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El Gouna welcomes the big guns.

Published on: December 06, 2017


The holiday players enjoy the sunshine and the pool, the early qualification rounds are over. It is now time for the stage in the tournament where every opponent is dangerous: the final groups before the main event.

Here are the flights that will start play on Wednesday morning:

A) Jae Ho Cho looks to be the favorite in this group. He faces his countryman William Oh and Thomas Andersen from Denmark.

B) Former world champion Sung Won Choi needs to fight off Jan Hudak from the Czeck Republic and young Omer Karakurt from Turkey.

C) Tayfun Tasdemir is the highest ranked player in group C. He faces Seung Jin Lee and the pleasant surprise of the qualifications: Bernard Baudoin from France.

D) Arnim Kahofer from Austria was the 16th and last player to make it. He will have a tough task, playing Birol Uymaz from Turkey and Eddy Leppens from Belgium.

E) Two Turks who know each other well: Semih Sayginer and Adnan Yüksel, take on Ronny Lindemann from Germany.

F) The obvious favorite in flight F is Dong Koong Kang, who will play David Martinez from Spain and Kwang Yeol Park from Korea.

G) A very dangerous group, with Myung Woo Cho as the highest ranked player, Dinh Nai Ngo from Vietnam and Young Hoon Lee from Korea.

H) Another flight with two Turks: Lütfi Cenet and Murat Celik take on the Belgian lion: Roland Forthomme.

I) Minh Cam Ma from Vietnam leads group I, and he will play Can Capak from Turkey and veteran Tonny Carlsen from Denmark.

J) Spaniard David Zapata faces two strong Asians: Duong Anh Vu from Vietnam and Hyung Kon Kim from Korea.

K) Riad Nady from Egypt heads group K, and he will play Xuan Cuong Ma from Vietnam and Gokhan Salman from Turkey.

L) Finally, Jae Guen Kim from Korea is in this flight with Javier Palazon from Spain and Dutchman Jean Paul de Bruijn, the best of the qualifiers.

All matches can be seen on Kozoom.com. 

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