Florida Open 2025, August 5-10, Orlando, Caribe Royale

jbart65 said:
Seems we have an influx of very young players trying to break their way into the top echelons of pro pool.

Moritz Neuhausen, 21, already made the leap and Kledio Kaci, 19, has joined him.

AJ Manas, 18, got all the buzz a year ago, and still gets the buzz. Countryman Bernie Regalario, 20, has stepped up.

Felix Vogel, 17, is crashing the party this year.

Yannick Pongers, 20, has really caught my eye. Bit of a young hothead, but gobs of talent.

And now Albert Januarta, 17, fresh off of winning the WPC Junior title, is having a good go in the Florida Open. Won is first two matches, including a 9-5 win over Mieszko Fortunski, and now he is up 5-1 vs. Aleksa Pecelj.
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Just to mention a few more young players playing today to get to elimination stage

Szymon Kural, 784, POL turns 21 this weekend
Riku Rompannen, 749, FIN is 17
Walter Laikre, 735, SWE just turned 17
Konnor McFayden, 666, USA, 17 (Florida)
 
Konnor McFayden - poor kid will be correcting people who correctly spell his misspelled name once a week for the rest of his life.

Interesting contrast between this massive (256 player?) field and the 128-player world championships which had pretty much no lead-in before the heavy hitters started to play and eliminate each other.
 
Is it against the rules to modofy your CUE unreasonably ?
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bpeacock said:
Anyone watching table 4? Shuff is in bad pain but not giving up.
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I watched and agree Brandon doesn't look physically comfortable. He was resting his bridge hand on the rail before getting down. Hope it is nothing too serious, he is still relatively young, 41 or 42 I think.
 
axejunkie said:
I watched and agree Brandon doesn't look physically comfortable. He was resting his bridge hand on the rail before getting down. Hope it is nothing too serious, he is still relatively young, 41 or 42 I think.
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He was having a hard time at last year's International. Looked like a foot or leg problem.
 
Fred v Robbie will be good

Last 64 Draw

Jesús Atencio
Luong Duc Thien
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Casper Matikainen
Yannick Pongers
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Jan Van Lierop
John Morra
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Robbie Capito
Fedor Gorst
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Shane Van Boening
Masato Yoshioka
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Elliott Sanderson
Patric Gonzales
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Albert Januarta
Marvin Asis
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Konrad Juszczyszyn
Tyler Styer
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Eklent Kaci
David Alcaide
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Thorsten Hohmann
Alex Bausch
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Duong Quoc Hoang
Chang Yu Lung
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Mustafa Alnar
Phuong Nam Pham
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Wiktor Zielinski
Billy Thorpe
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Dimitris Loukatos
Emil Gangfløt
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Lee Vann Corteza
Francisco Sánchez Ruiz
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Johann Chua
Hunter Lombardo
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Antonios Kakaris
Skyler Woodward
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Gregorio Sanchez
Aleksa Pecelj
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Albin Ouschan
Mickey Krause
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Carlo Biado
Vitaliy Patsura
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Mika Van Berkel
Moritz Neuhausen
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Bernie Regalario
Harry Vergara
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Alexander Kazakis
Trung Quang Le
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Bader Alawadhi
Francesco Candela
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Jayson Shaw
Sanjin Pehlivanovic
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Max Lechner
Szymon Kural
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Mario He
Max Eberle
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Jonás Souto
Anthony Meglino
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Naoyuki Oi
Kostas Koukiadakis
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Hsu Jui An
Chris Reinhold
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Petri Makkonen
Donny Mills
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Aloysius Yapp
Roberto Gomez
 
bpeacock said:
Anyone watching table 4? Shuff is in bad pain but not giving up.
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I watched that match because both Shuff and Eberle used to play all the time in local tournaments in Rockville, MD. Back then Max was skinny, beardless, and had long black hair. Of course this was in the late 90's. Brandon looks older, but basically not that different than he was back then.

Neither of them were on their game tonight, missing one easy shot after another. In Brandon's case I hope it wasn't a medical issue.
 
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Greetings from Orlando to all. The Florida Open has been magnificent to this point. Stage 1 had as many memorable matches as I can ever remember in Stage 1 of a Matchroom major.

So many are playing well that it is tough to know what to expect in Stage 2, but I know I am going to enjoy watching.
 
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Taxi said:
I watched that match because both Shuff and Eberle used to play all the time in local tournaments in Rockville, MD. Back then Max was skinny, beardless, and had long black hair. Of course this was in the late 90's. Brandon looks older, but basically not that different than he was back then.

Neither of them were on their game tonight, missing one easy shot after another. In Brandon's case I hope it wasn't a medical issue.
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Orange Ball, yes...
 
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