There is both the expected and the unexpected to come in the formation of the 2023 Mosconi Cup Teams, with the USA scheduled to compete against its European rivals from December 6-9 at the Alexandra Palace in London. The last event that impacted the rankings that determine selections for three of each team’s members (not including the Hanoi Open, currently underway; Oct. 10-15) was the 2023 Peri Open 9-Ball Championships, also held in Hanoi a week ago (Oct. 5-9).
Fedor Gorst, currently at the top of our AZBilliards Money Leaderboard, went undefeated at the Peri Open 9-Ball event, defeating the Philippines’ Michael Feliciano in the finals. As of today, according to Matchroom Pool’s Mosconi Cup site, Gorst (4th in the rankings) and Skyler Woodward (13th in the rankings) have already been selected for the USA team. It’s not clear why Shane Van Boening, second in the overall rankings, behind Spain’s Francisco Sanchez-Ruiz, is not one of the first two to have been selected for the USA team, but it seems likely, given his ranking, that he will be the third, rounding out the rankings-selected portion of the USA team. Sanchez-Ruiz and countryman, David Alcaide are currently the only two selected for the European team. Alcaide is 11th in the rankings list (after the Peri Open 9-Ball event), with Joshua Filler (3rd), Jayson Shaw (6th), Mario He (7th), Albin Ouschan (8th), Wiktor Zielinski (9th) and Eklent Kaci (10th) ahead of him. This would suggest (though not guarantee) that Filler would be the third, pre-selected member of the European team.
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Fedor Gorst, currently at the top of our AZBilliards Money Leaderboard, went undefeated at the Peri Open 9-Ball event, defeating the Philippines’ Michael Feliciano in the finals. As of today, according to Matchroom Pool’s Mosconi Cup site, Gorst (4th in the rankings) and Skyler Woodward (13th in the rankings) have already been selected for the USA team. It’s not clear why Shane Van Boening, second in the overall rankings, behind Spain’s Francisco Sanchez-Ruiz, is not one of the first two to have been selected for the USA team, but it seems likely, given his ranking, that he will be the third, rounding out the rankings-selected portion of the USA team. Sanchez-Ruiz and countryman, David Alcaide are currently the only two selected for the European team. Alcaide is 11th in the rankings list (after the Peri Open 9-Ball event), with Joshua Filler (3rd), Jayson Shaw (6th), Mario He (7th), Albin Ouschan (8th), Wiktor Zielinski (9th) and Eklent Kaci (10th) ahead of him. This would suggest (though not guarantee) that Filler would be the third, pre-selected member of the European team.
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