Pedro Piedrabuena

Pedro Piedrabuena ( born August 21, 1971 in Montevideo, Uruguay) is an American Carambolagespieler.

Career

Before Piedrabuena American citizen was, he won the 1991 Argentine Championship and the 1992 national championship in his native Uruguay. Currently Piedrabuena lives in San Diego, California where he runs a billiard school ( Billiards College). He is, according to Sang Lee, the most successful American band Three players. After he followed Lee in 2002 to the throne of the USBA National Championship, he could still win this tournament five more times (as of April 2013).

In the three-band World Championship 2001 he made ​​it to the second round of the finals, but failed there at the Mexican Luis Miguel Ávila. Together with his teammates Mazin Shooni he reached in the three-band world championship for national teams in 2007, the 2nd place of the preliminary round. In the three-band World Cup 2009/4 Piedrabuena came under the last 32, but it lost to world champion Ryuji Umeda.

In 2012 he wins the Triple Crown when he won all three major tournaments ( USBA National Championship, Champion -of- champios - Tournament, Verhoeven Open) for themselves. In the latter tournament, he hit the first 21 times Altweltmeister Raymond Ceulemans from Belgium, and then, albeit limited, in the final of the multiple world champion Torbjörn Blomdahl of Sweden with 29 shots in 40:37 .. The Champion of Champions Trophy he won in 2012 for the second consecutive year and also played the maximum series of 16 the game against Mazin Shooni he won without a fight because his opponent too late appeared more than the allowed 15 minutes for the tournament. The tournament organizers declared Piedrabueno the winner.

In February 2013, is No. 1 on the USBA rankings.

Like most U.S. players will also Piedrabuena rarely participate in international tournaments. At the World Championships he is usually only mean places. In July 2013 he played for the initial application once again at the Pan American Cup with and could be in the final against the Colombian shooting star Huberney Cataño prevail with 40:33. This gave him an enormous leap of nearly 70 places from 94 to 25 in the world rankings.

Achievements

  • USBA National Championship: winner 2002, 2004, 2007, 2011, 2012, 2013
  • Champion -of- champios Trophy: Winner 2011, 2012
  • USBA Tour Open: Winner 2012
  • Verhoeven Open: Winner 2012
  • U.S. Championship: winner 2002
  • Argentine Championship: winner 1991
  • Uruguayan Championship: winner 1992
  • Carom Corner Boston: Winner 1998
  • Panamertikanische Championship ( CPB): Winner 2013
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