3-Cushion
ANTALYA - The farewell must have been hard for Inwon Kang, the likeable Korean, who played such a great first round, but was sent home with 1.764 average, because lost his last game of Gerhard Kostistansky. Ronny Lindemann and Yilmaz Özcan must have been very sad as well, playing over 1.4 without qualification for the next round.
The Turks Volkan Cimentepe (0.850), Umit Demircan (0.923), Koray Kirman (0.928) and the Dutch Jean Paul de Bruijn (0.976) and Dave Christiani (0.986) were a bit more lucky with their averages below one. The nineteen other ranked players on Wednesday continued with averages over one.
Can Capak shone with a run of eleven, Savas Bulut and Barry van Beers, the dazzling winner of the day ranking yesterday, both made runs of ten.
Today the tournament continues on six tables for the final qualifying round before the main tournament. Players who were in top twelve of the world not so long ago (Tayfun Tasdemir and Roland Forthomme) enter the matchroom, together with players who are not so far away from top twelve (Javier Palazón, Eddy Leppens and Murat Naci Coklu).
With a ship full of outsiders who can be extremely dangerous, such as Jose Maria Mas, Glenn Hoffman, Peter Ceulemans, Barry van Beers, Carlos Crespo, Jean van Erp, Gerhard Kostistansky, Kouji Funaki, Can Capak, Savas Bulut, Dong Koong Kang, Jung Han Heo, Radek Novak, Raimond Burgman and Kostas Papakonstantinou.
All matches that you be followed live on Kozoom (for Premium pass holders) are indicated in the schedule (local time).
10.00:
Group A (Kozoom): Tayfun Tasdemir (Tr)-Umit Demircan (Tr)
Group B (Kozoom): Gokhan Salman (Tr)-Jose Maria Mas (Sp)
Group C (Kozoom): Jean Reverchon (Fr)-Jean van Erp (Neth)
Group D (Kozoom): Murat Naci Coklu (Tr)-Erkan Akti (Tr)
Group E: Manuel Rui Costa (Por)-Dave Christiani (Neth)
Group F: Peter Ceulemans (Bel)-Volkan Cimentepe (Tr)
11.30:
Group G (Kozoom): Radek Novak (Czh)-Gerhard Kostistansky (Aus)
Group H (Kozoom): Can Capak (Tr)-Savas Bulut (Tr)
Group I (Kozoom): Glenn Hoffman (Neth)-Hakan Incekara (Tr)
Group J (Kozoom): Kostas Papakonstantinou (Gr)-David Pennör (Swe)
Group K: Vagelis Moulos (Gr)-Jean Paul de Bruijn (Neth)
Group L: Raimond Burgman (Neth)-Barry Beers (Neth)
13.00:
Group A (Kozoom): Michael Nilsson (Swe)
Group B (Kozoom): Eddy Leppens (Bel)
Group C (Kozoom): Javier Palazón (Sp)
Group D: Carlos Crespo (Sp)
Group E: Dong Koong Kang (Kor)
Group F (Kozoom): Kouji Funaki (Jap)
Group G: Jung Han Heo (Kor)
Group H: Roland Forthomme (Bel)
14.30:
Group G (Kozoom): Jung Han Heo (Kor)
Group H: (Kozoom): Roland Forthomme (Bel)
Group I: (Kozoom): Nikos Polychronopoulos (Gr)
Group J: Ruben Legazpi (Sp)
Group K: Antonio Ortiz (Sp)
Group L (Kozoom): Koray Kirman (Tr)
16.00: next group parties
Kozoom: Michael Nilsson
Kozoom: Eddy Leppens
Kozoom: Koong Kang Dong
Kozoom: Kouji Funaki
17.30: last matches
Kozoom: Jung Han Heo
Kozoom: Roland Forthomme
Koroom: Antonio Ortiz
Kozoom: Koray Kirman