Carlo Biado

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Carlo Biado
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Carlo Biado
nation PhilippinesPhilippines Philippines
birthday October 31, 1983
Nickname Lucky Luke
Career
professional since 2004
Medal table
Southeast Asian Games 2 × gold 1 × silver 1 × bronze
AIMAG 0 × gold 0 × silver 1 × bronze
9-ball World Cup 1 × gold 1 × silver 1 × bronze
10-ball world championship 0 × gold 1 × silver 1 × bronze
World Games 1 × gold 0 × silver 0 × bronze
Pool world rankings
Current WRL location 15 (as of July 2, 2020)

Carlo Biado (born October 31, 1983 ) is a Filipino pool player . He became a gold medalist at the World Games in 2017 and world champion in the 9-ball discipline .

Career

Biado turned pro in 2004. He was previously a golf caddy . In 2009 he was eliminated in the preliminary round of the 10-ball world championship . He finished ninth at the World Series of Pool in 2010 and fifth at the Predator International Championship and the Star Billiards Championship in 2010 . In 2011 he was third at the Star Billiards event and fifth at the Philippines Open. At the 2011 10-Ball World Cup , Biado achieved his greatest success to date. After defeating Ronato Alcano , Daryl Peach and Dennis Orcollo , among others , he reached the semi-finals. However, he lost this against the eventual world champion Fu Jianbo 5: 9. A month later he also reached the round of 16 of the 9-ball World Cup , in which he was defeated by the eventual world champion Yukio Akakariyama just 9:11. At the World Series of Pool 2011, Biado finished 17th, as well as at the Predator International Championship. In October 2011 he won the BSCP National Championships in the 8-ball and overall competition. In the 9-ball and in the 10-ball he finished second. At Manny Pacquiao International in December 2011, he came in 17th place.

In February 2012, Biado reached the round of 16 of the 8-ball World Cup for the first time , which he lost to eventual world champion Chang Jung-Lin . At the 9-ball world championship he was eliminated in the round of 64 against the Japanese Naoyuki Ōi with 10:11. He finished 33rd at the China Open and 49th at the US Open 9-Ball .

At the Derby City Classic in February 2013, Biado reached sixth place in the bank pool . He finished 13th in 9-ball and 15th in one pocket . At the China Open, he was eliminated in the quarterfinals. In June 2013 Biado finished fourth in the Ultimate 10-Ball Championship and in the Southern Classic in 9-Ball. At the West Coast Challenge in One Pocket he was defeated in the final by Darren Appleton from England . He also won the Hard Times 10-Ball Open in July and was third at the US Open One Pocket, fifth at the US Open 10-Ball and second at the US Open 8-Ball. He lost the final to Shane van Boening . At the 9-ball world championship in 2013 , Biado achieved his greatest sporting success to date. After victories against Ralf Souquet , Shane van Boening and Chris Melling , he made it to the semi-finals, which he lost against eventual world champion Thorsten Hohmann 4:11. At the Japan Open 2013 he was eliminated in the round of 64 against eventual tournament winner Ko Pin-yi . In December, he finished second in the 10-ball at the Southeast Asian Games . In the final he lost to Dennis Orcollo.

At the Derby City Classic 2014 Carlo Biado finished sixth in 9-ball. In February 2014, he finished third at the Jay Swanson Memorial Tournament. At the US Bar Box Championship, he finished seventh in 8-ball, 13th in 10-ball and 17th in 9-ball. In the Bigfoot 10-Ball Challenge, he was eliminated in the round of 16. At the China Open 2014 , Biado reached the semi-finals, which he lost to his compatriot Jeffrey Ignacio . At the 9-ball world championship , Biado made it to the quarter-finals again and was defeated by the Dutchman Niels Feijen , who then became world champion.

In February 2015, after victories against Nikos Ekonomopoulos , Liu Haitao and David Alcaide, he made it into the final of the 10-Ball World Cup , which he lost to Ko Pin-yi from Taiwan at 9:11. At the 2015 Southeast Asian Games, Biado won the bronze medal in 9-ball singles and, together with Warren Kiamco, gold in 9-ball doubles. In September 2015, Biado was eliminated in the round of 32 against Ko Pin-yi at the 9-ball World Cup . At the US Open 2015 he finished 13th.

At the 9-Ball World Cup in 2016 , he reached the round of 16, in which he was defeated by the Taiwanese Ko Ping-chung just 9:11. At the China Open 2016 he was also eliminated in the round of 16. In October 2016 he reached the semifinals of the American Straight Pool Championship and again 13th place at the US Open . A little later, however, he was eliminated from the Kuwait Open in the round of 64. At the end of the year he made it to the quarterfinals of the All Japan Championship .

In January 2017, Biado was eliminated from the Molinari Players Championship , the first tournament in the newly introduced World Pool Series, in the round of 16. A little later, he finished third in the Bigfoot 10-Ball Challenge of the 2017 Derby City Classic . After he was eliminated in the last 16 of the Chinese Pool World Championship , he moved into the final of the Aramith Masters , the second WPS tournament, in which he defeated Albanian Eklent Kaçi in two sets (4-6, 5-7). had to give up. In June 2017 he reached the quarter-finals of the China Open . A month later he achieved his greatest success to date when he reached the final of the 9-ball competition of the World Games in Wroclaw by winning against Joshua Filler , Mieszko Fortuński and Naoyuki Ōi, in which he beat Jayson Shaw from Scotland 11: 7 defeated and thus became the first Filipino to win the gold medal.

In August 2017, he won the Southeast Asian Games with a 9-5 final win over Dương Quốc Hoàng Gold in the 9-ball singles . A little later he secured bronze in the 9-ball singles at the Asian Indoor & Martial Arts Games after losing in the semifinals to eventual winner Chang Jung-Lin. At the US Open 2017 , Biado finished seventeenth. At the final tournament of the World Pool Series he was eliminated in the preliminary round, at the All Japan Championship in the round of 32. In December 2017, he made it into a World Cup final for the second time at the 9-Ball World Championship . He prevailed in the final against his compatriot Roland Garcia 13: 5 and was the fifth Filipino world champion.

In early 2018, Biado won the Jogja Open in Jakarta . At the China Open 2018 he was eliminated in the round of 32 against Jayson Shaw . In October he finished seventeenth at the US International Open , a replacement tournament for the US Open, which was not played this year. A little later he moved into the final of the Sparkle City Open in Spartanburg , where he lost to Alex Pagulayan . At the All Japan Championship 2018 he reached the semi-finals. In December 2018 he was the third player at the 9-Ball World Championship after Earl Strickland ( 1991 ) and Johnny Archer ( 1998 ) as the defending champion to make it into the final again. In the final, however, he had to admit defeat to the German Joshua Filler with 10:13.

Team career

With the Philippine national team, Biado was runner-up in 2014 .

In 2015 , Biado took part in the World Cup of Pool for the first time. Together with Warren Kiamco , he formed the Philippine team, which was eliminated in the second round against England's Mark Gray and Daryl Peach. In 2017 he reached the quarterfinals together with Johann Chua , in which they lost to the Chinese Wu Jiaqing and Dang Jinhu . In 2018 he reached the quarter-finals - this time with Jeffrey de Luna - in which they clearly had to admit defeat to the second Chinese team ( Kong Dejing and Wang Ming ) (1: 9).

successes

singles
team

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Athlete Information: Carlo Biado. In: worldgames2017.sportresult.com. World Games 2017 , accessed July 29, 2017 .
  2. ↑ Jonas Terrado: Biado is World Champ. In: sports.mb.com.ph. Manila Bulletin , December 15, 2017, accessed December 21, 2018 .
  3. ↑ Ted Lerner: Biado finally reaches Pool's Mountaintop. In: wpapool.com. World Pool-Billiard Association , December 14, 2017, accessed December 21, 2018 .
  4. ↑ Ted Lerner: Filler wins a thriller in Doha. In: wpapool.com. World Pool-Billiard Association, December 20, 2018, accessed December 21, 2018 .
personal data
SURNAME Biado, Carlo
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Filipino pool player
DATE OF BIRTH October 31, 1983