World Pool 10-ball shock 2025, Fedor Gorst eliminated, Russian wife also lost

Russian player Fedor Gorst was eliminated by Edwin Gamas in the second round of the loser's bracket with the scores of 4-2, 3-4 and 2-4 sets on the match day of September 22 at the WPA World 10-Ball Championship in Ho Chi Minh City.

Fedor Gorst and his wife had an unsuccessful competition day - Photo: BOX

Fedor Gorst's shock defeat left fans disappointed. After losing 0-2 in the opening match against Jonas Souto on September 20, Gorst fell to the loser's bracket to find a chance to continue.

In the loser's bracket, there are still 16 places left for the 2024 WPA 9-ball champion. However, his fall to this bracket was a surprise. Hardly anyone believed that Gorst continued to cause shock when he lost in the first round on the evening of September 22.

Fedor Gorst faced Edmin Games (Philippines) in a match that lasted 2 hours and 23 minutes. The match was really tense for both. The audience kept their eyes on every stroke and hoped Gorst would win.

Indeed, the Russian won the first set with a score of 4-2. He completely dominated to open up hope for himself and belief for the audience. The real difficulty came for Fedor Gorst in the second set, when Edwin Gamas took a 3-1 lead.

Despite quickly equalizing to 3-3, Fedor Gorst's dry break immediately after allowed Edwin Gamas to score and win 4-3.

In the deciding set 3, Edwin Gamas continued to push Fedor Gorst into a chasing position when leading 2-0. Gorst quickly equalized 2-2. Surprisingly, in game 5, Fedor Gorst made a mistake with an unsuccessful A shot on ball number 3, thereby allowing Edwin Gamas to take the lead 3-2 and then 4-2 against "youth idol" Gorst.

A few hours later, Fedor Gorst's wife, billiards player Kristina Olegovna Tkach, also suffered a 1-2 defeat to Chia Chia Chou in the winners' bracket qualifying round of the Poison Cues Saigon Women's 9-Ball Open 2025.

Fedor Gorst's loser bracket results - Photo: BOX

It was an unsuccessful day of competition for the Gorst - Tkach couple when they both lost. However, the girl born in 1999 still has a "second chance" when she fell to the loser's bracket to stay at the Military Zone 7 gymnasium.

More information about the home players' results was not very positive. The first name to leave the table was Nguyen Bao Chau after losing 1-2 to Darren Appleton in the men's 10-ball pool qualifying round, loser's bracket.

Player Nguyen Van Huynh joined Hsieh Chia Chen at 7:20 p.m. in the loser's bracket, but the score was undecided until 10:20 p.m., after more than 3 hours of competition.

The score of Van Huynh was 1-4, 4-0 and the third set was 3-3. Both had to go into a penalty shootout with the result 3-2 for the Vietnamese player.

On September 23, the winners bracket will continue to compete at 8am at the Military Zone 7 gymnasium: Duong Quoc Hoang will face Naoyuki Oi; Pham Phuong Nam will face De Luna. There will also be a match between Carlo Biado (Philippines) and Ko Ping Chung (Chinese Taipei), or Aloysius Yapp (Singapore) and Jonas Souto (Spain).

QUANG THINH

Source: https://tuoitre.vn/cu-soc-world-pool-10-bi-2025-fedor-gorst-bi-loai-vo-nga-cung-thua-20250922225446918.htm