HO CHI MINH – The best players on the first day started with 30 in 14 and finished with 30 in 18. The Vietnamese dominated on day 1 of the World Cup in Ho Chi Minh with Trung Hau Do Nguyen as the main protagonist with 4 match points and 1.875 on average. In the ranking of 16 winners, 10 were Vietnamese; the number two was the Colombian Alejandro Piza with 4 points and 1.765, tied with Quoc Ho Le. It was a start to this World Cup with five women who could not compete for the top positions. Ngoc Hue Le Thi was the best with 2 match points and 0.433, Ha Eun Kim the best in average with 1 point and 0.740. The Japanese Kaori Yasuma was the worst of the entire field with 0.236.
For tomorrow, Tuesday, the Asians face tougher opposition with Jose Juan Garcia, Carlos Crespo, Jose Maria Mas, and Alessio D’Agata. It is also the day former world champion Ryuuji Umeda enters the tournament.
The Europeans were in the kick-off with three players, of whom the Dutchman Feije Dillema had envisioned a better performance after the long journey (0 points, 0.339), the same as the Belgian Thierry Duson (0 points, 0.296). The Turks, however, advance to the next round with Mustafa Oguz Ceylan, holding 4 match points and 1.016.
On this day, the Vietnamese were primarily in the spotlight, with excellent averages for six players in the top 7, in which only the Colombian Alejandro Piza could participate with a second-place finish.
The ranking with the group winner:
1 Trung Hau Do Nguyen 4-1.875-9
2 Alejandro Piza 4-1,764-6
3 Quoc Ho Le 4-1.764-6
4 Minh Kiet Doan 4-1,500-5
5 Quan hai Ho 4-1.363-6
6 From Dao Tong 4-1.304-9
7 Hoang Duy Nguyen 4-1,250-6
8 Su Yeong Park 4-1,176-9
9 Sung Won Jang 4-1,132-6
10 Mustafa Oguz Ceylan 4-1.016-5
11 Minh Thien Vuong 4-1,000-8
12 Hironori Nakajima 4-1,000-6
13 Pyeon Junhywok 3-0.869-7
14 May Tan Huyen 4-0.750-8
15 Collective Labor Agreement Tri Tran 2-1.224-7
16 Minh Tri Nguyen 3-1,153-6