Many highlights on the way to main tournament

The first win of the day was for a Belgian (Forthomme) and a Frenchman (Barbeillon), the last for the Italian Emilio Sciacca. The match in straight sets on billiard one, with an average of 1,500 for Sciacca, was the culmination of a day full of surprises and a lot of great, attractive matches full of tension.

The elimination of Murat Naci Coklu by Jérôme Barbaillon, even with a maximum run of fifteen of the Turk, was one of the highlights. Further ther was the disappointing performance of the Dutchman Jean Paul de Bruijn, the simple profit of Roland Forthomme against Michael Nilsson, the walk-over of Javier Palazón in his group, the victory of Savas Bulut on Raimond Burgman, the exciting match of Barry van Beers and the win over Christian Rudolph and the denouement in the group with Gerhard Kostistansky, Pierre Soumagne and Peter Ceulemans, decided on the average with the Austrian Kostistansky as the winner.

There was a lot of tention in the match between Glenn Hofman and Ruben Legazpi, which was decided in the third set. The Spaniard remained cool until the end and won 2-1. Barry Beers finished in his match with Rudolph with a tremendous average of 1.717, In this poule, by the way, Ad Koorevaar didn't appear for his match against Rudolph.

Tonny Carlsen rushed over Kang Dong Gung (2-0) after a difficult start of the tournament. Savas Bulut was beaten in the first set by Raimond Burgman,but then forced the win in the other sets: 15-11 and 15-8.

The highest average of the day was for Murat Naci Coklu with 2.028, the Turk also signed, of course, with fifteen points for the highest run of the last qualification day.

The following players have qualified for the draw for the main tournament: Jung Han Heo, Roland Forthomme Javier Palazón, Lütfi Cenet, Jérôme Barbeillon, Ruben Legazpi Savas Bulut, Tonny Carlsen, Barry van Beers, Kouji Funaki, Emilio Sciacca and Gerhard Kostistansky.
That is in countries: two Spaniards, two Turks, one Belgian, one Japanese, one Korean, one Frenchman, one Italian, a Dutchman, a Dane and an Austrian.
They will share the seeded players and the wildcards