Concludes with four regular Squads and the Desperado Squad

Four women, one Dutch and three Danes, led the first qualifying squad on Saturday morning and the 14th overall in the 7th Columbia 300 Vienna Open at Plus Bowling in Vienna, Austria.

Ghislaine van der Tol (pictured left), Netherlands, currently the No. 10 in the EBT rankings, led the way with 1296 including 48 pins handicap, a standard for women on the European Bowling Tour, en route to move into 27th place in the overall qualifying standings.

Lotte Huobo Pedersen (right), Denmark, was mere one pin behind with 1295 (28th overall) and was followed Britt Brøndsted and Anja Ginge Jensen, both with 1293 (30th and 31st).

Paul Stott, Ireland, was the top male bowler with 1285 and the field-best 214.17 average, good for 38th place.

Lisanne Breeschoten, Netherlands, remained unchallenged with 1396 pinfall total, followed by David Canady (1393), Germany, and PBA Hall of Famer Brian Voss (1376), United States.

Mirek Cifra, Czech Republic, is the "man on the bubble" in 52dn place with 1269 and an average of 211.50.

Brøndsted (left picture, on the left) and Ginge, who celebrates her 24th birthday today, led the squad in Doubles with 2586 pinfall total en route to overtake 7th place. With 276 Doubles in the books,

Danish national team member Thomas Larsen and 15-year-Austrian youth bowler Rowby Rodriguez remained atop the leaderboard 2681 pins, an average of 223.42 for six games.

Right picture: Thomas Tybl, left, pro shop owner at Plus Bowling and USBC Silver Level coach, surprised Anja with a birthday cake, a traditional "Sacher Torte". Click on the image to enlarge it.

David Canady and Tina Hulsch are second with 2645 while Nicki Ainge, England, and Lynda Barnes, United States, hold third place with 2632.

Qualifying will continue on Saturday with another three regular squads at noon, 4 and 8pm and the ultimate one-game Desperado Squad at 11.30pm.

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, Switzerland and Tanya Cuva (nee Petty) 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 14 of 17
2009 Vienna Open Doubles - Standings after Squad 14 of 17
2009 Vienna Open Singles - Squad 14 Results
2009 Vienna Open Doubles - Squad 14 Results

 

 

2009 Vienna Open Singles - Qualifying Standings after Squad 14 of 17

 

 

2009 Vienna Open Doubles - Standings after Squad 14 of 17

 

 

2009 Vienna Open Singles - Squad 14 Results

 

 

2009 Vienna Open Doubles - Squad 14 Results