SHARM EL SHEIKH – The World Cup in Sharm El Sheikh, the last of 2025, is dominated by Turkish players in the opening days. Young Turk Seymen Ozbas was the best on the second day, sharing the top three spots with Korean Beom Yeol Lee (4 match points, 1,621) and Vietnamese Quoc Thuan Pham (4 match points, 1,578). German brothers Amir and Ali Ibraimov reached the next round with the maximum match points. Italian Francesco Orlando slipped as the best runner-up into day three on the Red Sea with 16 group winners.

No fewer than twelve Turks will be at the tables for the third day of play. Beom Yeol Lee, the leader on Monday, was drawn in a group with German Lucas Stamm and Japanese Atshushi Kiyota. Young talents who didn't make it through this phase were Alessio D'Agata, Lucas Mortensen and Tobias Bouerdick.

The Dutch connextion will start in the next round with six players on Tuesday, after Adrie Demming (2 match points, 0.708, 6) and Karina Jetten (0 points, 0.597, 6) were eliminated on Monday. The top sixteen of the second match day:

Beom Yeol Lee 4-1.621-8
Quoc Thuan Pham 4-1.578-7
Seymen Ozbas 4-1.578-7
Amir Ibraimov 4-1,304-7
Jose Maria Mas 4-1.176-8
Maolis Minaoglu 4-1,071-5
Ivo Gazdos 4-1.016-9
Ahmet Malkadi 4-0.937-4
Takeshima O 4-0.882-5
Vedat Akyol 4-0.845-6
Mohamed Sabry 4-0.821-8
Ali Ibraimov 4-0.810-4
Lucas Egert 4-0.759-7
Ufuk Kapusiz 3-1,395-7
Nguyen Chi Long 2-1,113-7

For the third day, the most prominent players and opponents are:

Reggy Brouwers with Gerhard Kostistansky and Nguyen Chi Long

Pierre Soumagne with Mashhour Abu Tayeh and Ufuk Kapusiz

Jean Paul de Bruijn with Francesco Orlando and Lucas Egert

Jose Juan Garcia with Claus Maurer and Ali Ibraimov

David Pennör with Ahmet Alp and Vedat Akyol

Arnim Kahofer with Radek Novak and Takeshima O

Birol Uymaz with Jordy de Kruijf and Ahmet Malkadi

Mikaël Devogelaere with Volkan Cetin and Ivo Gazdos

Gwendal Maréchal with Tarik Yavuz and Manolis Minaoglu

Amir Ibraimov with Mehmet Goren and Fatih Korkmaz

Huub Wilkowski with Seymen Ozbas and Alain Saeys

Maxime Panaia with Joey de Kok and Quoc Thuan Pham.