ANKARA – The Turkish armada was dominating the battle with half of the day's winners. Dutchman Jean Paul de Bruijn showed his big ambitions for this World Cup, Austrian Arnim Kahofer is slowly and strongly paving his way to the high ranks, Turk Necdet Yalcin continues to amaze everyone, and it was mot of all the day of young talents with daily wins. Denizcan Akkoca, Maxime Panaia and Dimitrios Seleventas will attempt to qualify for the main draw on Thursday. The Turks came out of the third day at the World Cup in Ankara with 8 of 16 daily winners.
Jean Paul de Bruijn, the four-time Dutch champion, was the most impressive of 48 players in the run-up to the final round of qualifiers. The strong group in which he had to start with Alexander Salazar and Van Ly Dao did not scare the Dutch player at all. The highest score so far was on the board when De Bruijn swept the Vietnamese Dao off the table with 35-8 in 12 innings: 2.917 on average, highest run 13. The last obstacle, Colombian Alexander Salazar, was in the match until 14-13, De Bruijn forced a margin with 7 and then went to the finish with small runs: 35-28 in 27.
Muammer Rahmet was the best of eight winning Turks with four match points and 1,521, which allowed him to keep the tough Vietnamese Long and the Turk Serdal Bas under control. Vedet Yilmaz scored remarkably for the Turkish invasion and started with a thrilling win over Birol Uymaz (35-34), Denizcan Akkoca, one of the big talents, defeated Portuguese Soares, among others, and Mehmet Aksoy again found his way to the next stage.
The progress that Arnim Kahofer has been showing for some time now does not just bring the Austrian all-rounder into the final qualifiers. The French were strongly represented with Maxime Panaia, Mikaël Devogelaere and Kévin Vasseur, while for the Dutch, with six men in this round, Vokan Cetin also slipped in with the day's winner Jean Paul de Bruijn.
The results for the final selection round is that Jean Paul de Bruijn will face the unpredictable Vietnamese player TTT Nguyen and Omer Karakurt. Jérémy Bury, together with another Frenchman, Mikaël Devogelaere, is preparing to meet the revelation of this World Cup, Necdet Yalcin. Haeng Jik Kim will face two Turks in his group, Emrullah Basegmez and Ahmet Alp. Frédéric Caudron prepairs fort he battle with Pierre Soumagne and the young Greek player Dimitrios Seleventas, while Roland Forthomme starts his mission against Dutchman Jeffrey Jorissen and Turk Vedat Yilmaz.
Wednesday's winners:
- Jean Paul de Bruijn 4-1.794-13
- Muammer Rahmet 4-1.521-7
- Vedat Yilmaz 4-1.346-7
- Arnim Kahofer 4-1.296-10
- Denizcan Akkoca 4-1.272-6
- Maxime Panaia 4-1.272-5
- Mehmet Aksoy 4-1.186-9
- Dimitrios Seleventas 4-1.147-7
- Tarik Yavuz 4-1.093-9
- Ahmet Alp 4-1.076-5
- Necdet Yalcin 4-1.014-7
- Kevin Vasseur 4-0.897-9
- Volkan Cetin 3-1.000-7
- Mikael Devogelaere 2-1.297-7
- Emrullah Basegmez 22-1.107-7
- Ronny Lindemann 2-1.065-5
Denizcan Akkoca, the young Turk, in top 5 of the day
Arnim Kahofer, showing his amazing progression again
Young Greek Dimitrios Seleventas, prepairing for the match with Frédéric Caudron in the last qualifications
Maxime Panaia, one of three French players in the day's winners
The twelve groups for the final qualification day on Thursday (12 winners and 3 runners up to the main draw):
Poule A: Volkan Cetin, Kevin Vasseur, Peter Ceulemans
Poule B: Jérémy Bury, Mikael Devogelaere, Necdet Yalcin
Poule C: Emrullah Basegmez, Ahmet Alp, Haeng Jik Kim
Poule D: Ronny Lindemann, Tarik Yavuz, Glenn Hofman
Poule E: Pierre Soumagne, Dimitrios Seleventas, Fréderic Caudron
Poule F: Ja In Kang, Mehmet Aksoy, Nick Polychronopoulos
Poule G: Sam van Etten, Maxime Panaia, Myeong Jong Cha
Poule H: Gerhard Kostistansky, Ruben Legazpi, Denizcan Akkoca
Poule I: Turgay Orak, Arnim Kahofer, Chang Hoon Seo
Poule J: Jeffrey Jorissen, Roland Forthomme, Vedat Yilmaz
Poule K: Bong Joo Hwang, Muammer Rahmet, Rui Manuel Costa
Poule L: Jean Paul de Bruijn, Tran Thanh Tu Nguyen, Omer Karakurt.