1-Cushion
MALLE - The two best players in the world in the game type one cushion, Frédéric Caudron from Belgium and Jean Paul de Bruijn from the Netherlands, are invited by Kozoom for a challenge to 1500 points in one cushion, to be played from 27 until 29 June this year. The place where the challenge takes place is Salpho Billiards Center in Malle. The match will be broadcast by Kozoom exclusively for Premium Pass holders.
The marathon match is divided into ten sessions of 150 points. The minimum prize money is three thousand euros, 2000 for the winner, 1000 for the loser. Vip tables in the Salpho are for sale for spectators who want to visit the challenge. The entrance is free. The contest starts on Friday and ends on Sunday.
Jean Paul de Bruijn (from 14 March 1965) and Frédéric Caudron (January 27, 1968) are both absolute world class players in one cushion. The Dutchman won the last world title in this discipline in Alicante 2007. He was six-time European champion and ten times Dutch champion in this game type.
Frédéric Caudron won seven European titles, the last was in Brandenburg last year, and is the eighteen times Belgian champion: ten times in a row between 2004 and 2013.
The Belgian is the owner of the best world average in one tournament, played in 2007 during the Belgian championship: 27.27. Jean Paul de Bruijn played his best average at the European championships in Kortrijk, Belgium: 25.86.
Frédéric Caudron is looking forward to the match: it looks like the Juanjo Trilles Challenge, which he won against Dick Jaspers two years ago in Ganda. That match was a 600 points three cushion duel in ten sessions of 60. Caudron was the glorious winner.
Jean Paul de Bruijn and Frédéric Caudron have remarkable differences in playing style. The Dutchman is known as a compact player, especially strong with high runs as he has the balls in position. The Belgian, world champion in three cushion, is a more versatile player, who's able to score in all difficult positions.
,,It's going to be a survival race,'' expects De Bruijn, who is very pleased with the invitation to meet his great friend and rival in this spectacle.