3-Cushion
HURGHADA - The only Korean in a field of 48 players was the best of all after the first day at the World Cup in Hurghada ranking. Chi Yeon Cho was the only player over one average: 1.395. Ronny Brants finished second on the ranking, of which five Turks, three Belgians and three Dutchmen make the step to the next day.
Chi Yeon Cho starts tomorrow in a group with Turkish player Mehmet Yavas and German Thomas Wagner.
Other interesting groups are:
Group B: Claus Maurer, Claus Mosskov and Ronny Brants.
Group D: Francis Forton, Pascal Claus, Mahmoud Ayman
Group H: Karina Jetten, Mohamed Zayed, Wilco van Wijk
Group I: Peter De Backer, Jaroslav Korec, Ibrahim Erciyas
Group K: Ivo Gazdos, Herbert Szivacz, Akif Guvenmez
Group M: Miroslav Baca, Markus Dömer Marek Vasa.
The best sixteen on the first day:
1 Chi Yeon Cho 1.395-7
2 Ronny Brants 0.983-6
3 Thomas Kerl 0.937-4
4 Pascal Claus 0.857-4
5 Christian Baier 0.857-4
6 Haluk Kara 0.810-7
7 Hakan Aidguzel 0.789-5
8 Wilco van Wijk 0.789-4
9 Ibrahim Erciyas 0.779-7
10 Hakan Cicecki 0.645-5
11 Akif Guvenmez 0.618-3
12 Mohamed Ardash 0.612-3
13 Marek Vasa 0.566-3
14 Gaspar Padin 0.468-4
15 Patrick van den Bergh 0.408-3
16 Wiet Kaethoven 0.631-4.