{"id":5165,"date":"2015-02-01T15:41:24","date_gmt":"2015-02-01T14:41:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.batabar.com\/?p=5165"},"modified":"2022-06-03T11:46:48","modified_gmt":"2022-06-03T09:46:48","slug":"table-no-12-darren-dynamite-appleton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.batabar.com\/en\/table-no-12-darren-dynamite-appleton\/","title":{"rendered":"Table No. 12: Darren “Dynamite” Appleton"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Darren Appleton during the World 9-Ball Pool Championship in Doha (Photo: Vinod Divakaran under CC BY 2.0)<\/p><\/div>\n

Darren Appleton<\/b> (born 8 February 1976 in Pontefract, West Yorkshire, England) is an English pool (pocket billiards) player, nicknamed “Dynamite<\/b>“. He won the first WPA World Ten-ball Championship in 2008 against Wu Chia-ching, the former world champion in both nine-ball and eight-ball from Taiwan. With the victory, he became the second male player from Britain to win a world championship after Daryl Peach who won the world nine-ball title a year earlier.<\/p>\n

Career<\/span><\/h2>\n

Appleton, who started playing pool at age 12, was formerly the world ranked no. 1 player in British-style eight-ball pool. He was twice runner-up in the WEPF Eight-ball Pool World Championship. In 2006, he joined the International Pool Tour’s standardised eight-ball competition. That year, he also won the Straight Pool Challenge at the Derby City Classic.<\/p>\n

On 5 October 2008, Appleton claimed an upset victory in the inaugural WPA World Ten-ball Championship over Wu Chia-ching, 13\u201311, winning the US$100,000 top prize: “I’ve waited 16 years for this and have to enjoy the moment. I had mixed feelings and I was looking back at my disappointments in the past. I was ranked first (earlier in the decade) in the world but I have never won a world championship… It was a dream come true for me and I’m happy to win the title here in the Philippines.”<\/p>\n

In May 2009, Appleton challenged Dennis Hatch of the United States in a three-day race-to-100 challenge match of ten-ball. Hatch, however, came out the victor with a score of 100-83. In the same year, he won the World Pool Masters tournament by defeating Nick van den Berg.<\/p>\n

Darren Appleton also won the 2010 U.S. Open 9-ball Championship against Corey Deuel of the United States in a match that went into extra racks.<\/p>\n

Appleton was a member of the victorious European team in the 2010 Mosconi Cup. He was named MVP for the tournament with a 5-1 win to loss ratio.<\/p>\n

In 2012, Appleton won the WPA World Nine-ball Championship, subduing China’s Li He-wen in the finals with a score of 13-12.<\/p>\n

On 2 February 2015, Darren Appleton won the 2015 Chinese Pool World Championship, defeating Mark Selby 21\u201319 in the final.<\/sup><\/p>\n

This article uses material from the Wikipedia article “Darren Appleton”<\/a>, which is released under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share-Alike License 3.0<\/a>.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Darren Appleton (born 8 February 1976 in Pontefract, West Yorkshire, England) is an English pool (pocket billiards) player, nicknamed “Dynamite“. He won the first WPA World Ten-ball Championship in 2008 against Wu Chia-ching, the former world champion in both nine-ball and eight-ball from Taiwan. With the victory, he became the second male player from Britain […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":19675,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5165","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-table-numbers"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-05-24 02:07:07","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.batabar.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5165","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.batabar.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.batabar.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.batabar.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.batabar.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5165"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.batabar.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5165\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20541,"href":"https:\/\/www.batabar.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5165\/revisions\/20541"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.batabar.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19675"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.batabar.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5165"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.batabar.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5165"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.batabar.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5165"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}