With the 2017 World Cup of Pool set for June 13-18 at the historic York Hall in East London, Matchroom Sport can announce the 14 European teams who will be participating in this year’s event. Among the teams are five previous World Cup winners as well as 10 players who have previously contested the final and overall the European contingent is stacked with talent.
Previous champions are Finland (2012) and Germany (2011) who both won their titles in Manila, whilst England A’s Darren Appleton was a winner, alongside Karl Boyes back in 2014.
Commencing on Tuesday June 13 and culminating with the final on the evening of Sunday 18, the event will be played to a single elimination format over six days with two sessions a day. There are 31 matches in total.
Teams will be announced shortly with Mosconi Cup stars from both sides of the Atlantic set to be joined by some of the greatest players from around the world.
隨著2017雙打世界盃將於6月12-18日在東倫敦歷史悠久的York Hall舉行。Matchroom Sport於近日公布今年將參賽的14支歐洲隊伍。其中包括5位前世界盃冠軍以及10位曾經參與過決賽的球員，歐洲隊伍整體而言可說是人才濟濟。
在此前幾屆當中，芬蘭與德國分別於2012及2011年在馬尼拉摘冠，而Darren Appleton則是在2014年與搭檔Karl Boyes奪下冠軍。
雙打世界盃總將金達$250,000美金，奪冠的隊伍將收穫 $60,000美金。比賽從6月13日起至18日的最後一天，將採單敗淘汰賽制，每天進行兩場賽事，6天將共有31場比賽。而其他來自大西洋兩岸的隊伍也將在短時間內宣布其參賽選手。
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Austria 奧地利 – Mario He / Albin Ouschan
England 英格蘭– Mark Gray / Darren Appleton
England B 英格蘭 B – Imran Majid / Daryl Peach
Finland 芬蘭 – Mika Immonen / Petri Makkonen
Germany 德國 – Ralf Souquet / Thorsten Hohmann
Greece 希臘 – Nikos Ekonomopoulos / Alex Kazakis
Holland 荷蘭 – Niels Feijen / Nick van den Berg
Norway 挪威 – Matts B Schjetne / Tom Bjerke
Poland 波蘭 – Mateusz Sniegocki / Wojiech Szewczyk
Portugal 葡萄牙 – Joao Grilo / Rui Edgar Francis
Romania 羅馬尼亞 – Robert Braga / TBC
Russia 俄羅斯 – Ruslan Chinakhov / Konstantin Stepanov
Spain 西班牙 – David Alcaide / Francisco Sanchez Ruiz
Sweden 瑞典 – Marcus Chamat / Daniel Tangudd
Tickets are on sale now at www.matchroompool.com priced at just £10.00 per evening session (Tuesday to Sunday) and £8.00 per weekend afternoon session. Tuesday to Friday afternoons are free. A season ticket covering all sessions is priced at £60.00.
The World Cup of Pool will carry a $250,000 prize fund including $60,000 for the champions. The event will be produced by Matchroom Sport Television and televised live on Sky Sports as well as other stations around the world. It is then syndicated internationally as 31 x 1 hour programmes.
2017 WORLD CUP OF POOL is sponsored by Rasson Billiards who supplies the Official Table; the cloth is supplied by Iwan Simonis and the Official Balls are Super Aramith by Saluc. Predator is the Official Cue and Chalk of the event.
Luke Riches, Matchroom Sport: [email protected]
Notes: MATCHROOM SPORT is one of the world’s leading producers of televised sport and is responsible for over 1,000 hours of original programming across a range of sports. Based in the UK and chaired by charismatic founder Barry Hearn, they operate three pool events; the Mosconi Cup, the World Cup of Pool and the World Pool Masters. In addition, the company produce a multitude of events in darts, snooker, tenpin, golf, fishing, ping pong, gymnastics, netball, basketball and boxing.