Can Eddy Merckx find his form back in Lommel?

LOMMEL - He is one of the most stable players in the top of the world and rarely had long setbacks in his career. The form of Eddy Merckx, who won the World Cup in Trabzon this year and was second in the European championship, was a little less at the World championship in Lima and in the World Cup in Suwon. That's why he dropped to place five on the World ranking. But Merckx showed already for years that he has the class to recover very quickly.

The preliminaries of the Superprestige, in which he plays in Group B tonight, is an opportunity to sharp the form. Merckx is playing in the qualifying round with Martin Spoormans, the veteran, the young Steven van Acker and Kurt Ceulemans.

He will be seeded in his group almost certainly. The question is more: which of the three other players will go with him to the eighth finals. Frédéric Mottet surprised in the first group ​​last night: he finished before Peter de Backer, last year's finalist, in the final ranking of the group.

Martin Spoormans, for sure the player with the most experience, Steven van Acker and Kurt Ceulemans are players who seem from the same level. The Cuvino Superprestige can prepare for an exciting evening.
The first matches this evening:

Merckx, Spoormans
Ceulemans, Van Acker