Best field ever in New York's Verhoeven Open

NEW YORK - Already one hundred players have already announced to participate at the Open Verhoeven in the Carom Cafe in New York. Besides the eight seeded players, 92 players are on the list so far, mainly from the USA and furthermore from Denmark, the Netherlands, France, Belgium, Turkey, Ecuador, Colombia, Egypt, Sweden and Japan.

The tournament will be played from 21 to 26 July and broadcast live by Kozoom.

The eight players who will show up for the main tournament are Torbjorn Blomdahl (Sweden), Frédéric Caudron (Belgium), Eddy Merckx (Belgium), Marco Zanetti (Italy), Dick Jaspers (Netherlands), Raymond Ceulemans (Belgium), Sung-Won Choi (Korea) and Dong Koong Kang (Korea). The field of players, with Torbjörn Blomdahl as titleholder, is the best ever in New York.

Among the more than 90 players who play the qualification rounds are star players like Tayfun Tasdemir, Pedro Piedrabuena, Jung-Han Heo, Semih Sayginer, Sameh Sidhom, Murat Naci Coklu, Roland Forthomme, Therese Klompenhouwer, Peter Ceulemans and Gülsen Degener.

The players list so far:

Denmark: Martin Olsen, Christian Andersen, Kaj Olsen, Allan Jensen, Kim Straarup, Michael Hansen, Thomas Holmershoj, Dan Johanson, John Hansen, Thomas Moren, Kim Bengtsson, Peer Marpsee, Lars Dunch.

Ecuador: Javier Teran, Germy Rivera, Jorge Rubio, Ronald Rubio.

Colombia: Alexander Salazar, Douglas Arevalo, Oscar Villamizar.

Netherlands: Therese Klompenhouwer, Karina Jetten, Bert van Manen, Ronald van Geyt, Jordy de Kruijf, Stefan Dirks.

France: Joël Switala, Philippe Maisert, Yves Tournier.

Belgium: Roland Forthomme, Peter Ceulemans, Kurt Ceulemans, Wesley de Jaeger, Tim Gorrebeeck.

Turkye: Tayfun Tasdemir, Murat Naci Coklu, Semih Sayginer, Adnan Yüksel, Gülsen Degener.

Japan: Namiko Hayashi

Sweden: Thomas Tullberg.

Korea: Jung-Han Heo, Suah Park.

Egypt: Sameh Sidhom, Regay Henry.

USA: Pedro Piedrabuena, Hugo Patino, Miguel Torres, Sonny Cho, Michael Kang, Mazin Shooni, Jim Shovak, Reye Raskin, Khalfi Diab, Jerry Geist, John Cristiano, Stanley Lombardo, Jim Bishop, Tony Lam, Brian Haff, Roger Sequira, Mike Chen, Ira Lee, Tae Kyu Lee, Sun Shin, Jae Cheon Seong, Mark An, Hugo Flores, Song Lim, Eric Kwon, Carlos Pelafox, Carlos Gustavo, Christian Portilla, Chris Bartzos, Young Gull Lee, Vinny Stemazko, Kyung Soo Yim, Hyuk Yoon, Jim Watson, Ricardo Carranco, Luca Tomassetti, Lloyd Wallace, Jairo Sanabria, Arturo Herrera, Robert Raiford, Armando, Juan Uribe, Sergio Tapia, Julian Molina, Joe D'Annuncio, Carles Delorme, Steve Kreditor, Nam K. Cho.