The Dynamic Billard Veldhoven Open 2018 (sometimes known as the 2018 Netherlands Open) was the third
Euro Tour
The Euro Tour is a series of professional pool events set around Europe
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9-Ball
Nine-ball (sometimes written 9-ball) is a discipline of the cue sport pool. The game's origins are traceable to the 1920s in the United States. It is played on a rectangular billiard table with at each of the four corners and in the middle of e ...
pool event in 2018.
The event was won by Austria's
Mario He
Mario He (born 3 August 1993, Rankweil, Austria) is an Austrian professional pool player. He is a former winner of the European Pool Championships, and winner of both the 2017 and 2019 World Cup of Pool events alongside Albin Ouschan.
Career ...
who defeated Albania's
Eklent Kaçi
Eklent Kaçi (born January 29, 1999), also known as Klenti Kaçi is an Albanian professional Pool (cue sports), pool player. Kaçi won the WPA World Ten-ball Championship in 2021 and 2023 and reached the semi-finals of the 2017 WPA World Nine-b ...
9–8 in the final. By making the final, Eklent had made the semifinal or better of four straight events.
The
previous years champion
Ruslan Tschinachow did not reach the last 32 stage.
Tournament format
The event saw a total of 228 players compete, in a double-elimination knockout tournament, until the last 32 stage; where the tournament was contested as
single elimination
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.
Prize fund
The tournament prize fund was similar to that of other
Euro Tour
The Euro Tour is a series of professional pool events set around Europe
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events, with
€
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4,500 for the winner of the event.
Tournament results
References
External links
{{Euro Tour
Euro Tour
2018 Euro Tour events