Chien will play 2014 champion South Korean Cho Jae-ho at 4 p.m. Sunday (Hanoi time) in Antalya, Turkey.

Chien, who hails from the southern Ca Mau Province, is currently ranked seventh in the world in the three-cushion game, while Cho is ranked sixth.

Vietnamese billiard player Tran Quyet Chien won the Three-Cushion World Cup 2018 in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam.

The Vietnamese cueist beat nine-time world champion Eddy Merckx of Belgium and former world champion South Korean Choi Sung-won on his way to the semifinals.

He is the only one remaining among four Vietnamese cueists who joined the first Three-Cushion World Cup of this year. The tournament opened February 11. There are usually seven such events a year.

Last year, Chien became the first Vietnamese player to win the Three-Cushion World Cup in Ho Chi Minh City.

Chien sets new Vietnamese milestone in world billiards rankings

Vietnam’s No. 1 cueist, Tran Quyet Chien, set a new milestone for Vietnamese billiards, as he climbed one place to seventh in the latest world rankings announced by the Union Mondiale de Billiard (UMB) on October 29.

 

Binh Duong Int’l Three-Cushion Billiards Tourney to be held next week

The International Three-Cushion Carom Billiards Tournament BTV-Becamex IJC Cup 2018 will take place in the southern province of Binh Duong from August 16-18, gathering 64 cueists from Vietnam, the Republic of Korea, Japan, and the Netherlands.

 

Vietnamese wins Three-Cushion Carom Billiards World Cup in HCM City

Cueist Tran Quyet Chien (world No 18) has become the new champion of the 2018 Three-Cushion Carom Billiards World Cup, which took place in Ho Chi Minh City from May 25.

 

World leading cueists compete in Billiards World Cup in HCM City

Close to 150 leading cueists from 17 countries and territories worldwide are gathering for the Three-Cushion Carom Billiards World Cup, which will officially open in Ho Chi Minh City on May 25.

 

Ngo Dinh Nai retains championship at Asian carom billiards event

Vietnam’s Ngo Dinh Nai won the one-cushion carom category at the ongoing Asian Carom Billiards Championship 2018 in Ho Chi Minh City recently.

 

Source: VnExpress