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Vietnam entered the world team championship today

Published:2023-03-09 By Xuân Bình(MetaSports) Comments
Duc Vietnam with Tran Quyet Chien and Nguyen Duc Anh Chien will meet Austria in the first match of the 2023 world team carom championship on March 9.

Quyet Chien will meet Amin Kahofer, and Mr. Claus Maurer will be fighting at 18:00, Hanoi time, or 12:00 Berlin time, in Group D. Each match will have two pairs of matches, the matches are equal, up to 40 points. Vietnam is more appreciated when both players are in the Top 20 in the world, and two Austrian rivals are outside the Top 40.

If Vietnam wins this match, Vietnam will meet the winner of the match at the same time between Sweden and Belgium in the same group, at 2:00 am on March 10. The final round of the group stage will take place at 0:00 on Saturday, March 11.

The world 3-team carom championship began to be held in 1981. Since 1990, the tournament has always taken place in Viersen, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. Sweden is the most successful team with nine championships, of which Torbjorn Blomdahl participated in all nine tournaments, and Michael Nilsson also won seven times.

This year's tournament took place from March 9 to March 12 with 16 teams selected according to many criteria including defending champion, host, six European places, three Americas places, three Asian places and two European places. Africa & Middle East. Vietnam, Japan and Korea represent Asia at the tournament. Vietnam's best achievement is the quarterfinals.

This is the fourth time in a row that Vietnam has been invited to attend, including Quyet Chien. In the first two times, he paired with Nguyen Quoc Nguyen, and in the last two tournaments, Anh Chien. Quyet Chien is ranked 10th in the world, and Anh Chien is in 17th place.

Turkey has won the last two championships and is considered the number one seed this time, with world number three Tayfun Tasdemir and main number Semih Sayginer, a total of 12 hands. are Korea 20, Spain 21, Korea and Vietnam 27.

Vietnam is in Group D with Sweden, Austria and Belgium. Although Blomdahl and Nilsson's total order is 35, after Vietnam, they still get the most attention because they have won the world championship together seven times. Meanwhile, Belgium does not have former world number one Frederic Caudron, so their two representatives, Peter de Backer and Wesley de Jaeger, are both outside the Top 100.

Each team won two points, drew one point, and lost no points. The criteria for ranking the group stage teams are match points, game points and the most points scored, respectively. The top eight teams in the group stage will split into a knockout tie. The prize fund of the tournament is 42,000 euros (about 44,000 USD), of which the winning team receives 8,000 euros, after tax.

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