Billiards: The match encountered an unexpected incident, Tran Quyet Chien stopped at the Antwerp World Cup

On the evening of October 11, Tran Quyet Chien took the field in the knockout round (16 players), at the Antwerp Billiards World Cup 2025, taking place in Belgium. Quyet Chien's opponent was Martin Horn (Germany, 2-time World Cup Billiards champion). Horn was in the same group C with Quyet Chien in the round of 32. The German player was the only one who defeated Quyet Chien (score 40-29) .

In the early stages of the match, the two players were neck and neck in terms of points. In the 7th turn, Horn broke through with a 7-point series, leading 21-12. In the 9th turn, the German player brought the match into a break, leading 26-15.

Billiards: Trận đấu gặp sự cố bất ngờ, Trần Quyết Chiến dừng chân ở World Cup Antwerp- Ảnh 1. — Tran Quyet Chien stopped at the round of 16 of the World Cup Antwerp 2025

In the second round, Quyet Chien responded with a series of 7s, narrowing the score to 22-26. After 10 rounds, Horn led 30-23. In the 11th round, Tran Quyet Chien continued to score a series of 7s, narrowing the gap to 30-32. Tran Quyet Chien leveled the score at 39-39 after 20 rounds.

On the 21st turn, Tran Quyet Chien officially surpassed Horn, leading 42-41. After 25 turns, the German player re-established the lead, with the score being 47-45. In the end, Tran Quyet Chien accepted defeat 45-50.

The match was postponed twice.

This match did not go smoothly with two power outages. On the 12th and 13th turns, the lights in the stadium suddenly went out. Notably, both times the lights went out coincided with the time Tran Quyet Chien made his turn. But let me repeat, the power outage happened on the entire table, not just on Quyet Chien's table. The first time, the match was paused for about 10 minutes. But the second time the lights went out, the match had to be postponed for more than 1 hour.

In the round of 16 match that took place on the same day, Bao Phuong Vinh won 50-36 against Gokhan Salman (Turkey). Frederic Caudron lost 28-50 to Tasdemir Tayfun. Thereby, Phuong Vinh advanced to the quarter-finals of the tournament. The player born in 1995 is the only representative of Vietnam to participate in the round of 8 strongest players of the World Cup billiards Antwerp 2025.

Source: https://thanhnien.vn/billiards-tran-dau-gap-su-co-bat-ngo-tran-quyet-chien-dung-chan-o-world-cup-antwerp-185251012002748799.htm