the professional organization of the PBA.
David Zapata defeated the best remaining Korean Dong Koong Kang in the final today, Saturday, after a furious battle in which 32 players were placed from the regular tournaments. The undisputed contenders, such as Fr éd éric Caudron, Philippos Kasidokostas and a few strong Koreans had died along the way. David Zapata, an extremely modest player from the famous Spanish pool academy of Jos é Maria Quetglas, grew to the best shape of his young career and exploded in the best-paid tournament in the long history of the three-cushion.
David Zapata won the final with 5-4 after a titanic fight. With this he earned 220.000 euros against the runner-up, the number two, only 22.000 euros. The all or nothing competition of the truth caused an immense tension among the two billiards. Dong Koong Kang succumbed to that devastating pressure. David Zapata, known only as European junior champion so far in his career, rose to an altitude that gives him eternal glory in billiardland on a miraculous day in his pool life.
The Spaniard converted his class in the final into eisterable force and deed urge into the decisive set, in which the 4-4 intermediate score involved the grand prize of 220.000 euros or the consolation prize of 22.000 euros, his Korean opponent Putting in front of the firing squad as it were. The victory in that last set to 15 points, in two turns, with a great series of 12, brought the Spaniard to the highest state of euphoria. He is the first 'world champion of the PBA', the first player in history to write so much money into his bank account with one tournament.
The set stands in the final:
Zapata-Kang
1e set: 10-15
2e set: 15-6
3e set: 14-15
4e set: 8-15 (2-2)
5e set: 15-13
6e set: 8-15 (3-3)
7e set: 15-6
8e set: 7-15 (4-4)
9nd set: 15-4 in 2 turns (5-4).
Average: 1.850/1.776
