The fourth qualifying round of the 2025 Porto Billiards World Cup has 4 Vietnamese players competing: Thon Viet Hoang Minh, Dao Van Ly, Nguyen Chi Long and Nguyen Tran Thanh Tu. Chi Long (1 win, 1 loss) and Thanh Tu (2 losses) have stopped. Hoang Minh (2 wins), Van Ly (1 loss, 1 win) won tickets to continue, to meet Tran Quyet Chien and the top players of 3-cushion carom in Vietnam. Among them, Hoang Minh impressed when competing with extremely high performance with an average efficiency of 2,000 (scoring 80 points in 40 turns), leading among 15 players who won tickets to the main round (32 players). Van Ly squeezed through a narrow door, when winning a ticket to continue as the second-place player with the best performance.
Tran Quyet Chien's tough match
In the round of 32 of the Porto 2025 Billiards World Cup (starting this afternoon, July 3), there are 6 Vietnamese players. Tran Quyet Chien is in Group D with Bao Phuong Vinh, Peter Ceulemans (Belgium) and Nikos Polychro (Greece). These are all very strong players, so Tran Quyet Chien is expected to face many difficulties. Quyet Chien will play his first match against Phuong Vinh at 4:00 p.m. (Vietnam time). Depending on the result of the first round, Quyet Chien will face the remaining 2 opponents at 8:00 p.m. and 0:00 a.m. (July 4, Vietnam time).
Tran Quyet Chien is currently ranked number 2 in the world.
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Thon Viet Hoang Minh and Dao Van Ly are in Group B, along with Cho Myung-woo (Korea) and Rui Manuel Costa (Portugal). The two Vietnamese players will compete in the opening match, also at 4 p.m.
Chiem Hong Thai is in Group C with Eddy Merckx (Belgium), Jose Miguel Soares (Portugal) and Ruben Legazpi (Spain). Hong Thai will play Soares in the first match at 4 p.m. Depending on the results of the first round, Hoang Minh, Van Ly and Hong Thai will face the remaining opponents at 8 p.m. and 0 a.m. (July 4, Vietnam time).
Tran Thanh Luc is in group E with Berkay Karakurt (Türkiye), Jose Juan Garcia (Colombia) and Jeremy Bury (France). Thanh Luc will play Garcia at 6 p.m. Thanh Luc will play the remaining two matches at 10 p.m. and 2 a.m. (July 4, Vietnam time).
Groups in the main round of the Porto 2025 Billiards World Cup
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Frederic Caudron is in Group A with Dick Jaspers (Netherlands), Kim Haeng-jik (South Korea) and Jihad Kolfad (Lebanon). Caudron will start at 4pm against the Lebanese player. The Belgian genius will face the remaining opponents at 8pm and 0am (July 4, Vietnam time).
The matches of the fourth qualifying round of the Porto 2025 billiards World Cup are broadcast live on SOOP Live (link: HERE ) .
The main round of the Porto 2025 Billiards World Cup has 32 players competing, divided equally into 8 groups (4 players each), playing a round-robin to calculate points and rank, with a draw (40 points for the same round). The top two players in each group will advance to the round of 16 (knockout).
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