World Championship Class in Belgium!
Date: 2004-04-28
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With almost a month left until entry deadline (23 May) it is already clear that the D'Hondt Open in Belgium will attract a field of participants of a quality that is difficult to match even for World Championships.

Featuring players from e.g. the entirely new countries of Holland and New Zeeland the entry list now contains no less than 80(!) names. Among them 6 out of the present Men's World Top 10 and 5 out of the ladies' Top 10. And the real marketing of the event only just started as given by the latest news release (dated 27 April):

"Today, the poster campaign of the D'Hondt Open has started. More than 1000 full coloured posters and 2000 leaflets are sent to all Flemish clubs of reasonable size in each of the four racket-sports. In addition, all previous participants of the former 'King of Rackets' tournament (around 400 players) should receive an invitation. We hope that many of them come back and play the first D'Hondt Open Racketlon."

See the Breaking News section of the tournament homepage ( www.dhondtopenracketlon.be ): for continuous daily reports on developments. (Recommended!)

Meanwhile, the Finnish Open, the most established racketlon tournament of them all, with origins tracing back to 1986 and the birth of Racketlon, and usually one of the biggest and best is boosting a similar entry list on their homepage ( www.kortteliliiga.net/mlit1.htm ). Application deadline for Finnish Open: 11 May. This is where to go to see Finnish world class players like Mikko Kärkkäinen and Toni Kemppinen clash with the rest of the international racketlon community. It is a rare thing!

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