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Davy van Havere missed the winning finish

08/30/2012

Published by frits bakker

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Davy van Havere was not that lucky in his performance and missed the final round.

LOMMEL - Hunger for the ball, hunger for new success: Davy of Havere was so motivated and eager in the days before he had to play his preliminary round in the Cuvino Superprestige. Three matches later he lost his illusion. The Belgian Cup winner of last season after a spectacular final against Eddy Merckx has left the tournament and will miss the final round.

What went wrong with the early thirties player from Kapellen, where has he missed the opportunities? May be in his match against Martin Spoormans, last night in the second round, where he took a 37-31 lead, could not finish and finally saw the old master win the match (40-37)?

Or may be in his last match against Roland Forthomme, who had already secured his qualification and didn't seem to be focused on top, but after 31-31 had the best endrush (40-36)?

Three caroms and four caroms deficit: that was the verdict for Davy van Havere, that's why he misses the final round.

He was not the only one, of course, even though the most surprising. Henk Blauwblomme and Ronny Daniels left the room by the back door, without match points and with paltry averages at this level: 0.817 (Daniels) and 1.000 (Blauwblomme).

Francis Forton finished like Davy of Havere in third place in the group and was send home.

Roland Forthomme was the best over two days with the full eight match points, 1.481 average and the highest run so far of nine. Peter De Backer also remained unbeaten with 1.318. Eddy Merckx and Martin Spoormans were second in their group and may show up on Saturday for the quarters.

The ranking in first two groups (match points, average, run):

Group A:
1 Peter De Backer 6-1.318-6
2 Eddy Merckx 4-1.478-8
3 Francis Forton 2-1.253-8
4 Ronny Daniels 0-0.817-6

Group B:
1 Roland Forthomme 6-1.481-9
2 Martin Spoormans 4-1.200-8
3 Davy van Havere 2-1.255-6
4 Henk Blauwblomme 0-1.000-7.

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