Porto World Cup

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This tournament starts on Monday, June 30, in Porto, Portugal. There will be four rounds of qualifiers before the main tournament starts on July 4. There will be 20 seeded players and 12 qualifiers in the main tournament. The seeded players include: Blomdahl, Caudron, Sanchez, Jaspers, Forthomme, Umeda, Horn, Polychronopoulos, Kim, Rodriguez, Merckx, and Zanetti. Full details and daily updates will be available at www.umb.org. I have not seen any information about possible live coverage. If anyone knows about live streaming coverage, please let us know.

Mark
 
mbvl said:
This tournament starts on Monday, June 30, in Porto, Portugal. There will be four rounds of qualifiers before the main tournament starts on July 4. There will be 20 seeded players and 12 qualifiers in the main tournament. The seeded players include: Blomdahl, Caudron, Sanchez, Jaspers, Forthomme, Umeda, Horn, Polychronopoulos, Kim, Rodriguez, Merckx, and Zanetti. Full details and daily updates will be available at www.umb.org. I have not seen any information about possible live coverage. If anyone knows about live streaming coverage, please let us know.

Mark
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Hi, I will try to put on my blog all the news about the Porto WorldCup.
I have a lot of friends in this worldcup, and I will call them to know news.
I Hope the worldcup organization make a website for this championship like the last year.
 
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JuanAntonio said:
Hi, I will try to put on my blog all the news about the Porto WorldCup.
I have a lot of friends in this worldcup, and I will call them to know news.
I Hope the worldcup organization make a website for this championship like the last year.
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Real-time updates are being shown. Go to www.umb.org and click on the Porto box under "Upcoming Events".

Mark
 
Some interesting news from Porto;

It seems that the conflict between the turkish federation and the top-players has been solved. So they are participating again, Cocklu and Tasdemir will participate again in Porto. Great news for the sport, however the biggest star, Semih Sayginer still does not / is not allowed to participate
 
Loontjens said:
Some interesting news from Porto;

It seems that the conflict between the turkish federation and the top-players has been solved. So they are participating again, Cocklu and Tasdemir will participate again in Porto. Great news for the sport, however the biggest star, Semih Sayginer still does not / is not allowed to participate
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Is that why he's been dropping in the UMB rankings? For awhile he was in the top 10, now he's like 16th.
 
As long as Sayginer is not allowed to play any UMB related tournaments ( World Cups, World & European Championships) he will keep dropping in the UMB ranks .... very sad but true.
 
Qualification is complete and the pairings for tomorrow have been posted.

I don't understand how the pairings were determined. Blomdahl, Caudron, Jaspers and Sanchez are the top four seeds. I would expect them to be matched against the four lowest ranked qualifiers. But instead Jaspers has to play Tasdemir, the fourth best qualifier, and Caudron plays Leppens, the second highest qualifier. Can anyone explain this?

Mark
 
mbvl said:
... I don't understand how the pairings were determined. Blomdahl, Caudron, Jaspers and Sanchez are the top four seeds. I would expect them to be matched against the four lowest ranked qualifiers. But instead Jaspers has to play Tasdemir, the fourth best qualifier, and Caudron plays Leppens, the second highest qualifier. Can anyone explain this? ...
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The applicable document is http://www.umb.org/Rules/Rules_World_Cup.pdf which says that the 12 players from the qualifiers and four "lower-level" wild-card players are all treated as a group of 16 "unseeded" players on the 32-player SE chart. This means that #13 in the world might have to play #1 in the first round of the main tournament, depending on wild-cards and the draw.
 
Bob Jewett said:
The applicable document is http://www.umb.org/Rules/Rules_World_Cup.pdf which says that the 12 players from the qualifiers and four "lower-level" wild-card players are all treated as a group of 16 "unseeded" players on the 32-player SE chart. This means that #13 in the world might have to play #1 in the first round of the main tournament, depending on wild-cards and the draw.
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Thank you, Bob. (I guess I could have looked that up for myself.)

Mark
 
The round of sixteen is complete. In that round the winning averages ranged from a low of 1.781 (Blomdahl) to a high of 2.647 (Sanchez). The combined average for the eight winners was 2.01!!!!

The quarter-finals are being played now: Blomdahl v. Rodriguez, Zanetti v. Jaspers, Sanchez v. Forthomme, and Kim v. Caudron.

Mark
 
The tournament is down to the final four: Blomdahl, Jaspers, Sanchez, and Caudron. In the quarter-finals all four of them averaged over 2.0. Sanchez has yet to lose a set and is averaging 2.045 going into his semi-final match tomorrow against Caudron who is averaging 2.110 for the tournament thus far.

As far as I can tell there is no live stream available.

Mark
 
I really messed up my last status report. My apologies.

In spite of having the higher average, Caudron, in fact, lost to Kyung-Roul Kim in five sets.

Mark
 
TimurA said:
Jaspers won.

He is on fire lately.
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Yes he is! I'd love to see footage of some of his latest high-average matches from the past few tournaments if anybody has any! There's got to be some floating around the net somewhere...

Too bad he won't be coming to New York for the Sang Lee event this year (again). I guess being the only guy to finish over 2.0 in 2006 but winning only 6th place made him a little shy about returning. I hope he reconsiders attending in the future!

Robert
 
Jaspers is playing PHENOMENAL lately.

I really feel he might do something spectacular ( not that running 20's isn't already incredible) like run 35-40 points at 3-C.

These top players play so good its sick. Jaspers seems to be getting in that old Blomdahl mode where you can average 2.0 and get absolutely drilled by him if he's in top form.
 
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