Pedro Piedrabuena schedule in Luxor World Cup

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Once again 8-time USBA National Champion Pedro Piedrabuena will represent the Untied States in a UMB World Cup event. The World Cup in Luxor, Egypt runs from March 27-April 2, As is customary there are pre-pre-pre, and pre-pre. and pre-qualification rounds. Hey... that's how they do it when hundreds enter a tournament! (124 listed.)

Pedro, with a world ranking of 14, begins play in the Qualification round that starts on Wednesday. Here is his match schedule:

Qual Group J Match 124 Wednesday March 30 14:30 Luxor Time (7:30AM US Central Daylight Time)
Qual Group J Match 136 Wednesday March 30 17:30 Luxor Time (10:30AM US Central Daylight Time)

If you are a Kozoom premium member you can watch the live-stream. There is a chat room that viewers can participate in as well.

As always... event notices, schedules and links to live-stream can be found on the home page of 3CushionBilliards.com
When the event is over I will be posting a story and updating all the stats.

Join me in wishing Pedro good luck and good billiards.
 
Pedro Piedrabuena defeats Dionisis Tsokantas of Greece 40-26 in 20 innints (2.000 average) to win his group. Pedro now moves on to the main tournament which starts tomorrow.
 
The Time Table is set for the opening rounds of the main tournament in the 2016 UMB World Cup Luxor.

In his first matchup Pedro Piedrabuena will meet Murat Naci Coklu, winner of the 2015 World Cup Istanbul in October last year.

The match schedule:

Murat Naci Coklu (Turkey) vs Pedro Piedrabuena (United States)
MT Match 153 - 1/16 Finals - Thursday March 31, 2016 18:00 Local Time in Luxor (11:00AM Central Daylight Time) Table 3. Live-Stream for premium pass members on Kozoom.

Coklu won his group with a 1.403 average and a high run of 9. Piedrabuena won his group with a 1.600 average and a high run of 9.

Pedro had a great world cup in Bursa in February where he made it to the semi-final round only to lose to Dick Jaspers the eventual winner. We covered that event with story, charts and pictures here.

All of his fans here in the US will be rooting for Pedro to go all the way in Luxor.
 
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Great info Doug. Coklu is a tough draw for anyone. Pedro will have his hands full. Good luck Pedro! I'll be watching.
 
I'm waiting for this to be put up on replay

Beautiful magnificent venue, and all gabriels Hermes tables

Just lovely
 
Pedro Piedrabuena defeats Murat Naci Coklu of Turkey 40-30 in 36 innings (1.111 average) to win his first match in the main tournament. Pedro now advances to the 1/8 finals round that begins play on Friday April 1.

Pedro's next match --

MT Match 162 1/8 Finals Pedro Piedrabuena vs Quoc Nguyen Nguyen (Vietnam) April 1, 2016 13:00 local time Luxor (6:00AM Central Daylight Time)

Updates are posted as soon as available and can always be found on my home page: http://www.3cushionbilliards.com
 
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Sorry to report... Pedro Piedrabuena loses his 1/8 final round match to Quoc Nguyen Nguyen of Vietnam 40-22 in 22 innings. Nguyen had previously defeated Dani Sanchez.

Next chance for a world cup title comes in May in Ho Chi Minh CIty, Vietnam
 
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