Many high runs at the start of the league

OOSTERHOUT - The spectacle was already there on the first day the league. De former postman Ad Broeders started the new season with a run of seventeen, Frédéric Caudron and Thorsten Frings shone with fifteen, Henk Habraken with twelve, Dion Nelin and Jef Philipoom with eleven. The team of Frans Bevers is the first leader in the ranking, it was the only team with eight matchpoints.

Ad Broeders is one of the players under the top in the Netherlands. He worked for many years as a postman and sometimes had a peak at the billiard. Now Broeders is living from his sport: he has a shop with equipment and is a billiard teacher for some young and older players.

His team, DKM Tools from Oosterhout, missed the first match points for the competition, the team lost 6-2. Ad Broeders won his match against Harry van der Ven due to the high run of seventeen in the fourteenth inning. The other matches were lost. Roland Forthomme, Peter Ceulemans and Barry Beers (best winner with 50 in 27 innings) served Snellen the fully win.

Frans Bevers was the biggest winner of the day. The team from Sluiskil defeated Martens Cleaning in the derby which was played in Kapelle. Frédéric Caudron signed for the best match of the day: he beat Martin Spoormans in twenty innings: 50-17. Caudron made his high run of fifteen in the eleventh inning.

Eddy Leppens defeated Raymond Ceulemans 50-33 in 30 innings, Jean Paul de Bruijn won his duel with Henk Habraken (50-45, run of twelve for Habraken, ten for De Bruijn) and Glenn Hoffman beat another youth player, Kai de Zwart, 50-40 in 42 innings.

Dekker Keukens made a half misstep in hismatch against Van de Broek/Hanbat: the endscore was 4-4 in Utrecht, thanks to victories for Jérémy Bury and Therese Klompenhouwer. The Frenchman Bury had to catch up after a quick start of his opponent. Philipoom made a run of eleven from the break. Bury took the advantage on a score of 36-35 with runs of eight and six. He won 50-35 in 29 innings. John Tijssens and Gerwin Valentijn both won their matches in 32 innings.

Eddy Merckx showed himself a great frontman in the team of TOVV.nl/MCR, which started against Holland DBL Mineral. The Belgian player beat Stefan Galla 50-35 in 22 innings. Anno de Kleine was the only winner for DBL, he defeated Frans van Kuyk 50-47.

Dion Nelin had a flashy final rush for A1 Biljarts in his duel with Christian Rudolph. The Dane finished the match with a riun of eleven on a score of 42-39 for the German. There was a lot of tension in the match between Dave van Geel and Martien van der Spoel, which was won by Dave van Geel. Martien van der Spoel had a good finish with 6, 8, 9 and 5, but Van Geel finished with four. A1 Biljarts won the match 6-2.

Berendhaus/Horeca, another debutant, started with a 5-3 victory against De Hazelaar, which teams has moved to another location after problems with the previous sponsor. Thorsten Frings excelled with a run of fifteen, but nevertheless finished with a tie against Wesley de Jaeger.

Frans Bevers leads the ranking after one day with the maximum points.