New York tournament with record of players

NEW YORK - The Verhoeven Open tournament in New York already has a record number of inscription: over eighty players. The registration is still open. The men's tournament will be played from 21 to 26 July, the women's tournament from 18 to 20th July. The women's tournament is expected to show up with eighteen players. Many players from the world top in three cushion will travel to New York next month. The format is, almost certain, with eight seeded players for the main event:

Torbjorn Blomdahl (Sweden), Frédéric Caudron (Belgium), Eddy Merckx (Belgium), Marco Zanetti (Italy), Dick Jaspers (Netherlands), Raymond Ceulemans (Belgium), Sung-Won Choi (Korea) and Dong Koong Kang (Korea).

Torbjörn Blomdahl remained unbeaten last year in the main tournament, he defeated Dick Jaspers, Eddy Merckx, Frédéric Caudron, Sameh Sidhom, Huberney Catano, Vinh The Ly and Alexander Salazar.

The current list of players for the tournament in the Carom Cafe in Flushing, in addition to the seeded players:

From Denmark: Martin Olsen, Christian Andersen, Kaj Olsen, Allan Jensen, Kim Straarup, Michael Hansen, Thomas Holmershoj, Dan Johanson, John Hansen, Thomas Moren, Kim Bengtsson, Peer Marpsee, Lars Dunch.

From Ecuador: Jorge Rubio, Ronald Rubio.

From the Netherlands: Therese Klompenhouwer, Karina Jetten, Bert van Manen, Ronald van Geyt.

From France: Joël Switala, Philippe Maisert, Yves Tournier.

From Belgium: Roland Forthomme, Peter Ceulemans, Wesley de Jaeger, Tim Gorrebeeck.

From Turkey: Tayfun Tasdemir, Murat Naci Coklu, Semih Sayginer, Gülsen Degener.

From Sweden: Thomas Tullberg.

From Korea: Suah Park.

From America:
Pedro Piedrabuena, Hugo Patino, Miguel Torres, Sonny Cho, Michael Kang, Mazin Shooni, Jim Shovak, Reye Raskin, Khalfi Diab, Jerry Geist, John Cristiano, Stanley Lombardo, Jim Bishop, Tony Lam, Brian Haff, Roger Sequira, Mike Chen, Ira Lee, Tae Kyu Lee, Sun Shin, Jae Cheon Seong, Mark An, Hugo Flores, Song Lim, Eric Kwon, Carlos Pelafox, Carlos Gustavo, Christian Portilla, Chris Bartzos, Young Gull Lee, Vinny Stemazko, Kyung Soo Yim, Hyuk Yoon.

The top eight last year in the Carom Cafe