Dolfijn Bowling in Scheveningen, Netherlands (June 6-10, 2007)
Pasi Uotila from Finland defeated Maarten Pittens, Netherlands, 202-195 to win the European Bowling Tour's 10th stop, the Storm Dutch Open 2007 at Dolfijn Bowling in Scheveningen, Netherlands and the 10.000 Euro top prize. Pittens sidelined current European ranking leader Osku Palermaa, Finland, in the semis, 229-226, while Uotila eliminated Peter Smits, Netherlands, 244-210. Dane Kamilla Kjeldsen won the women's rankings.
Lovvang Bowling Center in Aalborg, Denmark (May 21-27, 2007)
Sami Konsteri (left), Finland, defeated 3-time PBA champion Sean Rash (right), United States, 432-416, over two games total pinfall en route to win the Brunswick Aalborg International 2007 and the 10.000 Euro top prize (approx. US$13,450). Konsteri had an 8-pin lead after the first game (227 to 219) and sealed the victory with a 205-197 win in game #2.
Bowlingdigital has received the final five video clips from the 2nd Paraske Cup, all 30 clips taped by Steve Peetroons, Belgium at Paraske Bowl in Haine-St-Paul/La Louviere, Belgium. The vids feature PBA champion Mika Koivuniemi, PBA exempt bowler Michael Fagan, World Ranking Masters champions Kimmo Lehtonen and Stuart Williams, World Cup Champion Osku Palermaa, American Tim Mack, just to mention a few. The highlight is the video of the 300 game (frames 4-10) from qualifying winner Jean-Marc Lebon, Belgium.
Paraske Bowl in Haine-St-Paul/La Louviere, Belgium (May 12-20, 2007)
Belgian Gery Verbruggen (r.) defeated PBA exempt bowler Michael Fagan (l.), 236-201, in the title match of the 2nd Paraske Cup, the 8th stop of the 2007 European Bowling Tour to win his eighth career EBT and the 12.000 Euro top prize. It was the first victory on the Tour for the 4-time EBT ranking champion (2000-2003) since the Danish Masters in 2003. In the semis, the lefty ousted PBA super Star Mika Koivuniemi, 219-194, while Fagan eliminated qualifying winner Jean-Marc Lebon, Belgium, 218-181.
Timeout Bowling Center in Istanbul, Turkey (April 23-29, 2007)
In a title match between the two players, who have established the two-handed technique in bowling, Finn Osku Palermaa (left) flew past Jason Belmonte (right), Australia, 258-195, to win the Istanbul Open and the 10.000 Euro top prize. "Belmo" pocketed 5.000 for his second-place finish.
Jönköping Bowling Arena in Jönköping, Sweden (April 2-8, 2007)
World Doubles Champion Robert Andersson, right-handed, defeated Magnus Andersson, lefthanded, both Sweden, 213-194, to win the sixth event on the 2007 European Bowling Tour, the Husqvarna International and the 10.000 Euro top prize. Magnus was consoled with 5.000 Euro. In the semi-finals, Robert ousted James Gruffman, Sweden, while Magnus eliminated Finn Kimmo Lehtonen.
Strike Bowling Club in Thessaloniki, Greece (March 9-18, 2007)
Osku Palermaa from Finland, flew past Britt Bröndsted, 268-215, to win the Brunswick Euro Challenge in Thessaloniki, Greece. Palermaa, who led the tournament since the qualifying, pocketed the 16.000 Euro top prize. Jouni Helminen defeated Pasi Uotila, 192-159, in the opening match but fell to the Dane in the semi-final, 222-216.
Strike Bowling Club in Thessaloniki, Greece (March 9-18, 2007)
Swede Marcus Berndt continued hot hand and leads the top 16 players of the Round of 48 into the single elimination Round of 32 in best-of-three games match play format. Berndt, who led the 27th and final qualifying squad on Saturday evening, closed out his six-game set on Sunday morning with a huge 279 game to help grab the No. 17 seed with 1401 six-game total and an average of 233.50.
Strike Bowling Club in Thessaloniki, Greece (March 9-18, 2007)
Swede Marcus Berndt, Piritta Kantola from Finland, Konstantinos Lyratzis, Greece and Michael Loos from Austria, waited until the 27th and final qualifying squad to book their spots for Sunday's finals of the Brunswick Euro Challenge at Strike Bowling Club in Thessaloniki, Greece. Berndt had a high game of 266 and finished with three consecutive games over 220 to win the squad with 1357 six-game total and an average of 226.17.
Strike Bowling Club in Thessaloniki, Greece (March 9-18, 2007)
Kimmo Lehtonen (l.) from Finland won the 26th qualifying squad in the Brunswick Euro Challenge. The Finnish lefty was targeting to overtake the qualifying lead but finished with a disappointing 180 game. Nikolay Ovchinnikovs (r.), Latvia, stole the show when he closed out his set with the fifth perfect game of the tournament.
Strike Bowling Club in Thessaloniki, Greece (March 9-18, 2007)
Shaun Ng (left) and Lee Yu-Wen (right), who shot the second and third of total four 300 games this week, led the 24th qualifying squad in the Brunswick Euro Challenge at Strike Bowling Club in Thessaloniki, Greece en route to move into 17th and 18th position in the qualifying standings.
Strike Bowling Club in Thessaloniki, Greece (March 9-18, 2007)
38 bowlers - almost a full squad - took on the 24 lanes at Strike Bowling Club in Thessaloniki, Greece short after Midnight on early Saturday morning for the 22nd out of 27 qualifying squads. Dominic Barrett (pictured in action), the two-time English ranking champion, had a low start with 171, but added games of 258, 265, 217, 218 and 259 to move into 10th place with 1388 pinfall total and an average of 232.33.
Strike Bowling Club in Thessaloniki, Greece (March 9-18, 2007)
Jouni Helminen, a former Finnish international and currently the President of the Finnish Bowling Federation, became the third consecutive Finnish bowler after Osku Palermaa, who continues to lead with 1430, and Reija Lunden, to win a qualifying squad in the Brunswick Euro Challenge at Strike Bowling Club in Thessaloniki, Greece on Friday.
Strike Bowling Club in Thessaloniki, Greece (March 9-18, 2007)
Reija Lunden (center), Mika Luoto (r.) and Pasi Uotila (l.), all from Finland, battled it out with American Tim Mack in the 20th qualifying squad in the Brunswick Euro Challenge in Thessaloniki, Greece. When the dust had settled, the three Finns emerged as squad leaders with Mack in fourth separated by five, nine and eight pins, resp.
Strike Bowling Club in Thessaloniki, Greece (March 9-18, 2007)
World Cup champion Osku Palermaa rolled the fourth 300 game at Strike Bowling Club in Thessaloniki en route to take the lead in the Brunswick Euro Challenge. The Finn, who uses both hands to swing and bowl the bowling ball, started his six game block with 12 consecutive strikes, then added games of 236, 186, 248, 215 and 245 to beat out previous leader Paul Moor from England by two pins for the qualifying lead.
Strike Bowling Club in Thessaloniki, Greece (March 9-18, 2007)
Two-time World Champion Remy Ong (l.) from Singapore and Matt Giles (r.) from England cracked the top 16 in the qualifying of the Brunswick Euro Challenge in Thessaloniki, Greece, on Friday morning. Ong used a huge 289 in the opening game to leap into 13th place with 1342. Giles finished with 1330 to sit in 15th place.
Strike Bowling Club in Thessaloniki, Greece (March 9-18, 2007)
Three-time men's and women's European Ranking Champions, Paul Moor from England and Britt Bröndsted from Denmark powered their way into the lead in the Brunswick Euro Challenge at Strike Bowling Club in Thessaloniki, Greece. Moor (left), who has won two of the four European Bowling Tour events this season, had games of 257, 198, 247, 224, 235 and 267 to overtake the lead with 1428 pinfall total and an average of 238.00.
Strike Bowling Club in Thessaloniki, Greece (March 9-18, 2007)
Some of Europe's and Asia's finest bowlers set the highlights in the 15th qualifying squad in the Brunswick Euro Challenge at Strike Bowling Club in Thessaloniki, Greece this afternoon. Former World Cup champion Peter Ljung won the squad with a 1377 six-game series and an average of 229.50. L-R Lee Yu-Wen and Shaun Ng, both Singapore, rolled the second and third perfect game of the tournament.
Strike Bowling Club in Thessaloniki, Greece (March 9-18, 2007)
Ivan Semenov from Russia and Stuart Williams (pictured left), England, led Squad 14 in the Brunswick Euro Challenge at Strike Bowling Club in Thessaloniki, Greece, en route to crack the top 5 in the qualifying standings. Semenov had high games of 246, 249 and 266 in games 2-4 to move into fourth place with 1327, a 221.17 average. Williams was close behind at 1321 including a 255 game, good enough for fifth place.
Strike Bowling Club in Thessaloniki, Greece (March 9-18, 2007)
3-time European ranking champion Paul Moor (l.), Darren Cundy (r.) and Stuart Williams took on the lanes at Strike Bowling Club in Thessaloniki, Greece, Wednesday evening. Moor felled 1292 pins, an average of 215.33, to move into 9th place in the overall standings. Cundy was second at 1284 (10th).
Pasi Uotila from Finland defeated Maarten Pittens, Netherlands, 202-195 to win the European Bowling Tour's 10th stop, the Storm Dutch Open 2007 at Dolfijn Bowling in Scheveningen, Netherlands and the 10.000 Euro top prize. Pittens sidelined current European ranking leader Osku Palermaa, Finland, in the semis, 229-226, while Uotila eliminated Peter Smits, Netherlands, 244-210. Dane Kamilla Kjeldsen won the women's rankings. 
Sami Konsteri (left), Finland, defeated 3-time PBA champion Sean Rash (right), United States, 432-416, over two games total pinfall en route to win the Brunswick Aalborg International 2007 and the 10.000 Euro top prize (approx. US$13,450). Konsteri had an 8-pin lead after the first game (227 to 219) and sealed the victory with a 205-197 win in game #2. 
Bowlingdigital has received the final five video clips from the 2nd Paraske Cup, all 30 clips taped by Steve Peetroons, Belgium at Paraske Bowl in Haine-St-Paul/La Louviere, Belgium. The vids feature PBA champion Mika Koivuniemi, PBA exempt bowler Michael Fagan, World Ranking Masters champions Kimmo Lehtonen and Stuart Williams, World Cup Champion Osku Palermaa, American Tim Mack, just to mention a few. The highlight is the video of the 300 game (frames 4-10) from qualifying winner Jean-Marc Lebon, Belgium. 
Belgian Gery Verbruggen (r.) defeated PBA exempt bowler Michael Fagan (l.), 236-201, in the title match of the 2nd Paraske Cup, the 8th stop of the 2007 European Bowling Tour to win his eighth career EBT and the 12.000 Euro top prize. It was the first victory on the Tour for the 4-time EBT ranking champion (2000-2003) since the Danish Masters in 2003. In the semis, the lefty ousted PBA super Star Mika Koivuniemi, 219-194, while Fagan eliminated qualifying winner Jean-Marc Lebon, Belgium, 218-181. 
In a title match between the two players, who have established the two-handed technique in bowling, Finn Osku Palermaa (left) flew past Jason Belmonte (right), Australia, 258-195, to win the Istanbul Open and the 10.000 Euro top prize. "Belmo" pocketed 5.000 for his second-place finish.
World Doubles Champion Robert Andersson, right-handed, defeated Magnus Andersson, lefthanded, both Sweden, 213-194, to win the sixth event on the 2007 European Bowling Tour, the Husqvarna International and the 10.000 Euro top prize. Magnus was consoled with 5.000 Euro. In the semi-finals, Robert ousted James Gruffman, Sweden, while Magnus eliminated Finn Kimmo Lehtonen. 
Osku Palermaa from Finland, flew past Britt Bröndsted, 268-215, to win the Brunswick Euro Challenge in Thessaloniki, Greece. Palermaa, who led the tournament since the qualifying, pocketed the 16.000 Euro top prize. Jouni Helminen defeated Pasi Uotila, 192-159, in the opening match but fell to the Dane in the semi-final, 222-216. 
Swede Marcus Berndt continued hot hand and leads the top 16 players of the Round of 48 into the single elimination Round of 32 in best-of-three games match play format. Berndt, who led the 27th and final qualifying squad on Saturday evening, closed out his six-game set on Sunday morning with a huge 279 game to help grab the No. 17 seed with 1401 six-game total and an average of 233.50. 
Swede Marcus Berndt, Piritta Kantola from Finland, Konstantinos Lyratzis, Greece and Michael Loos from Austria, waited until the 27th and final qualifying squad to book their spots for Sunday's finals of the Brunswick Euro Challenge at Strike Bowling Club in Thessaloniki, Greece. Berndt had a high game of 266 and finished with three consecutive games over 220 to win the squad with 1357 six-game total and an average of 226.17. 
Kimmo Lehtonen (l.) from Finland won the 26th qualifying squad in the Brunswick Euro Challenge. The Finnish lefty was targeting to overtake the qualifying lead but finished with a disappointing 180 game. Nikolay Ovchinnikovs (r.), Latvia, stole the show when he closed out his set with the fifth perfect game of the tournament. 
Shaun Ng (left) and Lee Yu-Wen (right), who shot the second and third of total four 300 games this week, led the 24th qualifying squad in the Brunswick Euro Challenge at Strike Bowling Club in Thessaloniki, Greece en route to move into 17th and 18th position in the qualifying standings.
38 bowlers - almost a full squad - took on the 24 lanes at Strike Bowling Club in Thessaloniki, Greece short after Midnight on early Saturday morning for the 22nd out of 27 qualifying squads. Dominic Barrett (pictured in action), the two-time English ranking champion, had a low start with 171, but added games of 258, 265, 217, 218 and 259 to move into 10th place with 1388 pinfall total and an average of 232.33.
Jouni Helminen, a former Finnish international and currently the President of the Finnish Bowling Federation, became the third consecutive Finnish bowler after Osku Palermaa, who continues to lead with 1430, and Reija Lunden, to win a qualifying squad in the Brunswick Euro Challenge at Strike Bowling Club in Thessaloniki, Greece on Friday.
Reija Lunden (center), Mika Luoto (r.) and Pasi Uotila (l.), all from Finland, battled it out with American Tim Mack in the 20th qualifying squad in the Brunswick Euro Challenge in Thessaloniki, Greece. When the dust had settled, the three Finns emerged as squad leaders with Mack in fourth separated by five, nine and eight pins, resp. 
World Cup champion Osku Palermaa rolled the fourth 300 game at Strike Bowling Club in Thessaloniki en route to take the lead in the Brunswick Euro Challenge. The Finn, who uses both hands to swing and bowl the bowling ball, started his six game block with 12 consecutive strikes, then added games of 236, 186, 248, 215 and 245 to beat out previous leader Paul Moor from England by two pins for the qualifying lead. 
Two-time World Champion Remy Ong (l.) from Singapore and Matt Giles (r.) from England cracked the top 16 in the qualifying of the Brunswick Euro Challenge in Thessaloniki, Greece, on Friday morning. Ong used a huge 289 in the opening game to leap into 13th place with 1342. Giles finished with 1330 to sit in 15th place. 
Three-time men's and women's European Ranking Champions, Paul Moor from England and Britt Bröndsted from Denmark powered their way into the lead in the Brunswick Euro Challenge at Strike Bowling Club in Thessaloniki, Greece. Moor (left), who has won two of the four European Bowling Tour events this season, had games of 257, 198, 247, 224, 235 and 267 to overtake the lead with 1428 pinfall total and an average of 238.00.
Some of Europe's and Asia's finest bowlers set the highlights in the 15th qualifying squad in the Brunswick Euro Challenge at Strike Bowling Club in Thessaloniki, Greece this afternoon. Former World Cup champion Peter Ljung won the squad with a 1377 six-game series and an average of 229.50. L-R Lee Yu-Wen and Shaun Ng, both Singapore, rolled the second and third perfect game of the tournament. 
Ivan Semenov from Russia and Stuart Williams (pictured left), England, led Squad 14 in the Brunswick Euro Challenge at Strike Bowling Club in Thessaloniki, Greece, en route to crack the top 5 in the qualifying standings. Semenov had high games of 246, 249 and 266 in games 2-4 to move into fourth place with 1327, a 221.17 average. Williams was close behind at 1321 including a 255 game, good enough for fifth place.
3-time European ranking champion Paul Moor (l.), Darren Cundy (r.) and Stuart Williams took on the lanes at Strike Bowling Club in Thessaloniki, Greece, Wednesday evening. Moor felled 1292 pins, an average of 215.33, to move into 9th place in the overall standings. Cundy was second at 1284 (10th). 