Ivonne Gross doubles in the 10th to bowl her way into the Vienna Open finals

    09/30/09

    2009 European Bowling Tour #11

    Plus Bowling in Vienna, Austria (Sep. 29 - Oct. 4, 2009)

    2009VOLeoGrundschober.jpg2009VOIvonneGross2.jpgIvonne Gross (pictured left) became the first woman who qualified for the finals in the 7th Columbia 300 Vienna Open as the Austrian national team member finished atop the leaderboard of Squad 3 Tuesday night at Plus Bowling in Vienna, Austria.

    Trailing Leo Grundschober (right), Austria, by 8 pins heading into the sixth and final game, Gross, who received 8 pins handicap each game, knew she had to beat Grundschober by one pin to win the squad and to earn an automatic berth into the finals.


    2009VORomanFurbacher.jpg2009VOIvonneGrossThomasTybl.jpgGrundschober finished first with a 198 game. Gross, who played Doubles with Thomas Tybl (pictured right with Ivonne), gold medalist in doubles with Ivonne's husband Thomas Gross at the 2007 Men's European Championships, needed a double in her 10th frame to beat Grundschober. Gross threw two strikes and a 9-count on the fill ball to beat Grundschober by seven pins, 1224 to 1217. Jaroslav Lorenz was third with 1179 with Roman Fürbacher (left) in fourth at 1178.

    Qualifying continues on Wednesday with Squads 3-6 at noon, 4pm and 8pm.
    Ivonne moved into 8th place in the overall qualifying standings, just one pin behind husband Thomas, who is 7th with 1225.

    2009VOFranzHahn.jpg2009VOKarelKutinaMirekCifra.jpgSquad 1 leader Franz Hahn (left), Austria, finished day one qualifying atop the leaderboard with 1286 six-game total and an average of 214.33. Squad 2 leader Mirek Cifra, Czech Republic, remained in second place with 1269 and is followed by Zoltan Skorbrics, Hungary, with 1248.

    Places 4-6 belong to Jens Grieger, Germany (1246), Stefan Schmid, Austria (1242) and Alexander Gabrielian, Austria (1237).

    Grundschober and his team mate Uwe Tscharke, Germany, led the doubles event in squad 3 with 2395, good for third place in the overall standings. Mirek Cifra and Karel Kutina (above right, r-l), Czech Republic, held on to the lead with 2467 and an average of 205.58. Thomas Gross and Walter Rieger, Austria, are second with 2434.


    2009ViennaOpenLogo_small.jpg The 7th Columbia 300 Vienna Open is the 11th stop of the 2009 European Bowling Tour and one of the Tour's "Majors". The tournament will be held from Tuesday Sept. 29 through Sunday Oct. 4, 2009 at the renovated 32-lane Plus Bowling in Vienna, Austria.

    More than 340 players from 27 countries will compete for an increased total prize money of 68.130 Euro - 57.900 € in Singles and 10.230 € in Doubles. The singles champion will receive the 6.000 Euro top prize while the doubles winners will split 1.600.

    Once again the qualifying for the Vienna Open finals is contested as a doubles tournament. Each duo rolls at least one six-game block. Unlimited re-entries with different partners are possible but each player can only cash once with the same partner.

    The team with the highest total pinfall including handicap will be declared the winner (no finals will be played). The top 20 doubles will cash. Bigi Manico, Switzerland and Tanya Cuva (nee Petty) are the defending champion.

    Qualifying runs from Tuesday through Saturday and ends with the ultimate one-game Desperado Squad on Saturday night Oct. 3 slated for 11.30 pm local time (GMT +1). Women receive 8 pins handicap each game, a standard on the European Bowling Tour

    A total of 64 players will qualify for the Vienna Open finals on Sunday, Oct. 4:
    • the top 52 players from the overall qualifying standings
    • the first player each from Squad 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 and 6, who is not among the top 52 (total 6 players)
    • and the top 6 from the Desperado Squad.


    The top 8 qualifying leaders will bypass the first round of the finals.

    The other 52 players will bowl 6 games starting from scratch to cut to the top 22, who will join the top qualifiers in Round Two.

    Those 30 players will bowl another 6 games starting from scratch after which the field will be trimmed to the top 18, who will carry their pinfall forward into Round Three. After another 6-game block the top 4 with the highest 12-game total will advance to the stepladder finals.

    The No. 4 seed meets the No. 3 in the opening match and the winner takes on the No. 2 seed for the right to bowl the top seed for the title, 100 ranking points and the 6.000 Euro top prize.

     


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