Tran Quyet Chien's first opponent at the Porto Billiards World Cup: A series of fateful encounters

Once again, Tran Quyet Chien will face his fateful opponent in the main round of the Porto Billiards World Cup, starting from the end of June 2025 in Portugal.

The 2025 Porto Billiards World Cup will take place from June 29 to July 5 in Portugal. The distribution of players appearing in the qualifying round or the main round will be based on the rankings of the World Carom Billiards Federation (UMB) updated in March 2025. According to the above rankings, Vietnam has 4 players who are specially allowed to appear from the main round (round of 32), namely Tran Quyet Chien, Bao Phuong Vinh, Tran Thanh Luc and Chiem Hong Thai.

Tran Quyet Chien lost 2 matches to his juniors in 1 month.

Notably, fate once again brought Tran Quyet Chien and Bao Phuong Vinh into the same group in the round of 32. Accordingly, the two top players of Vietnam's 3-cushion carom fell into group D. The remaining two names of group D will be determined after the qualifying rounds end.

It can be said that the match between Tran Quyet Chien and Bao Phuong Vinh is a match full of fate. In the past month (from the end of May until now), Quyet Chien and Phuong Vinh have faced each other twice in tournaments. Notably, the number 1 player in Vietnam was unable to win against his junior.

Tran Quyet Chien won the runner-up position in the World Cup billiards in the most recent round held in Ankara - Türkiye.

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Starting at the final match of the SCTV Cup 2025 international billiards tournament with a huge prize of up to 500 million VND, Tran Quyet Chien unfortunately lost to Bao Phuong Vinh. In the most recent encounter in the round of 32 of the Ankara 2025 Billiards World Cup, Tran Quyet Chien also lost to the player from Binh Duong .

Or further in 2023, Tran Quyet Chien lost to Bao Phuong Vinh in the final match of the World Championship held in Ankara - Türkiye. This is also a noble title that Quyet Chien has not been able to own in his collection of achievements.

The main round (round of 32) of the Porto 2025 Billiards World Cup has 32 players competing, divided equally into 8 groups, competing in a round-robin format to calculate points and rank. The top two players in each group will advance to the round of 16, a knock-out match.

Bao Phuong Vinh beat Tran Quyet Chien in their last 2 matches.

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Chiem Hong Thai meets Belgian legend

Chiem Hong Thai is in Group C with Eddy Merckx (Belgian, 14-time World Cup billiards champion) and Jose Miguel Soares (Portugal). Tran Thanh Luc is in Group E with Berkay Karakurt (Turkey). Round 32 of the Porto 2025 Billiards World Cup will take place from the afternoon of July 3.

Nguyen Tran Thanh Tu is in group L with Omer Karakurt (Türkiye), in the 4th qualifying round, playing on July 2 (Vietnam time). Dao Van Ly is in group M with De Bruijn (Netherlands) in the 3rd qualifying round, playing from the afternoon of July 1 (Vietnam time). Nguyen Chi Long, Nguyen Hoan Tat, and Thon Viet Hoang Minh started from the 2nd qualifying round, playing from the afternoon of June 30. Nguyen Dinh Luan appeared in the first qualifying round, playing on the opening day of the tournament, June 29.

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