Defeating Kim Jun Tae (Korea) 50-46 dramatically in the final match, player Tran Duc Minh excellently won the 2024 Ho Chi Minh City 3-cushion carom billiards World Cup championship.

Billiard player Tran Duc Minh won the 3-cushion carom billiards World Cup.

Billiard player Tran Duc Minh excellently defeated world No. 4 opponent Kim Jun Tae (Korea) in the final match to win the 2024 Ho Chi Minh City 3-cushion carom billiards World Cup.

This is also the first time in his career that player Tran Duc Minh has won the World Cup.

In the final match, player Tran Duc Minh started well to take the lead with a score of 9-0 and then 15-2. Tran Duc Minh then continued to widen the gap to 41-20 in the 17th turn.

This gap made many people think of an easy victory for the Vietnamese player, but things did not go as expected.

Player Kim Jun Tae suddenly played explosively, scoring 26 points with 4 series of 4, 7, 12, 3 to take the lead over Tran Duc Minh with a score of 46-45.

However, under great pressure, Tran Duc Minh played bravely to win a dramatic 50-46 final, thereby winning the World Cup for the first time and receiving a bonus of 16,000 euros.

With this achievement, player Tran Duc Minh received 80 bonus points, moving from 415th in the world to 37th in the world.