Sixteen players start in knock-out phase

CERVERA - The European championship has started the phase of knockout with sixteen ranked players from the qualifying rounds. Frédéric Caudron tops the rankings after three matches in his qualifying group before Alain Remond, Xavier Gretillat, Jean Paul de Bruijn and Bernard Villiers.

Six French, four Spanish, two Swiss, one Belgian, one Dutch, one German and one Austrian battle for a place in the last eight.

Frédéric Caudron already won his match against Jose Albert Tornero this morning 150-99 in 11 innings.

The ranking after the qualifications was:

1 Frédéric Caudron, 2 Alain Remond, 3 Xavier Gretillat, 4 Jean Paul de Bruijn, 5 Bernard Villiers, 6 Grégori Le Deventec, 7 Xavier Le Roy, 8 Wollfgang Zenkner, 9 Bernard Baudoin, 10 Arnim Kahofer, 11 Joan Espinasa, 12 Marek Faus, 13 Esteve Mata, 14 Laurent Guenet, 15 Raúl Cuenca, 16 José Albert Tornero.