‘Superman’ Jae-ho Jo (NH Nonghyup Card) reached the top of the final round of the regular tour in the 2022-23 season and won the second championship of the season.
Set score 4-1 (15-2, 9-15, 15-12, 15-2, 9-15, 15-12, 15-13, 15-14) and came out on top.
With this, Cho Jae-ho succeeded in winning two PBA careers by winning twice this season alone, becoming the only domestic player to have two wins along with Kang Dong-gung. In addition, following the opening game (Blue One Resort Championship) of this season, he also lifted the championship cup in the final game, becoming the first Korean player to win twice in a season. In addition, by securing a prize money of 100 million won and 100,000 ranking points, it rose to the top of the season rankings (261,500 points, 222.5 million won). 온라인바카라
On the other hand, Kang Dong-gung, who challenged to win 3 times in his career, suffered a high defeat on the threshold of winning. However, Kang Dong-gung, who recorded an average of 2.647 against Lee Sang-yong in the round of 16, soothed his disappointment by winning the ‘Well-Bang Top Ranking’ (prize of 4 million won) given to the player with the highest average in a game.
Cho Jae-ho showed off the sense of climax that he maintained throughout this tournament without regret in the final. The first two sets were tight. Cho Jae-ho won the first set 15-2 with 8 high runs in 4 innings and took the lead, but in the 2nd set, Kang Dong-gung also countered by winning 15-9 in 8 innings.
From the 3rd set, Jo Jae-ho’s concentration took the lead. Jo Jae-ho dug into Kang Dong-gung’s small mistake. In the 4th inning when the score was 10-10, Kang Dong-gung scored only 1 point, and Jo Jae-ho immediately scored 4 points to widen the gap to 14-11. In the next inning, Kang Dong-gung only scored 1 point, and Jo Jae-ho, who immediately filled up the remaining 1 point, took a set at 15:12 (6 innings).
Jo Jae-ho took the win in the 4th set. Cho Jae-ho, who led the set 9-4 until the 6th inning, gave Kang Dong-gung a high run of 9 points in the 7th inning and was driven to 9-13, but calmly added 3 runs in the next inning to chase it to 12-13. In the 8th inning, Kang Dong-gung returned with an empty hit and scored the remaining 3 points, widening the set score to 15-13, 3-1.
Driven by momentum, Jo Jae-ho widened the gap by scoring a high run and 7 extra-long hits in the first attack of the 5th set, then scored 6 points in the 6th inning and quickly took the lead 14-13, and in the 7th inning Kang Dong-gung only scored 1 point (14 -14) The match was finished with a 15-14 set victory with a perfect one-bank miss on the subsequent offensive opportunity.
Cho Jae-ho said, “My goal was to win once before the season, but after winning the opening game, I increased my goal to two championships. I am proud and proud of myself for achieving that goal,” he said. “Thanks to the book ‘Mentality’, a book I recently received as a gift from an acquaintance, it really helped me to manage my mentality. Now he will challenge to win the PBA career 3 times,” he said.
On the other hand, professional billiards, which has completed 8 regular tours, will enter the postseason of ‘Welcome Savings Bank PBA Team League 2022-23’ from the 17th to cover the true champion team. From March 3rd, the season will end with the ‘SK Rent-A-Car PBA World Championship’, which is equivalent to a ‘King of Kings’, where only the top 32 players from the PBA-LPBA advance.