Cueist Frederic won the final played against Dick Jaspers from the Netherlands with a score of 40-20 after 17 rounds. Despite his excellence in earlier quarter and semi-finals, Dick did not maintain his performance in the decisive stage.

Frederic won the championship and received EUR5,500 prize while runner-up Dick Jaspers pocketed EUR3,500. Vietnamese cueist Nguyen Quoc Nguyen and Marco Zanetti from Italy came in third place earning EUR2,200 each.

Nikos Polychronopoulos from Greece won a prize for the highest score of the tournament (22 points).

During the tourney Vietnamese cueists performed impressively as seen by Nguyen, who managed to make the semi-final, however was disappointingly defeated by Dick with a score of 30-40 after 14 clashes. In an earlier quarter-final against Dick, Ma Minh Cam narrowly lost by a score of 41-43. Meanwhile Duong Anh Vu and Truong Quang Hao ended their campaigns at the 1/16 stage.

The tournament attracted over 140 cueists from 20 countries and territories, including the world’s top players in three-cushion carom billiards in the World Union of Billiards (UMB)’s ranking.

This was the second time Ho Chi Minh City hosted the tournament.