SemiFinal ▸ Allison Fisher vs Kristina Tkach ▸ Kamui WPA Women's World 9-Ball Championship 2023

Welcome to the final day of the WPA Kamui Women's World 9-Ball Championship at the Harrah's Casino Convention Center in Atlantic City. We have our second semi-final of the day between Christina Takash and the legendary Allison Fisher. The referee for this match is Mr. Dwayne Payne and the timekeeper will be Angela Williams. I'm Tony Robles and I will be accompanied in this second semi-final match of the day by Mr. Keith Paradise, how are you, Tony? I'm very well. I'm looking forward to this semi-final. final match uh it's awesome to see Allison still in the mix yeah I feel like Allison is the sentimental favorite in this semi final.

I had a very difficult match, uh, last night, she cut me off and I was super happy for her, yeah. the huge relief on her face after completing that match and Christina earned her way to the semi-final last night with an incredible jump shot straightened almost the length of a table to run out for the match on

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five there was something Big drama in this room last night between 10 and 11. Because you had the match with Kelly Fisher and Sal uh with Kelly getting eliminated and then 20 minutes later you had the match with Cheska and Allison Allison jumped to a Big lead and she escaped came back, yeah, he almost made it until he missed both balls on a kick after Allison had played a safety and that put the ball in his hand on the Wind and then 15 minutes later, 20 minutes later.

Christina was putting the finishing touches on her win so it was fantastic, there was great theater here last night, a lot of fantastic matches and overall I was impressed by all the

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who played in this event, the level. The game has been stellar, now it has been of the highest quality throughout the four days. Well, Christina is looking to grab the first rack quickly to see if she has an angle here to finish all eight. I think so, so she has enough for one. Sorry, go ahead, I think she's got enough for a mm-hmm, she'll just get out of that lane.

She couldn't say enough how impressed I am with her fundamentals, yeah, uh, Mark and I were talking about that in the first game. How you were excited about her match and her match with Jasmine, another good match yesterday, oh yeah, yeah, well, the thing is Keith, that's why I vote. Alison is one of my favorite players of all time. I've been saying it for years. I think she's one of the greatest players who ever lived, Matt, male or female, and I've always boasted about her fundamentals for years, especially through my teaching, and I've always considered her to be probably one of the top three teams. of fundamentals that I have known.

I have never seen it before, seeing two of the players who, in my opinion, have the best fundamentals in the

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, is a pleasure. I did a story for Billiards Digestive about Joanne Mason Parker's return to competitive play last year and she said one of the first things she did. When she really started to focus and started taking the competition seriously again was when she watched Allison's video because she considers Allison to be the player with the best fundamentals, which is not surprising at all, so Christina is not surprising here . The wing ball flies directly into a ball.

He cuts right into the side pocket has a chance for two, but I guess we're going for a safety here, Tony, yeah, I mean, he might have to because he could, he can cut it on the side, he can escape the four ball, then it's okay. He'll probably play all three in the same pocket if he goes for the side pocket, as long as he can avoid running into that four and potentially scratching the corner on the right, see if he would have had a fuller hit on the ground then I would have been a a little worried about scraping that phone in the corner, she hit it really well and had perfect positioning on the three to hit the floor, just a nice little slow move that barely goes off the rail, so you have enough angle on the floor to avoid running. on the eight, yeah, look at that nice control with the stun funnels at the ready, keep going, yeah, and I guess two rails are coming for the six ball, huh, no, I think she'll go for one rail here unless she wants to go to the other side, which I don't know if she has the angle to do that to be honest with you, well, you called that one, well, now here, I don't know if she can handle the father, she just wants to empower him, but she can. pass a nine ball without hitting it, she can go two ways, if not, she ended up with a smaller angle than she wanted.

I'm pretty sure it's a little straighter than you'd like, so the key here is getting over that nine, maybe I'd just stop following this, oh yeah, wow, it was tricky, I had the nine in mind because it was good. , there was a good chance she had run into that nine ball, look at the only reason why that was she didn't run towards the nine ball because she missed the ball. This is a bit of an awkward position for Allison because she's at an angle that doesn't really allow you to turn her that far to the left. the right side of the table and goes around the eight, you might have to go a little deeper, that's what she's thinking about, you can always just tap it and take the shot a little harder on the eight, she doesn't have to do anything fancy , TRUE? well, I guess the cue ball rolled a little further than she would have liked, yeah, I think here she needs to go back and forth at least two rails, it's a little hard to hold the cue ball here, I mean , let's see how she hits it low and with a quick short shot like that, but she caught it too much, she overcut it it's not an easy shot it's not an easy shot it's just going to go three cushions here past the point oh now it's got two cushions no , she went three way with confidence Strokes that one takes a lead of two nothing here in this race to nine semi-finals, okay, let's take a quick one minute break and we'll be right back to foreign foreigner Christina to break the balls that broke in the first two breaks he just made. hit would be controlled the cue ball made the ball from the side made the corner ball and she has had enough control of this match not enough good things could be said about her rest last night in that match against Jasmine which was because she breaks with the control that that it was a little different hit there we cursed her she hit the one that was to the side a little bit there not for much though not for much here Allison needs to kick the one that was born send it she said keep it separate from both of us you know I've seen players throw this kick shot and hit a ball like Finn on the left side and have the bucket take it outside of which we will make the nine.

I'm not saying it's What should she do? You know, she's playing with a very dangerous player in Christina, so she has to be very careful with the decision she makes for this kick shot here on the only ball she's going to push. I imagine Christina is going to give this to him. Allison shot hard, you know, what I think when she decided to push is that she probably didn't like her chances of hitting the one who was far away, you know, and keeping him from running into the four, seven, and five down there, finally getting close from the other side oh wow look at that and she could back up the tube ball here Keith maybe you have enough room it's hard to tell from this angle well I mean if you don't you can leave the bucket underneath. the six goes right between the three and the eight hit the long rail and return to the short rail which actually looks cuttable even though it's a very low percentage shot.

I'm surprised he didn't hit him harder, well maybe he didn't. she's good, she's good, I think she might have caught it, she barely got there okay, I don't see her running towards her jump cue so she can definitely see the ball, now you see she's just going to try to separate them and leave them in. the long rail keypad on this long rail and the item on the next rail along which she's going to go for it and maybe have a shot at the inside three. Wow, she looks at that shot. I thought six covered it a lot more than it was, yeah.

No, I mean it was a fantastic shot, it hit the outside of the pocket. Now the question is whether she will try to play for a bench in the four ball. She's watching to see if the four passes the seven pretty tight and decides to do it. for the bank I wouldn't be surprised if she shoots the three in the corner and is supposed to decide because it's easier to handle the speed of the cue ball control, so it seems like she's playing for the bank pretty safe. she hit her hair hard to slow down the cue ball which gives it an off angle on the edge so he will have to control the speed of the cue ball here he doesn't need to hit it hard she still Hit him hard thinking he can move, but wow, I mean, if you have another bench here set up that will try to hide her under the nine, you know, maybe she tried to run towards the fight, maybe that's why she hit him hard, let's see.

She tries to put no, she didn't try to put her behind the knife, she just thought let me try to hide her staff here, so the key here is to get to five past seven, oh, she didn't hit any dead squares. . A little bit of paper there running towards the eight, yes, but she left that cut, she left the cut that is similar to the cut on the two balls that Christina just nailed, you know, a few moments ago, the problem is that the nine Balls are in the way, yeah, I mean. if you hit a 9 ball on the right side the nine the cue ball could come out two sides of the nine past the eight you just have to be careful not to get close to that seven ball hmm I would reconsider that two way shot because you missed and still left it , left her safe.

I'm just wondering if the Eight is too far for Allison to jump and Karen pool denied. No, she's looking to go two lanes, two lanes for the five nine combo. I have to assume she's going to pay. her timing, I mean her length, you know, a couple of good things can happen here, you know, if she gets five hits out of nine on the thin side, she could potentially go to the side or the corner pocket, oh, wow, look at that, try, look and look at the cue ball look at the species he sold out with unfortunately yeah man that was a great try trying to pot that nine ball oh surprise push that a little bit yeah uh well I'd be surprised if Fallon wasn't. for the bench here cute bang from Allison to see I don't see any problem here at all I don't see the shot stopped on the seven which gives her a perfect angle on the eight ball I like the fact that she didn't even bother to try to hit that with an inside spin to try to straighten the cue ball to the side you just said, let me make sure I make the ball, if I have to shoot the seven in the corner, I'll clearly have the angle to get up. table for alley nine keeping her composure waiting for the opportunity like she always has and this to get to one Christina takach missed ball five Allison Fisher made her payment goes up to the scoreboard lead not 2-1 for Christina here in the semi-finals of the WPA

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here at Harrah's Resort and Casino in Atlantic City and like I said before, Keith, it's been quite an event.

I mean, I've been more than impressed by the level of play this week, especially yesterday, yes, and I had the pleasure of seeing some. women I'd never heard of, that's what I mean, they played top-notch pool, look at that comeback you had against Sowa in the first semi-final, losing 6-2, come back to win at 9-7, I think the woman. that impressed me uh from Germany I think her name is Melanie uh sussenguth yeah she was amazing Jasmine, the one on the side lost on Friday, a guy on the side, let's see if it ends with a chance for both of us wow, this is what you want , this is what you expect when you break the balls it's what I call friendly bumperonis yes there are no real obstacles here there are no two three and four on the top half of the table five ring at the other end with the six and the seven is up enough I'm up eight is enough that you don't have to do anything special to get to eight by nine, so this is like an exhausted dream for all the players in a major tournament when it's the hill, the right hill for the

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, This is what I hope to recover from, the real dream would end, it would be eight or nine, eight shots in a row, yes, a lot more than that Tom Cruise Color of Money ended where he made five shots.

I don't think the cue ball has moved two inches, yes, it still needs to. protect from the nine here very nice a bit correct band try to make it as straight as possible on the seven and that's what I've always respected about her even though she knows she can just throw this ball and keep going on the eight she always she's been very disciplined and goes to that side of the table to make sure that way she has less to think about, she can focus on making the shot, oh she's almost straight here, maybe she can just roll. she comes off the rail and goes to that nine ball like that to tie it to a piece, okay, we have a tight ball game and two on two talking about two, we'll take a quick two minute break and we'll be back. once again the score is tied at two games here for our second semi-final of the day with ciao Chey Yu winning the first securing his place in the final, who will be the one to take second place to play for the thirty thousand. top dollar prize here and for the bragging rights of calling herself the

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There you see that thetwo balls flew directly into the corner pocket. The question is: I think she should take the bench here because there is a chance if she hits it on the short side she can play position and still defend with the five or seven or just leave it in the top rail period, even play, play the three on the side just like that, just like that, there's a window there, although it seems like you see. she's just trying to get him in front of the four or she's trying to go two lanes with the one and she's got the keyboard behind the three and the nine trying to get behind the helicopter guy that's a strong shot and that's all that training all that training that she makes it look easy let me it's far from easy if it were easy we'd all be doing it yeah I mean this isn't an easy hit for Ally.

I don't think she can get past that side pocket, so she has no choice but to hit the top rail. I have to swing it to the ball hit near the first diamond and just swing it between the three and the seven and I don't even know she can hit that far to the left considering the cue ball is the left side of the cue ball. She's frozen on the eight foreigners, yeah, she thought she was out of time, there was a big safe on Christina's part, she was hoping to get a little higher than that to avoid running into the four and the six, and she's going to shoot a stopped shot.

Here perhaps she advances a little, possibly going two lanes for the four towards the five. I have seen players who shoot this shot and like to go down a lane. How does she feel about the shotgun? One lane versus two lanes. I mean, they're both going towards five but I prefer both. I'm biased because I like single band shots with internal tracking. I'm not saying they are 100 the right decision for me or anyone, but I mean look at what you just did. with two rails he gave him the perfect angle, he told Montreal that he will probably use two more rails here, so the question is if he is going to go for a rail to the center of the table for the seven in the corner, he is just going to touch it and take the seven on the side.

I like to play seven in the corner that way. I don't have to move the cue ball much on seven. Yeah, so she goes about three feet to the right side. Some Sun action there. Looks like we have a big fire here a bit as Christina takes the lead by a score of three to two, there was that safety behind the eight ball, yeah she really pinned it with that safety. He was talking to Christina yesterday after her game, she jumped. Yesterday I gave her an early lead in her quarterfinal match and then she lost it and they were finally neck and neck down the stretch.

I asked her what happened and she said that where the table was there was an air conditioning vent that was. blowing directly on top of her oh wow yes she was freezing yes she was she was sitting there she had a jacket on and when me and I were talking to her she had two hand warmers like we were at a football game wow I talked yesterday during one of the matches about what it's like to play when your body is frozen and your hands are also frozen. It's like when that happens to me. My arms start to shake when I try to hit the ball.

It is very difficult to play in those conditions. oh, she did the corner ball again and the side ball, yeah, so she'll probably she'll stop the bucket around that area for the side four. The question is how are you going to go from five to six? Here's a shot I used. To practice many years ago, since I am a straight feed player, where I would shoot the four balls coming off the rail and trying to get a stronger hit on the five balls so that when I threw it and it came off the rail with the tie and Well, the cue ball will hit the nine side and straighten the cue ball to be parallel to the rail.

Ah, so I wonder if that's something she might be thinking about or possibly just taking a stop shot at the five and playing it safe. I don't know if she can do that now I see what she decides to do here, maybe try to move it closer to the side pocket and go back to d8 and take the harder cut on the six, yeah it looks like that's what she's doing. she just needs to guard against the seed if that's what she's doing thanks well not now the guy eight comes into play here because of the angle it comes into play and it's not exactly a shot we've already seen.

She missed one of these in that pocket before, the coolest thing I've ever seen, uh, shoot this inside spin shot is that from Rey is if you shoot this Inside Spin and make it look like I hit it with no spin, straighten up that taco ball out wow, very good, very well done avoiding the look at that shot, man, shoot with enough spin and make sure she avoided running into the eight, but she also avoided that corner pocket. I'm pretty sure she didn't want to. run to the age she's good at here, cut her back, get off the long rail, head back towards the nine, only for her to start where the tangent line takes her that way, she figures out where to hit the cue ball, like this , Christine, it's a Koch like a two game lead again four to two while both players take a timeout and we're going to take a timeout for about a minute we'll be back and we're back Christina seems to be meditating, she's thinking deeply , Yeah.

Resting a bit, taking advantage of the time here, still waiting for Ali to return safely. Who has impressed you the most in the two days you've been here? Keith, the level of play that comes from South Korea? Korea in general. It's been really impressive, yeah, I mean, that's so, I mean, King is so close, not even the talent, just the depth, there's five or six players that were here, yeah, well, Ali's back in the arena, Christina to break the balls, has been breaking spectacularly throughout the event. one on the side, oh the second one I thought seven was going to try to kick that white ball, now you can see the two balls, no, yeah, maybe I have to push over here.

I know how much he loves to jump the ball, don't do it. I'm surprised if she tries to leave the keyboard behind the eight, right, you hear someone celebrating the team's background. I think they have the team routine. The competition is still going on, this is the last day, so she will try, uh, something different, hmm, interesting, now what? would be the reasoning behind doing that, I mean, it's a higher percentage, it's less likely to sell out, it's actually a very smart store because if she puts in the effort to make the jump, there's no guarantee that she won't end up letting you Addison the opportunity this way. she in a very difficult position where, even if she had a chance at the two balls, it is not easy to get to the three.

I'm pretty sure Ali was hoping to hide it. Let me see if she did it. Maybe she would have let him see. It's like I could see that edge, so now she's going to lean over. I mean, they both bought two rails in front of the eight and left the hub on the other side or possibly behind the five and the nine in front of the eight. Did she nail it? let her see some of this beautifully, she can bank that too past 59 and leave the cue ball more or less where she is now. I'm not sure if she has that angle, but if she does, it's a shot, no, a nice little touch here, but it's a delicate shot from that angle.

I don't know if she can see both of them because she definitely can see them. I think she's trying to see if she can cut it on the side, maybe she can even spin it around all three. ball just a little bit just a lift of the hair just enough to curve the hair, you can hit the two on the left side and hide the wire behind the five or the nine, I think she'll hide it behind the fire yeah. That seems like a safe play, yeah, oh, she went to the corner, yeah, that's a little surprising, so I wonder if she'll send the three ball into the pocket in the upper right corner and send the cue ball behind the four or the five, nine. what I expected the cue ball to do after that shot because she doesn't seem happy with the Atlanta rails and in front of the very nice five nines, yeah, I don't know, maybe she hit it too much, maybe she was just trying to hurt you.

I know how to make the cue ball go off a little bit, so I think it was a slow roll that wasn't slow enough, that's correct. I like to go three lanes here, it's supposed to be one lane because there's always a chance of three passing. the side maybe maybe not, but if not, the cue ball could trail behind the five or the nine, this assuming it doesn't hit a dead square, who's going to avoid the scratch here because I think it will? Standing in front of the seven, maybe you can see enough to hit it, but I don't know if you can see enough to do it.

She will do it, she will have to hit it very fine so that the player is safe and tries to stop the three. facing the five nine as she left the cue ball on the right side of the table oh she missed it this is a great opportunity for Ali here with her hand on the three ball with a chance to get within one she probably hit that and a little bit, but I think she'll be fine, yeah I do, and it's a good angle for that six ball, yeah, I like to get off that second rail a little bit and even if she goes straight on the six, it's fine because I'll end up with an angle on the seven oh she didn't mean to hit that nine ball now she's going to have to lift a little weight here a little extra work she needs to stay focused coming and going very nice absolutely perfect not just follow a bit to get help and depending on where you want to play the nine, I guess we'll determine what the keyboard decides to leave for the eight.

I don't mind shooting in the side pocket because the heat is up. The nine ball seems like that's what she's looking for, oh no, she's going to play in the same pocket. I guess I thought it was straight on the 8, but it has an angle and that's the shot right there because you just have the whole pocket instead of Regarding the steep angle on the side, I was going to say that angle on the side pocket seems very steep for this line, well, now that I look at it from this angle, yeah, sure, the score is now four to three with break value.

See if she can make up the break and finish the shot. Nice view here at the arena, the last day of both the Women's World 9-Ball Championship and the amateur championships there. This is the first year for this event. the CSI League event, as well as obviously the women's tournament, I have to say I was very impressed by the turnout, the amount of people that came there, Ali stayed focused. I was so happy for her when she won last night. I went and gave her a hug and said now you beat Jessica and you have to give me weight you know that well and she didn't mind having to give me weight she was just so related she won wow wow I mean she hit so well well I I spoke to her for a story I was working on a few weeks ago and we talked about her past year and she said she was toying with the idea of ​​retiring from the game.

She has business interests in North Carolina, where she lives. she has two kids that she's raising and she was really having fun and then she went to Minnesota in March of last year and she played in the Northern Lights and she got to the finals against Kelly she lost to Kelly 10-8 she got a chance to go hill hill scraped the ball eight after the game Kelly Fisher told her don't you dare think about retiring if this is the level of play you're still playing at, yeah, so I think that ending, along with those words of encouragement somehow kept her go ahead and it's that where she is, she had a you know, all the focus was on Kelly last year because she was winning everything in sight.

Allison had a pretty strong year and also she didn't finish, she played in nine events. She didn't finish lower than ninth in any of them, she was runner-up in three of those events and finished in the top four or five, so it's surprising that she's still playing at a pretty high level, maybe you don't know that. . a level of satisfaction or where she was previously, but it's still a very high level absolutely. I mean, no, it's not a mistake that I'm playing in the women's world semi-final. You literally had the best players on the planet here. week and she's still playing for a place in the final and she's about to draw 4-4 here against one of the best players in the world, Christina, how perfectly she hit that ball, wow, and this to tie it by a piece and there.

We've got it, we're going to take a short break for a minute and we'll be right back, stay tuned, foreigner, and we'll be right back. I take the match to break the balls tied four to four, we have a fantastic match here, both ladies fighting. for the right to earn a place in the final which will be at 4 pm let's see if that corner goes back in the one on the side the shot she can maybe jump if I can't see it but she had it I mean she made three balls in the break, let's see, let's see, let's see, yeah, I think he can definitely manage to jump here and that's the sign that he's going to have to be careful with that scratch on the side pocket, you don't need to hit him too hard. she just needs to calculate how much of a ball to hit to end up having enough speed to cross unfortunately she hit it too thick she probably wanted to hit it between half and a quarter of the ball yes but she hitto the pretty ball horse, yeah, so let's see if you can hit the ball thin enough so that the cue ball can bounce off the rail and stop behind the five or the seven, possibly the five.

I mean, this is a delicate shock, Keith, he has to hit her. absolutely perfectly thin to get the Cube just barely coming out right behind the five seven, the other option is to tilt it two rails towards the bottom rail, but then it exposes the four, look, that's the shot right there where she would, oh. she hit it like a dream, she really liked the safety there. I mean, she, you have to trust her, you have to trust her and she trusted her. I mean, Christina has an easy hit off the top rail, but nothing really happens. here I think she is looking to see if she can hit the ground and possibly end up behind the seven and she is looking at the only Whaler that is not a bad shot, a couple of good things can happen, the keyboard can go to the side of the table or to the other and possibly even leave the floor, the question is whether he's going to hit it hard or soft, wow. hit it straight, oh yeah, six is ​​going to come into play, yeah, it looks like six is ​​on the line, but it's not on the straight line, you too have to wonder what's up with the five ball, yeah, I mean, yeah It has an angle. can you avoid hitting the five you have to be careful not to end up behind the seven mmm it's a difficult shot very difficult shot looks like Christina is on pace to keep up the pace we've had throughout this match where she won the first two games, then Allison won the first two games and Christina won the first two next games, yeah, and then Allison won the next two games, so we went two, two, two, so it's legitimately Christina's turn, so here we go again , yeah, I mean, obviously. at some point Addison hopes to change, it's the hope that there will be more than two just to change things.

I think she really had a chance in this match, but Christina is also playing top-notch pool, not that Addison isn't right, Christina. leads by five games to four and both ladies have had a bit of success here and there with the break, again it's a matter of finishing with a shot which is key right there, Harry unfortunately had to jump a couple of balls to pack it in , the one who hit it too thick played very hard and was unlucky to have to shoot over a ball, but she did have a shot, it was Caroline Powell Caroline Powell and it's Christina.

I think Christina's Teva is enough. I wish I had known they were going to Starbucks. She would have asked them to bring us something. Yes, I like Starbucks candy ribbon crunch, that should be illegal, but I'm more of a Dunkin Donuts type. Look, now you're speaking my language. I liked Dunkin Donuts because I thought it was a superior cup of coffee and it was cheaper than Starbucks and their prices have gone up too so now it's just a superior cup of coffee, foreigner, let's see. What Christina does here, uh, given the fact that she doesn't have an easy shot at one, is she going to tip it?

One band, two bands. Can she hit the railing first and kick it? I'm not sure, I can't figure it out from this. no angle, she can't get a rail, looks like she could take the rail route, oh she didn't need to fall to the ground, although this is a great opportunity here for Ali, you can see her jumping off that chair too, that's how we we all feel. every time we get an opportunity that we didn't expect, let me see the shape of it, it's just possibly the best fundamentals I've ever seen, let me see it, that's great, let's get out of the side view a little bit and finish with enough angle. on the three ball as far as she can go for two cushions and even if she stayed straight on the ground, it's okay, she can go back, but it's always easy when you have an easier angle to handle, she ends up straight or she ends up on the wrong side of the court and we can have a different view to see.

I don't think she's okay there. She can always go two ways with the five ball she plays if she plays in the same pocket. I like to go for two wings on the five ball. here towards the side but I also like two rails that go on the seven to return towards the side. She's going to hit this with high left calls for extension. I'm pretty sure she wanted to come up with a little more, but she's fine there, so now instead. coming down to it, he may have no choice but to go well with one wheel depending on the angle he's at, it's just safe that way Keith because you can hit the ball towards the center and not worry about any deviation, let's see what decide unless you I don't want to go near that side pocket, well it's a classic Allison, now the score is tied five a piece, five a piece, let's take a quick two minute break and then we'll head back overseas and we will be. back, don't let the sitting Addison fool you, she just walked back to her chair, came right in front of us and started doing some stretches for a moment, I thought she was going to start doing yoga and I'm just kidding because she was stretching a little did I think I was watching one of those home workout videos for a minute there Allison with the break after winning that 10th rack tying the match at five very good break we should have a chance at the three balls oh let's see Look she could be able to put it in there.

I think there are too many five balls in the way. Yes, there is no friendly bumper, just there. Yes, everything was fine. She might be able to throw it away, maybe just a little bit, maybe a mini disaster if she. Does she just raise it or anything she needs? If she needs to see that's what she'll do? She's not going to fit too tight because you just want a mini message just enough to curve slightly past that fireball enough to cut through it. pocket and you don't have to hit it as hard because it increases the chances of making the ball very good now this is where she really has to endure the key shot look how he keeps his head down ah, he still missed unfortunately well.

It was never going to be easy, yeah, with so much, um, yeah, with so much table between you, so you're trying to play position with the cue ball. I think she's just trying to figure out how she's going to get to those five. go for two rails and I would think two rails and between five and six, I mean, I wouldn't be surprised if she tried to run to six, maybe yes, one, two, let me run to five and six or excuse me . you run into the six for the five she's running to get her spread, let's see, she tries to play the position for the six in the scene, but oh no she won't, she's going to shoot the five in the opposite pocket, probably not He wants to hit him hard. playing position for the top left corner pocket oh oh oh, you know, that's what Mark and I have been talking about for the last three days.

How many times have we seen one of these players cut the ball too much every time they use the extension it seems like an excessive cut, it's not like it gave it much spin. I think he hit the center ball. I have seen it more than ever in this tournament. I don't know why I want to say that we talked about that in our party. Last night, when he got there, he might have to play a safe. Sorry Keith, no you're fine, what were you saying when you're reaching when you're putting that extension on your cue, especially the long one that you have to reach? for any shot you make and you're off balance and I think you know a lot of things can go wrong when you're off balance, yeah, your aim, what kind of English you're trying to put on the ball.

I'm pretty sure Ali knew there was a chance she would quit that 6th Bowl near that corner, so for most pros today these kicks are like hangers, luckily for her Christina didn't make this one, always It's a welcome shot right when you're. this far but the ball is in front of the pocket it's better so it's better for you no no I'm saying it's better than the strength he had before yes the question is can he fool the pocket oh is he to try to get it out? No, this leaves me with a crippling fear of clawing into the corner pocket, yeah, I mean, look how well she hit that ball and Allison Fisher takes her first lead of the day six or five over Christina Takach here in the second semi-final of the Kamui WPA. women's world 9 ball championship here in Atlantic City, yeah, now we have a little change in the, yeah, right, I guess that's stretching, helping Christina make sure she stays focused waiting for her opportunity and obviously Addison will Try to keep her in the chair as long as possible and we've seen quite a few four-packs at this event.

Kelly Fisher. I think she made a couple of them. Let's see what the pool gods bring. Keith Wing Ball. Will she have a chance? I don't think so, okay, let me see it. The cue ball does it. It's tight, but yeah. Yes Yes. I could cut this if I really wanted to. The question is whether she is comfortable not just cutting in a playing position. both of you, this is such a fine hair, such a fine stroke, yes she will try it unless you just touch it and barely move the one ball we are about to discover, that's what she saw, that's why she did that . she reaches out, look at the move she made on that table, that's why she did it, that was a fantastic shot right there and that's what she was hoping for to make sure she avoids hitting that nine ball too much.

I imagine you are going to swing a four ball with a lot of forehand to widen the angle enough to hit that ball you want to hit with a moderate speed so that that way you have a chance to keep the cue ball separate from the object ball. Well, long story short, wow, this is a great opportunity for Allison to get to a critical point and get close to two, now let's see she's going to hit this with some stun, stun, keep going left, she's going to try to get out. of the long rail on the long rail pass between the eight and the on the cushion or will try to stun him with Spin and go between the three and the eight.

I like to hit the second rail because I feel like it's easier to stun. Yeah, she likes that one. Look how well she hit that one. She's definitely feeling it. I was. I'm literally about to say, I feel like I'm watching Allison in her 20s, yeah, I think, you know, beating Cheska last night gave her a lot of momentum and a lot of confidence coming into today. I think she won that with a little more angle than what she wanted, be careful, make sure you don't touch that eight ball, this one you have its extension, yeah, the key here is to make sure you don't use a full swing, here you want to keep a Short, compact stroke for greater precision.

She got there, surely not. She just pulls it back roughly to where she is now or maybe a little closer to nine, even if she falls a little short, she still has a chance to win. Will she use her extension again or can she? she gets this look at this bridge, she doesn't see herself very often, that's the pool player coming in, but that's why she feels comfortable using the bridge, that's the difference, a short compact shot to Greater precision. Wow, absolutely phenomenal. Addison takes a two-game lead. Well, I wouldn't say dominant, but at this point in the game it could be that we're going to take a quick two-minute break and go back to being foreigners and we're back to Alan Ali once again leading the game by score. from 7-5 looking to get over the hill with this break, would he finish with a shot at one?

Oh wow, look at that nice friendly bumperoni, Keith, that's what those two Balls kicked the keyboard and you never know where. the cue ball is going to end up going sometimes it goes to the pocket sometimes it doesn't, unfortunately for it then it goes to the pocket and again this just looks like any this looks like completely pre-planned road with no real obstacles no more real intrusions no and Just because the five is on the top table with the six she doesn't have to do anything fancy to get there, so she comes out of a band and ends up on that side of the five.

I certainly believe it. I think so. I think she wants the cue ball right where she is, yes, or close to there after making this four. She was thinking about not reaching that to shoot the five in the top right, but who knows, you know it's a player preference. you could even shoot in the side I wouldn't shoot in the side but you overshot it no she nailed it perfectly it's like you said Keith she's definitely feeling it wow oh for a second she was actually going to go down a little further. that in this to go up the hill Keith look at that look at the finish how do you think her nerves are right now?

It's not so bad that she's not frozen to the railing she's definitely going to take her time wow and Addison hits the Hill with a score of eight to five and she's going to break it to win so will she be able to take out the next rack or will Christina have the chance to possibly win a couple, maybe even tie on Hill Hill? Allison Fisher also won the last one. four consecutive frames after trailing five to four, a very impressive turnaround that turned into an 8-5 overseas lead. Yes, I said that Allison's first single foundation ends up winning the tournament.

She might want to consider giving some of that money to Kelly Fisher to consider. I convinced her. Noretire, okay Kelly, if you're watching, ask for your commission, yeah, ask for your gapper, yeah, at least 10 percent of the non-retirement fee, oh she didn't make a ball, she didn't make a ball, she didn't make a ball there, we. I was so spoiled by having them making a ball that we didn't think about the possibility of a ball not going in and that four was on its way, but I was with my jaw in that corner pocket, well, let's see if Christina goes for this one in the On the other hand, I think he should, it's not like he has to do anything special to be with both of us, oh, I'm pretty sure in the back of his mind he had it, and if I fail him, it might end, there's that sharp cut on the side pocket.

We were talking about a couple of shelves ago, now the two balls seem to be protecting this thing enough, yeah, yeah, I don't think she can pull it off. I don't think she can cut it, but if she does, she kicks it. you have an angle to do it, first you will need to take your extension, you will need to hit it with a light speed, that's the thing, oh she, I think it's not a bad shot, I like it, I think she's possibly thinking about coming off the rail and hitting the one on the five and send the cue ball towards the nine as if passing it possibly ending up leaving it behind because if that ball hits a five ball and stops it there and the cube ends up behind the nine it's a good shot oh wow she didn't hit it It didn't hit her though oh wow this changes things yeah this changes things because you better believe Christina is going to take advantage of this and Christina is more than capable of running out of a set from this point.

What we saw last night. Jasmine missed that, what was three balls? and she had an 8-6 lead, yeah, and she really became nine eight. She quickly looks here, she rolls forward a little just to end up with enough angle on the floor to get to the left side of the table for all five to get the spread of it, now she'll want to leave the cue ball more or less where she this. Now, for the sixth block, she is throwing the five ball. She wants to get the right angle on all five. Did she stand up too straight?

I think she did it. Wow, I don't know if she'll be able to get the playing position at six here unless she decides to go ahead, keep going and go on rails, but if she decides to back off, she can, at least she has the potential to go on the rails. sure. I have to assume the six goes to the side, unless she's going to lock her behind the seven. It doesn't look like he's going to the side, stopping the shot, stopping the shot behind the seven because he can go for the nine ball but potentially leave it behind the eight, but I think that's a little risky, exactly what he did, yeah, I'm surprised. that he has done it. which at this point in the match, since she had insurance there, I mean, I learned a lesson a long time ago, so I can understand maybe why she went for that.

I was playing a nurse Ernesto Dominguez with a chance to go up the hill and rest to win and I had insurance like that and I decided to shoot a hero shot and get three cushions into four and a quarter inch pockets like this, oh, I didn't She did, she got to the 50 yard line there she overshot and instead of playing it safe on the edge, I went for the aggressive shot. I wanted to hang the ball where Ernesto did, she ran out and then ran to the next court to beat me and he said: I can't believe they shoot. the shot stopped behind the ball so you know I'll do it next time, that's for sure, that seems to be the biggest takeaway from attempting those high-risk heroic shots is not just that you, oh my gosh, she I think forgot about that.

She had used her time now look at this, she got lucky, well no, she wasn't lucky, maybe, he let her see the ball, oh my god, I think maybe she forgot about the fact that I'm going to ask her after the game I'm curious now I don't know wow Christina must be so happy to have had another chance wow what a great shot that was oh you better believe she's going to take advantage of this and this to do the eight and six oh I'm completely impressed yeah definitely I didn't see that happen. How much of that do you think is Young's nerves?

You know, when you're about to reach the final of the world championship, it's a lot. of pressure, you know, a lot of times people don't see beyond the fact that they're missing a hanger, but it's more than just a hanger, when you have this level of pressure you have to generate experience. Wow, my goodness, wow, congratulations to Allison. Congratulations to us and for making it to the final and congratulations to Christina for making it so close to the semi-finals of the world championship. I have no doubt that Christina will become world champion. I'm sure she's disappointed to lose the way she lost, but I know she was elated to make it to the semi-finals last night, yeah, and that was an amazing nine ball from Allison, well, thank you so much for tuning in everyone, thank you Keith, thank you Tony , let's do it again real soon, yeah, and uh uh Mark.

White and I think we'll be back at 4 p.m. for his last game. I hope to see you and then goodbye everyone.