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SEOUL - The Heroes team, sponsored by TS Jdx, is topping the ranking after the second round at the PBA team competition. The leader still performed without its star player Filippos Kasidokostas in this second match session, but had a strong line-up, thanks partly to Colombian Robinson Morales, Korean Byeong-ho Kim and the high scoring Korean lady Mi-rae Lee, who is also the leader in the individual ranking ahead of another Korean lady, Ga-young Kim and Robinson Morales. Two striking matches in this second round: Bo-mi Kim was the better in the women's top match between Winners and Heroes against Mi-rae Lee, but lost in the mixed double to her father Byeong-ho Kim. The match itself ended 3-3.
The leader Heroes achieved four wins and one draw in the second round. That brought the team to 20 wins over two rounds with 5 wins and 5 draws. Heroes has a total of 20 points now and is ahead of Alphas, the number two with 15 points. Winners and Phoenix, the teams with Eddy Leppens and Frédéric Caudron, are three and four with 13 points.
Mi-Rae Lee (Heroes) took the 1st position in the individual ranking with a 0.957 PBA average, adjusted to UMB rules: 0.873. Robinson Morales feels like a fish in the water in the South Korean professional federation and is third on the ranking following the ladies Mi-rae Lee and Ga-young Kim, who played 14 matches against Morales 11. The Colombian has 11 wins and 4 losses with a PBA average of 1,950 (corrected 1,806). Byeong-ho Kim is 4th with 9 wins and 5 losses (average 1,387, corrected 1,271).
Robinson Morales is also the leader in the individual ranking in the Success Shot Rate with a 66.7 percentage. He is in 3rd individual position with his overall average.
Alphas, with Jun-ju Shin and Minh Cam Ma, is second on the ranking ahead of Winners (Eddy Leppens, Dong-koong Kang) and Phoenix (Frédéric Caudron, Byrol Uymaz).
The next Shinhan Investment team tournament is from October 20-24. The next individual tournament, TS Shampoo championship, will be held from September 30th to October 4th at the Mayfield Hotel.
The ranking in the PBA team competition (match points after two tournaments, shot percentage):
1 Heroes 20-55.6 percent
2 Alphas 15-55.5
3 Winners 13-53.2
4 Phoenix 13-55.9
5 Raon 13-50.8
6 Angels 7-48.8
The individual ranking (matches played individually and doubles matches, average according to PBA where a bank shot counts for two points, best run):
1 Mi-rae Lee 14-0,957-6
2 Ga-young Kim 14-0,911-8
3 Robinson Morales 11-1,950-9
4 Hyun-min Seo 10-1,870-11
5 Nam-soo Kim 9-1,367-9
7 David Zapata 10-1,472-6
7 Hyun-Kon Kim 8-1,721-7
7 Ji-eun Kang 8-0,886-8
7 Minh Cam Ma 8-1,617-8
7 Sang-pil Eom 8-1,352-8
12 Birol Uymaz 7-1,680-6
12 Eddy Leppens 7-1,755-7
12 Frédéric Caudron 7-1,836-7
16 David Martinez 6-1,345-9.
The leading team Heroes with Robinson Morales and Mi-rae Lee
Frédéric Caudron (right, Phoenix) was the better of Minh Cam Ma (Alphas) in the individual match