Thomas Engert
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Thomas Engert is a German professional pool
player. Engert won the 2004 International Challenge of Champions
beating fellow German Thorsten Hohmann in the finals. When he returned to the tournament one year later, Engert was close to winning it for the second consecutive time but Chao Fong-pang
, who was then the two-time winner of the event, defeated him in the finals.
Also in 2004, Engert won the World Pool Masters Tournament
over another fellow German, Oliver Ortmann
.
In the 2006 World Straight Pool Championship
, Engert made his way into the final but loss to Thorsten Hohmann by a score of 200-80 http://www.azbilliards.com/2000storya.cfm?storynum=3574. In 2007, Engert won the World Pool Masters for the second time. This included him with Francisco Bustamante
and Ralf Souquet
who won the event more than once.
Pocket billiards
Pool, also more formally known as pocket billiards or pool billiards , is the family of cue sports and games played on a pool table having six receptacles called pockets along the , into which balls are deposited as the main goal of play. Popular versions include eight-ball and nine-ball...
player. Engert won the 2004 International Challenge of Champions
International Challenge of Champions
The International Challenge of Champions is an annual nine-ball pool tournament held at the Mohegan Sun in Uncasville, Connecticut. It has always been broadcast on ESPN and is sanctioned by the World Pool-Billiard Association...
beating fellow German Thorsten Hohmann in the finals. When he returned to the tournament one year later, Engert was close to winning it for the second consecutive time but Chao Fong-pang
Chao Fong-pang
Chao Fong-pang is a Taiwanese professional pool player.He won the WPA World Nine-ball Championship in 1993 against Thomas Hasch of Germany...
, who was then the two-time winner of the event, defeated him in the finals.
Also in 2004, Engert won the World Pool Masters Tournament
World Pool Masters Tournament
The World Pool Masters Tournament is an annual international nine-ball tournament. Formerly, it was called the European Pool Masters until players from other parts of the globe were invited....
over another fellow German, Oliver Ortmann
Oliver Ortmann
Oliver Ortmann is a German top professional pool player whose nickname is "The Machine". He is renowned not only as a World Champion in Nine-Ball but also in the resurgent discipline of 14.1 or straight pool....
.
In the 2006 World Straight Pool Championship
World Straight Pool Championship
The World Straight Pool Championship is an annual pocket billiards competition held in New Brunswick, New Jersey, since 2006. It is the current global professional title for straight pool , and is organized by Dragon Promotions, in part to restore the game's popularity in the United States...
, Engert made his way into the final but loss to Thorsten Hohmann by a score of 200-80 http://www.azbilliards.com/2000storya.cfm?storynum=3574. In 2007, Engert won the World Pool Masters for the second time. This included him with Francisco Bustamante
Francisco Bustamante
Francisco Bustamante is a Filipino professional pocket billiards player from Tarlac, and the 2010 World Nine-ball Champion., nicknamed "Django", after the lead character of the film of the same name, and sometimes also called "Bustie", especially in the United States.-Early life:Bustamante is the...
and Ralf Souquet
Ralf Souquet
Ralf Souquet is a German professional pool player. His nicknames are "The Kaiser" and "The Surgeon." Since 1981, he has won more than 250 tournament titles, including 41 German Championship titles and 34 European Championship titles.He began playing billiards at the age of six in his parents'...
who won the event more than once.