Palermaa, Grabowski crack top 8 in Vienna Open
10/20/06
Defending champion Osku Palermaa (left) from Finland and Achim Grabowski (right) from Germany posted 1400-plus series in the ninth qualifying squad to move into third and fourth position in the qualifying of the 4th Vienna Open powered by Columbia 300 at Plus Bowling in Vienna, Austria.
Palermaa fired games of 215, 262, 245, 203, 226 and 279 to overtake third place with 1430 six-game total, an average of 238.33. Grabowski, who led the squad after five games, finished with 1415 (235.83) to land in fourth place.
Wu Siu Hong (left) from Hong Kong and Andrew Cain (right), United States, continued to lead the field with 1481 and 1438, respectively.
Swedes Robert Andersson and Martin Larsen slipped to fifth and sixth place with 1408 and 1406. Seventh place belongs to Thomas Gross, Austria, with 1400. Rounding out the top 8 is the best woman in the field, Britt Bröndsted from Denmark, with 1395 including 48 pins handicap.
Mika Luoto (left), 2003 World Champion in Singles, fell three pins short of the top 8 to sit in ninth place with 1392. Thomas 'TT' Tybl (right) checked in with 1372 including a 279-game. Eight more players cracked the 1300-bar in Squad 9 and the cutoff number was raised to 1263.
Doubles World Champions Andersson/Larsen (r-l) continued to lead the Doubles event with 2814 pinfall total and an average of 234.50. Grabowski teamed with Thomas Gross to move into second place with 2785. Wu/Cain fell to third with 228.17. Palermaa and Patricia Schwarz, Germany, leaped into fourth place with 2733. Rounding out the top five are Ivonne and Thomas Gross, with 2722.
The qualifying for the Vienna Open finals is contested as a doubles tournament. All players roll six-game blocks and no finals will be played. A bowler can only cash once with the same partner. Unlimited re-entries with different partners are possible. The winners of the Doubles event will split 1.600 Euro ($2,002). The top 20 teams will cash.
Qualifying continues through Saturday evening and ends with the ultimate 'Desperado Squad'. 68 players from the qualifying will advance to the finals starting on Sunday, October 22 at 8am:
- The eight players with the highest six-game blocks will earn one bye and will be seeded 1-8 in the match play Round of 32.
- Players positioned 9-56 after qualifying,
- the leaders of Squad 1 through 6 not among the top 56,
- and the top 6 from the Desperado Squad.
All but the top 8 qualifiers will bowl 6 games starting from scratch to cut to the top 24. Those 24 will be seeded 9-32 in the play Round of 32.
Match Play Rounds of 32, 16 and 8 are in a best-of-three games format, highest seeded player vs. the lowest seeded player, the second-highest seeded player vs. the second-lowest seeded player, etc.
The semi-finals and the championship match will be decided in one game. The Vienna Open champion will receive the 7.000 Euro top prize (approx. $8,758).
As every year, lane maintenance is done by Kegel, the official lane maintenance partner of the European Tenpin Bowling Federation. 2005 USBC Open Singles and All Events Champion John Janawicz is the Kegel lane man in Vienna for the third consecutive year.
Singles Results
Doubles Results
European Bowling Tour #18
Plus Bowling in Vienna, Austria (October 17-22, 2006)
Defending champion Osku Palermaa (left) from Finland and Achim Grabowski (right) from Germany posted 1400-plus series in the ninth qualifying squad to move into third and fourth position in the qualifying of the 4th Vienna Open powered by Columbia 300 at Plus Bowling in Vienna, Austria. Palermaa fired games of 215, 262, 245, 203, 226 and 279 to overtake third place with 1430 six-game total, an average of 238.33. Grabowski, who led the squad after five games, finished with 1415 (235.83) to land in fourth place.
Wu Siu Hong (left) from Hong Kong and Andrew Cain (right), United States, continued to lead the field with 1481 and 1438, respectively. Swedes Robert Andersson and Martin Larsen slipped to fifth and sixth place with 1408 and 1406. Seventh place belongs to Thomas Gross, Austria, with 1400. Rounding out the top 8 is the best woman in the field, Britt Bröndsted from Denmark, with 1395 including 48 pins handicap.
Mika Luoto (left), 2003 World Champion in Singles, fell three pins short of the top 8 to sit in ninth place with 1392. Thomas 'TT' Tybl (right) checked in with 1372 including a 279-game. Eight more players cracked the 1300-bar in Squad 9 and the cutoff number was raised to 1263. Doubles World Champions Andersson/Larsen (r-l) continued to lead the Doubles event with 2814 pinfall total and an average of 234.50. Grabowski teamed with Thomas Gross to move into second place with 2785. Wu/Cain fell to third with 228.17. Palermaa and Patricia Schwarz, Germany, leaped into fourth place with 2733. Rounding out the top five are Ivonne and Thomas Gross, with 2722. The qualifying for the Vienna Open finals is contested as a doubles tournament. All players roll six-game blocks and no finals will be played. A bowler can only cash once with the same partner. Unlimited re-entries with different partners are possible. The winners of the Doubles event will split 1.600 Euro ($2,002). The top 20 teams will cash.
Qualifying continues through Saturday evening and ends with the ultimate 'Desperado Squad'. 68 players from the qualifying will advance to the finals starting on Sunday, October 22 at 8am:
- The eight players with the highest six-game blocks will earn one bye and will be seeded 1-8 in the match play Round of 32.
- Players positioned 9-56 after qualifying,
- the leaders of Squad 1 through 6 not among the top 56,
- and the top 6 from the Desperado Squad.
All but the top 8 qualifiers will bowl 6 games starting from scratch to cut to the top 24. Those 24 will be seeded 9-32 in the play Round of 32.
Match Play Rounds of 32, 16 and 8 are in a best-of-three games format, highest seeded player vs. the lowest seeded player, the second-highest seeded player vs. the second-lowest seeded player, etc.
The semi-finals and the championship match will be decided in one game. The Vienna Open champion will receive the 7.000 Euro top prize (approx. $8,758).
As every year, lane maintenance is done by Kegel, the official lane maintenance partner of the European Tenpin Bowling Federation. 2005 USBC Open Singles and All Events Champion John Janawicz is the Kegel lane man in Vienna for the third consecutive year.
Singles Results
Doubles Results