Verhoeven Open

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Martin Horn at the entrance of the Carom Cafe in 2016. 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]

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History

Tournament poster of Sang Lee international Open inside of the Carom Cafe. Verhoeven Open 2016-Venue -Poster SLIO 1.jpg
Tournament poster of Sang Lee international Open inside of the Carom Café.
Michael Kang is the co-founder of the Carom Cafe and friend of Sang Lee. 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] [ unreliable source? ]

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

Prize Money 2007 [7] [ unreliable source? ]
RankPrize
money (US$)
RankPrize
money (US$)
112,000112,800
29,600122,400
38,000132,100
46,400141,800
55,600151,700
64,800161,600
74,400171,500
84,000181,400
93,600191,300
103,200201,200
Bonuses
HS300BG300
Total amount: 80,000 US$

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

Prize Money
RankUS$RankUS$
18,00011550
25,00012550
34,00013500
43,50014500
52,70015450
62,20016450
71,70017425
81,20018425
91,00019400
1080020400
Total amount: 34,750 US$
USBA-Points
RankPoints
1.80
2.60
3.50
4.40
5. & 6.30
7. & 8.25
9.–12.20
13.–16.15
17.–2410
25.–325
≥ 333

Tournament statistic

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

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

Men

Sang Lee International Open
YearWinnerGARunner upGA3. PlaceGARef.
2005 Flag of Sweden.svg Torbjörn Blomdahl 2,006 Flag of Turkey.svg Semih Saygıner 1,998 Flag of the Netherlands.svg Dick Jaspers 1,907
2006 Flag of Belgium (civil).svg Frédéric Caudron 1,881 Flag of Sweden.svg Torbjörn Blomdahl 1,851 Flag of Turkey.svg Semih Saygıner 1,741
2007 Flag of Belgium (civil).svg Frédéric Caudron 1,774 Flag of Spain.svg Dani Sánchez 1,889 Flag of Turkey.svg Semih Saygıner 1,615
2008 Flag of Belgium (civil).svg Roland Forthomme 1,829 Flag of Belgium (civil).svg Frédéric Caudron 1,958 Flag of Sweden.svg Torbjörn Blomdahl 1,707
Verhoeven Open Tournament
YearWinnerGARunner upGA3. PlaceGARef.
2012 Flag of the United States.svg Pedro Piedrabuena 1,592 Flag of Sweden.svg Torbjörn Blomdahl 1,708 Flag of Belgium (civil).svg Roland Forthomme 1,658 [9]
2013 Flag of Belgium (civil).svg Frédéric Caudron 2,066 Flag of Belgium (civil).svg Eddy Merckx 1,886 Flag of Sweden.svg Torbjörn Blomdahl 1,838 [10]
2014 Flag of Sweden.svg Torbjörn Blomdahl 2,058 Flag of Belgium (civil).svg Eddy Merckx 1,941 Flag of Belgium (civil).svg Frédéric Caudron 1,927 [11]
2015 Flag of the Netherlands.svg Dick Jaspers 2,097 Flag of Turkey.svg Tayfun Taşdemir 1,715 Flag of Belgium (civil).svg Frédéric Caudron 1,931 [12]
2016 Flag of France.svg Jérémy Bury 1,542 Flag of the Netherlands.svg Dick Jaspers 1,975 Flag of Belgium (civil).svg Eddy Merckx 1,775 [13]
2017 Flag of South Korea.svg Cho Jae-ho 1,650 Flag of Belgium (civil).svg Eddy Leppens 1,897 Flag of Spain.svg Dani Sánchez 1,847 [14]
2018 Flag of Belgium (civil).svg Eddy Merckx 1,872 Flag of Spain.svg Dani Sánchez 1,937 Flag of Germany.svg Martin Horn 1,908
Flag of Belgium (civil).svg Eddy Leppens 1,597
2019 Flag of Belgium (civil).svg Eddy Merckx 1,798 Flag of Sweden.svg Torbjörn Blomdahl 1,777 Flag of Spain.svg 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] [ unreliable source? ] [18]

YearWinnerGARunner upGA3. Place/
Semi Finalists
GARef.
Verhoeven Open Tournament
2013 Flag of the Netherlands.svg Therese Klompenhouwer 1,016 Flag of Japan.svg Orie Hida 0,850 Flag of South Korea.svg Park Su-ah0,631 [15]
Jennifer Shim International
2015 Flag of the Netherlands.svg Therese Klompenhouwer 1,123 Flag of Cambodia.svg Pheavy Srong0,662 Flag of Japan.svg Orie Hida 0,970 [19] [20]
2017 Flag of the Netherlands.svg Therese Klompenhouwer 1,116 Flag of Japan.svg Orie Hida 1,035 Flag of South Korea.svg Lee Mi-rae0,648 [21]
2019 Flag of South Korea.svg Han Ji-eun0,863 Flag of the Netherlands.svg Therese Klompenhouwer 1,195 Flag of Japan.svg Orie Hida 0,780 [22]
Flag of Japan.svg Yuko Nishimoto0,754

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