3-Cushion
HURGHADA - Twelve groups of three players, that makes 36 players, will enter the arena of the Sunrise Beach Garden on the third day of the World Cup. They come from twelve different countries. The homeland Egypt, Korea and Belgium have five players in this session. Turkey and the Netherlands are with four players, France, Austria and Denmark with three, Germany, Greece, Czech Republic and Vietnam with one player.
The Belgian Wesley Jaeger, who had a complicated eye surgery recently, had the best qualifying lap yesterday. The thirteen year old super talent Myung Woo Cho from Korea was a remarkable second. The other Korean, Young Chull Kim, beat Huub Wilkowski after a sensational match, when he had come back from a 10-2 disadvantage with a run of ten.
Dave Christiani takes the break-off against this Korean player in the first matches this morning (10.00 Egyptian time). The Dutchman surprised in the previous World Cup in Vienna with a place in the main tournament after victories against Javier Palazón and Adnan Yüksel.
Haeng-Jik Kim, the three-time junior world champion, has been divided in the flight with In-Won Kang. The two Koreans are teammates in the Netherlands in the team of Van den Broek/Hanbat. In-Won Kang is the player who played against Eddy Merckx when the Belgian took the world record in Germany with fifty caroms in six innings. He left his Korean opponent with only six caroms.
The most international known players in the penultimate qualifying round are Peter Ceulemans, Peter de Backer, Kostas Papakonstantinou, Vinh Ly The, Frans van Kuyk, Pierre Soumagne, Therese Klompenhouwer and Jean Reverchon.