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Verhoeven Open

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]

2016 tournament logo
Martin Horn at the entrance of the Carom Café in 2016.

History

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Tournament poster of Sang Lee international Open inside of the Carom Café.
Michael Kang is the co-founder of the Carom Café and friend of Sang Lee.

Sang Lee International Open

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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

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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

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Prize Money 2007[7][unreliable source?]
RankPrize
money (US$)		RankPrize
money (US$)
0112,000112,800
029,600122,400
038,000132,100
046,400141,800
055,600151,700
064,800161,600
074,400171,500
084,000181,400
093,600191,300
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$RankUS$
018,00011550
025,00012550
034,00013500
043,50014500
052,70015450
062,20016450
071,70017425
081,20018425
091,00019400
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.–3205
≥ 3303

Tournament statistic

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Jérémy Bury, winner of 2016

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

Men

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Sang Lee International Open
YearWinnerGARunner upGA3. PlaceGARef.
2005 Torbjörn Blomdahl2,006 Semih Saygıner1,998 Dick Jaspers1,907
2006 Frédéric Caudron1,881 Torbjörn Blomdahl1,851 Semih Saygıner1,741
2007 Frédéric Caudron1,774 Dani Sánchez1,889 Semih Saygıner1,615
2008 Roland Forthomme1,829 Frédéric Caudron1,958 Torbjörn Blomdahl1,707
Verhoeven Open Tournament
YearWinnerGARunner upGA3. PlaceGARef.
2012 Pedro Piedrabuena1,592 Torbjörn Blomdahl1,708 Roland Forthomme1,658[9]
2013 Frédéric Caudron2,066 Eddy Merckx1,886 Torbjörn Blomdahl1,838[10]
2014 Torbjörn Blomdahl2,058 Eddy Merckx1,941 Frédéric Caudron1,927[11]
2015 Dick Jaspers2,097 Tayfun Taşdemir1,715 Frédéric Caudron1,931[12]
2016 Jérémy Bury1,542 Dick Jaspers1,975 Eddy Merckx1,775[13]
2017 Cho Jae-ho1,650 Eddy Leppens1,897 Dani Sánchez1,847[14]
2018 Eddy Merckx1,872 Dani Sánchez1,937 Martin Horn1,908
Eddy Leppens1,597
2019 Eddy Merckx1,798 Torbjörn Blomdahl1,777 Dani Sánchez1,773

Women

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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 Therese Klompenhouwer1,016 Orie Hida0,850 Park Su-ah0,631[15]
Jennifer Shim International
2015 Therese Klompenhouwer1,123 Pheavy Srong0,662 Orie Hida0,970[19][20]
2017 Therese Klompenhouwer1,116 Orie Hida1,035 Lee Mi-rae0,648[21]
2019 Han Ji-eun0,863 Therese Klompenhouwer1,195 Orie Hida0,780[22]
Yuko Nishimoto0,754

References

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