Dutch national team member Lisanne Breeschoten (pictured left) had a 1396 pinfall total Friday morning at Plus Bowling to jump into the lead in the 7th Columbia 300 Vienna Open.

Breeschoten, whose biggest tournament win came in the 2008 Kegel London International, rolled games of 222, 200, 268, 256, 171 and 231 for 1348 scratch and added 48 pins handicap, a standard for women on the European Bowling Tour, for 1.396.

Overnight leader Brian Voss, United States, slipped to second place with 1376 with Timo Alho, Finland, mere three pins behind in third place with 1373. 2007 Vienna Open champion Dennis Eklund (right), Sweden, was another three pins behind to move into fourth place with 1370.

Tore Torgersen, Norway, fell from second to fifth place with 1359. Danish national team member Thomas Larsen (left) had 1343, good for 6th place overall, while Austrian youth bowler Rowby Rodriguez (right) stunned players and spectators when the 15-year-old rolled a 1338 six-game series in Squad 10 to shoot into 7tth place.

Rounding out the top 8 is Joonas Jehkinen, Finland, with 1332.

Rodriguez and Larsen easily overtook the lead in Doubles after 10 of 17 squads with 2681 pinfall total and an average of 223.43. The duo has a 78-pin cushion over Joonas Jehkinen/Juha Immonen, who slipped to second place with 2603.

Breschooten and fellow Dutch national team member Priscilla Maaswinkel (right) jumped to third place with 2597.

Qualifying continues on Friday with three more squads at 1pm, 5pm and 9pm.

The 7th Columbia 300 Vienna Open is the 11th stop of the 2009 European Bowling Tour and one of the Tour's "Majors". The tournament will be held from Tuesday Sept. 29 through Sunday Oct. 4, 2009 at the renovated 32-lane Plus Bowling in Vienna, Austria.

More than 340 players from 27 countries will compete for an increased total prize money of 68.130 Euro - 57.900 € in Singles and 10.230 € in Doubles. The singles champion will receive the 6.000 Euro top prize while the doubles winners will split 1.600.

Once again the qualifying for the Vienna Open finals is contested as a doubles tournament. Each duo rolls at least one six-game block. Unlimited re-entries with different partners are possible but each player can only cash once with the same partner.

The team with the highest total pinfall including handicap will be declared the winner (no finals will be played). The top 20 doubles will cash. Bigi Manico (left), Switzerland and Tanya Cuva (nee Petty, right) are the defending champion.

Qualifying runs from Tuesday through Saturday and ends with the ultimate one-game Desperado Squad on Saturday night Oct. 3 slated for 11.30 pm local time (GMT +1). Women receive 8 pins handicap each game, a standard on the European Bowling Tour

A total of 64 players will qualify for the Vienna Open finals on Sunday, Oct. 4:

 

• the top 52 players from the overall qualifying standings
• the first player each from Squad 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 and 6, who is not among the top 52 (total 6 players)
• and the top 6 from the Desperado Squad.

The top 8 qualifying leaders will bypass the first round of the finals.

The other 52 players will bowl 6 games starting from scratch to cut to the top 22, who will join the top qualifiers in Round Two.

Those 30 players will bowl another 6 games starting from scratch after which the field will be trimmed to the top 18, who will carry their pinfall forward into Round Three. After another 6-game block the top 4 with the highest 12-game total will advance to the stepladder finals.

The No. 4 seed meets the No. 3 in the opening match and the winner takes on the No. 2 seed for the right to bowl the top seed for the title, 100 ranking points and the 6.000 Euro top prize.

 

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2009 Vienna Open Singles - Qualifying Standings after Squad 10 of 17
2009 Vienna Open Doubles - Standings after Squad 10 of 17
2009 Vienna Open Singles - Squad 10 Results
2009 Vienna Open Doubles - Squad 10 Results

 

2009 Vienna Open Singles - Qualifying Standings after Squad 10 of 17

 

2009 Vienna Open Doubles - Standings after Squad 10 of 17

 

2009 Vienna Open Singles - Squad 10 Results

 

2009 Vienna Open Doubles - Squad 10 Results