Vietnamese player causes shock, defeats 13-time World Cup champion

After Tran Quyet Chien won (against Roland Forthomme), the remaining 3 Vietnamese players, Nguyen Hoan Tat, Dao Van Ly and Bao Phuong Vinh, also played their opening match in the 32nd round of the Seoul 2024 Billiards World Cup on the morning of November 8, all facing tough opponents.

Dao Van Ly faced the "legendary" player who won 13 World Cup championships, Eddy Merckx (Belgium). The Vietnamese player played a very good match, with an average score of over 3 and won convincingly against the veteran of the world 's 3-cushion carom billiards.

Van Ly had series of 6, 7, 8 and 9 points. He only needed 13 shots to reach 40 points first (average 3.076 points/shot) and won the final 40-24 against Eddy Merckx.

Dao Van Ly convincingly defeated Eddy Merckx in the opening match of the round of 32 of the Seoul 2024 Billiards World Cup

Dao Van Ly is in group E, and has two more matches against Torbjorn Blomdahl (Sweden) and Lee Beom-yeol (Korea).

In the same match, Nguyen Hoan Tat also had a good performance against Marco Zanetti (Italy). The Vietnamese player also had a high scoring efficiency, with 36 points in 12 turns (averaging 3 points/turn). However, Marco Zanetti showed his experience and won 40-36 against Hoan Tat.

In group E, Hoan Tat still has 2 matches with Martin Horn (Germany) and Peter Ceulemans (Belgium).

Nguyen Hoan Tat also had a great match (scoring 36 points after 12 innings), but had to lose to Marco Zanetti who played better.

Meanwhile, Bao Phuong Vinh could not successfully "collect the debt" from Sameh Sidhom. The player from Binh Duong lost 30-40 to the Egyptian player, after 22 turns.

Bao Phuong Vinh is in group H and still has 2 more matches with Kang Ja-in (Korea) and Jeong Sung-il (Korea).

Dao Van Ly, Nguyen Hoan Tat and Bao Phuong Vinh will continue to play the second round of the 32nd round of the Seoul 2024 Billiards World Cup at 2:00 p.m.

Source: https://thanhnien.vn/billiards-co-thu-viet-nam-gay-soc-danh-bai-nguoi-13-lan-vo-dich-world-cup-185241108113515212.htm