Vietnam’s hottest billiards: Van Ly won the World Cup 44 times, Anh Chien sowed the world’s No

(Sports news, billiards news) Vietnamese players are playing very impressively at the 2022 World Cup in Ho Chi Minh City, in which the highlight is the resounding victory of Dao Van Ly over the superstar who has won the championship 44 times. World Cup Torbjorn Blomdahl.

On the morning of May 27, the Billiard Carom 3 Ho Chi Minh City World Cup 2022 entered the official round, an extremely attractive round when all the top players in the world were out.

Van Ly excelled in the opening match of the official round

Fans’ attention is focused on the match between Dao Van Ly and Torbjorn Blomdahl. Although only ranked 609 in the world, Van Ly earlier a day surprised when he excellently defeated the Korean prodigy Cho Myung Woo in the qualifying round to win tickets to the next round.

Confronted with living legend Torbjorn Blomdahl, Dao Van Ly continued to surprise all spectators by creating an even match with the 44-time World Cup winner during most of the competition. Towards the end of the match, Van Ly with a 5-point line broke through, winning the final 40-33 after 27 innings.

The 44-time World Cup winner Blomdahl was defeated by Van Ly

With this victory, Van Ly has a great advantage in competing for one of the two tickets to continue in Group D, the group also has the presence of world number 4 players Daniel Sanchez and Gerhard Kostistansky (92nd place).

Notably, in the match at the same time, Nguyen Duc Anh Chien had a dramatic draw against the world No. 2 player Marco Zanetti. The Italian superstar entered the game very well to lead 11-1, then created a 20-14 gap after the first half.

Before this development, Anh Chien decided to play defensively to reduce the excitement of the opponent. Reasonable tactics helped Vietnam’s players gradually shorten the gap to only 20-24 in the second half.

Nguyen Duc Anh Chien holds the dramatic draw Marco Zanetti

The game suddenly changed direction when Anh Chien scored 16 points after only 3 next moves to lead 36-28. At this point, it was Zanetti’s turn to play carefully to balance the score and compare until the end of the match. In the end, Anh Chien drew 40-40 with Zanetti after 32 innings.

The draw against the strongest player in Group B is a favorable result for Anh Chien when the two remaining players in the table, Choi Young Wan and Hwang Bong Joo, are considered to be opponents within reach of the 2019 World Championship runners-up.

The disappointment of the No. 2 superstar in the world when there was no victory

Also in this match, the number 1 Vietnamese player Tran Quyet Chien had a convincing victory against Nguyen Tran Thanh Tu with a score of 40-31 after 15 rounds in Group C. Two representatives of Vietnam, especially Thanh He will have to work very hard in the remaining matches against two Korean opponents, Heo Jung Han (ranked 14th) and Lee Choong Bok (ranked 31st).

The remaining matches in the official round will continue to take place on May 27, in which the last round will take place at 8 pm to select the 16 best and second place players in 8 groups to enter the knockout round.