3-Cushion
CHARTRES - The French billiard calendar announced the first national ranking tournament three cushion for this weekend. Billiard Club Chartrain is the organizer of the event where Jérémy Bury, the number two on the podium behind Dick Jaspers at the World championship last week, is missing in the field of players. The French federation has introduced new rules.
The qualifications are played on match billiards (3.10), there is only one qualifying tournament with 40 players and the distances are reduced: 30 points in qualifying, 35 in the main tournament. In the final phase that number is increased to 40 caroms.
The program will start in eight sessions from Friday (12 October), which will continue on Saturday. The final matches are Sunday. As Jérémy Bury, the main French player, also Pierre Soumagne and Jean-Christophe Roux will not show up in the tournament.
The qualification rounds:
Poule A : Hector Echeverry Marin - Pierre-Jean Lacaze - Kevin Vasseur
Poule B : Grégory le Deventec - Samir Derradji - Thomas le Coat
Poule C : Vincent Lelièvre - Nathan Duriez - Jacky Justice
Poule D : Kevin Perrotin - Bruno Videau - Eric Brousses
Poule E : Fabrice Puigvert - Vahit Kunt - Hervé Colson
Poule F : Jérémie Picart - Thibaut Espada - Willy Gérimont
Poule G : Maxime Panaia - Xavier Clausse - Eric Dorizon
Poule H : Georges Demos - Eric Kremer-Leclaire - Jean-Luc Miller
The players for the main draw:
Jérôme Barbeillon - Thierry Roxo - Gwendal Maréchal - Stany Buyle - Jean Reverchon - Frédéric Roelants - Francis Connesson - Bernard Baudoin - Cédric Melnytschenko - Frédéric Beghin - Marc Boingnères - Bernard Villiers - Mikaël Devogelaere - Michel Doré - Xavier le Roy - Jérôme Riotto.