Douarnenez is hunting for 4th European title

DOUARNENEZ - The Douarnenez Valdyz classical team is hunting for the record of victories in the Coupe d'Europe for classical teams next week, 23 to 26 March. The French triple title holder, featuring Raymund Swertz, Grégory Le Deventec and Marek Faus plays a home match and will welcome French teams from Andernos and Ronchin, the Dutch from De Hazelaar and BFR Sterkrade from Germany, among others, as competitors. The record title holder still is Cubri Etikon, the Dutch team that won five times in 2008, 2011, 2012, 2013 and 2014 with Jean Paul de Bruijn, Patrick Niessen and Henri Tilleman.

Jean Paul de Bruijn, Patrick Niessen and Henri Tilleman are the individual record holders with five titles in total ahead of Raymund Swertz with four, Marek Faus and Grégory Le Deventec with three.

The reigning champion Douarnenez is again the big favorite with the teams of Andernos (Gérassimopoulos, Legros, Baudoin) and Ronchin (Florent, Djoubri, Villiers) as main rivals from the home land. In the Dutch team De Hazelaar, Gert-Jan Veldhuizen, who became Dutch champion one cushion last week by beating Raymund Swertz in the final 120 in 3 innings, is one of the top guns. Patrick Niessen and Micha van Bochem appear in the German team BFR Sterkrade.

Douarnenez won the last Coupe d'Europe before the Corona era in 2020. The other teams at the podium were BC Oissel, CB Vic and Soissons.

Coupe d'Europe classic teams, 8 teams.

47/2 to 250 points

71/2 to 200

One cushion to 120

Group format:

Group A:

Douarnenez Valdys

 BC Noorderkempen

 De Hazelaar

BFR Sterkrade

Group B:

Seccion Billar Foment Molins

ABC Merklinde

Billard club du Canon d'Or de Ronchin

Billard Club Andernosien

Location: Espace Jules Verne, Douarnenez

The games will be broadcast live on Kozoom.

Info, Florent le Deventec, 0033661882072

Raymund Swertz

Patrick Niessen

Bernard Baudoin

The team compositions:

 Douarnenez Valdys (France)

 Gregory Le Deventec

 Raymund Swertz

 Marek Faus

 De Hazelaar (Netherlands)

 Gert-Jan Veldhuizen

 Jordy Kanters

 Eric Dericks

 Billard Club Andernos (France)

 Nicolas Gérassimopoulos

 Benoit Legros

 Bernard Baudoin

 Billard Club Du Canon D'or de Ronchin (France)

Jean-Francois Florent

 Brahim Djoubri

 Bernard Villiers

Seccion Billar Foment Molins (Spain)

 Antoni Gutierrez

 Carlos Tuset

 Alvaro Gomez

BFR Sterkrade (Germany)

 Patrick Niessen

 Micha van Bochem

 Michael Woidowski

BC Noorderkempen (Belgium)

 Nico van Hanegem

 Robby Sonck

 Ronny Mathysen

ABC Merklinde, Germany

Christian Pöther

Roland Gries

 Martijn Egbers.