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World championship: scores, highlights, schedule

12/02/2015

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The top six enters the tournament today: Tasdemir, Choi, Sánchez, Merckx, Jaspers, Blomdahl

BORDEAUX – On the second day of the World championship 3-cushion in Bordeaux, players from the top of the world ranking will come to the table. Torbjörn Blomdahl, Dani Sánchez, Dick Jaspers, Tayfun Tasdemir and Eddy Merckx are in the first half of the draw. The Belgian will start his day against a dangerous opponent: Semih Sayginer, who lost to Luis Aveiga yesterday and will now play for his last chance to survive.

Sung-Won Choi, who also lost his first match yesterday vs Jae Guen Kim, will get his second chance against Japanese Tatsuo Arai (at 13.30). Torbjörn Blomdahl will face Jean Reverchon, Eddy Merckx plays Semih Sayginer and Dick Jaspers goes up against Hyung Kon Kim.

The other sessions:

16.00:

Tayfun Tasdemir-Cetin Behzat

Dani Sánchez-Jan Áles

Marco Zanetti-Jean van Erp

Frédéric Caudron-Christakis Christoforou

18.30:

Jae Ho Cho-Andrès Lizarazou

Hyung Bum Hwang-Juan Pablo Sisterna

Jung Han Heo-Michael Nilsson

Roland Forthomme-Riad Nady

21.00 uur:

Sameh Sidhom-Cayo Bardales

Jean Paul de Bruijn-Dion Nelin

Dong Koong Kang-Christopher Tevez

Quyet Chien Tran-Pedro Piedrabuena.

All matches will be broadcast live on kozoom.com.

The seven Korean players for the championship

On the opening day, the best match was played by Eddy Leppens, who casually beat Peruvian Cayo Bardales: 40-16 in 18 innings (2.222 average). The players who came closest to Leppens’ average were Vietnamese Anh Vu Duong (1.666), Greek Nikos Polychronopoulos and American Miguel Torres (both 1.538) and the surprising Costarican Erick Tellez (1.481).

There were three runs over 10 on the first day: Nikos Polychronopoulos had a twelve, his opponent Andrès Lizarazou ran eleven in the equalizer and Adnan Yüksel made a ten in his match against Dion Nelin.

Sixteen matches were played, producing a total of 1076 points in 972 innings, for an average 1.106. Jan Álles (Czeck Rep.) had the lowest average (0.515), Egyptian champion Riad Nady scored 0.538. Nady also had the least points (14 in 26), followed by Cayo Bardales (16 in 18) and Jan Áles (17 in 33).

Eddy Leppens

Nikos Polychronopoulos

Anh Vu Duong

 

 

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