Mikhail Kalika comes back from a 69-pin deficit to win Russian Open

    09/19/11

    2011 European Bowling Tour #15

    Ukrainian shoots 279 to beat Russia's Sergey Andreev by five pins

    2011EBT15MikhailoKalika.jpg2011EBT15SergeyAndreev.jpgTrailing by 69 pins after the first game of the title match in the Russian Open, Mikhail Kalika (pictured left), Ukraine, rebounded from a 176 opening game with 279 to beat Sergey Andreev (right), Russia, 455-450, to claim the title and the 5.500 Euro top prize Sunday afternoon at Cosmik Belay Dacha in Moscow, Russia.

    It was the first European Bowling Tour title for a Ukrainian bowler in the 12-year-history of the Tour.

    Andreev, who held a comfortable lead after the first game, 245-176, lost the second game by 74 pins, 205-279, and had to settle for second place, worth 3.800 Euro.

    In the roll-off for third and fourth place between the two semi-final losers, women's ranking winner Alena Korobkova topped Ivan Semenov, 460-421. Korobkova received 2.500 Euro for finishing third while Semenov pocketed 2.000 Euro for fourth place.

     

     

     

    Championship Match Game #1

     



    Championship Match Game #2

     

     


    As one of the top eight qualifiers, Andreev, a long-time Russian national team member, bypassed the first round of the finals. Kalika, a Ukrainian international, who missed the top 8 by 16 pins in ninth place, rolled the tournament's sole 300 game to lead Final Round One with 1008 four-game total (252 average) and to earn the No. 9 seed for the single-elimination finals with the two game total pinfall to determine the winner.

    2011EBT15AlenaKorobkova.jpg2011EBT15IvanSemenov.jpgAndreev's team mate on the Russian national squad, Semenov was fourth with 915 with Korobkova in seventh place with 909 including eight pins handicap each game. As the Russian women's national team member was the sole of four women who survived the second cut, she had already won the women's ranking in Moscow.

    It was the second women's ranking title for Korobkova (pictured left), who led all women in the predecessor of the Russian Open, the Pavlovskiy Posad Open, in 2010, which was won by Semenov (right).

    Korobkova eliminated the No. 2 and No. 1 seeds, Andrey Emelyanov and Nikita Koshelev, both Russia, to set up a semi-final against No. 3 seed Andreev.

    Kalika, who posted the highest two-game set of 505 in the Round of 16 was down by 36 pins in his Round of 8 match against Vadim Kalacutok (264-228) but defeated the No. 7 in game two, 231-188, to win by seven pins, 459-452. The Ukrainian took on Semenov, who used a pair of 490s, to advance to the semis.

    In a close match, Kalika won both games by four and eleven pins, respectively, to earn a spot in the title match, 455-440. Andreev took a 38-pin lead after a low-scoring opening game against Korobkova, 199-161, and though Korobkova won the second game, 223-208, Andreev advanced with a 407-384 win.

    In the roll-off for third and fourth place, Korobkova won both games scratch to secure third place with a 460-421 victory, while Kalika celebrated a come-back victory against Andreev to wrap up the title.

    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.

    The qualifying of the Russian Open (six-game series, unlimited re-entries) ran from Tuesday, Sept. 13 through Saturday, Sept. 17 and concluded with the Desperado Squad on Sunday morning. Women receive 8 pins handicap each game throughout the entire event, a standard for women on the European Bowling Tour.

    A total of 36 players advanced 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 earned one bye and will be seeded 1-8 in Round Two.

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

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

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

    The European Bowling Tour is the Netherlands this week for the Chandra Open 2011, the third consecutive EBT Satellite event, which takes place from Sept. 19-25, 2011 at Chandra Bowling in Nieuwegein.

     


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    2011 Russian Open


    Cosmik Belay Dacha in Moscow, Russia (Sept. 13-18, 2011)

    Championship Round:
    1. Mikhail Kalika, Ukraine, 5.500 Euro
    2. Sergey Andreev, Russia, 3.800 Euro
    3. Alena Korobkova, Russia, 2.500 Euro
    4. Ivan Semenov, Russia, 2.000 Euro
    L-R Andreev, champion Kalika, Korobkova and Semenov. Click on the image to enlarge it.

    Playoff Results:
    Title Match:
    No. 9 Kalika (176, 279) def. No. 3 Andreev (245, 205), 455-450
    Roll-off for third and fourth place:
    No. 15 Korobkova (228, 232) def. No. 12 Semenov (207, 214), 460, 421
    * Korobkova received 8 pins handicap each game.

     


    2011 European Bowling Tour Rankings by Bowlingdigital - Current Standings


    2011 EBT Men's Ranking
    2011 EBT Women's Ranking

     


    Final Standings - Places 5-36 (cashers)


    5. Nikita Koshelev, Russia, 500 Euro
    6. Alexander Medveditskov, Russia, 500 Euro
    7. Vadim Kalacutok, Russia, 500 Euro
    8. Gennady Sidorov, Russia, 500 Euro
    9. Andrey Emelyanov, Russia, 400 Euro
    10. Alexander Panchenko, Kazakhstan, 400 Euro
    11. Roman Starchenkov, Russia, 400 Euro
    12. Victor Krasavkin, Russia, 400 Euro
    13. Alexander Minenko, Russia, 400 Euro
    14. Dmitry Shilkin, Belarus, 400 Euro
    15. Sergey Starchenkov, Russia, 400 Euro
    16. Alexey Parshukov, Russia, 400 Euro
    17. Sergey Bogachev, Russia, 300 Euro
    18. Daria Kovalova, Ukraine, 300 Euro
    19. Kristina Kryl, Russia, 300 Euro
    20. Mikhail Lukyanov, Russia, 300 Euro
    21. Alexander Deev, Russia, 300 Euro
    22. Kirill Matvienko, Russia, 300 Euro
    23. Alexander Kondratyev, Ukraine, 300 Euro
    24. Julia Polyanskaya, Russia, 300 Euro
    25. Alexander Gurkov, Russia, 300 Euro
    26. Andrey Suslov, Russia, 300 Euro
    27. Alexey Yaroslavtsev, Russia, 300 Euro
    28. Konstantin Matvienko, Russia, 300 Euro
    29. Shin Jong-Hyun, Korea, 300 Euro
    30. Dmitry Lapshinsky, Russia, 300 Euro
    31. Evgeny Mineev, Russia, 300 Euro
    32. Filipp Potorochin, Russia, 300 Euro
    33. Igor Gorodnichy, Russia, 300 Euro
    34. Oleg Sokolov, Russia, 300 Euro
    35. Vladimir Maysky, Serbia, 300 Euro
    36. Vladislav Myslev, Russia, 300 Euro

     


    Semifinal


    Single-elimination match play with the two-game total to determine the winner. Losers bowl for 3rd and 4th place, winners go to the title match.

     


    Round of 8


    Single-elimination match play with the two-game total to determine the winner. Losers eliminated, finish 5th-8th, earn 500 Euro.

     


    Round of 16


    Single-elimination match play with the two-game total to determine the winner. Losers eliminated, finish 9th-16th, earn 400 Euro.

     


    Final Round One


    The top 8 advance to the second round. All others eliminated, finish 17th through 36th, earn 300 Euro.

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