Sang Lee International Open

Belgium Frédéric Caudron

The Sang Lee International Open ( SLIO ) (sometimes just Sang Lee Open) was a Carambolageturnier in the discipline of three-band.

History

The tournament was initiated in 2005 to commemorate the deceased in October 2004, three-band top players Sang Chun Lee from his wife Ira Lee and aligned to 2008 annually by the United States Billiard Association ( USBA ) as a member of the Union Mondiale de Billard. Ausrichtungsort was the Carom Cafe Billiards in New York, which was co-founded in 2000 by Sang Lee and is expected to be one of the largest carom billiard halls in the world with approximately 2,800 m². Due to the number of participants of 96, the real " open " status and its high prize money (2008: U.S. $ 125,000 total, winning U.S. $ 25,000 ), it is one of the largest and most prestigious tournaments on Weltnieveau.

Contrary to most other tournaments, it was not played in the set system, but to a predetermined score. The tournament mode has been changed several times since 2005. In 2008, the last Sang Lee Open was held.

Verhoeven Open Tournament

After a four year hiatus, the tournament in 2012 under the name Verhoeven Open Tournament by Cindy Lee was reissued. Promoter is the company " Dragon Promotions' whose CEO Cindy Lee since 2005. She is not related to Sang Lee.

At the first tournament in 2012 was attended by 20 players. The winner was the local hero Pedro Piedrabuena, in the final round to beat the Swede Torbjörn Blomdahl just with 40:37. After a long pause tournament was the 75 - year-old Belgian "Mr. 100 " Raymond Ceulemans honor player of the tournament and could nevertheless still occupy the seventh place.

Prize money table

Mode

Since 2013, the tournament is played in three phases:

Places 3-12 will be played.

Tournament Stats

Gentlemen

The DG indicates the general average of the player during the tournament.

Ladies

2013 was the first time held a competition for women. It was held from 14 to 16 July. The winner was the World No. Therese Klompenhouwer from the Netherlands. She beat the four -time World Champion Hida places in the final 25:16 in 17 shots. However, Hida played the best individual average ( ED) with 1,562. Klompenhouwer succeeded with 9 points, the best maximum series (HS).

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