Third Seed Holland Begin Their Billiards Campaign

Third Seed Holland Begin Their Billiards CampaignSecond seed Holland begin their billiard campaign in the PartyPoker.com World Cup of Pool today.The Dutch pairing of Niels Feijen (pictured) and Nick van den Berg are one of the tournament favourites to claim the $60,000 top prize and will play the last opening round match against the Scottish side of Michael Valentine and Pat Holtz.A number of seeded teams, including Sweden, Poland and England A, have crashed out of the competition in round one and the Dutch players, who are ranked as two of the best three players in Europe will be wary of suffering a similar fate.Who do you think will win. Discuss World Cup of Pool here.Former World Champion Mika Immonen also begins his campaign when his Finland side meet the Irish duo of Tommy Donlon and Paddy McLaughlin. Other afternoon matches sees South Africa take on Italy while Vietnam, who many people think are the dark horses for the tournament, go up against 15th seeds Croatia.
The evening session at the Newport Centre, Newport, Wales has the top three seeds all in action. After Hollland’s match with Scotland, the second round begins and No.1 seeds Philippines who looked in fantastic form in their 9-0 opening day victory against Malta face Malaysia who were too strong for the Qatar outfit in round one.The final match of day three could be one of the matches of the tournament as USA ’s Mosconi Cup regulars Rodney Morris and Earl Strickland take on Steve Davis (who has plenty of Mosconi Cup experience of his own) and Daryl Peach in the England B team.The official website www.worldcupofpool.com is the only place to keep up with the latest information from the tournament. The site will have live scoring during each month with full match reports and reaction to follow shortly after the last ball has been pocketed.Day threeAfternoon session (2pm) (seeded teams in bold and brackets)Round One (race to nine) 13. Ireland (Tommy Donlon and Paddy McLaughlin) v Finland (7) (Mika Immonen and Markus Juva). 14. South Africa (Yulan Govender and David Anderson) v Italy (10) (Fabio Petroni and Angelo Millauro). 15. Vietnam (Luong Chi Dung and Thanh Nam Nguyen) v Croatia (15) (Philipp Stovanovic and Ivan Kralj). Evening session (7pm)Round One 16. Scotland (Michael Valentine and Pat Holtz) v Holland (2) (Niels Feijen and Nick van den Berg).Round Two (race to nine) 17. Philippines (1) (Efren Reyes and Francisco Bustamante) v Malaysia (16) (Ibrahim Bin Amir and Patrick Ooi Fook Yuen). 18. USA (3) (Rodney Morris and Earl Strickland) v England B (Steve Davis and Daryl Peach)

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