Billiards match schedule on July 5: Genius Caudron suffers shocking defeat, Korean prodigy advances

Today (July 5), the 2025 Porto Billiards World Cup semi-finals took place, with the participation of Korean prodigy Cho Myung-woo. Before that, genius Frederic Caudron stopped in the quarter-finals.

Clean Vietnamese players

The round of 16 and quarter-finals of the Porto Billiards World Cup 2025 took place from the evening of July 4 to the early morning of July 5. In the round of 16, Vietnam billiards had only one representative, Dao Van Ly. The Vietnamese player could not continue to cause surprises, losing 40-50 to Sergio Jimenez (Spain).

The remaining notable names such as Frederic Caudron, Eddy Merckx, Cho Myung-woo all won in the round of 16. The most surprising face was Gokhan Salman (Türkiye), when he defeated compatriot Berkay Karakurt to win a ticket to the quarterfinals.

Caudron has not been able to conquer the title, after more than 1 year of returning to UMB

PHOTO: SOOP

13-point series changed the game

The quarter-finals of the Porto 2025 Billiards World Cup continued to witness a big shock, in the match between Caudron and Gokhan Salman. Facing an opponent with no "name", the Belgian genius (who won 21 Billiards World Cup championships) was defeated 44-50, after 28 turns. In the 17th turn, when he was behind 20-28, Salman launched a big series of 13 points to surpass Caudron. This was also the turning point of the match, bringing victory to the Turkish player.

In the remaining quarter-final matches, Cho Myung-woo (Korea), Marco Zanetti (Italy), Jeremy Bury (France) were the winners. The two semi-final matches will take place from this afternoon, July 5, Vietnam time: Cho Myung-woo vs. Gokhan Salman (at 5:30 p.m.), Jeremy Bury vs. Marco Zanetti (at 8:00 p.m.).

All matches of the Porto Billiards World Cup 2025 will be broadcast live on the SOOP Live platform (link: https://billiards.sooplive.co.kr/schedule?sub1=schedule ).

Source: https://thanhnien.vn/lich-thi-dau-billiards-ngay-57-thien-tai-caudron-thua-soc-than-dong-han-quoc-tien-sau-185250705075130338.htm