3-Cushion
HURGHADA - Torbjörn Blomdahl is still leading the three cushion world ranking after the World Cup in Hurghada. The Swede closes the year with 411 ranking points, Frédéric Caudron is second with 379, Sung-Won Choi third 373, Eddy Merckx fourth with 349 and Marco Zanetti fifth with 302. The Italian entered the top five after his victory at the Hurghada World Cup Hurghada. The Vietnamese Quyet Chien Tran, who did not play in Egypt, is the last on the top twelve ranking with 189 points.
The ranking will change significantly on 1st of January 2015: according to the new rules of the UMB, six World Cup tournaments are counted for the total ranking points instead of eight. Two tournaments that disappear are the World Cups of Peloponnese and Medellin in 2013.
Eddy Merckx is the new leader as of January ahead of Sung-Won Choi and Frédéric Caudron. Torbjörn Blomdahl, who loses a lot of points (134) drops from the first to the fourth place. The Belgian Merckx and Korean Choi are close to each other with 325 and 321 points. That means Eddy Merckx will lose his leading position if can not extend his Belgian title in January.
The new position (top 30) as of 1 January 2015:
1 Eddy Merckx 325 punten
2 Sung-Won Choi 321
3 Frédéric Caudron 291
4 Torbjörn Blomdahl 277
5 Marco Zanetti 270
6 Dick Jaspers 226
7 Jae Ho Cho 218
8 Kyung-Roul Kim 208
9 Tayfun Tasdemir 197
10 Dong Koong Kang 187
11 Jean Paul de Bruijn 167
12 Quyet Chien Tran 163
13 Dani Sánchez 162
14 Roland Forthomme 157
15 Sameh Sidhom 138
16 Choong-Bok Lee 137
17 Filipos Kasidokostas 132
18 Murat Naci Coklu 130
19 Quoc Nguyen Nguyen 127
20 Nikos Polychronopoulos 123
21 Hyung Bum Hwant 115
22 Jérémy Bury 112
23 Riad Nady 109
24 Jung Han Heo 107
25 Henri Diaz 104
26 Christian Rudolph 96
27 Ramon Rodriguez 96
28 Eddy Leppens 92
29 Pedro Piedrabuena 92
30 Lütfi Cenet 89.