Ma Minh Cam won “Billing Genius” Caudron, entering the knockout round for the billion dollar prize
(Sports news, billiards news) Ma Minh Cam had an excellent upstream victory to defeat “Billing Genius” Frederic Caudron, thereby advancing to the knockout round of the PBA World Championship.
Ma Minh Cam overwhelmed Frederic Caudron in the final set of the group stage
The great battle between Ma Minh Cam and Frederic Caudron took place on the evening of March 23 in the last match of the group stage of the PBA World Championship 2022 three-band carom tournament held in South Korea. This is considered the “final” match of Group A for the first place in the group when both of these players have won two against the remaining opponents.
Minh Cam defeated Caudron to monopolize the top spot of Group A with 3 wins in all matches
Caudron got off to a great start with a 12-point shot to win the first set 15-4 in just 3 innings. In the second set, the Belgian superstar continued to dominate and lead 11-8. However, at this moment, Minh Cam turned the situation around with a 7-point line to win 15-11 and balance the game.
Continuing the excitement, Minh Cam opened the third set with a 7-point shot. The Vietnamese hand held the advantage to win 15-8 before “destroying” the opponent in the 4th set with a 15-2 difference, thereby winning the final 3-1 after 4 sets.
With this result, Minh Cam excellently ended the group stage with 3 wins, monopolizing the top spot and winning a spot in the 1/8 knockout round. Before that, he respectively defeated the two hosts of the host country, Park Kwang Yeol and Yim Syung Kun. Meanwhile, despite losing the match, Caudron still won the right to continue with the second place in the group.
Phuong Linh also excellently won tickets to the knockout round with the first place in Group G .
The other representative of Vietnam, Nguyen Huynh Phuong Linh, was equally excellent with the top of Group G. After overcoming the strongest player in the group, Birol Uymaz on the opening day, Phuong Linh continued to defeat Lee Jong Joo and Cho Kwoen Hi in the remaining two matches to get tickets to the top 16.
Thus, both players of Vietnam are in very high form on the journey to conquer the championship worth up to 200 million won (more than 3.7 billion VND). The round of 1/8 matches is expected to take place on March 25.
Taking place from March 19-28, the PBA World Championship is the final stage of the season of the PBA Tour for only 32 players with the highest scores on the chart after 6 stages from the beginning of the season. The 32 players are divided into 8 groups, each group competes in a round-robin format to select the 2 best and second players from each group to enter the knockout round. Matches from the group stage to the quarter-finals take place in the form of 5 sets of 3 wins, 15 points each, and 11 points for each set. In particular, this is considered the tournament with the largest prize money in the world with a total value of up to 400 million won (7.5 billion VND). In which, the champion will receive 200 million won (more than 3.7 billion VND). |
According to Le Phong (Ho Chi Minh City Tourism Magazine)
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