Verhoeven Open

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File:2016 Verhoeven Open (3-Cushion).svg
2016 tournament logo
File:Verhoeven Open 2016-Venue-Entrance- Martin Horn.jpg
Martin Horn at the entrance of the Carom Café in 2016.

The Verhoeven Open is a three-cushion billiards tournament held in Flushing, Queens in the US state of New York. The event is sanctioned by the Union Mondiale de Billard and the United States Billiard Association. The event was known as Sang Lee International Open between 2005 and 2008.[1]

History

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Tournament poster of Sang Lee international Open inside of the Carom Café.
File:Verhoeven Open 2016-Michael Kang 2.jpg
Michael Kang is the co-founder of the Carom Café and friend of Sang Lee.

Sang Lee International Open

It was founded in 2005 as the Sang Lee International Open, named after Sang Lee, a Korean American player whose goal was to spread his principles as a player and restore the popularity of carom billiards in the United States. One year after his death in 2004, his friend Ira Lee initiated the tournament in tribute to him. It was organized by the United States Billiard Association (USBA) as a member of the world federation Union Mondiale de Billard. The venue for the tournament is the Carom Café, which was founded by Sang Lee (not Ira Lee who is not related to Sang) and his friend Michael Kang, who was also one of the best players in the United States at that time.

Contrary to most other tournaments it was not played in the set system, but to a predetermined score. The structure of the tournament has been changed several times since 2005.

The inaugural event (2005) was won by Sweden's Torbjörn Blomdahl. The 2006 and 2007 editions were both dominated by Frédéric Caudron of Belgium.[2][3] Roland Forthomme, also from Belgium, won it in 2008.[4] The 2008 edition was the last time the event was named as Sang Lee International Open.

Verhoeven Open

After a four-year break, the tournament was relaunched in 2012 under the name Verhoeven Open Tournament (or short Verhoeven Open)[1] by Cindy Lee, CEO of billiards-event organizer Dragon Promotions.[5]Script error: No such module "Unsubst".

In 2012, 20 players participated at the tournament. Winner was the local hero Pedro Piedrabuena, who beat Torbjörn Blomdahl from Sweden with 40:37 in the final. After a long pause of playing tournaments, the 75-year-old Belgian "Mr. 100 " Raymond Ceulemans was honors player of the tournament and could, after all, still occupy the seventh rank.[6]

Prize money and ranking points

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Rank Prize
money (US$)		 Rank Prize
money (US$)
1 12,000 11 2,800
2 9,600 12 2,400
3 8,000 13 2,100
4 6,400 14 1,800
5 5,600 15 1,700
6 4,800 16 1,600
7 4,400 17 1,500
8 4,000 18 1,400
9 3,600 19 1,300
10 3,200 20 1,200
Bonuses
HS 300 BG 300
Total amount: 80,000 US$

The following table shows prize money and ranking points (only for USBA-players).[8]

Prize Money
Rank US$ Rank US$
1 8,000 11 550
2 5,000 12 550
3 4,000 13 500
4 3,500 14 500
5 2,700 15 450
6 2,200 16 450
7 1,700 17 425
8 1,200 18 425
9 1,000 19 400
10 800 20 400
Total amount: 34,750 US$
USBA-Points
Rank Points
1. 80
2. 60
3. 50
4. 40
5. & 6. 30
7. & 8. 25
9.–12. 20
13.–16. 15
17.–24 10
25.–32 5
≥ 33 3

Tournament statistic

File:Verhoeven Open 2016-Jérémy Bury 1.jpg
Jérémy Bury, winner of 2016

The GA shows the general average (all points ÷ all innings).

Men

Sang Lee International Open
Year Winner GA Runner up GA 3. Place GA Ref.
2005 Template:Flagicon Torbjörn Blomdahl 2,006 Template:Flagicon Semih Saygıner 1,998 Template:Flagicon Dick Jaspers 1,907
2006 Template:Flagicon Frédéric Caudron 1,881 Template:Flagicon Torbjörn Blomdahl 1,851 Template:Flagicon Semih Saygıner 1,741
2007 Template:Flagicon Frédéric Caudron 1,774 Template:Flagicon Dani Sánchez 1,889 Template:Flagicon Semih Saygıner 1,615
2008 Template:Flagicon Roland Forthomme 1,829 Template:Flagicon Frédéric Caudron 1,958 Template:Flagicon Torbjörn Blomdahl 1,707
Verhoeven Open Tournament
Year Winner GA Runner up GA 3. Place GA Ref.
2012 Template:Flagicon Pedro Piedrabuena 1,592 Template:Flagicon Torbjörn Blomdahl 1,708 Template:Flagicon Roland Forthomme 1,658 [9]
2013 Template:Flagicon Frédéric Caudron 2,066 Template:Flagicon Eddy Merckx 1,886 Template:Flagicon Torbjörn Blomdahl 1,838 [10]
2014 Template:Flagicon Torbjörn Blomdahl 2,058 Template:Flagicon Eddy Merckx 1,941 Template:Flagicon Frédéric Caudron 1,927 [11]
2015 Template:Flagicon Dick Jaspers 2,097 Template:Flagicon Tayfun Taşdemir 1,715 Template:Flagicon Frédéric Caudron 1,931 [12]
2016 Template:Flagicon Jérémy Bury 1,542 Template:Flagicon Dick Jaspers 1,975 Template:Flagicon Eddy Merckx 1,775 [13]
2017 Template:Flagicon Cho Jae-ho 1,650 Template:Flagicon Eddy Leppens 1,897 Template:Flagicon Dani Sánchez 1,847 [14]
2018 Template:Flagicon Eddy Merckx 1,872 Template:Flagicon Dani Sánchez 1,937 Template:Flagicon Martin Horn 1,908
Template:Flagicon Eddy Leppens 1,597
2019 Template:Flagicon Eddy Merckx 1,798 Template:Flagicon Torbjörn Blomdahl 1,777 Template:Flagicon Dani Sánchez 1,773

Women

In 2013 for the first time a competition for women was held. It took place from July 14 to 16, right before the men's competition. Winner was world number one Therese Klompenhouwer from the Netherlands. She beat the four-time world champion Orie Hida from Japan 25:16 in 17 innings in the final. However Hida played the best individual average with 1,562. Klompenhouwer succeeded with 9 points in the best high run.[15]

In 2015 the women's tournament was called Jennifer Shim International.[16] The tournament was named in memory of the American elite player Jennifer Shim, who was shot on March 6, 2015, by her ex-boyfriend at the age of 41.[17]Script error: No such module "Unsubst".[18]

Year Winner GA Runner up GA 3. Place/
Semi Finalists 		GA Ref.
Verhoeven Open Tournament
2013 Template:Flagicon Therese Klompenhouwer 1,016 Template:Flagicon Orie Hida 0,850 Template:Flagicon Park Su-ah 0,631 [15]
Jennifer Shim International
2015 Template:Flagicon Therese Klompenhouwer 1,123 Template:Flagicon Pheavy Srong 0,662 Template:Flagicon Orie Hida 0,970 [19][20]
2017 Template:Flagicon Therese Klompenhouwer 1,116 Template:Flagicon Orie Hida 1,035 Template:Flagicon Lee Mi-rae 0,648 [21]
2019 Template:Flagicon Han Ji-eun 0,863 Template:Flagicon Therese Klompenhouwer 1,195 Template:Flagicon Orie Hida 0,780 [22]
Template:Flagicon Yuko Nishimoto 0,754

References

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