The sixteenth round of the Dutch premier league is more or less the run-up to the World championship for nation teams to be played next week in Viersen, Germany. Just four players will show up in Holland with a mission in Viersen. For Dutchmen Jean Paul de Bruijn and Jeffrey Jorissen, it is a final test to high up their form. The foreign players who play in the Kozoom league in the Netherlands on Sunday and then travel on to Viersen are Ruben Legazpi and Sergio Jimenez who play for Spain. Eddy Merckx, along with Jef Philipoom for Belgium, will get time off from SIS Schoonmaak, that plays with Jean van Erp as frontman in The Hague against J&F Auto's.
Therese Klompenhouwer hopes to win her second European title with the Dutch team in Ankara this weekend, after Friday's individual title. The champion will therefore not play in Holland with J&F Auto's and will be replaced by German Dustin Jäschke. Nikos Polychronopoulos, the leading player for Team Eekhoorn in the away match against Dallinga, is reserve for the Greek team in Viersen playing with Kokkoris and young Seleventas. Peter Ceulemans, also from Team Eekhoorn, is the reserve for Belgium, where as his country's champion he does get to play the World championship in Viersen next year.
SIS Schoonmaak defends the top position in the Kozoom league with a 1 point margin on Team Eekhoorn and 2 on ST Zundert. SIS thus travels to The Hague for the encounter with J&F Auto's, Team Eekhoorn to Sluiskil for the meeting with Dallinga and Zundert plays the home match against Bousema Lochem. Robinson Morales, at the podium of the World Cup in Bogotá, plays in the premier league this Sunday, not in Viersen. Glenn Hofman, who was also at the podium in Bogotá, has a weekend off in Cues&Darts team.
The foreign leaders in the different teams are Nikos Polychronopoulos at Team Eekhoorn, Robinson Morales at Cues&Darts, Sergio Jimenez at Zundert, Omer Karakurt at Team Nachtwacht, Turgay Orak at Aarsbouw, Wesley de Jaeger at DKM Tools and Dustin Jäschke at J&F Auto's,
The line-ups for the 16th round of play:
J&F Cars-SIS Cleaning
Dustin Jäschke-Jean van Erp
Kay de Zwart-Raimond Burgman
Joey de Kok-Raymund Swertz
Herman van Daalen-Martien van der Spoel
STZ Zundert-Bousema/JBScues
Sergio Jimenez-Jeffrey Jorissen
Thorsten Frings-Johan Loncelle
Sam van Etten-Paul Bruijstens
Francis Forton-Frans van Schaik
Team Nachtwacht-Dekker/APSprundel
Omer Karakurt-Dave Christiani
Ismail Yasin-Barry van Beers
Harrie van de Ven-Gerwin Valentijn
Frank Martens-Henk Blauwblomme
DKM Tools-Cues&Darts/Xtreme
Wesley de Jaeger-Robinson Morales
Roland Uijtdewillegen-Ruben Legazpi
Jack Wijnen-Huub Wilkowski
Eddy Willems-Burak Hashas
Dallinga.com-Team Eekhoorn
Jean Paul de Bruijn-Nikos Polychronopoulos
Steven van Acker-Peter Ceulemans
Peter De Backer-Frans van Kuyk
Berry Dallinga-Kurt Ceulemans
Aartsbouw Sprundel-Burgmans Biljarts
Turgay Orak-Anno de Kleine
Ronny Brants-Bart Ceulemans
Dirk Weeremans-Marco Janssen
Tom Persyn-Johan Roijers.