Martinez Defeats Kang Dong-gung to Win 5th Professional Billiards Title

David Martinez (Crown Haitai) from Spain won his fifth professional billiards championship.

Martinez won the PBA finals against Kang Dong-gung 4-2 (9-15 9-15 15-12 15-12 15-6 15-7) at the ‘Hana Card PBA-LPBA Championship’ held at KINTEX PBA Stadium in Goyang-si, Gyeonggi-do on the afternoon of the 8th.

With this, Martinez has achieved his fifth career win in 301 days since the SY Championship, the fourth game of the 2023-2024 season.

This is a record that is tied for first place with Jae-ho Cho (NH Nonghyup Card) among current PBA players in terms of wins. 토토사이트

The player with the most career wins in the PBA is Frederic Caudron (Belgium, 8 times), who left the league last season.

Martinez, who added 100 million won in prize money by winning this tournament, has a total of 695 million won in prize money.

Kang Dong-gung attempted to win two tournaments in a row after winning the opening match, but was disappointed.

The ‘Welcome Top Ranking’ (prize money of 4 million won) given to the player with the highest average in one match of the tournament was given to Choi Won-jun, who met Kim Hyun-woo (NH Nonghyup Card) in the round of 64 and recorded an average of 3.000.

Martinez, who started the match with difficulty after losing two sets, regained his concentration and won both the third and fourth sets to bring the match back to its original state.

Martinez, riding the momentum, scored three points in five innings without a hit in the fifth set, quickly reaching 15 points.

Then, he finished the sixth set with a score of 15-7 in five innings without a hit, confirming the victory with a set score of 4-2.

Martinez said, “I’m happy that I showed satisfactory performance throughout the tournament,” and added, “I felt the energy boiling at the 2-2 set score.

And then I felt ‘him’ (the god of billiards) coming.”

The PBA, which finished its second tour of the season, will enter the first round, the opening round of the ‘Welcome Savings Bank PBA Team League 2024-2025’ at KINTEX PBA Stadium on the 15th.