NEW YORK - The two seeded players, Tayfun Tasdemir and Sameh Sidhom, will stream into the Carom Cafe International Open from today (New York time) after three days of preliminary rounds featuring 70 players. The 32 players for that second round are divided into four groups of eight players, who meet man-to-man in the familiar Round Robin schedule. Pedro Piedrabuena was the top group winner in the first leg with the maximum 12 match points and 1.562 on average.
Sameh Sidhom is placed in Group A (8 players) of the following schedule among others with Luis Aveiga, Harry Peña, Nikolaus Kogelbauer and Michael Kang. Tayfun Tasdemir leads Group B with Huberney Cataño and Ricky Carranco, among others. Group C brings Roland Forthomme into the arena along with Raymon Groot, his former team mate, and Hugo Patino. And in Group D, players include Pedro Piedrabuena, Alexander Salazar and Carlos Mario Villegas.
The first matches start today, Thursday, at 10am New York time including Tasdemir-Delatorre, Forthomme-Amado and Groot-Pineda. Sidhom will play his first match at noon against Choi, Piedrabuena against Galindo, Salazar against Vitzthum, Kogelbauer against Rahmet and Aveiga against Pena.
The group winners in the first stage are (after 6 games each):
- Pedro Piedrabuena 12-1,562-9
- Raymon Groot 10-1.394-11
- Roland Forthomme 12-1.388-11
- Hugo Patino 12-1,304-8
- Huberney Cataño 12-1,239-6
- Alexander Salazar 12-1.102-7
- Carlos Mario Villegas 10-1.068-6
- Muammer Rahmet 12-0.903-6
- Ali Gulbay 10-0,880-7
- Harry Peña 10-0.859-5
Tournament director Charly Brown preparing the draw for the next rounds in Carom Cafe
Group winners:
Pedro Piedrabuena
Roland Forthomme
Hugo Patino
Huberney Cataño
Alexander Salazar
Muammer Rahmet
Raymon Groot
Ali Gulbay
Carlos Mario Villegas
Harry Peña
The numbers 2
Kyrollos Meawad
Ricardo Carranco
Seung Kwon Hong
Michael Kang
Tae Kyu Lee
Luis Aveiga
George Karam
Edward Gomez
William Pelaez
Vicke Pineda
Best 8 numbers 3
Kang Lee
Nikolaus Kogelbauer
John Guidali
Eduardo Amado
Richy Vitzhum
Daniel Galindo
Olegano Gonzalez
Auction: Jose Delatorre
Lotto: Young Ha Choi.