Vietnamese players hit the Premier League pool today
Duc Thien played the first match against the world's number nine player Konrad Juszczyszyn about after 12:00 on Monday, March 6 (19h Hanoi time). About six hours later, he met world number 14 Naoyuki Oi and ended the day with Korean female player Seo Seoa.
Pool Premier is an invitation tournament held for the first time in the UK in February 2022, with the championship belonging to Albin Ouschan after defeating Joshua Filler 7-5 in the final. The tournament includes 16 top players, invited to participate in a round-robin format, but last year there was no representative from Vietnam.
This year's tournament, the organizers invited Duong Quoc Hoang and Nguyen Anh Tuan, but these two players could not apply for a visa to the UK. Duc Thien was invited to replace, attend the tournament with players or former world champions such as Filler, Ouschan, Shane van Boening, Jayson Shaw, Chris Melling, Skyler Woodward, Alex Pagulayan or the legendary Earl Strickland.
The 2023 Premier League Pool takes place from March 6 to March 13 at Leicester, also including 16 players, including 14 men and two women, with a total prize money of 100,000 USD. The champion will receive $20,000, and each player who participates will receive a minimum of $2,500.
From March 6 to March 10, the players play in a circle, three matches a day. The player who wins the first five games wins the match, in a rotational breaking format. After 15 matches, the six players at the bottom of the table will be eliminated. The remaining group of 10 players continued to play in a round-robin on March 11 and 12, choosing six people to continue. These players continue to play in a round-robin on March 13 to choose four places to enter the semi-finals. From the semi-finals, the player who wins seven games wins the match.
31-year-old Duc Thien from Bac Kan, who won the Vietnam 9-ball pool in 2020, and the Asian Top 16 in 2022. He is the only player at the tournament not named in the order of the World Pool Federation (WPA). ) now.
