![]() I can lean on him,” said Aranas of Chua.Ĭhua and Aranas joined an elite company as they became the third Filipino pair to top the World Cup of Pool after the iconic Efren “Bata” Reyes-Francisco “Django” Bustamante duo and Dennis Orcollo-Lee Vann Corteza tandem. The Filipinos appeared to have run out of luck in their semifinal duel against Austria’s Albin Ouschan and Mario He when they blew an 8-4 lead and ceded four straight racks to the two-time champions.īut Chua and Aranas pulled off another 9-8 escape to arrange a title clash with Germany’s Joshua Filler and Moritz Neuhausen, who they beat 11-7 to complete their championship romp and pocket the top purse of $60,000.Īranas said he banked on Chua, who won a nine-ball gold in the Southeast Asian Games and reigned in the World Teams 10-Ball Championship with teammates Rubilen Amit and Carlo Biado last year, during tense moments. ![]() Pitted against the formidable Chinese Taipei siblings of Ko Pin-yi and Ko Ping-chung in the last eight, Aranas and Chua squandered a six-rack lead while being on the hill before they recovered in time to hack out a 9-8 win.
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