Day in Holland league: 26 Dutch, 22 foreigners

OOSTERHOUT - The after-effects of the Masters have gradually faded away, what remains is a fantastic memory. The Dutch competition in the premier league is now ready for another day. The 14th round makes its appearance with the 12 teams in an unabated battle at the top, middle and bottom. The Kozoom league gets to see some top national and international players again, but is also missing Eddy Merckx, Frédéric Caudron and Jean Paul de Bruijn, for instance. Two of those three, Merckx and De Bruijn, are playing competition in Denmark. Therefore, Dallinga is weakened for the match against Paperclip and the home crowd will not get to see De Bruijn-Jaspers.

Premier league director Paul Brekelmans is on a world tour and has done the planning in advance. The Dutch themselves are with 26 players in this round, the foreigners with 22. Nick Polychronopoulos and Savas Bulut travel 2,800 kilometers by plane for one match. Therese Klompenhouwer, in three competitions this weekend, travels 1160 kilometres by car. The main players in the Masters, including the four players from the podium, will come into action for their teams. In the place of Caudron, Babbelz has the Turk Savas Bulut as its leader, who has just returned from a strong performance in the PBA, where he eliminated Dani Sánchez and the Vietnamese Nguyen, among others, but was himself played out of the tournament by Dong Koong Kang.

Dallinga plays with Steven van Acker as Dick Jaspers‘ opponent, Aartsbouw does it with Ronny Brants instead of Merckx as Nick Polychronopoulos’ opponent in the match against Team Eekhoorn.

At Bousema against RCN Nieuwegein, an attractive match is on the agenda: Tayfun Tasdemir against Jacob Haack-Sörensen, who is once again making his presence felt in the premier league. Joris van ‘t Zelfden, the Dutch junior talent, gets a fill-in at Dallinga and plays against Anno de Kleine. For Paperclip, Jérémy Bury will be in action in Sluiskil, where he had nice successes in the World Cups. The Frenchman faces Peter De Backer, who can always rise above himself a little ‘on his own court’.

Glenn Hofman against Roland Forthomme is a nice affiche in the match Cues&Darts-De Biljartacademie, where it will be very difficult for the Limburg squad to add their first victory of the season. Therese Klompenhouwer plays for Cues in a remarkably busy weekend: Saturday in Germany, Sunday in the Netherlands, Monday in Belgium. For the Dutch lady, a weekend of 1160 kilometers by car.

The ranking is after 13 matches:

1. Babbelz 22 points, 1.445 average
2. Team Eekhoorn 18, 1.431
3. STZ Zundert 18, 1,273
4. Cues&Darts 16, 1.362
5. Bousema 16, 1,266

The line-ups:

STZ Zundert-Team Babbelz

Sergei Jimenez-Savas Bulut

Sam van Etten-Davy van Havere

Francis Forton-Jack Wijnen

Lennart Schrauwen-Roland Uijtdewillegen

 Bousema/JBSCues-RCN Nieuwegein

Tayfun Tasdemir-Jacob Haack-Sörensen

Jeffrey Jorissen-Dave Christiani

Gökhan Salman-Barry van Beers

Frans van Schaik-Henk Blauwblomme

Cues&Darts-De Biljartacademie

Glenn Hofman-Roland Forthomme

Jef Philipoom-Danny Boutet

Therese Klompenhouwer-Thomas Broux

Joey de Kok-Roy Zielemans

SIS/Vervoort-J&F Auto's

Jean van Erp-Murat Gökmen

Raimond Burgman-Kay de Zwart

Raymund Swertz-Paul Bruijstens

Martien van der Spoel-Herman van Dalen

Team Eekhoorn-Aartsbouwn/Domicili

Nick Polychronopoulos-Ronny Brants

Peter Ceulemans-Tom Persyn

Frans van Kuyk-Dirk Weeremans

Jerry Hermans-Wesley de Jaeger

Dallinga.com-Paperclip

Steven van Acker-Dick Jaspers

Peter De Backer-Jérémy Bury

Joris van ‘t Zelfden-Anno de Kleine

Berry Dallinga-Peter van Lieshout