Play continued today at the World Cup of pool and the field is now down to 16 teams. Early round matches today featured tournament favorites Holland and Germany and a strong Canadian side featuring John Morra were also in action.
Canada was slated to play Vietnam but due to travelling complications, Malta took their place last minute and the team of Alex Borg and Tony Drago fell short in a one sided affair that that Canadians took with a score of 7-1.
Powerhouse Germany will be a force to be reckon with this tournament, the pairing are not only friends off the table but are both past world champions. They were in fine form in their first match posting a 7-1 victory against Malaysia. Germany will now move on to play Canada in round two. The Dutch team of Neils Feijen and Nick Van Den Berg, runners up at last years event, also began play and advanced with a 7-3 victory against Belgium.
England B vs India was the last match of round 1 and was the best match of the tournament thus far. Team India got off to a blistering start going up 5-2, before two errors allowed team England to tie this match up at 5 a piece. Chris Melling and Daryl Peach ended up getting to the hill first however another mistake cost them that rack and for the second time in two days the UK crowd had to sweat out a double hill match.
India had the break and made a ball however under these tournament rules 3 balls need to pass the head string. Even though they pocketed one ball, two other balls did not make it past the head string forcing a ball in hand situation, which team England took full advantage of winning the rack and the match. Round 2 begins tonight; we will be back tomorrow with more updates.
Update: Two other matches have completed these were the first matches of the second round. The Filipinos dodged a very game Team France 7-5, and team U.S.A beat Russia by the same score.
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