Jesper Svensson (pictured left) of Sweden averaged 248.33 on the final qualifying day of the 2013 Qatar Bowling Open in Doha to win the qualifying and top lead a group of 43 players including three women into the finals Tuesday at the Qatar Bowling Center.

The two-handed lefty, who won the season-opening Brunswick Ballmaster Open for his first European Bowling Tour title, rolled games of 278, 213, 234, 237, 277 and 251 in Squad 15 for 1490 total to overtake previous leader Marshall Kent (right), United States, by 33 pins.

Kent, who is also looking for his second EBT title, slipped to second place with 1457. Long-time Australian national team member and USBC silver level coach, Andrew Frawley, saved his best for the last squad (17) on Monday evening.

Frawley posted a 1443 series including games of 269, 182, 238, 249, 258 and 247, an average of 240.50) to jump into third place. Svensson and Frawley were the only players on Monday, who cracked the top 10 to earn a first round-bye.

Places four to eight belonged to players from Sweden, Denmark and Finland. Mattias Olsson (left) of Sweden was 27 pins behind Frawley in fourth place with 1416, and was followed by Thomas Larsen (right; 1411) of Denmark, who won the 1st Abu Dhabi World Bowling Tour last week.

Next were Swedes Mattias Wetterberg (1410) and Martin Larsen (1409) in sixth and seventh place, respectively, with Finnish two-hander Osku Palermaa in eighth place on 1400.

14-time PBA champion and past Player of the Year, Tommy Jones (left), United States, led the 16th squad with 1376 to finish qualifying in 13th place.

Sweden's Isabelle Hultin and Jenny Wegner (right) were the best of ten women in the field of 118 players from 25 countries with 1330 and 1329 including eight pins handicap each game to survive the first cut in in 28th and 30th place, respectively.

Mansoor Al-Awamy (below right) was the best Qatari in 31st place with 1326. His compatriot, Ahmed Al-Deyab, took the 34 and last spot to advance with 1324 and an average of 220.67.

The top 34 players will be joined in the finals by two players each from the squads on Dec. 4-6 and Ida Andersson of Sweden (266 including handicap), John Guldbæk of Denmark (256) and Marek Talpa, Czech Republic (251), who advanced from the Desperado Squad.

Hong Kong's Michael Tsang, who finished 79th with 1239 including the lone 300 game of the qualifying, was consoled with the 1.000 Euro "Perfect Game Award".

The 13th Qatar Bowling Open is the 19th and last event of the 2013 European Bowling Tour and one of two EBT "Platinum" tournaments this season. The tournament will be held from Dec. 4-10, 2012 at 32-lane Qatar Bowling Center in Doha, Qatar.

Players will compete for total prize fund of 120.000 Euro (approx. $163,370) with 30.000 € going to the winner, 14.400 € to the runner-up and 5.000 € apiece to the third and fourth place finishers.

Qualifying (6 games, unlimited re-entries) ran from Wednesday, Dec. 4 through Monday, Dec. 9. Women receive 8 pins handicap each game (max. is 300), a standard on the European Bowling Tour.

A total of 43 players - the top 34 in the overall qualifying standings, the top 2 each of the Dec. 4 squads (1 & 2), the Dec. 5 (3-5) and Dec. 6 squads (6-8), plus the top 3 of the Desperado Squad - advanced to the finals on Tuesday, Dec. 10, 2013. The top 10 qualifiers earned a first-round bye.

The other 33 players will bowl six games scratch with the top 18 advancing to the second round. Those 18 and the 10 qualifying leaders will roll another six-game block scratch to cut to the top 4, who will advance to the semifinals.

The No. 1 bowls No. 4 and the No. 2 bowls No. 3 with the two-game total pinfall determining the winner. The two semifinal winners advance to the championship match to bowl for the title and the 30.000 Euro top prize.

The 2013 European Bowling Tour consists of 19 stops in 13 countries including two Platinum, six Gold, four Silver and seven Satellite tournaments.

The top 50 men and the top 50 women in each event receive ranking points. The winner of a Platinum tournament such as the Qatar Bowling Open 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 gets 50 ranking points.

The top 12 men and the top 12 women at the end of the 2013 season qualify for the seventh EBT Masters to be held March 3, 2014 at Dolfijn Bowling in Tilburg, Netherlands immediately following the Hammer Bronzen Schietspoel Tournament 2014.