SEOUL - The draw for the super tournament in Seoul, the LG U + Cup, where the winner is rewarded by almost 60.000 euros, has delivered one group of death at least. Torbjörn Blomdahl, Dani Sánchez and HaengJik Kim, three champions with a rich palmares, meet in a group where only the winner advances to the semi-finals. The tournament starts tomorrow (Tuesday, November 8th) in the group matches, which are broadcast on Kozoom. The location is a shopping center in Seoul. The sixteen players who are invited are divided into four groups of four.
The Koreans played a national ranking tournament in the last few days. Sung-Won Choi won the final against HaengJik Kim: 40-38. In the last eight was also Dong Koong Kang, last year's winner in the LG U + Cup in a final with Dick Jaspers, who is not invited to the second edition.
Frédéric Caudron meets in Group A of the tournament three Koreans, of whom Jung Han Heo is the most feared. The group with Blomdahl, Sánchez and HaengJik Kim is completed by Choong Bok Lee. Group C is a mixture of players around the world with the young Korean Myung Woo Cho as one of the contenders. The title holder, Dong Koong Kang, plays against three other Koreans.
The group format:
Group A:
Frédéric Caudron (Belgium)
Jung Han Heo (Korea)
Hyung Kon Kim (Korea)
Jae Guen Kim (Korea)
Group B:
Torbjörn Blomdahl (Sweden)
Dani Sánchez (Spain)
HaengJik Kim (Korea)
Choong Bok Lee (Korea)
Group C:
Quyet Chien Tran (Vietnam)
Sameh Sidhom (Egypt)
Myung Woo Cho (Korea)
Pedro Piedrabuena (USA)
Group D:
Dong Koong Kang (Korea)
Jae Ho Cho (Korea)
Sung-Won Choi (Korea)
Jin Pyo Hong (Korea).
The Asian champion HaengJik Kim in a group of death