DoÄŸan, Kok overtake lead in qualifying at 2009 Ankara Open

    09/08/09

    2009 European Bowling Tour #10

    Rollhouse Bowling Center in Ankara, Turkey (Sep. 5-13, 2009)

    2009EBT10HabibDogan.jpg2009EBT04WendyKok.jpgHabib DoÄŸan (pictured left), Turkey, finished his six-game qualifying series on Monday with a 276 game en route to move to the top of the leaderboard in the 2009 Ankara Open at Rollhouse Bowling Center in Ankara, Turkey.

    Wendy Kok (right), Netherlands, had five games over 200 to leap into second place with 1304 including 48 pins handicap, a standard for women on the European Bowling Tour.

    Previous leaders Emre Bülbül and Adem Güran, both Turkey, slipped to third and fourth place with 1299 and 1298, respectively.

    Lotte Houbo Pedersen, Denmark, improved her score to 1294, good for fifth place. Barlas KontaÅŸ, Turkey, overtook sixth place with 1269 despite a 132 in the final game.

    The Ankara Open is the 10th stop of the 2009 European Bowling Tour and one of the Tour's "Major" tournaments. As reported earlier, the Ankara Open has changed its EBT status from Premier to Major due to reduced prize money as a consequence of the global financial crisis.

    The tournament offers total prize money of 70.000 Euro instead of 100.000. The winner will receive the 10.000 Euro top prize instead of 15.000.

    Qualifying runs through Saturday, Sep. 12, and ends with the Desperado Squad on early Sunday morning. A total of 56 players will advance to the finals including the top 40 qualifiers, the top six players each from Squads 1-6 (Sept. 5&6) and Squads 7-12 (Sept. 7&8) and the top 4 from the Desperado Squad.

    The top 8 qualifiers will earns three byes, places 9-16 receive two and places 17-24 will get one. The remaining 32 players advance to the first of four rounds over 4 games total pinfall starting from scratch.

    Once the field is cut to 8 players the format will change to single-elimination match play in bracket format; each match over two games total pinfall. The field will be trimmed to four then two players, who will bowl for the title worth 10.000 Euro and 100 EBT ranking points.

     


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