[서울신문] Kim Se-yeon of’Billiard Hall Alba’ and’Billiards Empress’ Kim Ga-young defeated and became the first LPBA Tour Champion

The first cue weed life after graduating from high school ‥ LPBA’s first champion in 7 years
LPBA Tour SK Rent-A-Car Championship Final 4-2 wins against Ga-Young Kim

▲ Kim Se-yeon beats Kim Ga-young 4-2 in the final of the SK Rent-A-Car Championship, a champion of the women’s professional billiards (LPBA) tour season, which ended at the Grand Walkerhill Seoul Hotel in Gwangjin-gu, Seoul on the 6th, and kisses the trophy after winning the championship.[PBA 제공]

Kim Se-yeon, 26, who was a part-time billiard student and walked a thorny field for 7 years, became the first champion of the LPBA Tour.

Kim Se-yeon was 4-2 (11-6 8-11 3) to Ga-young Kim in’Billiards Empress’ in the final match of the SK Rent-a-car Championship (7 rounds 4), the final match of the LPBA Tour 2020-21 season, held at the special stadium at Grand Walkerhill Seoul Hotel in Gwangjin-gu, Seoul on the 6th. -11 11-10 11-4 11-9).

Kim Se-yeon, who was the champion of the first season of the LPBA Tour, who was unable to compete in the final championship last year due to Corona 19, has won 100 million won as a prize money.

Compared to Kim Ga-young, who boasted a brilliant career enough to be called’the queen of pocketball’ after starting to play billiards in elementary school, Kim Se-yeon was only evaluated in terms of career and skill.

▲ Kim Se-yeon is congratulated by Kim Ga-young after defeating Kim Ga-young 4-2 in the final of the SK Rent-a-car Championship, which is the king of the women’s professional billiards (LPBA) tour season, which ended at the Grand Walkerhill Seoul Hotel in Gwangjin-gu, Seoul on the 6th.[PBA 제공]

After graduating from high school, Kim Se-yeon, who worked part-time in a billiard room and learned 3-cushion billiards over the shoulders of customers, and won the championship title on the most spectacular professional stage in 7 years, is the new billiard empress. The road was also wide open and tilted.Kim Se-yeon, who led the first inning with a cool side turn in the first inning and dragged Kim Ga-young, who only scored 3 points until the 8 innings, to 7-3, added four points with two bank shots at the last minute, and brought the first set with 11-6 and’General’ Called.

However, for the second set, Kim Ga-young also turned over with a bank shot in the fourth inning, which was behind 1-2, and in a situation where he was defeated by 8-8, he struck the remaining three points, including the bank shot, to set the fire.

Unlike Kim Se-young’s slightly hardened momentum, Kim Ga-young’s relaxed strokes survived. 3-2 Kim Ga-young, who escaped to 9-2 with a 6-point high run from the previous situation, left only one point by turning sideways after four shots in 9-3, where Kim Se-yeon recovered one point, and then finished the set for the tournament. The charter was turned over with Set 2-1. Kim Ga-young’s perfect advantage, with an average of 1.222 and only 0.375.

▲ Kim Se-yeon is aiming at the target ball in the final of the LPBA Tour SK Rent-A-Car Championship on the 6th. [PBA 제공]

However, Kim Se-yeon, who caught the lead, swept four points with two bank shots at the beginning of the 4th set and turned the flow back. Kim Ga-young, who was pushed down to 2-6, also hit Kyuhyung with a 4-point high run, including a cross shot. Since then, the tedious ballistic battle where both goals are missed due to the difference of one perilla leaf has been disrupted. However, Kim Se-yeon succeeded in slipping away from the 10-10 tie where a tight balance continued, and returned the game to the origin with Set 2-2.

Even luck was on the side of Kim Se-yeon. In the forward turn, the kiss was impregnated and the score was recognized as the impregnation flowed to the second target area. Kim Se-yeon, who was returning to his seat, corrected the cue and then added 3 points to 4-0, and from 6-4, while Kim Ga-young stopped scoring in the 6th inning, he thinned out 5 points with a bank shot and skipping. Set 3- Goed ahead with 2 again. It has crossed the 7th ridge of the winning notice.

▲ Kim Se-yeon beats Kim Ga-young 4-2 in the final of the SK Rent-A-Car Championship, the champion of the women’s professional billiards (LPBA) tour season ended at the Grand Walkerhill Seoul Hotel in Gwangjin-gu, Seoul on the 6th, and is raising the trophy after winning the championship. [PBA 제공]

The last was decorated with a band electrode. Kim Se-yeon, who was dragged 1-9 to Kim Ga-young, caught up to 9-8 with a whopping 7-point high run. After that, he made a championship point by making a two-point bank shot of conversion, and then turned the side of conversion to become the protagonist of the splendid new empress’s coronation ceremony.

Seyeon Kim said, “It will take a week to realize the victory. It was a two-point bank shot that made the final championship point in the sixth set.” He continued, “I have to give my mom pocket money first, and then I have to move my accommodation, and I will add it to this cost.”

Staff Reporter Choi Byung-gyu [email protected]