After the first day of play, the Dutch league three cushion has three frontrunners and a big middle group. SIS Schoonmaak, Bousema and Zundert lead, six teams share the long group of chasers. The best match came from Peter Ceulemans with 40 in 12 against Kay de Zwart (40-8). Glenn Hofman (40 in 16), Ruben Legazpi (40 in 17), Tom Persyn and Jean Paul de Bruijn played just over 2 average with 40 in 19. The match day showed a lot of major runs, such as the 12 made by Sam van Etten, the 11 of Peter Ceulemans, Ruben Legazpi, Marco Janssen and Jerry Hermans, the 10 of Jeffrey Jorissen, the 9 of Therese Klompenhouwer, Tom Persyn, Frans van Schaik, Jean Paul de Bruijn and Raimond Burgman.
Martien van der Spoel was the strongest man in the team of the champion SIS Schoonmaak (40 in 21) in which Jean van Erp accepted a surprising draw against Erwin Kivits. Most notable wins in the opening round of Kozoom league further came from Jean Paul de Bruijn against Dave Christiani (40-24 in 19), Roland Forthomme against Dion Nelin (40-33 in 25), Barry van Beers against Steven van Acker (40-17 in 32), Therese Klompenhouwer against Kurt Ceulemans (40-32 in 24), Davy van Havere against Sergio Jimenez (40-20 in 23) and Tom Persyn against Pierre Soumagne (40-21 in 19).
The opening day showed how close the differences in strength are. That was best of all demonstrated by the equal score that Aartsbouw Sprundel, new to the Kozoom league, snatched from Cues&Darts, where Ad Broeders surprised against Huub Wilkowski 40-20 in 21 and especially Tom Persyn in a nice match against Soumagne 40-21.
Peter Ceulemans started his match against Kay de Zwart with 5, 5, 4 and in the sixth eleven 11 and had a 28-5 lead in 6. The Belgian scored another 7 in the closing stages and had a glorious start to the competition.
Jorissen's Hague team also returned with a 4-4 from an away match against Team Eekhoorn. That was thanks to Therese Klompenhouwer, who held the lead against Kurt Ceulemans after a superb start and a solid 9. Herman van Daalen was able to stunt against Jerry Hermans 40-28 in 32.
At Bousema, with a comfortable win by debutant Jeffrey Jorissen against Anno de Kleine (40-18 in 28), Paul Bruijstens and Gökhan Salman were the two other winners and Frans van Schaik, after trailing 22-5, came back to one carom against Johan Roijers after missing the equalizer.
Dallinga was already in action this Saturday against Dekker/AP and dragged out a draw thanks to strong Jean Paul de Bruijn and Peter De Backer, who beat Dave Christiani and Gerwin Valentijn 40-24 and 40-31. Steven van Acker, who won such a brilliant event in Belgium, had a false start with a loss against Barry van Beers: 40-17 in 32.
ST Zundert took advantage of its temporary leader Roland Forthomme, who beat Dion Nelin. Thorsten Frings subdued Roland Uijtdewillegen 40-25 in 32 and Sam van Etten won partly due to a run of 12 against Jack Wijnen: 40-31 in 21.