Rubilen Amit makes history after ruling the WPA World 9-Ball Women’s Championship becoming the first Filipina pool player to win the title.
Amit defeated former champion Siming Chen of China, 3 sets to 1 (1-4, 4-2,4-2,4-3) in the finale at the Claudelands Events Centre in Hamilton, New Zealand, on Sunday, September to claim the top prize.
Amit capitalizes on the mistakes of her Chinese rival, to win another world title to her collection that includes two WPA Women’s World 10-Ball Championship plums won in 2009 and 2013 as she bagged the top purse of $50,000.
Chen overcame a 1-2 deficit in the fourth set by winning the next two games for a 3-2 lead and looked on her way to forcing a deciding fifth set but missed a routine corner shot for the eight ball, allowing Amit to pull level at 3-3 in the race-to-four games, best-of-five sets format. Amit then easily sank the one ball in the next game and cleaned the rest of the rack as she broke through for the historic finish.
With the win, she is now a four-times World Champion. She won the World 10-Ball Women’s championship 15 years ago which was followed up by winning the same title four years after in Manila. In 2022, she won the WPA World Team Championship title along with Carlo Biado and Johann Chua in Klagenfurt, Austria.
