Having just won the gold medal at the 31st SEA Games, Tran Quyet Chien competed for the 3rd World Cup Billiards Carom Prize
The Ho Chi Minh City 3-way Billiards Carom Tournament 2022 is the third World Cup stage in 2022 organized by the World Billiards Federation (UMB) after the Ankara World Cup and the Las Vegas World Cup. In both previous matches, world number 1 player Dick Jaspers was crowned.
Tran Quyet Chien has just won the gold medal at the 31st SEA Games.
The number 1 hope of the host Vietnam will be Tran Quyet Chien, the player who is ranked 3rd in the world. Quyet Chien has had a very good start in 2022 when it reached the final of the Ankara World Cup, stopped in the 1/8 round of the Las Vegas World Cup and recently won the gold medal at the 31st SEA Games. Quyet Chien currently has 347 points, in when the player is ranked 2 Marco Zanetti is 381 points.
Player Tran Quyet Chien is the hope of the host Vietnam at the 3rd Billiards Carom Tournament in Ho Chi Minh City World Cup 2022.
This year’s tournament brings together nearly 160 players from 19 countries, including all of the world’s strongest players to attend.
17 mechanical hands will be classified as the seeds of the tournament, only competing from the official round (May 27). In which, there are 13 players with the highest ranking on the world rankings, 2 special places of Vietnam (players Nguyen Tran Thanh Tu and Nguyen Duc Anh Chien) and 1 special place selected by UMB (players of Riad Nady).
All the remaining players will have to go through 4 intense qualifying rounds from May 23-26 to choose the remaining 15 places to compete in the official round (top 32) with 17 seed players. alike.
Tran Quyet Chien’s current form is quite good, he confidently competes successfully in this year’s tournament.
The champion player will receive 16,000 euros (396 million VND) in prize money and 80 points on the world rankings. Runner-up receives 10,000 euros and 54 points. 3rd place bronze receives 6000 euros and 36 points. Players in the top 8 will receive 3500 euros and 28 points. Top 16 will receive 2500 euros and 18 points. Meanwhile, the hand in the main round for the top 32 will receive 1500 euros and 10 points.
With this scoreboard, except for the world No. 1 player Dick Jaspers (with 596 points) whose position is quite safe, all the remaining players have the ability to improve their position on the world rankings if like playing well at the tournament.
On the opening day of the competition, May 23, the tournament took place in the first qualifying round with 48 players divided into 16 groups, each group of 3 players competed in a round-robin format with 30 points. match, choose the top player to win the next position. In addition, there are 3 slots.
On May 24, the tournament continued to take place the second qualifying round. Notably, Group A in addition to the appearance of Dao Van Ly and Jaein Jung (South Korea) also had the presence of a tall “giant” nearly 2m Sam Van Etten (Netherlands). In addition, some strong Vietnamese players such as Dinh Quang Hai, Tran Thanh Luc or Chiem Hong Thai will also join the army.
The first matches will take place from 11am. Meanwhile, the last match of the day will take place at 6:30 pm.
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