Ridhwan, Voss win Squad 2 and 3 to overtake qualifying lead in Barcelona

    07/14/11

    2011 European Bowling Tour #12

    Both squad leaders are automatically qualified for Sunday's finals

    2011EBT04SyafiqRidhwan.jpg2010EBT13BrianVoss.jpgMalaysia's Syafiq Ridhwan (pictured left) and PBA Hall of Famer Brian Voss (right), United States, led the qualifying squads on Wednesday to move to the top of the leaderboard in the qualifying of the 33rd Trofeu Internacional Ciutat de Barcelona.

    As a squad leader, both players are automatically qualified for Sunday's finals at Bowling Pedralbes in Barcelona, Spain.

    Ridhwan, one of ten Malaysian national team members in the tournament, rolled games of 219, 218, 246, 228, 268 and 225 in Squad 2 to become the first player this year who has cracked the 1400-bar. Ridhwan leads the field of 71 players - 47 men and 24 women - from 18 countries with 1404 six-game total and an average of 234.

    2011EBT04ChristianRacpan.jpg2011EBT04ZulmazranZulkifli.jpgVoss, a 25-time PBA champion and the 1988 PBA Player of the Year, led squad 3 with 1362, a 227 average, to leap into second place in the overall qualifying standings. Voss, who was ranked 13th on the list of the 50 greatest players in PBA history in 2009, had games of 236, 237, 202, 233, 200 and 254.

    A total of seven players from Squad 2 moved into the top ten. Christian Racpan (left), Germany, was second to Ridhwan in Squad 2 with 1354 to leap into third place. Zulmazran Zulkifli (right), Malaysia, was mere one pin behind to overtake fourth place with 1353.

    2011USWOMaiGingeJensen.jpg2011EBT04SandraAndersson.jpgCurrent European Bowling Tour women's ranking leader, Mai Ginge Jensen (left) is the best woman in the field in fifth place with 1336 including 48 pins handicap.

    Rounding out the top 10 are Sandra Andersson (right), Sweden (8th, 1309), Or Aviram, Israel (9th, 1301) and Sharon Koh, Malaysia (10th, 1293).

    Trailing Voss by 39 pins in Squad 3 was Moi Perez, Catalonia, who moved into seventh place with 1323.

    The lone player of squad 1, who remained in the top 10 was squad leader Marcial Ovide, Catalonia. The day one leader fell six places to seventh with 1323. Like Ridhwan and Voss, Ovide is automatically qualified for the finals.

    Qualifying continues on Thursday June 14 with Squads 4-7 scheduled for 9 a.m., 1, 5 and 9 p.m. CET.

    2011CiutatBarcelonaLogo_small.jpg The 33rd Trofeu Internacional Ciutat de Barcelona is the 12th stop of the 2011 European Bowling Tour and the fifth and penultimate EBT "Gold" tournaments this season.

    The tournament will be held from July 12-17, 2011 at 14-lane Bowling Pedralbes in Barcelona, Spain and offers total prize fund of 60.000 Euro with 12.000 Euro going to the winner, 6.000 to the runner-up and 3.000 to the third place finisher.

    2010EBT12GeryVerbruggen_small.jpg2011USWONinaFlack2_small.jpg In the 2010 stepladder finals, Gery Verbruggen of Belgium defeated PBA Hall of Famer Brian Voss, United States, and eventual EBT ranking champion Dominic Barrett , England, to win the 32nd Trofeu Internacional Ciutat de Barcelona and the 12.000 Euro top prize. It was the 10th career EBT title for the 4-time European Bowling Tour ranking champion (2000-'03) and the first since 2008. Eventual women's EBT Ranking champion Nina Flack, Sweden, finished in 6th place and received 1.800 Euro for sixth place and a 1.200 Euro bonus for being the best woman in the tournament.

    Since the Viborg International in Viborg in Denmark has been cancelled, the 2011 European Bowling Tour consists of 21 tour stops in 17 countries including two Platinum, six Gold, seven 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 such as the Trofeu Internacional Ciutat de Barcelona gets 150, the winner of a Silver tournament earns 100, and the winner of a Satellite tournament 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 Trofeu Internacional Ciutat de Barcelona features a 41 feet Kegel lane conditioning pattern with 24.6ml volume oil total.

    A total of 48 players will advance to the finals on Sunday - the top 42 qualifiers including all squad leaders and an additional six women.

    Those 48 players will carry forward 50 per cent of their qualifying total and bowl four games to cut to the top 24, who will bowl another four games with the Round One total being carried forward. The top 3 players after Round Two qualify for the stepladder finals.

    The No. 3 seed bowls No. 2 and the winner takes on No. 1 to determine the champion in one-game matches.

     


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    A total of 42 players including all squad leaders (bold face) plus an additional six women will advance to the finals.

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