Sergey Bogachev leads Russian Open after Qualifying Squad 4

    09/15/11

    2011 European Bowling Tour #15

    2011RussianOpenLogo.jpg Sergey Bogachev of Russia held the lead in the qualifying of the Russian Open after four of twelve qualifying squads have been completed at Cosmik Belay Dacha in Moscow.

    Bogachev, who played in Squad 2 Tuesday afternoon, had games of 209, 233, 200, 277, 224 and 199 to lead the field of 73 players with 1342 six-game total and an average of 223.67. Filipp Potorochin, who led Squad 4 on Wednesday afternoon, had high games of 257 and 243 to sit in second place with 1314.

    Squad 3 leader Mikhail Belenkiy slipped to third place with 1306 and was followed by one of two non-Russian bowlers in the field, fourth place Alexander Panchenko of Kazakhstan, with 1301.

    Ksenia Istomina was the best of 22 women in fifth place with 1300 including 48 pins handicap. Rounding out the top 8, who will earn one bye for the finals, were Alexander Minenko (6th; 1281), Squad 1 leader Maxim Okorokov (7th; 1281) and Alexey Vasilenko (8th; 1273).

    The second non-Russian, Pavel Sobolev of Belarus, was 29th with 1158. Artem Zubkov held the 32nd and last spot to advance with 1140 or an average of 190.

    Qualifying continues Thursday, Sept. 15 with Squads ´5 and 6 scheduled for noon and 4 p.m. Moscow time (CET +2).

    2011RussianOpenLogo.jpg The Russian Open, which will be held Sept. 13-18, 2011 at 30-lane Cosmik Belay Dacha in Russia's capital city Moscow, is the 15th stop of the 2011 European Bowling Tour and the fourth out of six EBT "Satellite" tournaments this season.

    The tournament offers total prize fund of 25.000 Euro with 5.500 Euro going to the winner and 3.800 Euro to the runner-up, while the third and fourth place finishers will receive 2.500 Euro and 2.000, respectively.

    Since the English Open has lost its EBT status, the 2011 European Bowling Tour consists of 20 tour stops in 16 countries including two Platinum, six Gold, six Silver and six Satellite tournaments.

    The top 50 men and the top 50 women in each event receive ranking points. The winner of a Platinum tournament receives 250 ranking points, the winner of a Gold tournament gets 150, the winner of a Silver tournament earns 100, and the winner of a Satellite tournament such as the Russian Open gets 50 ranking points.

    The top 16 men and the top 16 women at the end of the 2011 season qualify for the fifth EBT Masters to be held at Dream-Bowl Palace in Unterföhring near Munich, Germany on April 30 and May 1, 2012. The event will become the first EBT Masters to be contested on single lane condition.

    Qualifying of the Russian Open (six-game series, unlimited re-entries) runs from Tuesday, Sept. 13 through Saturday, Sept. 17 with the last Squad 12 scheduled for 9 p.m. local time (CET +2) and concludes with the Desperado Squad slated for 12.30 a.m. on Sunday morning. Women will receive 8 pins handicap each game throughout the entire event, a standard for women on the European Bowling Tour.

    A total of 36 players will advance to the finals on Sunday, Sept. 18 - the top 32 players from the overall qualifying standings plus the top 4 from the Desperado Squad. The top 8 qualifiers earn one bye and will be seeded 1st through 8th in Round Two.

    The other 28 players will bowl four games starting from scratch with the top 8 advancing to the second round seeded 9th through 16th.

    The remaining 16 players will determine the champion in single-elimination rounds with the two-game total to determine the winner. The highest seeded player bowls the lowest seeded player, the second highest seeded player bowls the second lowest seeded player, etc.

    The field will be trimmed to eight and then four players. The winners of the semifinal matches will bowl for the title and the 5.500 top prize while the losers will meet in a two-game roll-off for third and fourth place.

     


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