Newcomers start off the Agipi Masters

SCHILTIGHEIM - Ten players, divided into two groups, will start off the Agipi Masters 2013 on November 23 to battle for four spots in the next qualifications in January and February 2013.

The ten players in the first round: in Group 1 Javier Palazón, Raimond Burgman, Roland Forthomme, Dion Nelin and Jean-Christoph Roux and in Group 2: Eddy Leppens, Nikos Polychronopoulos, Xuan Cuong Ma, Jérôme Barbeillon and Joao Ferreira.

Two players per group qualify for next round.

The 18-year-old Portuguese Joao Ferreira, the Vietnamese Xuan Cuong Ma, the Dutchman Raimond Burgman and the Korean Choong Bok Lee are the debutants in this edition of the Agipi Masters.
 
Torbjörn Blomdahl, Kyung-Roul Kim and Martin Horn, the numbers one, two and three of last year, lead the groups in the final phase together with Sung-Won Choi. The four groups with four seeded players will be supplemented by four players from the qualifying rounds.
 
Group 1 starts on Friday 23 November at 14.00 with the matches Raimond Burgman-Dion Nelin and Roland Forthomme Jean-Christoph Roux.

The further schedule in this group:

Friday 20.30: Raimond Burgman-Roland Forthomme, Javier Palazón Jean-Christoph Roux

Saturday 14.00: Palazón-Nelin, Burgman-Roux

20.30: Palazón-Forthomme, Nelin-Roux

Sunday 14.00: Palazón-Burgman, Forthomme-Nelin.

Group A of the tournament is played from January 25 to 27 with Torbjörn Blomdahl, Filippos Kasidokostas, Marco Zanetti, Tayfun Tasdemir and a qualifier.

Group B (25-27 January) with Kyung-Roul Kim, Dani Sánchez, Jae Ho Cho and Murat Naci Coklu and a qualifying player.
 
Group C (February 1 to 3) with Martin Horn, Eddy Merckx, Jérémy Bury, Lütfi Cenet and a qualifying player.
 
Group D (1-3 February), Sung-Won Choi, Dick Jaspers, Frédéric Caudron, Choong Bok Lee and a qualifying player.
 
The final round with eight players (numbers one and two from the Groups A, B, C and D) will be played from 21 to 24 March.