Francis Tan sets the pace in Round 2 at WBT Thailand

11 August, 2016

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Francis Tan of Malaysia set the pace in Round 2 at the World Bowling Tour Thailand event Thursday afternoon at Blu-O Paragon Bowl in Bangkok, Thailand, to lead the top 10 into the third round with 1318 pinfall total and an average of 219.67 for six games.

Tan (left), who had games of 225, 213, 181, 205, 268 and 226, beat out Thailand’s Pawat Ungtrakul (above left) for the top spot by 30 pins. Ungtrakul, who survived the qualifying cut thanks to a second-place finish in the Desperado Squad after shooting a 224 game, had six games between 204 and 234, to land in second place with 1288.

Third place belonged to junior Team USA member Kamron Doyle (above right), who was further six pins behind Pawat with 1282, including a 249 last game.

Sithiphol Kunaksorn of Thailand was fourth on 1274 and was followed by Wu Siu Hong of Hong Kong with 1249 and two more Thai bowlers, Phumin Klanbida and Teerachata Rachatahiranyakan, who took sixth and seventh place with 1235 and 1232, respectively.

Rounding out the top 10 were Ronnie Sparks Jr. (1230) and Cameron Weier (1222), United States, and Hong Kong’s Wicky Yeung, who hit the cutoff number with 1218 or an average of 203.

The other eight bowlers in this round were eliminated and finished in 35th to 42nd place, worth 40.000 Baht or approximately US$1,290.

The 2016 World Bowling Tour Thailand tournament will be held from August 6-12 at
Blu-O Rhythm & Bowl inside the Siam Paragon Shopping Mall in Bangkok, Thailand.

The tournament offers total prize fund of 4,215 million Baht or approximately 131,967 U.S. Dollar. The winner will receive 1 million Baht or roughly $32,260 and will be awarded a World Bowling Tour title and a Professional Bowlers Association title, if won by a PBA member.

All players must bowl nine games of qualifying in three-game blocks with unlimited re-entries. Women receive 8 pins handicap each game. All ties will be broken by a one-ball roll-off.

Total 42 bowlers will survive the qualifying (Round 1), including the top 7 qualifiers, the two highest Thai bowlers outside the top 7 (ranked 8 & 9), the next 28 qualifiers (ranked 10-37), the next two Thai bowlers outside the top 37 (ranked 38-39) plus the top 3 of the one-game Desperado Squad (ranked 40-42).

Players ranked 1-8 receive two byes and players ranked 9-24 get one bye. Bowlers ranked 25-42 advance to the second round to bowl six games from scratch with the top 10 advancing to Round 3.

Those 10 and qualifiers 9-24 will bowl another six games from scratch. The top 12 bowlers will meet the top 8 qualifiers in Round 4. The remaining 20 players bowl another six-game block from scratch to cut to the top 7 plus the next Thai bowler (ranked 8) for the stepladder finals.

In the first round, the No. 6, 7 and 8 seed will square off. The winner takes on No. 4 and 5 seed in the second match. The winner of that match bowls the No. 3 seed in the quarterfinal. The winner meets the No. 2 seed in the semifinal. The winner advances to the championship match in which the top-seeded player must be defeated twice to win the title.

The WBT Thailand event is the 4th tournament on the 2016 World Bowling Tour, which currently consists of eight regular tournaments, six in the Middle East and one each in Germany and Thailand.

The ninth event and the only WBT “major” this season is the PBA World Series of Bowling VIII to be staged from November 27 through December 11, 2016 at the National Bowling Stadium in Reno, Nev., United States.

Players earn ranking points based on how they finish in each event. “Majors” award double points. The points system is based on a continuous two-year cycle. The top three men and top three women in the annual points list will compete in the season-ending World Bowling Tour Finals (tbd).

World Bowling provides governance to international bowling and is made up of 134 bowling international federations. For more information on the World Bowling Tour, click here.

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2016 WBT Thailand – Round 2 Results

Top 10 advance to the third round.

Pos	Player	Country	G1	G2	G3	G4	G5	G6	Pins	Avg.	Hc	Total
1.	Francis Tan Wu Jen	Malaysia	225	213	181	205	268	226	1318	219.67		1318
2.	Pawat Ungtrakul	Thailand	208	224	204	234	204	214	1288	214.67		1288
3.	Kamron Doyle	United States	193	233	216	232	159	249	1282	213.67		1282
4.	Sithiphol Kunaksorn	Thailand	181	227	200	221	207	238	1274	212.33		1274
5.	Wu Siu Hong	Hong Kong	225	214	175	215	201	219	1249	208.17		1249
6.	Phumin Klanbida	Thailand	216	214	206	224	165	210	1235	205.83		1235
7.	Teerachata Rachatahiranyakan	Thailand	186	235	183	222	215	191	1232	205.33		1232
8.	Ronnie Sparks Jr.	United States	214	195	206	185	216	214	1230	205.00		1230
9.	Cameron Weier	United States	258	146	207	170	225	216	1222	203.67		1222
10.	Wicky Yeung	Hong Kong	209	190	180	233	225	181	1218	203.00		1218
11.	Somjed Kusonpithak	Thailand	161	198	178	212	222	222	1193	198.83		1193
12.	Napat Buspanikonkul	Thailand	171	160	227	241	172	194	1165	194.17		1165
13.	Kritsanakorn Sangaroon (f)	Thailand	216	204	178	181	145	191	1115	185.83	48	1163
14.	Isaac Russell	Malaysia	210	189	242	175	203	144	1163	193.83		1163
15.	Akihiro Miura	Japan	181	199	166	174	196	224	1140	190.00		1140
16.	Yanee Saebae (f)	Thailand	137	182	216	189	230	135	1089	181.50	48	1137
17.	Rashid Fayil Al-Safmi	Oman	134	158	173	138	175	192	970	161.67		970
18.	Ghalib Al-Busaidi	Oman	159	136	125	159	167	199	945	157.50		945