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Arena Cup with 32 players to final stage

08/23/2013

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Torbjörn Blomdahl and Ahmet Alp practicing on the tables in the Arena Club.

ISTANBUL - The Arena Cup tournament has finished the qualification rounds and starts with 32 players in the final rounds. The eight seeded players, with Torbjörn Blomdahl and Filippos Kasidkokstas as foreign top guns, enter the main tournament today (Friday) in eight groups of four.

The Arena Cup is held in the Arena Billardo Club with the owners Ahmet Alp and Zafer Kamaci, in Findikzade, Istanbul.

The other final groups are led by the Turkish top players Tayfun Tasdemir, Murat Naci Coklu, Adnan Yüksel, Lütfi Cenet, Ahmet Alp and Savas Bulut. The eight groups of four, with the seeded players and 24 players from the preliminaries, compete for sixteen places in the knock-out stages.

The group format:

Groupo 1: Torbjörn Blomdahl, Hamit Akkaya, Ayhan Semiz, Tolga Denizci.

Group 2: Filippos Kasidokostas, Ahmet Öglu, Selim Özden, Koray Kirman.

Group 3: Ahmet Alp, Murat Celik, Emrullah Baseymez, Can Capak.

Group 4: Tayfun Tasdemir, Serdar Bas, Orhan Uran, Hayri Akgün.

Group 5: Lütfi Cenet, Mehmet Yavas, Salih Tekeliuglu, Erhan Canbaz.

Group 6: Murat Naci Coklu, Sezdin Güzel, Hasan Özsoy, Volkan Cimentepe.

Group 7: Adnan Yüksel, Kostas Papakonstantinou, Muammer Rahmet, Serkan Sari.

Group 8: Savas Bulut, Gökhan Salman, Kazim Cambol, Birol Uymaz.

The preliminary rounds were played to 35 points, in the main tournament to 40 caroms.

The total prize money is 6.000 euros.

The matches can be followed on the website of Arena cafe billardo.

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