First round groups for 2011 World Championship in Lima

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The 2011 World Championship 3-Cushion in Lima Peru begins July 12 through July 16. Already announced is the absence of 2009 World Champion Filippos Kasidokostas who will not attend due to financial constraints.

The United States representative Pedro Piedrabuena will face what may be anyone's toughest challenge right in Round 1... having been included in the first seed group with current World Champion Dani Sanchez!

Here is an excerpt from a news item on the Kozoom carom site...
(Complete link here: http://www.kozoom.com/en/carom/news.html)

The UMB has made the groups for Lima, but they have not been updated. Jean Claude Dupont, president of UMB, told last week that Michael Nilsson (Sweden) and Chiristakis Christoforou (Cyprus) in have withdrawn. Replacements of those two have not been announced so far.

The American champion Pedro Piedrabuena and the Portuguese Paolo Andrade, who are in the group with Dani Sánchez, will open the tournament on Centre Court on Tuesday. The Peruvian music virtuoso Ramon Rodriguez, closely involved to the organization and also a billiard with great talents, plays in the opening round against Japan's Youichirou Mori.

The group formats are:
A: Dani Sánchez (Sp), Paulo Andrade (Pt), Pedro Piedrabuena (US).
B: Dick Jaspers (Netherlands), substitute for Nilsson, Ma Xuan Cuong (Vn).
C: Eddy Merckx (Bel), Antonio Ortiz Torrent (Sp), Ihab El Messery (Harrow).
D: Kyung-Roul Kim (Kor), Jean Paul de Bruijn (Ned), Radek Novak (Cz).
E: Frédéric Caudron (Bel), substitute for Christoforou, Sergio Jimenez (Sp).
F: Torbjörn Blomdahl (Sweden), Jean van Erp (Ned), Tonny Carlsen (Den).
G: Sung-Won Choi (Kor), Ramon Rodriguez (Per), Youichirou Mori (Jap).
H: Martin Horn (Ger), Sameh Sidhom (Egy), Chung-Bok Lee (Kor).
I: Jérémy Bury (FRA), Gerhard Kostistansky (Austria), Javier Vera (Mex).
J: Tayfun Tasdemir (Tur), Jae Ho Cho (Kor), Guido Sacco (Per).
K: Marco Zanetti (Ita), Gung Dong Kang (Kor), Maximo Aguirre (Per).
L: Javier Palazón (Spa), Roland Forthomme (Bel), Harry Reyes (Col).
M: Eddy Leppens (Bel), Kouji Funaki (Jap), Erick Tellez (Cr).
N: Lutfi cenet (Tur), Raimond Burgman (Ned), Rafal Noya (per).
O: Heo Jung Han (Kor), Javier Teran (ECU), Raymundo Munoz (Mex).
P: Ryuuji Umeda (Japanese), Murat Naci Coklu (Tur), Carlos Campino (Col
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Best wishes to Pedro and good billiards to all the competitors to produce an exciting tournament.
 
Michael Kang has been added to the field and will play in the group headed by Caudron.
 
mbvl said:
Michael Kang has been added to the field and will play in the group headed by Caudron.
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And Fabian Oliveto gets the fearful honor of the substitute spot in Dick Jaspers' group. He is currently the highest-ranked Argentinian at 81st on the UMB list.
 
Mr441 said:
No Sayginer?
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Sayginer has not been nominated by the Turkish Federation. His feud with them has been going on for at least five years. He has zero UMB ranking points, and has not played in a sanctioned tournament since the feud began.
 
Yes... i just read the news about Michael Kang at Kozoom...

Link here: http://www.kozoom.com/en/carom/news/michael-kang-and-fabian-oliveto-substitutes-in-lima.html

It is great that we now have two players from the United States in the World Championship. But I have to wonder... by what process was Michael Kang selected? Was there some type of qualification system... or official list... that was in place to fill such vacancies? I did a very quick search but could not find any information.

Does anyone know?
 
The spots were opened up when the two European players dropped out. The UMB, pursuant to protocal, offered the spots to the CPB (Confederacion Panamericana de Billar), which, on July 1st, offered the spots to the affiliated associations (including the USBA) according to the order in which players finished at the CPB championship in May. Fabian Oliveto (Argentino), who finished 11th, decided to go. No player ranked after Oliveto chose to go until Michael Kang (26th).
 
tv

kozoom will charge the last rounds.

anyone knows where to watch (tv or net ) the final rounds ?
compliments
 
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