Billiards: Vietnamese player and teammates sprint at lightning speed, come from behind to win PBA championship

On July 30, Hana Card team took the field in the final round of the first leg of the PBA Team League 2025 - 2026, against Legend team (captained by former 3-cushion carom billiards world champion Choi Sung-won). The extremely compatible pair Nguyen Quoc Nguyen and Murat Naci Coklu (Turkey) still competed in the first round, facing the Korean pair Choi Sung-won/Lee Sang-dae.

In recent days of competition, Quoc Nguyen and Coklu have been performing extremely well, continuously winning when playing together. However, in the final match of stage 1, the two players of Hana Card team could not maintain their winning streak. Former world champion Choi Sung-won and his teammates played very well and won dramatically 11/10.

Nguyen Quoc Nguyen and his teammates sprinted to win the first round of PBA Team League 2025 - 2026

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However, on the day that the pillars Quoc Nguyen and Coklu broke their winning streak, Hana Card's other players played explosively. At one point, Legend took a 2-1 lead over Legend. But then, Nguyen Quoc Nguyen's teammates won 3 consecutive games, thereby helping Hana Card win 4-2 overall.

Nguyen Quoc Nguyen does not need to play singles

According to the arrangement, Nguyen Quoc Nguyen will play singles in the last game (game 7). However, female player Kim Ga-young finished the match in the 6th game, so Quoc Nguyen did not need to play. In the last game, Kim Ga-young showed her mettle to come back and win 9/7 against Cha Yu-ram (Legend team).

With this victory, Hana Card team has 20 points and officially crowned the champion of the first round of PBA Team League 2025 - 2026, although the final round of matches has not yet ended. It can be seen that Nguyen Quoc Nguyen and his teammates had a spectacular breakthrough in the sprint stages, thereby finishing in first place of the first round of PBA Team League 2025 - 2026.