Monday 24 June 2024

Marain and Averlant winners in Belgium

Two WASPA tournament have been held in Belgium this week-end and both events had a good field of players competing in Swiss system.


On Friday, 12 players met for the "Magic Team Tournai" tournament won by Geoffrey Marain. A late equalizer in the last game against Vincent Coppenolle was enough to secure the win of the night while Matthias Averlant, despite winning a game in the first session, was a deserved runner-up and Raphaël Dhondt, who started playing again a few weeks a long after a long break of more than 30 years, is a surprising third of the night.

Final table (all Belgians unless noted):

1. Geoffrey Marain (AS Hennuyer)
2. Matthias Averlant (AS Hennuyer)
3. Raphael Dhondt (Templeuve)
4. Vincent Coppenolle (Templeuve)
5. Sébastien Rochez (Templeuve)
6. Michaël Dupret (MT Tournai)
7. Sébastien Sorge (FRA/Wattrelos-SLM)
8. Stéphane Lambert (Kent Invicta)
9. David Sardi de Letto (FRA/Wattrelos-SLM)
10. Benjamin Marain (AS Hennuyer)
11. Renald Deloose (Templeuve)
12. Ursule Dhondt (Templeuve)


On Saturday, games were played in Antwerp. With an unfortunate last minute dropout, 11 players were taking part including some players from the Netherlands. Matthias Averlant won all his games to win the tournament.

Final table (all Belgians unless noted):

1. Matthias Averlant (AS Hennuyer)
2. Jos Ceulemans (Flanders)
3. Sébastien Rochez (Templeuve)
4. Stéphane Lambert (Kent Invicta)
5. Marco de Bruin (NED/Flanders)
6. David Wouters (Flanders)
7. Geert Leys (Flanders)
8. Frank Lannoy (Temploux)
9. Gary Moore (IRL/Flanders)
10. Fabrizio Cavazza (NED/Gorizia)
11. Richard Oranje (NED/-)

Special thanks to all organizers for the great events;

The Templeuve tournament will be held on Friday, June 28, at 6.30 pm. All players welcome!

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