BRANDENBURG AN DER HAVEL - The Belgian clash in the competition with national teams (with Merckx- Caudron), the double country bump between the Netherlands and Turkey, the finals at the small table, the final matches for ladies in free game and the preliminaries in the 71/2 are scheduled for today (Friday) on the eighth day of the European campionships in Brandenburg an der Havel.
The national teams play two rounds: at 14.00 the quarterfinals and the semi-finals at 16.30, then only the final match is scheduled for Saturday at 14.30.
The program for today's country teams:
Quarterfinals:
Netherlands A (Dick Jaspers Raimond Burgman) against Turkey B (Lütfi Cenet, Tolgahan Kiraz)
Germany A (Martin Horn, Christian Rudolph) against France B (Jean Reverchon, Cédric Melnytschenko)
Turkey A (Tayfun Tasdemir, Adnan Yüksel) against Netherlands B (Barry van Beers, Martien van der Spoel)
Belgium A (Eddy Merckx, Eddy Leppens) against Belgium B (Frédéric Caudron, Roland Forthomme).
Eddy Merckx is facing Frédéric Caudron at the Belgian country clash
This morning at 9.00 the eight players started the quarter-finals at the small table with Omer Kurt Karakurt and Kenny Miatton as main contenders for the title.
The women in free game play the semi-finals at 9.00: Magali Declunder-Susanne Stengel-Ponsing and Veronique Alles-Mirjam Pruim-Emmens. The French Magali Declunder finished off in the groups with the best average.
The ranking:
Group A:
1 Magali Declunder 4-26.66-104
2 Miriam Pruim-Emmens 2-6.571-73
3 Heike Hingerl 0-1.888-11
Group B:
1 Veronique Alles 4-3.433-26
2 Susanne Stengel-Ponsing 2-3.60-33
3 Daisy Werdekker 0-3.06-17.
Magali Declunder, favourite for the gold medal in women's free game