FORMER World Team Championship teammates Carlo Biado and Johann Chus plus compatriot Jeffrey Roda beat separate rivals last Saturday night to gain the semifinals of the Mansion Sports Hanoi Open at the Hanoi Indoor Games Gymnasium in the Vietnamese capital.
Biado, who teamed up with Chua and Rubilen Amit in capturing the World Team Championship in 2022 in Klagenfurt, Austria, claimed the biggest scalp with a 10-5 rout of two-time World Pool champion Francesco Sanchez Ruiz of Spain.
Chua was just as sharp in downing reigning Spanish world 10-ball king Kledo Kaci 10-6 while Roda, a former snooker player, nipped countryman Harry Vergara 10-8 as three Pinoys reached the semis of the tournament organized by English promoter Matchroom.
Biado and Chua will clash in the race-to-11 semis set late yesterday while Roda was up against Taiwanese former world 10 and 9-ball champ Ko Pin-yi, who dethroned Scotland’s Jayson Shaw 10-9 in a gripping quarterfinal match.
The winner of the race-to-13 championship scheduled late last night will bring home the top prize of $30,000 (roughly P1.716 million).
