Choi Tae-Seung, Korea, and Wan Nur Atiqqa, Malaysia, won the Boys and Girls Masters final, which concluded the 10th Asian School Tenpin Bowling Championships at Mei Foo Super Fun Bowl in Kowloon, Hong Kong. In the boys final over two games total pinfall, Choi topped compatriot Shin Seung-Hyeon had a 51-pinlead after game one and cruised to victory, 434-384. Loh Xian Yan, Singapore, earned the bronze. The girls final was an all-Malaysian affair with Wan defeating Zatil Iman, 459-401, thanks to a 253 final game. Kim Mun-Jeong, Korea, took the bronze.
Asian Bowling Federation President Sheikh Talal M. Al Sabah of Kuwait (pictured right) has started a new "Program for Coach Accreditation" for the ABF member federations. Sheikh Talal will launch the first Coach Accreditation Program Level II in September in Hong Kong and has announced that he will personally sponsor the program by paying all expenses for the course conductors.
Both No. 1 seeds, Bernice Lim from Singapore and Jason Belmonte from Australia, won the women's and men's championship matches in the 5th Indonesia International Open Masters finals. Belmonte made quick work of No. 2 seed, Jun Byung-Oh, Korea, 214-204, to add another international title to his credentials. Lim lost her first match against No. 3 seed, Trish Khoo, Malaysia, 156-169, but rebounded with a 186-172 victory in match #2 to claim the women's title. 
The Singapore Bowling Federation will officially launch the Center of Excellence (COE) for Bowling program at Orchid Bowl at SAFRA Yishunon on Monday, 13 August 2007 at 4.30pm. The COE program is set up in partnership with MILO. The aim of the COE program is to guide, nurture and develop young talents to be the next bowling champions like Grace Young or Remy Ong. 
Doha Asian Games double gold medallist Esther Cheah (left) will lead Malaysia's charge in the Women's World Championships in Monterrey, Mexico on Aug 28-Sept 10, ahead of 2002 World Tenpin Masters champion Shalin Zulkifli, ABF Tour's Tournament of Champions winner Wendy Chai, Czech Open champion Zandra Aziela, San Marino Open semi-finalist Sharon Koh and Choy Poh Lai.
Philippine bowling legend Paeng Nepomuceno has teamed up with the United States Bowling Congress to grow and promote the sport around the world as a USBC certified coach and USBC Ambassador. Paeng was at USBC Headquarters in Greendale, Wis., in April to receive training and earn certification as a USBC Level I and Bronze Instructor to teach Level I and Bronze classes in the Philippines and Asia. Three month later, Nepomuceno has just finished another seminar in Hong Kong (pictured left), his fifth seminar in a span of two months. 
SHE was Singapore's first world bowling champion. Adelene Wee wrote herself into the history books when she won the women's Masters title at the 1985 World Games in London. She was only 19 then. 
Zandra Aziela Ibrahim Hakimi will go down in the annals of Malaysian bowling as the first national bowler to win an ‘Open’ title outside Asia after she nailed the Czech Open at the Bowland Centre in Olomouc on Sunday. The Czech Open is also Zandra’s second career ‘Open’ title. She won the Malaysia Open in March. Shalin Zulkifli had won a title in Europe at the World Tenpin Masters in 2001 but it was an invitational tournament. 
Bonnie Solis, a former Philippines national team member and a former national team coach, rolled two 300 games in two different centers in a span of only five days. Solis shot the first perfecto in the Monday league at Powerbowl on July 2nd, mere two days after he attended the "USBC Level 1" seminar of Philippine legend Paeng Nepomuceno on June 30th and another one after the first day of Nepomuceno's "USBC Bronze Level" seminar on July 7th. 
Filipinos in Italy are eagerly awaiting the visit in Milan of six-time bowling world champ Paeng Nepomuceno next week. Nepomuceno, Guinness Book of World Records-holder, and the greatest international bowler in the history of the sport, is due to arrive in Milan, Italy in the evening of July 11 to lead the first ever "Paeng Nepomuceno's Cup" scheduled on July 12 - 17 at the Loreto Bowling Center in Milan.
Local favorite Mubarak Al-Muraikhi, Qatar, defeated Wu Siu Hong, Hong Kong, two-games-to-one, en route to claim the title in the H.H. the Emir's Cup 2007 at Qatar Bowling Center in Doha, Qatar and the QRS 75,000 top prize (approx. $20,600). Al-Muraikhi, who won the Bahrain Open last month, secured the title with a 237-194 victory in the deciding third game. Siu Hong, winner of the Philippine Open last week, had to settle for second place, worth QRS 50,000.
Veteran bowler Efren Cacdac rolled the year's first perfect game and the islands' 10th overall when he achieved every bowler's dream last Friday during the Friday Night League at the Capital Bowling Center. Cacdac, playing under the banner of Eyun Ji Corp., made 12 consecutive strikes in lanes nine and 10 during the second game of the weekly bowling competition. The 47-year-old lefthander said never in his wildest dreams did he expect rolling a 300 on that particular day. 
Tenpin bowler, Jason Belmonte will be interviewed on ABC Radio's GRANDSTAND ACTIVE program this Saturday, 23 June. The segment will be recorded close to the ABC studios at Manhattan SuperBowl in Mascot, and broadcast nationally at approximately 1.05pm AEST on Saturday afternoon. Media interest has escalated after an outstanding series of performances by the young Australian bowler at national and international tournaments over the past six months.
Women's top seed Liza Del Rosario, Philippines, and men's No. 5 seed Wu Siu Hong, Hong Kong, claimed the women's and men's Open Masters titles in the 36th PBC-Boysen International Open Tenpin Bowling Championships at SM Bowling Center at the Mall of Asia, Pasay City, Philippines. The top 16 Asian men and women in the 36th PBC-Boysen International Open will be eligible for the Asian Bowling Federation Tour Philippine leg on Sunday, June 17, 2007. 
Shalin Zulkifli (left) and Wendy Chai (right), who have hinted that they may retire next year, may have triggered a mild panic with some people in the bowling fraternity but not the Malaysian Tenpin Bowling Congress (MTBC). Instead of waiting for their official announcements, the MTBC has decided to groom the national back-up squad by exposing them to Asian-level 'Open' tournaments.
Jason Belmonte continued his dominant run at the Melbourne Tenpin Cup winning the competition for the third time yesterday. The Orange bowler led the field of more than 100 after two days of qualifying. Yesterday he held that lead in the top 30 and top 15 three-man matchplay games. Belmonte averaged 239.16 for the 31 games and claimed the $5000 first prize.
In a battle between two PBA players, No. 1 seed Michael Fagan, United States, defeated 7-time PBA champion Mika Koivuniemi, Finland, in the decisive match, 199-177, en route to win the 1st Kingdom International Open at Universal Bowling Center in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, and the $25,000 top prize. Fagan, who received $3,000 for winning the qualifying, pocketed another $5,000 bonus when he won a special match against the best Saudi, 8th placed Mohammed Al Saud, 206-168. 
Four-time World Cup champion Paeng Nepomuceno (back row, third from the left), a USBC certified coach and USBC Ambassador, just finished his first international coaching seminar (Level 1 and Bronze Level Certification) at the Pearl Bowling Center in Manila, Philippines from May 29-31. Working together with international coaches was a new experience, even for Paeng, who has won more than 100 international titles in his illustrious career.
Philippine bowling legend Paeng Nepomuceno, who teamed up with the United States Bowling Congress to grow and promote the sport around the world as a USBC certified coach and USBC Ambassador, held his groundbreaking seminar at Paeng's Eastwood Bowl from May 21-23. Among the first batch of USBC Bronze Level accredited coaches who successfully completed Paeng's "USBC Certification Seminar for Coaches" was a great mix of national coaches and national youth coaches as well as a member of the Philippine National Team.