Nina Flack, Dominic Barrett extend their lead in EBT Rankings in Vienna

    10/06/10

    2010 European Bowling Tour Rankings

    European Bowling Tour is heading into the home stretch of the season

    2010EBT15NickiAingeNinaFlack2.jpg2010EBT15WendyKokPriscillaMaaswinkel.jpg2008 European Bowling Tour women's ramking champion Nina Flack (pictured with defending ranking champion, Nicki Ainge, left), Sweden, and 2008 and 2009 men's runner-up Dominic Barrett, England, extended their lead in the 2010 EBT rankings in the 8th Columbia 300 Vienna Open which ran from Sept. 28 - Oct. 3 at Plus Bowling in Vienna, Austria.

    307 players from 25 countries - 246 men and 61 women - participated in this year's event which was the last EBT "Gold" tournament of the 2010 season. Flack, a world and European champion, finished 34th overall and 12th in the women's ranking to earn 45 ranking points for 647 ranking point total.

    2010EBT11NicoleSanders.jpg2010EBT10GhislainevanderTol.jpgAs her nearest competitor, Wendy Kok (above right, on the left with Priscilla Maaswinkel, right), Netherlands, missed the first cut (98th place) and received just 24 ranking points, Flack extended her lead from 112 to 133 points. Kok remained in second place with 514 points and is followed by three compatriots, Nicole Sanders (left, 497), Ghislaine van der Tol (479) and Priscilla Maaswinkel (449).

    Defending women's ranking champion Nicki Ainge, England, is already 227 points behind Flack in sixth place with 420 points.

    Barrett missed the stepladder finals in Vienna by mere 28 pins and finished in sixth place (fifth in the men's rankings) to earn 90 ranking points. The European Championships Masters gold medalist had accumulated 919 ranking points.

    2010EBT15DominicBarrett.jpg2010EBT15MikaKoivuniemiOskuPalermaa.jpgBarrett (pictured left) extended his lead from 160 to 211 points as his nearest competitor, three-time defending men's ranking champion Osku Palermaa (2007-'09), Finland, went out in the first round of the finals and got only 39 points for 708 ranking point total.

    His compatriot Mika Koivuniemi (pictured right with Palermaa, right) has cashed 702 points in just eight events and narrowed the gap to Palermaa to six points. Four-time EBT ranking champion Gery Verbruggen (2000-'03), Belgium, is fourth with 574 and is followed by Thomas Larsen, Denmark, in fifth with 488.

    Sixth place belongs to three-time EBT ranking champion Paul Moor (2004-'06), England, with 417 pints. Even if Barrett would fail to cash any points in the remaining three tour stops, he cannot fall lower than fifth in the 2010 rankings.

    2010EBTLogo_small.jpg Since the Ankara Open and the Austria Challenge have been cancelled and the English Open has lost its EBT status, the 2010 EBT Tour consists of 18 events - 2 EBT Platinum tournament (formerly Premier), 6 EBT Gold tournaments (formerly Major), 6 EBT Silver tournaments (formerly Challenger) and 4 EBT Satellite tournaments (new category).

    The winner of a Platinum tournament receives 250 ranking points, the winner of a Gold tournament such as the 8th Columbia 300 Vienna Open gets 150, the winner of a Silver tournament earns 100, and the winner of a Satellite tournament gets 50 ranking points.

    The top 50 men and the top 50 women in each tournament of the 2010 European Bowling Tour will cash ranking points no matter from which country or World Tenpin Bowling Association Zone (Europe, Asia, America) he or she comes.

    2009SWEBotYHelenJohnsson.jpg2010EBT15MartinLarsen.jpgThe top 16 men and the top 16 women at the end of the 2010 EBT season will qualify for the 2011 EBT Masters to be held at Gladiator Arena in Ljubljana, Slovenia, April 11-12, 2011.

    Hélen Johnsson (left), Sweden, currently holds the 16th and last spot to qualify for the Masters with 234 points, while her compatriot Martin Larsen (right) is the "man on the bubble" with 238.

    The European Bowling Tour is heading into the home stretch of the season. The last "Silver" tournament of the 2010 Tour, the Ebonite Lahti Open, will start next Friday, Oct. 9th at Lahti Bowl in Lahti, Finland, and runs through Sunday, Oct. 17th.

    The EBT Tour will then take a three-week break before heading to Rome, Italy, for the 1st Ebonite Roma International, a newcomer on the EBT Tour and a "Satellite event, which will be held at Brunswick Bowling Rome from Nov. 6-14, 2010.

    The 2010 European Bowling Tour will conclude with the second "Platinum" event and the sole tournament outside Europe, the Qatar Bowling Open, Dec. 11-19, 2010 at the Qatar Bowling Center in Doha, Qatar.

     


    2010 European Bowling Tour Rankings by Bowlingdigital
    2010 EBT Men's Ranking
    2010 EBT Women's Ranking

     


    2010 Men's Ranking - Top 16 after Vienna
    1. Dominic Barrett, England, 919
    2. Osku Palermaa, Finland, 708
    3. Mika Koivuniemi, Finland, 702
    4. Gery Verbruggen, Belgium, 574
    5. Thomas Larsen, Denmark, 488
    6. Paul Moor, England, 417
    7. Stuart Williams, England, 353
    8. Dennis Eklund, Sweden, 322
    9. Tore Torgersen, Norway, 321
    10. Mathias Årup, Sweden, 308
    11. Peter Ljung, Sweden, 303
    12. Tomas Leandersson, Sweden, 290
    13. Pete Weber, United States, 276
    14. Parker Bohn III, United States, 260
    15. Chris Loschetter, United States, 250
    16. Martin Larsen, Sweden, 238

     


    2010 Women's Ranking - Top 16 after Vienna
    1. Nina Flack, Sweden, 647
    2. Wendy Kok, Netherlands, 514
    3. Nicole Sanders, Netherlands, 497
    4. Ghislaine van der Tol, Netherlands, 479
    5. Priscilla Maaswinkel, Netherlands, 449
    6. Nicki Ainge, England, 420
    7. Rebecka Larsen Jr. Sweden, 400
    8. Joline Persson Planefors, Sweden, 391
    9. Lisanne Breeschoten, Netherlands, 375
    10. Kamilla Kjeldsen, Denmark, 359
    11. Tina Hulsch, Germany, 353
    12. Rikke Holm Rasmussen, Denmark, 348
    13. Krista Pöllänen, Finland, 330
    14. Diana Zavjalova, Latvia, 268
    15. Cherie Tan, Singapore, 250
    16. Hélen Johnsson, Sweden, 234

     


    2010 EBT Rankings - Men's Division after Vienna


    Players with country, ranking point total and number of top 50 finishes

     


    2010 EBT Rankings - Women's Division after Vienna


    Players with country, ranking point total and number of top 50 finishes