Jung-Han of Korea Wins the 2016 World Cup El Gouna Hurghada Egypt
Jung-Han of Korea Wins the 2016 World Cup El Gouna Hurghada Egypt
Written by Sal Bello Published in World 3-Cushion News
ung-Han Heo is the winner of the 2016 UMB Hurghada World Cup. For the first time since January 2014 a Korean player has taken a world cup title. Heo's performance began in the qualification round where he led the day, winning his group. He then overcame a lackluster start in his opening match in the main tournament to catch fire at the very end and win to advance. Along the way to the championship top players from Belgium (twice), Korea (twice) and finally Netherlands fell as Heo joined the ranks of the world's elite players. Our complete coverage with stories, pictures and results follows.
The 2016 UMB World Cup season came to an end in the resort town of El Gouna near Hurghada Egypt. The seventh and final event in this year's series began on December 11, 2016 and culminated in the championship match on December 17. Five stages of play including multiple pre-qualification rounds yielded 15 finalists who joined 17 seeded players for the single elimination 32-player main tournament. Once again the maximum number of players had entered the event - 149 players from around the world - all battling for a chance to join the world's elite players with a world cup victory.
The seeded players - the world's top 12 - for the main event were Frédéric Caudron, Torbjörn Blomdahl, Dick Jaspers, Eddy Merckx, Marco Zanetti, Dani Sánchez, Sameh Sidhom, Nikos Polychronopoulos, Jérémy Bury, Quyet Chien Tran, Dong Koong Kang and Jae Ho Cho. Five wild cards were distributed to Hyung Kon Kim (ACBC), Roland Forthomme (CEB), Henry Diaz (CPB), Riad Nady and Khaled Erfan (organization). Once again US player Pedro Piedrabuena participated and entered the tournament in the final Qualification round before the main event. Four days of qualification rounds, each in 3-man round robin groups advanced winners from each group to the ultimate test. Each day more of the world's top player entered the event, making the challenge tougher and tougher for the aspiring cuemen.
This last World Cup event of 2016 has added signicance as it determined the overall winner of the world cup cycle which as the event began was still up for grabs. Frederic Caudron led gong in to the event, but his play in recent events has been sub-par. That left the door open for either Dani Sanchez the current world champion and number 3 in the world, or world ranked number 2 Dick Jaspers to emerge on top. The world watched as play began. Here are our day by day highlights:
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