The Dutch premier league is coming up to its 13th round this Sunday and is in the hunt for leader Babbelz. For instance, Team Eekhoorn, the number two ranked in average, plays the away match against De Biljartacademie, the number last in the Kozoom league, in the very strongest line-up: Nick Polychronopoulos, Eddy Leppens, Peter Ceulemans and Frans van Kuyk. Also notable is Aartsbouw's line-up for the home match against Bousema with four Belgians: the numbers 1 and 2 from the Multi's, Eddy Merckx and Ronny Brants, completed by Tom Persyn and Wesley de Jaeger. Anyway, that match is topped by a great poster on centercourt: Merckx-Tasdemir.
Team Babbelz will be in action on Sunday with Savas Bulut leading the way for the home match against Dallinga.com.
The strength of the Kozoom league is evident from the high team averages played. Team Babbelz is also number one in this with 1,480 ahead of Team Eekhoorn with 1,430. SIS/Vervoort is only number 8 in the rankings, but also has a very good team score 1.418. All teams have averages over 1,000.
The top ten highest individual averages so far with two Belgians in the lead followed by one German and three Dutchmen in the top ten (played at least 5 matches):
De top 12 van de hoogste individuele moyennes tot nu toe (minstens 5 wedstrijden gespeeld):
1 Frédéric Caudron 2.123
2 Eddy Merckx 1.955
3 Martin Horn 1.834
4 Dion Nelin 1.760
5 Dick Jaspers 1.752
6 Glenn Hofman 1.716
7 Peter Ceulemans 1.679
8 Sergio Jimenez 1.678
9 Nick Polychronopoulos 1.636
10 Jean van Erp 1.592
11 Roland Forthomme 1.587
12 Sam van Etten 1.541
The line-ups for Sunday 19 January.
Paperclip-SIS/Vervoort
Dick Jaspers-Jean van Erp
Anno de Kleine-Raimond Burgman
Dan Breur-Martien van der Spoel
Peter van Lieshout-Harrie van de Ven
De Biljartacademie-Team Eekhoorn
Roland Forthomme-Nick Polychronopoulos
Dany Boutet-Eddy Leppens
Thomas Broux-Peter Ceulemans
Roy Zielemans-Frans van Kuyk
J&F Auto's-STZ Zundert
Murat Gökmen-Sergio Jimenez
Kay de Zwart-Sam van Etten
Paul Bruijstens-Adrien Tachoire
Herman van Daalen-Francis Forton
Aartsbouw/Domicili-Bousema/JBScues
Eddy Merckx-Tayfun Tasdemir
Ronny Brants-Jeffrey Jorissen
Tom Persyn-Gökhan Salman
Wesley de Jaeger-Johan Loncelle
RCN Nieuwegein-Cues&Darts
Dave Christiani-Jef Philipoom
Barry van Beers-Pierre Soumagne
Gerwin Valentijn-Huub Wilkowski
Henk Blauwblomme-Joey de Kok
Team Babbelz-Dallinga.com
Savas Bulut-Jean Paul de Bruijn
Davy van Havere-Steven van Acker
Jack Wijnen-Peter De Backer
Roland Uijtdewillegen-Berry Dallinga.