In 2024, Tran Quyet Chien and Bao Phuong Vinh set a new milestone for Vietnamese 3-cushion carom billiards, winning the world team championship for the first time. The excellent Vietnamese duo defeated the Spanish pair in a penalty shootout (doubles: two players take turns to play the cue). Previously, Tran Quyet Chien (with a teammate) had competed many times in this arena, but the best result was only reaching the quarter-finals.
Tran Quyet Chien and Bao Phuong Vinh have a bright chance to continue.
The 2025 World Team Championship will also be held in Viersen (Germany), and the Vietnamese representative will still be the pair Tran Quyet Chien and Bao Phuong Vinh.
Accordingly, the 16 participating teams are divided equally into 4 groups (each group has 4 teams). The Vietnam 3-cushion carom billiards team is in group C with Belgium, Sweden and Jordan. The Belgian team does not have the services of its two strongest players, Frederic Caudron and Eddy Merckx. The two Belgian players participating in this tournament, Peter Ceulemans and Roland Forthomme, are both outside the world's top 10.
Tran Quyet Chien (ranked 4th) is the Vietnamese player with the highest position on the UMB world rankings.
Meanwhile, the Swedish team is full of familiar faces: living legends Torjorn Blomdahl and Michael Nilsson. The Swedish pair have won the world team championship seven times together, in 2000, 2001, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008 and 2009. The weakest team in the group is Jordan, with Mashhour Abu Tayeh (ranked 74th in the world) and Ahmed Al Ghababsheh (ranked 176th in the world).
The first opponent of the Vietnamese team at the 2025 Carom 3-Cushion World Team Championship is the Jordanian team, at 8:00 p.m. on March 13. Accordingly, Tran Quyet Chien will meet Mashhour Abu Tayeh, while Bao Phuong Vinh will face Ahmed Al Ghababsheh. Previously, Vietnam's No. 1 player Tran Quyet Chien said: "My first goal in 2025 is to defend the world team championship with Bao Phuong Vinh."
Attractive competition format
In the group stage, the teams will compete in a round-robin format to calculate points and rank. The first and second-placed teams in each group will qualify for the quarter-finals. From the quarter-finals onwards, there will be a knockout match. Two players from the same team will compete on two different tables. If the team has a result of 1 winner and 1 loser, they will enter a decisive penalty shootout. In the penalty shootout, all 4 players will compete on 1 table, playing in a doubles format (taking turns to play the cue). This is the format that creates the appeal of the World Team 3-cushion Carom Billiards Championship.
Tran Quyet Chien and Bao Phuong Vinh were crowned champions in a dramatic 2024 tournament. This is Vietnam's first title at the world team championship.
Group A: Turkey, Germany, Colombia, Portugal. Group B: South Korea, Japan, France, Mexico. Group D: Netherlands, Spain, Egypt, USA. The tournament also features the world's top players such as Dick Jaspers (current world number 1, Netherlands), Sameh Sidhom (Egypt), Cho Myung-woo (South Korea), Heo Jung-han (South Korea), Jeremy Bury (France).
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