Current European Bowling Tour men's point ranking leader,
Jesper Svensson (pictured), a two-handed southpaw from Sweden, is the newest leader at the
III Brunswick Madrid Challenge thanks to the near-perfect 299 game he fired during the 20th qualifying squad Friday afternoon at Bowling ChamartĂn in Madrid, Spain. The reigning World Youth Masters champion and three-time EBT titlist had games of 279, 198, 253, 216, 299 and 245 for 1490 (248.33) to overtake previous leader
Ildemaro Ruiz Jr. of Venezuela by mere three pins.
The qualifying leaderboard of the 11th Storm San Marino Open got a whole new look as nine players, three each from squads 12, 13 and 14, moved into the top 12 Thursday at Rose'n Bowl in Serravalle, San Marino. Two-time PBA Player of the Year Mika Koivuniemi (pictured), a Finnish native who lives in Hartland, Michigan, United States, overtook previous leader Peter Hellström of Sweden by just one pin to lead the field of 193 players from 19 countries with 1493 total and an average of 248.83 for six games.
Swede Peter Hellström (l.) continued to lead the qualifying of the 11th Storm San Marino Open with 1492 (248.67 avg.) as there were no notable changes to the leaderboard in Wednesday's Squads 9-11. Dirk Dreyer (r.) of Germany paced Wednesday's qualifying with 1366 to leap into 14th place in the overall standing. Dreyer finished hi set with a huge 279 game to position himself atop the separate standings of Squads 9-14.
Johnny Fronville (pictured) of Belgium became the third player in the 11th Storm San Marino Open to surpass the 1400-mark Tuesday at Rose'n Bowl in Serravalle, San Marino. Fronville led Squad 7 with 1408 and an average of 234.67, including games of 236, 237, 248, 239, 248 and 200 to join the elite club. Peter Hellström, a two-time European Bowling Tour titlist from Sweden, continued to lead the field of 126 players from 11 countries with 1492 total and an average of 248.67.
Bianca Wiekeraad and Patrick Meka (pictured with medals and tickets) won the 2015 Dutch Bowling Tour, which also serves as Dutch World Cup qualifier, to book their tickets to Las Vegas to represent the Netherlands at the 51st QubicaAMF Bowling World Cup in November. In the women's title match in best-of-three games format, 25-year-old Wiekeraad defated
Cheska Tomas, 2-1. Meka, 24, swept top-seeded Michell Stinissen, 2-0, to capture the men's title.
Two-time European Bowling Tour titlist Peter Hellström of Sweden (pictured) powered his way into the lead in the 11th Storm San Marino Open averaging 248.67 for six games in Squad 5 Monday at Rose'n Bowl in Serravalle, San Marino. Hellström, whose last EBT title came in the Norwegian Open 2012, rolled 55 strikes for 1492 total, including games of 224, 244, 243, 244, 258 and 279, to lead the field of 106 players from 10 countries by 71 pins. Total six players of Monday's Squads 5 & 6 moved into the top 10.
Yifat Tal of Petach-Tikva club and Oron Cohen of Haifa club (l-r) won the women's and men's division of the 26th Israeli national qualifying tournament at 20-lane Hutzot bowling center in Haifa and will represent their country at the 2015 QubicaAMF Bowling World Cup November 13-20 in Las
Vegas, Nevada, USA.In the women's title match, Tal defeated Shir Azulay, Holon, 3-1. Cohen topped 2013 World Cup winner Or Aviram, 3-2, to defend the men's title. 
Defending champion Angie Brown (r.) of England and Frank Börner (l.) of Germany were the last players standing in the Eliminator Round Finals at the 3rd Böblingen Senior Open to win the sixth stop on the 2015 International Seniors Bowling Tour Sunday at Dream-Bowl in Böblingen, Germany. It was the second victory this season for Brown who is the all-time ISBT title leader with 13 wins, and it also marked the first career win on the ISBT for Börner.
Tournament manager Bruno Bidone has announced the women's team rosters for the first stage of the 2015 QubicaAMF Bowling Promotion Cup Tour. The sixth edition of the made-for-TV Tour will be contested from Nov. 2-7 in bowling centers in four different cities in France, Bowling Skittle in Chateaubriant, Silverbowl in Angers, Bowling Le Belem in Dinan and Extra Bowl in Ballainvilliers. Each of the eight shows will air on French television networks and on the internet free of charge.
Yoan Alix (pictured) of France became the first player of the 11th Storm San Marino Open who surpassed the 1400-mark when he amassed a 1421 six-game total in Squad 4 Sunday afternoon at Rose'n Bowl in Serravalle. The French national team member came out of the gates commandingly with 244 and 247, was even par in the next two games (225, 175) and finished strong with 261 and 269 to take over the qualifying lead in the 79-player field from nine countries after the first weekend.
The 2015 European Bowling Tour commences with the 11th Storm San Marino Open which will be held July 11-19 at 18-lane Rose'n Bowl in Serravalle, San Marino. The tournament is the first out of three EBT "Gold" tournaments this season and offers total prize fund of 61.050 Euro with 8.000 Euro going to the winner. Qualifying of the San Marino Open runs from Saturday July 11 through Saturday, July 18 and concludes with the one-game Desperado Squad slated for 10 p.m. CEST.
73 women and 80 men qualified for the 2015 German National Championships June 28 - July 4 at Dream Bowl Palace in Unterföhring, Germany, which featured Singles, Women's and Men's Doubles and Mixed Doubles events. Nicole Blase of Baden and Timo Schröder of Bremen (l-r) swept their opponents in the title matches to become the women's and men's individual champions and to represent Germany at the 2015 European Champions Cup October 19-26 in Serravalle, San Marino.
Paul Moor (l.) of England and Laura Beuthner (r.) of Germany won two matches to win the titles in the 8th European Bowling Tour Masters 2015 Monday afternoon at Bowling ChamartĂn in Madrid, Spain. In an all-lefty men's title match, Moor topped Brunswick Madrid Challenge winner and No. 1 seed Jesper Svensson, a two-handed player from Sweden, 224-216, while Beuther defeated top-seeded Diana Zavjalova of Latvia, 191-180.
Alessandra Morra of Italy and Patrick Rolland of France (r-l) emerged as women's and men's champions of the Italian Senior Open, the fifth stop on the 2015 International Seniors Bowling Tour, which concluded Sunday, July 5 at Reno Bowling in Bologna, Italy, with the eight-player round robin match play finals. It was the second win on the 2015 Tour for Morra and the first for Rolland. The 2015 Italian Senior Open attracted an entry list of 88 men and 21 women 
Current men's European Bowling Tour point ranking leader Jesper Svensson (right) from Sweden posted one last high game in the title match of the third edition of the Brunswick Madrid Challenge to win his fourth career EBT title and the 6.000 first prize. The 20-year-old two-handed southpaw defeated fellow youth national team member Jenny Wegner (c.) in an all-Swedish affair, 248-186. Wegner
advanced to the title match with 212-204 victory over Joonas Jehkinen (l.), Finland.
Eleven players of squads 17 and 18 positioned themselves in the top 15 in the qualifying of the III Brunswick Madrid Challenge currently underway at Bowling ChamartĂn in Madrid, Spain. Dominic Barrett (l.) of England and Finnish-American Mika Koivuniemi (r.) led the two squads on Thursday (squads 15 & 16 have been canceled) with 1438 and 1427, respectively, to move into second and third place in the overall qualifying standings.
Although there were no changes at the top of the leaderboard in the III Brunswick Madrid Challenge on Wednesday four players cracked the top 10 as qualifying reached the halfway mark at Bowling ChamartĂn. 16-time EBT champion Paul Moor (l.) of England led Squad 14 with 1344 total and an average of 224 to move into fifth place in the qualifying standings. Diana Zavjalova (r.) of Latvia was mere four pins behind with 1340 to take over sixth place.