The second round of the 2013 World Cup of Pool continues on Friday in East London with six matches on tap, including games from top-ranked teams England, Holland and the Philippines.

Finland’s Mika Immonen and Petri Makkone and England B’s Daryl Peach and Chris Melling were the first qualifiers for the quarterfinals after beating Korea (7-6) and Germany (7-0), respectively, in the Round of 16.

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Six winners from Friday’s games will join them in the next round and complete the quarterfinals cast.

Major upsets thrived in the Round of 32. Three teams among the final 16 were unseeded squads and they will look to once again duplicate in delivering the upset on Friday.

At the top of the upset-minded list is Hungary’s duo of Miko Balazs and Gabor Solymos, who took China to school with their 7-2 win over the 2-time World Cup champions.

Another is the team from India (Raj Hundal and Amar Kang), which took down the Canadians in a hill-hill match. Lastly, there’s the Singapore pair of Aloysius Yapp and Chan Keng Kwang which beat 11th seed Poland in another close 7-5 match.

Hungary takes on 14th seed Russia (Konstantin Stepanov and Ruslan Chinakhov); India challenges Holland (Niels Feijen and Nick Van den Berg) and Singapore faces 2-time champions Philippines represented by Lee Van Corteza and Dennis Orcollo.

The players in this tournament will share a $250,000 prize pool with the last eight getting $10,000 each. The champion will take home $60,000 and the runner-up, $30,000.

Sept 20, 2013 (Friday) Schedule
(Seeds in parenthesis)

Round of 16 – Race-to-7

Afternoon sessions
Hungary v Russia (14)
Philippines (6) v Singapore
Chinese Taipei (7) v Greece (10)

Evening sessions:
USA (4) v Japan (13)
Holland (5) v India
England A (2) v Italy (15)

Afternoon sessions begin 12 noon and evening sessions start at 6 pm, London time, or 9 pm and 3 am next day in Australia.