Marco Teutscher (born 1 February 1992) is a professional Dutch pool player.

Career

Teutscher began playing in 2007, and would enter the youth European Pool Championships the same year. His best finish at these competitions was the reaching the quarter finals, doing so in 2008 at the

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event as well 2009 in the

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and 2010 in the

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. In 2010, Teutscher played in the men's competition for the first time, however, he wouldn't reach the later stages until 2012. He would reach the round of 16 of the

competition before being defeated by Konrad Piekarski. In August 2012 he finished fifth at the Benelux Open. On the

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he first reached the knockout rounds at the 2013 Austrian Open before losing in the second round to Phil Burford. In January 2014, he finished fifth at the Longoni Capelle Open and the 9-Ball Mini Tournament of the Derby City Classic. At the

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he reached the knockout rounds of a world championship for the first time, reaching the round of 32 being defeated by Li Hewen. On route, he defeated 2013 champion

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11–9. In 2015, at the

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he reached the round of the last 64. A few days later he made it to the quarter finals of a Euro Tour event, at the 2015 Italian Open in which he lost 7–9 against

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lost. At the European championships 2015 he reached the quarter-finals in two disciplines. In the 14/1 continuous event he lost to the later European champion, his countryman

Nick van den Berg Nick van den Berg (born 24 May 1980) is a Dutch professional pool player. He was the runner up at the 2005 WPA World Eight-ball Championship, where he lost to Wu Chia-ching 11–5 in the final. He is a multiple time winner of events on the Eu ...

, whereas in the 9-ball he lost to the Pole Karol Skowerski. In the

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he lost in the round of the last 64 to

Wojciech Szewczyk Wojciech Szewczyk (Born 1 September 1994) is a Polish professional pool player. Szewczyk is a two time junior European Pool Championship winner, winning the 8-ball event in 2010, defeating Finn Eschment in the final, and the 9-ball event in ...

. In 2016 he reached at the European Championship the round of 16 in the

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. He would also reach the semifinals for the first time at a Euro Tour event, losing to Swiss Ronald Regliwas. He later would reach the quarter finals of both the 2016 Treviso Open, and 2017 Dutch Open. Teutscher has participated once in the

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. Together with Huidji See he lost in the

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edition in the first round against the Thai team of Nitiwat Kanjanasri and Kobkit Palajinout.

Titles

* 2019 CSI U.S. Open 10-Ball Championship

References

External links

Marco Teutscher
at kozoom.com
Marco Teutscher
on the website of European Pocket Billiard Federation
Marco Teutscher
at the

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