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20
sentences that state something as happening or true
Uncertain
5%
1 of 20 hedged
("reportedly", "may", "according to")
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not political
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But his choice of sport is not necessarily a popular one with his age group — Angelo plays a gentleman's sport: snooker.
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Angelo → play → sport
He says he developed a love of the game by watching his grandfather play.
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grandfather → say → game
"When I was about five, he used to put me on the ground and I'd shoot a ball through a toilet roll," Angelo says.
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Angelo → use → roll
He snuck his first game on a table at home when his dad was out grocery shopping and has been inseparable from the cue sport since.
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dad → sneak → sport
His mother Natalie Tsikouris says initially they didn't realise how talented Angelo was, but at nine years old he won the national under-12s competition.
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"When he won, we were like: Did he, did he just win?" Ms Tsikouris says.
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"It's a huge achievement but it's more that he kept doing it, kept winning again."
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Angelo went on to win three national junior titles in snooker and another three in eight ball last week while on a trip to the UK to represent Australia in the international blackball championships.
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He wants more kids to take up table sports — specifically snooker.
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"I'm the only one in Darwin that's playing snooker, or the NT," he says.
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he → play → snooker
Another young champ
Angelo may be the Territory's sole young snooker champ, but he's not the only local kid with a gift for playing table sports.
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Fifteen-year-old Adam Grace is the best eight ball player in the Northern Territory — and that includes adult players.
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"I practise two or three hours after school, and that's every day," he says.
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"I don't really do that much homework, mainly pool."
Adam travelled to Norway earlier this year to represent Australia in the under-19s category.
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"It gives me really good confidence when I shoot a ball, I just like the sound of it going into the pocket," he says.
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He will represent the NT at the national eight ball championships later this year, as its youngest-ever champion.
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Ken Kernich, president of the Northern Territory Eight Ball Association, says there are a handful of other young Territorians who also compete in cue sports at an international level.
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As for why the Territory is home to so many child champions, he has one theory.
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"Maybe an air-conditioned room where you can play pool is a lot better than working out in the sunshine," he says.
"But they commit themselves to being good players, they practise, practise, practise.
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"A lot of people struggle to get one ball into a pocket, [but] when you practise that much it's almost like putting marbles into buckets."
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