Verhoeven Ladies Open with 26 players

NEW YORK - The Jennifer Shim tournament, also called Verhoeven Open for women, will open the diptych on Friday 2 August in the Carom Café in New York. The tournament in Flushing, where Therese Klompenhouwer defends her title, will be played for the time being with 26 participants. The main competitors for the world champion are Japanese ex-world champion Orie Hida and Cambodian Sruong Pheavy. Kozoom will broadcast the tournament directly. The ladies tournament is the precursor for the "Verhoeven Open" that will be played from 5 to 11 of August with a total of 107 players.

The Jennifer Shim tournament is named after the player who was shot by her ex-friend and died on March 6, 2015.

In the Verhoeven tournament, four players so far are seeded directly for the second round: Torbjörn Blomdahl, Eddy Merckx, Dani Sánchez and Semih Sayginer.

Participants in the ladies tournament:

Therese Klompenhouwer (NL), 
Sylvia Eckel (NL), 
Janine Verkerk (NL), 
Karina Jetten (NL)
, Jetty van Hummel (NL), Pauline Gerritsen (NL), 
Orie Hida (JP), 
Kazumi Hida (JP), 
Ayako Sakai (JP), 
Yuko Nishimoto (JP), 
Jackeline Pérez (PE)
, Sruong Pheavy (KH), 
Claudia Marcella Lalinde Restrepo (CO), 
Andrea Liceth Cardona Anacona (CO)
, Paoloa Castillo Olaya (CO), 
Soledad Gómez Zapata (CO), 
Ester Park (US), 
Alina Shim (US),
Helga Mitterböck (AT), 
Monika Steinberger (AT), 
Marianne Mortensen (DK), 
Mélanie Haller (FR), 
Ji-Eun Han (KR)
, Hyun-Ji Yong (KR), Bora Kim (KR), Yemi Andrea Mancipe Segura (ES).

The most known other players in the Verhoeven Open tournament are: Quyet Chien Tran, Sameh Sidhom, Nguyen Quoc Nguyen, Dinh Nai Ngo, Myung-Woo Cho, Hugo Patiño, Minh Cam Ma, Nguyen Trung Hau Do, Dion Nelin, Brian Knudsen, Roland Forthomme, Arnim Kahofer, Adrien Tachoire and Michael Kang.

Vietnamese Anh Vu Duong was removed from the list due to his PBA sanction.

Japanese Orie Hida, the main challenger for Therese Klompenhouwer