Nại enters main round of La Baule 3-Cushion World Cup

Nại enters main round of La Baule 3-Cushion World Cup

Vietnamese cuiest Ngô Đình Nại. — Photo vietbao.vn

HÀ NỘI — Vietnamese cueist Ngô Đình Nại booked a ticket to compete in the main round of the Carom  三-Cushion World Cup in La Baule, France on Thursday.

Nại, world No  一 八, tied with Dion Nelin of Denmark, world No  九 一,  四0- 四0 in  一 七 innings in the second match of Group B.

Earlier, Nại beat Hideaki Kobayashi of Japan, world No  六 三,  四0- 二 一 in  二 一 innings.

With these results, Nại was one of three best runners-up to join the  三 二 final players for the main draw.

Other Vietnamese representatives also entering the main round included Mã Minh Cẩm, world No  二 五, Trần Quyết Chiến, No  八, Mã Xuân Cường. No  三 一 and Nguyễn Quốc Nguyện, No  九.

La Baule World Cup is one of the eight Grand Prix stages under the official competition system of the Union Mondiale de Billiard (UMB).

The  二0 一 八 version of the tournament brought together  一 四 九 competitors, including most of the world’s leading cueists at present. Việt Nam sent eight players to the event, which will end tomorrow.

The World Cup event offers  八0 bonus points for the champion,  五 四 points for the runner-up,  三 八 points for the semi-finalists,  二 六 points for the quarter-finalists.

Last year, Vietnamese Cường produced a “seismic” advance into the semi-finals. Breaking through the qualification rounds, the  三 六-year-old cueist then overcame former world champions Marco Zanetti (Round of  三 二) and Choi Sung-won (Round of  一 六), and the  二0 一 五 runner-up, Kang Dong-Koong in the quarter-finals. — VNS