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Glenn Hofman with two former champions

10/27/2011

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Glenn Hofman wil meet two former world champions in the preliminaries.

SCHILTIGHEIM - Glenn Hoffman (21), two-time European champion as a junior, will be happy with his comeback in the Agipi arena. He remembers himself so well last year, when he wasn't so far away from the final stage. The Dutchman defeated Roland Forthomme and Dion Nelin in his group, finished with the same matchpoints as Sung-Won Choi (4), but missed the qualifying on average: Choi had 1.708, Hofman 1.532. And talking about Choi? He seeded for the final as second behind Filipos Kasidokostas and won the tournament in the final against Jérémy Bury.

Two former world champions (Jef Philipoom in 1995, Ryuuji Umeda in 2007), the likeable Frenchman Jérôme Barbeillon and Glenn Hoffman will meet today in the first qualifying round of the day. It seems to be an open fight: Jef Philipoom and Ryuuji Umeda are the players with the most international experience, Glenn Hoffman was  eagerly looking forward for many months to the Masters and Jérôme Barbeillon had made a new start in France. ,,I made my debut in the team of Andernos with Dick Jaspers and Filipos Kasidokostas, that's a special experience for me,'' he told this morning before his first match against Jef Philipoom.

Glenn Hoffman will meet two players today he never played against: Ryuuji Umeda and Jérôme Barbeillon. He is at the start of his second Masters, last year it was by far the best of both.

Jérôme Barbeillon participated in all four editions. His best performance was in 2009 with two victories: against Forthomme Roland and Jean-Paul de Bruijn. His hope for qualification was thwarted by a small loss against Kyung-Roul Kim. Barbeillon is not only a very popular player in France, also in Germany. He starred last year in the Masters with a splendid run of nineteen in his duel with Sung-Won Choi in the first round, but lost the match 50-45 in 31 innings. Ryuuji Umeda also was his opponent last year: the Japanese won 50-46 in 29 innings.

Ryuuji Umeda and Jef Philipoom couldn't fulfil their fame as former world champions in the Masters so far. The Japanese played twice, the 15th place was his best performance. Jef Philipoom made his debut last year and lost his three matches, so he went back home without any win.

The program for the Agipi Masters, the schedules, the player cards, prize money, puctyres, videos and archives you can find on the Agipi website. Premium Pass holders can watch all matches this week in the Live section

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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