Shannon Pluhowsky shoots 300, 299 to claim the Masters gold medal in Hong Kong
09/11/11
Shannon Pluhowsky (pictured), United States, won her fourth gold medal in the 2011 Women's World Championships when she defeated Daphne Tan, Singapore, in best-of-three games format, three-games-to-one, to wrap up the championships in Hong Kong, China, with victory in Masters match play.
Pluhowsky, seeded third, who had the advantage to choose the oil pattern to starts on, tossed the sixth 300 game of the championships (pictured right after the 12th strike; click to enlarge) and the ninth in WTBA history in the opening round on long pattern (lane 43).
Tan, who started with a solid 226, posted a bigger game on the medium patter (lane 44) to level the match with a 238-219 win in game two. Back on the left lane where Pluhowsky had the 300, the lefty extended her string of strikes to an unbelievable 23-in-a-row before she left a 10-pin standing on the fill ball for 299. Tan struck out for another 234 game,
Down by two-games-to-one, the pressure was on Tan as she had to win the fourth game to stay alive and to force a deciding fifth game. Both players had an open frame in the first half of the game - Pluhowsky in the third and Tan in the fifth - and both had a double for a 115-115 tie in frame sixth.
Pluhowsky struck in the seventh, eighth and ninth frame while Tan, who made a late ball change, was unable to strike in the last three frames and could not put any pressure on the American.
Shannon Pluhowsky closed out the game by picking up a split for a 223-191 win to claim the Masters title and her fourth gold medal of the 2011 Women's World Championships, a feat that never was accomplished before by a woman in the history of the World Tenpin Bowling Association.
Daphne Tan received the silver medal while Denmark's Mai Ginge Jensen and Nadine Geißler of Germany shared the bronze medal.
The top 4 in the Masters competition with coaches and WTBA President, Kevin Dornberger (front row, center) from left to right: Daphne Tan and William Woo, Singapore; Shannon Pluhowsky and Rod Ross, United States; Mai Ginge Jensen and Christer Backe; and Nadine Geißler and Martina Beckel, Germany. Photos Pekka Korpi. Click on the image to enlarge it.
The United States led the medal tally of the 2011 Women's World Championships iwith four gold and three silver medals. Denmark won one gold and three bronze medals while Malaysia rook one gold medal.
Singapore earned three silver and one bronze medal. Korea had to settle for one silver and one bronze. Canada and Japan took home one silver medal each. Germany got two bronze medals and Colombia took one.
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Wins an unprecedented fourth gold medal to ends the 2011 Women's World Championships
Shannon Pluhowsky (pictured), United States, won her fourth gold medal in the 2011 Women's World Championships when she defeated Daphne Tan, Singapore, in best-of-three games format, three-games-to-one, to wrap up the championships in Hong Kong, China, with victory in Masters match play.
Pluhowsky, seeded third, who had the advantage to choose the oil pattern to starts on, tossed the sixth 300 game of the championships (pictured right after the 12th strike; click to enlarge) and the ninth in WTBA history in the opening round on long pattern (lane 43).Tan, who started with a solid 226, posted a bigger game on the medium patter (lane 44) to level the match with a 238-219 win in game two. Back on the left lane where Pluhowsky had the 300, the lefty extended her string of strikes to an unbelievable 23-in-a-row before she left a 10-pin standing on the fill ball for 299. Tan struck out for another 234 game,
Down by two-games-to-one, the pressure was on Tan as she had to win the fourth game to stay alive and to force a deciding fifth game. Both players had an open frame in the first half of the game - Pluhowsky in the third and Tan in the fifth - and both had a double for a 115-115 tie in frame sixth.
Pluhowsky struck in the seventh, eighth and ninth frame while Tan, who made a late ball change, was unable to strike in the last three frames and could not put any pressure on the American.
Shannon Pluhowsky closed out the game by picking up a split for a 223-191 win to claim the Masters title and her fourth gold medal of the 2011 Women's World Championships, a feat that never was accomplished before by a woman in the history of the World Tenpin Bowling Association.Daphne Tan received the silver medal while Denmark's Mai Ginge Jensen and Nadine Geißler of Germany shared the bronze medal.
The top 4 in the Masters competition with coaches and WTBA President, Kevin Dornberger (front row, center) from left to right: Daphne Tan and William Woo, Singapore; Shannon Pluhowsky and Rod Ross, United States; Mai Ginge Jensen and Christer Backe; and Nadine Geißler and Martina Beckel, Germany. Photos Pekka Korpi. Click on the image to enlarge it.
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| Seed | Championship | Country | Game 1 | Game 2 | Game 3 | Game 4 | Game 5 | Won-Loss | Place |
| #3 | Shannon Pluhowsky | United States | 300 | 219 | 299 | 223 | 3 | 1st | |
| #11 | Daphne Tan | Singapore | 226 | 238 | 234 | 191 | 1 | 2nd |
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The United States led the medal tally of the 2011 Women's World Championships iwith four gold and three silver medals. Denmark won one gold and three bronze medals while Malaysia rook one gold medal.
Singapore earned three silver and one bronze medal. Korea had to settle for one silver and one bronze. Canada and Japan took home one silver medal each. Germany got two bronze medals and Colombia took one.
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| Pos | Country | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
| 1. | United States | 4 | 3 | |
| 2. | Denmark | 1 | 3 | |
| 3. | Malaysia | 1 | ||
| 4. | Singapore | 3 | 1 | |
| 5. | Korea | 1 | 1 | |
| 6. | Canada | 1 | ||
| (tie) | Japan | 1 | ||
| 8. | Germany | 2 | ||
| 9. | Colombia | 1 |
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The top 16 players in All Events advanced to the best-of-five game match play Round of 16 starting at Sunday Sept. 11 at 8 a.m. Hong Kong time.
In each match the highest seeded player bowls the lowest seeded player, the second-highest seeded player bowls the second-lowest seeded player and so on. Each pair of lane is dressed with two different oil pattern - the left lane with long oil and the right lane with short oil. Each game will be played on a single lane. The higher seeded player has the advantage to choose the lane for the first game. Players will change lane after each game. The player who wins three games advanced to the next round. The loser will be eliminated.
USBC Masters and two-time World Cup champion, Shannon Pluhowsky (pictured left), United States, became the first player, who swept his opponent in the best-of-five games match play format at the Women's World Championships Masters event, when the lefty defeated Tannya Roumimper of Indonesia, three-games-to-none including games of 218, 268 and 269.
Pluhowsky, who has won gold for the USA in Doubles, Trios and Team, targets her fourth gold medal in this World Championship.
She will meet Nadine Geißker (pictured right), Germany, in the semifinal, who took down Jazreel Tan in five games. Tan started the match with eleven strikes in row but missed the sixth 300 game of the championships with 5-count on the fill ball and 295.
Geißler the next two matches on the left lane (long oil) while Tan again dominated in the third game on the short pattern. Back on that pattern for the decider, Tan struggled and opened four times in the first four frames resulting in a 193-162 loss which cost her the match.
All Events champion Mai Ginge Jensen (pictured left), Denmark, is still in the race for the Masters gold medals after defeating Birgit Pöppler, Germany, 3-1. The first game was close with Jensen winning by two pins, 258-256, while the next two games were decided well before the final frame. Pöppler leveled the match with 268-201 and Jensen rebounded with 266-199 to take a 2-1 lead.
Both players tied in game #4 at 192 to force the second two-frame roll-off of the day. Both players spared in the first frame. Jensen struck on the next ball and spared for 40. When Pöppler left a ringing 10 on her first ball the match was over and Jensen advanced by three-games-to-one.
The Dane will meet Daphne Tan (pictured right) in the semifinal, The Singaporean eliminated Pluhowsky's team mate Kelly Kulick, the only woman ever to win a PBA national title, in four games. Tan took a 2-0 lead thanks to games of 255 and 244. Kulick rebounded with 256-225 in the third game, but Tan shut her out in the fourth, 244-224.
Daphne Tan (pictured left), advanced to the gold medal match of the Women's World Championships in Hong Kong, China, defeating the World Champion in All Events, Mai Ginge Jensen of Denmark, three-games-to-one.
The Dane took a 1-0 lead in the first game, 229-199, but Tan countered with three consecutive wins. She leveled the match with huge 278-214 win in game two, and took the lead with 220-206 in game three and shut Jensen out in game #4, 232-210.
Tan, who is aiming to win the first gold medal for Singapore in this championship, bowls Shannon Pluhowsky, United States, who has won three gold and one bronze medal so far.
The USBC Masters champion and two-time World Cup champion (pictured right) had to go the distance in her semifinal match against Germany's Nadine Geißler,.
Pluhowsky threw two solid games (237, 227) to take a 2-0 lead but Geißler starter the next game with the front nine for a huge, 279-267, win.
Pluhowsky had a chance to shut out the German in game four but an unforced error in the ninth frame by the American opened the door for Geißler, who struck on her last five shots, to force a decider,
Pluhowsky, who had the advantage to choose the lane and therewith the oil pattern to start and to finish on in case a match goes down to five games, rolled another big score to win the game, 255-165, and the match, 3-2.
While Tan and Pluhowsky determine, who wins gold and who gets silver, Mai Ginge Jensen and Nadine Geißler will share the bronze medal.
171 of the best women bowlers in the world featuring 33 countries compete for gold, silver and bronze medals in Singles, Doubles, Trios, five-player Team event, All Events and Masters in the nine-day event.
The WTBA patterns "Seoul" and "Paris" are being used in Hong Kong. The 39-feet Seoul pattern is the second-shortest of the four "medium" WTBA certified lane patterns. With a length of 47 feet, Paris is the longest of all 12 certified patterns.
Singles was played on "Paris" and Doubles was contested on "Seoul", while Trios and Team featured both oil patterns (3 games on each pattern). Masters match play is staged on dual lane condition (one lane dressed with the Seoul pattern and the other lane dressed with the Paris pattern).
The top four players and teams after six games in Singles, Doubles, Trios and Team, respectively, will advance to the semifinals. The No. 1 meet No. 4 and No. 2 takes on No. 3. The winners determined the World Champion, while the losers shared the bronze medal. All matches were single-game matches.
Bowlingdigital covered the 2011 Women's World Championships live from Hong Kong with stories and results after each squad and each round of the finals.
Bowling fans around the world were able to watch all qualifying rounds, semifinals and finals live on BOWL.com and the coverage will be available on demand as well. Pictured left are commentators Lucas Wiseman (r.) and Jason Overstreet (l.) in action.
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In each match the highest seeded player bowls the lowest seeded player, the second-highest seeded player bowls the second-lowest seeded player and so on. Each pair of lane is dressed with two different oil pattern - the left lane with long oil and the right lane with short oil. Each game will be played on a single lane. The higher seeded player has the advantage to choose the lane for the first game. Players will change lane after each game. The player who wins three games advanced to the next round. The loser will be eliminated.
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Singapore's Shayna Ng rolls fifth 300 game of the championships in Round of 16
None of the eight matches in the opening Round of 16 in the Women's World Championships Masters competition in best-of-five format was decided in three games. Five matches even went the distance with two players each from Germany, Singapore and the United States as well as one Indonesian and one Dane advancing to the Quarterfinal.
All four Korean bowlers were eliminated in the first round leaving the most successful country of the last World Championship with just one silver and one bronze medal.
All Events gold medalist Mai Ginge Jensen (left), Denmark, came back from a 2-0 deficit to win against No. 16 Hong Su-Yeon, three-games-to-two, including a 276-257 win in game #3 and a 264-247 in the decider.
No. 12 Jeon Eun-Hee fell to No. 5 Kelly Kulick (above right), 3-1 including a 276 by the American in game #4. No. 6 Kim Moon-Jeong won the first game against No. 11 Daphne Tan, 259-222, but the Singaporean rebounded with three consecutive wins to advance, 3-1.
No. 8 Son Yun-Hee and No. 9 Nadine Geißler (left) of Germany traded wins over the first four games with the Korean winning both games on her favorite long pattern. In the deciding fifth game, however, Geißler topped Son on that pattern, 234-213, for a 3-2 win.
In the biggest upset of the first round No. 15 seed, Birgit Pöppler (right), Germany, eliminated All Events silver medalist Caroline Lagrange, Canada, 3-1, including games of 246 and 256 in the last two games.
Germany had a chance to have three players in the Quarterfinals but German anchor bowler Patricia Schwarz, seeded 14th, suffered an open in the 10th frame of the fifth and deciding game against No. 3 Shannon Pluhowsky (left) to hand the victory to the American.
Pluhowsky's team mate, No. 4 seed Liz Johnson, led 2-1 against No. 13 Tannya Roumimper (right), but the Indonesian closed out her set with 255 and 245 to turn the match around, 3-2.
In an all-Singaporean clash, No. 10 Jazreel Tan (left) won the first two games against No. 7 Shayna Ng (right) including a double tiebreaker in game #1 before Ng reeled off twelve strikes in game #3 for the fifth 300 game of the championships and the eighth in the history of the WTBA.
All four Korean bowlers were eliminated in the first round leaving the most successful country of the last World Championship with just one silver and one bronze medal. All Events gold medalist Mai Ginge Jensen (left), Denmark, came back from a 2-0 deficit to win against No. 16 Hong Su-Yeon, three-games-to-two, including a 276-257 win in game #3 and a 264-247 in the decider.
No. 12 Jeon Eun-Hee fell to No. 5 Kelly Kulick (above right), 3-1 including a 276 by the American in game #4. No. 6 Kim Moon-Jeong won the first game against No. 11 Daphne Tan, 259-222, but the Singaporean rebounded with three consecutive wins to advance, 3-1.
No. 8 Son Yun-Hee and No. 9 Nadine Geißler (left) of Germany traded wins over the first four games with the Korean winning both games on her favorite long pattern. In the deciding fifth game, however, Geißler topped Son on that pattern, 234-213, for a 3-2 win. In the biggest upset of the first round No. 15 seed, Birgit Pöppler (right), Germany, eliminated All Events silver medalist Caroline Lagrange, Canada, 3-1, including games of 246 and 256 in the last two games.
Germany had a chance to have three players in the Quarterfinals but German anchor bowler Patricia Schwarz, seeded 14th, suffered an open in the 10th frame of the fifth and deciding game against No. 3 Shannon Pluhowsky (left) to hand the victory to the American. Pluhowsky's team mate, No. 4 seed Liz Johnson, led 2-1 against No. 13 Tannya Roumimper (right), but the Indonesian closed out her set with 255 and 245 to turn the match around, 3-2.
In an all-Singaporean clash, No. 10 Jazreel Tan (left) won the first two games against No. 7 Shayna Ng (right) including a double tiebreaker in game #1 before Ng reeled off twelve strikes in game #3 for the fifth 300 game of the championships and the eighth in the history of the WTBA. Kelly Kulick, Shannon O'Keefe, both United States; Caroline Lagrange, Canada; and Britt Brøndsted, Denmark had the others. Ng added a 257 in the fourth game to force a decider in which Tan prevailed by 13 pins, 227-214.
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| Seed | Round of 16 | Country | Game 1 | Game 2 | Game 3 | Game 4 | Game 5 | Won-Loss | Place |
| #1 | Mai Ginge Jensen | Denmark | 232 | 205 | 276 | 242 | 264 | 3 | advances |
| #16 | Hong Su-Yeon | Korea | 259 | 223 | 257 | 204 | 247 | 2 | 16th |
| #2 | Caroline Lagrange | Canada | 214 | 211 | 216 | 182 | 1 | 9th | |
| #15 | Birgit Pöppler | Germany | 215 | 204 | 246 | 256 | 3 | advances | |
| #3 | Shannon Pluhowsky | United States | 258 | 233 | 218 | 184 | 235 | 3 | advances |
| #14 | Patricia Luoto | Germany | 213 | 184 | 228 | 226 | 226 | 2 | 15th |
| #4 | Liz Johnson | United States | 257 | 221 | 202 | 212 | 199 | 2 | 10th |
| #13 | Tannya Roumimper | Indonesia | 224 | 248 | 155 | 255 | 245 | 3 | advances |
| #5 | Kelly Kulick | United States | 247 | 232 | 207 | 276 | 3 | advances | |
| #12 | Jeon Eun-Hee | Korea | 239 | 245 | 206 | 222 | 1 | 14th | |
| #6 | Kim Moon-Jeong | Korea | 259 | 215 | 247 | 223 | 1 | 11th | |
| #11 | Daphne Tan | Singapore | 228 | 236 | 257 | 237 | 3 | advances | |
| #7 | Shayna Ng | Singapore |
235 (40, 28) |
188 | 300 | 257 | 214 | 2 | 12th |
| #10 | Jazreel Tan | Singapore |
235 (40, 39) |
203 | 204 | 209 | 227 | 3 | advances |
| #8 | Son Yun-Hee | Korea | 257 | 204 | 218 | 196 | 213 | 2 | 13th |
| #9 | Nadine Gei0ler | Germany | 177 | 224 | 204 | 217 | 234 | 3 | advances |
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Jensen, Pluhowsky, Geißler, Tan to bowl for the medals
USBC Masters and two-time World Cup champion, Shannon Pluhowsky (pictured left), United States, became the first player, who swept his opponent in the best-of-five games match play format at the Women's World Championships Masters event, when the lefty defeated Tannya Roumimper of Indonesia, three-games-to-none including games of 218, 268 and 269. Pluhowsky, who has won gold for the USA in Doubles, Trios and Team, targets her fourth gold medal in this World Championship. She will meet Nadine Geißker (pictured right), Germany, in the semifinal, who took down Jazreel Tan in five games. Tan started the match with eleven strikes in row but missed the sixth 300 game of the championships with 5-count on the fill ball and 295.
Geißler the next two matches on the left lane (long oil) while Tan again dominated in the third game on the short pattern. Back on that pattern for the decider, Tan struggled and opened four times in the first four frames resulting in a 193-162 loss which cost her the match. All Events champion Mai Ginge Jensen (pictured left), Denmark, is still in the race for the Masters gold medals after defeating Birgit Pöppler, Germany, 3-1. The first game was close with Jensen winning by two pins, 258-256, while the next two games were decided well before the final frame. Pöppler leveled the match with 268-201 and Jensen rebounded with 266-199 to take a 2-1 lead.
Both players tied in game #4 at 192 to force the second two-frame roll-off of the day. Both players spared in the first frame. Jensen struck on the next ball and spared for 40. When Pöppler left a ringing 10 on her first ball the match was over and Jensen advanced by three-games-to-one. The Dane will meet Daphne Tan (pictured right) in the semifinal, The Singaporean eliminated Pluhowsky's team mate Kelly Kulick, the only woman ever to win a PBA national title, in four games. Tan took a 2-0 lead thanks to games of 255 and 244. Kulick rebounded with 256-225 in the third game, but Tan shut her out in the fourth, 244-224.
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| Seed | Quarterfinals | Country | Game 1 | Game 2 | Game 3 | Game 4 | Game 5 | Won-Loss | Place |
| #1 | Mai Ginge Jensen | Denmark | 258 | 201 | 266 |
192 (40) |
3 | advances | |
| #15 | Birgit Pöppler | Germany | 256 | 268 | 199 |
192 (28) |
1 | 8th | |
| #3 | Shannon Pluhowsky | United States | 219 | 268 | 269 | 3 | advances | ||
| #13 | Tannya Roumimper | Indonesia | 185 | 203 | 224 | 0 | 7th | ||
| #5 | Kelly Kulick | United States | 247 | 203 | 256 | 224 | 1 | 5th | |
| #11 | Daphne Tan | Singapore | 255 | 244 | 225 | 244 | 3 | advances | |
| #9 | Nadine Gei0ler | Germany | 248 | 248 | 207 | 244 | 193 | 3 | advances |
| #10 | Jazreel Tan | Singapore | 295 | 174 | 248 | 205 | 162 | 2 | 6th |
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Tan, Pluhowsky to bowl for the Masters title
Daphne Tan (pictured left), advanced to the gold medal match of the Women's World Championships in Hong Kong, China, defeating the World Champion in All Events, Mai Ginge Jensen of Denmark, three-games-to-one. The Dane took a 1-0 lead in the first game, 229-199, but Tan countered with three consecutive wins. She leveled the match with huge 278-214 win in game two, and took the lead with 220-206 in game three and shut Jensen out in game #4, 232-210.
Tan, who is aiming to win the first gold medal for Singapore in this championship, bowls Shannon Pluhowsky, United States, who has won three gold and one bronze medal so far.
The USBC Masters champion and two-time World Cup champion (pictured right) had to go the distance in her semifinal match against Germany's Nadine Geißler,. Pluhowsky threw two solid games (237, 227) to take a 2-0 lead but Geißler starter the next game with the front nine for a huge, 279-267, win.
Pluhowsky had a chance to shut out the German in game four but an unforced error in the ninth frame by the American opened the door for Geißler, who struck on her last five shots, to force a decider,
Pluhowsky, who had the advantage to choose the lane and therewith the oil pattern to start and to finish on in case a match goes down to five games, rolled another big score to win the game, 255-165, and the match, 3-2.
While Tan and Pluhowsky determine, who wins gold and who gets silver, Mai Ginge Jensen and Nadine Geißler will share the bronze medal.
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| Semifinal | Country | Game 1 | Game 2 | Game 3 | Game 4 | Game 5 | Won-Loss | Place | |
| #1 | Mai Ginge Jensen | Denmark | 229 | 214 | 206 | 210 | 1 | 3rd | |
| #11 | Daphne Tan | Singapore | 199 | 278 | 220 | 232 | 3 | advances | |
| #3 | Shannon Pluhowsky | United States | 237 | 227 | 267 | 200 | 255 | 3 | advances |
| #9 | Nadine Gei0ler | Germany | 180 | 214 | 279 | 213 | 165 | 2 | 3rd |
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The fourth Women's World Championships takes place at bowling center Hong Kong Bowling City in Hong Kong, China, from Sept. 1 through 11, 2011.171 of the best women bowlers in the world featuring 33 countries compete for gold, silver and bronze medals in Singles, Doubles, Trios, five-player Team event, All Events and Masters in the nine-day event.
The WTBA patterns "Seoul" and "Paris" are being used in Hong Kong. The 39-feet Seoul pattern is the second-shortest of the four "medium" WTBA certified lane patterns. With a length of 47 feet, Paris is the longest of all 12 certified patterns.
Singles was played on "Paris" and Doubles was contested on "Seoul", while Trios and Team featured both oil patterns (3 games on each pattern). Masters match play is staged on dual lane condition (one lane dressed with the Seoul pattern and the other lane dressed with the Paris pattern).
The top four players and teams after six games in Singles, Doubles, Trios and Team, respectively, will advance to the semifinals. The No. 1 meet No. 4 and No. 2 takes on No. 3. The winners determined the World Champion, while the losers shared the bronze medal. All matches were single-game matches.
Bowlingdigital covered the 2011 Women's World Championships live from Hong Kong with stories and results after each squad and each round of the finals.
Bowling fans around the world were able to watch all qualifying rounds, semifinals and finals live on BOWL.com and the coverage will be available on demand as well. Pictured left are commentators Lucas Wiseman (r.) and Jason Overstreet (l.) in action.
The live streaming coverage was a partnership between USBC, WTBA, the Hong Kong Tenpin Bowling Congress and Bowlingdigital.com. The live streaming schedule was identical with the tournament schedule.
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