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Marathon man Leclercq: 23 matches and still Men’s Teams to play
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18 years old Belgian Julien Leclercq will still play the Men’s Teams event at this Albufeira’s EBSA 2021 European Snooker Championships but has played until this Monday a absolutely astonishing number of 23 matches played at the VidaMar Resort Hotel Algarve since October 2th in three of the four events the U18 and U21 runner-up applied for.
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Julien played 8 matches in the U18 event and 9 at the U21 one – including losing both finals in just four days, to Ben Mertens (3-4) and Welshman Dylan Emery (2-5) -, wasn’t at the Six Reds event and saw his running of 6 matches more at the Men/Mixed event being stopped in Last 16 round by Finland’s Robin Hull, who beat him by 4 frames to 1. But Leclerq will still play the Men’s Teams event…
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In second place more matches at this 2021 championships ranking standings comes 16 years old Anton Kazakov: the Ukraine cueist has a total of 21 matches played so far in four events and also like the Belgian will play Men’s Teams event at Salgados.
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Since October 2nd, Anton started with 5 matches in the U18 event, added 8 more at the U21 competition, 2 more matches in the Six Reds Event and lost in Last 16 round of Men/Mixed event by 4 frames to one to Russia’s Ivan Kakovskii.
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6 more matches for Kazakov service sheet in the fourth 2021 EBSA European Snooker Championships event, besides of having still the Men’s Teams to add some more. Fabulous.
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Third in the most matches played ranking comes 16 years old Belgian and U18 European Snooker Champion Ben Mertens: 20 already in three of the four events (skipped the ‘Six Reds’ one) at 2021 EBSA European Snooker Championships.
The Wetteren born cueist played 8 matches at the U18 event to get the crown, plus 7 at the U21 tournament until the quarterfinals (lost in the decider to Anton Kazakov) and another 5 matches on the Men/Mixed event, where he was stopped losing by 4 frames to 2 to England’s Sean O’Sullivan.
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Only one match less than Ben Mertens played Poland’s Antoni Kowalski at Albufeira and still can top this list at October 17th, when all the events are concluded: the 16 years old player already played in 19 matches in three events at the 2021 EBSA European Snooker Championships… and will still play Men’s Teams event.
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Kowalski has played 6 matches at the U18 event and 9 matches in the U21 plus 4 more duels in the green cloths at the Men/Mixed tournament.
Four teenagers. Energy and power to play, the four… 83 matches in Salgados. Total respect, dedication, devotion and love for the game.