The legendary player praised Bao Phuong Vinh's attacking style

At the beginning of the all-Vietnam final between Tran Quyet Chien and Phuong Vinh on the evening of September 10, Blomdahl said: "It seems like master and disciple have met."

However, the course of the game made the Swedish player change his opinion, when the 28-year-old player won by a clear margin against his 39-year-old senior.

Blomdahl, 61 years old from Sweden, has won the world championship seven times in 1987, 1988, 1991, 1992, 1997, 2015 and 2019. He commented that Phuong Vinh "turns every situation into a scoring situation". "He scores points from very difficult positions, and always tries to hit the target ball without relying on luck," Blomdahl said on Afreeca channel.

61-year-old Italian player Marco Zanetti was not surprised when Phuong Vinh won the championship in his first tournament. "His talent cannot be denied, and he reached his peak in this tournament," said the world's number one player. "Phuong Vinh's father, Mr. Bao Thanh Phuong, created many conditions for his son to compete in international tournaments, and he took advantage of this advantage. Phuong Vinh also played with a much more comfortable mentality than top players".

Zanetti won the world championship twice, in 2002 and 2008, but stopped in the quarterfinals of this year's tournament with a 34-50 loss to Quyet Chien. In the semi-finals, Vietnam's number one player continued to eliminate defending champion Tayfun Tasdemir, but lost to junior Phuong Vinh 34-50 in the final.

After the tournament, Zanetti took over the world number one position that Dick Jaspers had held for the past 2,103 days. This is the first time Zanetti has climbed to this position, but the score difference between him and the players behind him is not large. He has 373 points, 42 points more than fifth place of Quyet Chien. Korean "prodigy" Cho Myung-woo climbed to number two in the world, despite losing to Phuong Vinh in the semi-finals of the last tournament. Blomdahl is third, and Jaspers has been pushed to fourth. Phuong Vinh jumped from position 21 to enter the Top 10 with 244 points, not counting player Daniel Sanchez who moved to play for another federation.

Phuong Vinh also told MetaSports that his strongest point is his scientific and attacking style of fighting. "I spend a lot of time studying the number buttons, and always think of ways to score points in every position," he added. "I don't want to play defense, or run bullets to make things difficult for my opponents."

Vietnam is flourishing in the three-band arena, when the reigning world and World Cup champions are Phuong Vinh and Quyet Chien, respectively. Zanetti commented that Vietnamese players are more ambitious than Korean players. "Vietnamese players fight better, like warriors with rage," the Italian player said. "There will be more Vietnamese players moving up the world rankings. And I'm looking forward to continuing to compete in next year's world championship in Vietnam."

This is not the first time Vietnam has had two players in the top 10 in the world, when Quyet Chien and Nguyen Quoc Nguyen were in this position in 2018. But this is the first time Vietnam has won both important world tournaments of the year. billiards village.

UMB's next major tournament is the World Cup in Veghel, Netherlands in October 2023.