Veldhoven Open 2018
Veldhoven Open 2018
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| venue | NH Hotel Koningshof, Veldhoven , Netherlands |
| opening | 2nd August 2018 |
| Endgame | 4th August 2018 |
| discipline | 9-ball |
| winner |
 Mario Hey
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The Dynamic Billard Veldhoven Open in 2018 were the 155th Tournament of 9-Ball - Pool Billiard Tournament Series Euro tour . They took place from August 2nd to 4th, 2018 at the NH Hotel Koningshof in Veldhoven , where the European Championship had previously been held, and were the third tournament of the year, the seventeenth Euro Tour stop in the Netherlands and the first in Veldhoven .
The winner was Mario He , who was first in the Euro Tour rankings . The Austrian secured his third Euro Tour title with an 8: 7 win in the final against Albanian Eklent Kaçi , who had made it into at least the semifinals for the fourth time in a row. Niels Feijen and David Alcaide took third place. The Greek Alexander Kazakis , who had won the previous tournament with the Sankt Johann Open , was eliminated in the round of 32 against Kaçi. In addition to Feijen, the other two participating European champions who were previously determined made it to the final round. The German Joshua Filler reached the round of 16 and the Pole Konrad Juszczyszyn the sixteenth finals. The 8-ball European champion Bahram Lotfy did not take part.
mode
The 228 participants initially competed against each other in a double knockout system . 32 players qualified for the final round, which was played in the knockout system .
Prize money
| Prize money | |
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| winner | € 4,500 |
| finalist | € 3,000 |
| Semi-finalist | 1,750 € |
| Quarter finalist | € 1,250 |
| Round of 16 | € 1,000 |
| Last 32 | 500 € |
| 33-48 space | 250 € |
| total | € 36,000 |
Tournament course
Preliminary round
The first Euro Tour tournament in Veldhoven started with several surprises. So the ranking first Mario He lost his opening game with 1: 9 against Dimitri Jungo and the Albanian Eklent Kaçi , who had previously reached at least the semi-finals three times in a row, was defeated in his first game by the German Stephan Christmas (5: 9), who only won the took part in the Euro Tour for the second time. He and Kaçi then both fought their way into the final round with five wins through the losing round. The U17 world champion Sanjin Pehlivanović , who a few days earlier had become U19 European 9-ball champion, had to admit defeat to Kevin Schiller in the first round . The Bosnian won another game before knocking out Marc Bijsterbosch 3-9. Furthermore, the former professional snooker Tony Drago suffered a first round defeat.
In the second round, two former 9-ball world champions suffered their first defeat: Oliver Ortmann just lost to Americo Ferreira (8: 9) and Daryl Peach to Christian Sparrenlöv (4: 9). In addition, Evangelos Vettas defeated last year 's European champion Ruslan Tschinachow and Maxim Dudanez the two-time U19 European champion Wiktor Zieliński .
One of the first players to be eliminated was the 2014 vice European champion, Ivo Aarts . In the second losing round the tournament ended for Tschinachow with a 5-9 defeat against the U23 European champion Casper Matikainen . The Russian, who won the Dutch Open last year, was the first top 16 player to be eliminated. The two-time European champion Francisco Díaz-Pizarro was defeated in this section by the Portuguese Bruno Sousa (5: 9) after he had come to the losers' round due to a defeat in a hard-fought second round match against Mieszko Fortuński (7: 9). In the third round on the losing side, the two-time Euro Tour winner Fabio Petroni was eliminated against Tim de Ruyter (4: 9) and Daryl Peach was surprisingly defeated by the Greek Panagiotis Xypoliteas (4: 9).
In the fourth losing round there was a clash of two U19 European champions: Wiktor Zieliński, the winner in 14/1 endless and 10-ball, prevailed 9: 6 against the 8-ball title holder Christian Fröhlich . With the Dane Christoffer Lentz , the only U17 European champion participating in the tournament was eliminated in the round that meant rank 65. The tournament also ended with this placement for the U23 European 9-ball champion, Vitaly Pazura . The Ukrainian, who won a men's European Championship title in 2016 , defeated Sergei Luzker , among others , before he was now narrowly defeated by Estonian Mark Mägi (8: 9). A surprise of this round was the elimination of six-time Euro Tour winner Mark Gray . The ranked thirteenth had clearly won his opening game against Mohammad Soufi (9: 5), but then lost to Nikos Ekonomopoulos (6: 9) and finally had to admit defeat to 19-year-old German Kevin Schiller (4: 9). Christian Sparrenlöv (8: 9 against Konstantin Stepanow ) and Tony Drago (8: 9 against Oliver Szolnoki ) were also eliminated in this round .
In the last round of the group of winners there was a new edition of the 10-ball European Championship final, in which the German Joshua Filler again prevailed against the Austrian Albin Ouschan , who started the tournament as runner-up. The two other participating new men's European champions also made it into the knockout phase unbeaten. Niels Feijen (14/1 endless) defeated fifth placed Denis Grabe (9: 3) in the last qualifying round and Konrad Juszczyszyn (9-Ball) won against Cliff Castelein (9: 5). The 8-ball European champion Bahram Lotfy had not registered for the tournament. Among the 16 directly qualified were six top 16 players: Francisco Sánchez (6th), Ralf Souquet (7th), Fjodor Gorst (9th), David Alcaide (10th), Alexander Kazakis (11th) and Wojciech Szewczyk (15.). In addition, the Swiss Dimitri Jungo, who played on the Euro Tour for the first time since 2016, and Iker-Andoni Echeverria made it to the final round via the winning side. The Spaniard Echeverria, who surprisingly made it through to the quarter-finals, secured his first round of the finals in his fourth Euro Tour participation with a 9: 6 win over the eighth ranked Maximilian Lechner .
In the fifth losing round, the U23 European champion Casper Matikainen was eliminated against the German Jörn Kaplan (6: 9), who played on the Euro Tour for the first time after a nine-year break. Also in 48th place went to Oliver Ortmann, who lost 8: 9 to Daniele Corrieri , and Kevin Schiller, who, after his surprise victories, was now defeated 6: 9 to fourth place Wiktor Zieliński.
In the last qualifying round on the losing side, the four best of the Euro Tour rankings made it into the final round. Mario He (1st) beat Wojciech Sroczyński (9: 5), Albin Ouschan (2nd) won against Tim Jonkman (9: 4), Eklent Kaçi (3rd) against Cliff Castelein (9: 5) and Wiktor Zieliński (4th) against Andrei Seroschtan (9: 3). The fifth in the ranking Denis Grabe was defeated by the twelfth Mateusz Śniegocki (3: 9) and was thus the highest-ranked player who was eliminated in the preliminary round. Maximilian Lechner (8th) was the fourth top 16 player to miss the final round. After a 6-2 lead, the Austrian had to admit defeat by 8: 9 to Mariusz Skoneczny from Poland . In addition, the two-time European Championship bronze medal winner of the previous month, Mieszko Fortuński , the former world champion Stephan Cohen as well as Radosław Babica and Sebastian Ludwig were eliminated in the round .
Round of the last 32
In the sixteenth finals, the Swiss Dimitri Jungo caused a surprise. The Euro Tour returnees won 9: 5 against fourth-placed Wiktor Zieliński , making it to the round of 16 for the first time since the 2015 Portugal Open . Iker-Andoni Echeverria was the worst placed finalist with rank 328 . The 28-year-old Spaniard met Croatian Philipp Stojanović in the round of 32 , against whom he fell behind several times in a hard-fought match, but finally prevailed 9: 7.
In the duel between the reigning 9-ball European champion Konrad Juszczyszyn and the 10-ball winner of 2017 Marc Bijsterbosch , the Dutchman prevailed. Juszczyszyn took a 6-3 lead in the meantime and never fell behind during the first fourteen racks. In the decider, however, the Pole had to admit defeat to the Dutchman Bijsterbosch. The other two remaining reigning European champions got through to the next round with clear wins: Niels Feijen defeated Bruno Sousa 9: 4 and Joshua Filler prevailed against Petri Makkonen 9: 2 . The former European champions Francisco Sánchez (9: 7 against Daniele Corrieri ) and Jani Uski (9: 7 against Pijus Labutis ) as well as the Euro Tour record winner Ralf Souquet (9: 7 against Oliver Szolnoki ) advanced one round.
In the top game, the number one Mario He met the ninth Fjodor Gorst . The reigning U19 world champion Gorst was able to shorten to 6: 8 after a 2: 8 deficit, but finally had to admit defeat to the Austrian. While the second Albin Ouschan fought a hard-fought duel with the Dutchman Ivar Saris and only just won 9: 8, the third-placed Eklent Kaçi clearly prevailed against Alexander Kazakis (9: 4).
The nation with the most participants in the final round was Poland . However, all seven finalists from the country of the reigning European team champions lost their sixteenth finals. In addition to Juszczyszyn and Zieliński, these were Mateusz Śniegocki (7: 9 against Maxim Dudanez ) and Wojciech Szewczyk (7: 9 against Kim Laaksonen ), two top 16 players, the EM third-placed Mariusz Skoneczny (4: 9 against David Alcaide ), the national record champions and former European champions Tomasz Kapłan (7: 9 against Konstantin Stepanow ) and Marek Kudlik (5: 9 against Miguel Silva ).
Round of 16
Dimitri Jungo 's first Euro Tour tournament after his two-year break ended in the round of 16 . With a 7: 9 defeat against Russian Konstantin Stepanow , the Swiss, who had held the record as the youngest Euro Tour winner until 2017, narrowly missed the opportunity to reach a quarter-finals for the first time since 2013. For Iker-Andoni Echeverria , too, was in the round of 16 over. Against the Euro Tour leaderboard Mario He , the Spaniard took the lead four times and was close to reaching the quarter-finals with 8: 7. But the Austrian still managed to turn the game around.
In the third round of 16, the former 9-ball world champions Niels Feijen and Albin Ouschan met , who had contested the European Championship final in 14/1 the previous month and the 9-ball World Championship final in 2014 . This time the ten-time Euro Tour winner Feijen prevailed (9: 6). The 19-year-old Russian Maxim Dudanez , meanwhile, made it into a Euro Tour quarter-finals for the first time with a 9: 6 win over Miguel Silva .
With Marc Bijsterbosch and Jani Uski , two European champions from 2017 played against each other in the round of the last 16 , with Bijsterbosch winning 9: 4 against the Finn, who had never reached the finals in his four previous Euro Tour tournaments. In the duel of third place Eklent Kaçi against sixth Francisco Sánchez , the Albanian was able to clearly prevail (9: 3).
The last two Germans remaining in the tournament were also eliminated in the round of 16. While the Euro Tour record winner Ralf Souquet had to admit defeat to his club mate from BSV Dachau , David Alcaide , 6: 9, the 10-ball European champion Joshua Filler was defeated by the Finn Kim Laaksonen (4: 9).
Quarter finals
In the quarter-finals there was another clash between two former European champions, which also represented the encounter between two of the four remaining top 16 players in the Euro Tour rankings. After Konstantin Stepanow took the lead 3-0, the Austrian Mario He won the following five racks and never gave up the lead (9: 7).
Two more games of the Round of 8 went clear. Niels Feijen won 9-2 against Maxim Dudanez and Albanian Eklent Kaçi made it into the semi-finals for the fourth time in a row with a 9-2 win against Marc Bijsterbosch . In the fourth quarter-finals, the Finn Kim Laaksonen , who made it past the sixteenth-finals for the first time, was able to fight for a 7-6 lead against David Alcaide . However, the Spaniard won the following three racks and made it into a Euro Tour semi-finals for the thirteenth time.
Semifinals
In the first semi-final, Mario He clearly prevailed against Niels Feijen , the only remaining reigning European champion (9: 1). The second game of the semifinals was more even. Five times in the course of the match between Eklent Kaçi and David Alcaide it was tied and neither player ever achieved a lead of more than two racks. In the end, Kaçi prevailed 9: 7 against the tenth in the ranking.
final
In the final, the leader of the Euro Tour rankings Mario He met third Eklent Kaçi . While the Austrian had been successful twice in four finals previously ( North Cyprus Open 2016 and Austrian Open 2017 ), the Albanian Kaçi was in the final for the second time after his victory at the Treviso Open 2018 . Both finalists had reached the finals after an opening defeat on the losing side.
In the final, Mario He first took the lead six times, whereupon the Albanian managed to equalize directly. In the thirteenth rack, Kaçi gained a lead for the only time (7: 6). The Austrian then turned the game to an 8: 7 lead. After Kaçi had equalized again, Mario He was allowed to toast in the decisive rack. After the break , a difficult ball remained for the Austrian. He sank it, then cleared the table completely and decided the game 9: 8 for himself. As the thirteenth player and the first Austrian, He secured his third Euro Tour victory.
Final round
Web links
- Veldhoven Open 2018 on azbilliards.com
Individual evidence
- ^ Thomas Overbeck: Men's and Women's Euro-Tour starting simultaneously tomorrow. In: europeanpocketbilliardfederation.com. European Pocket Billiard Federation , August 1, 2018, accessed August 13, 2018 .
- ^ A b c Thomas Overbeck: Ouschan and He win the Euro-Tour events in Veldhoven. In: europeanpocketbilliardfederation.com. European Pocket Billiard Federation, August 4, 2018, accessed August 13, 2018 .
- ↑ a b c d Matches - Draw and Results. In: billiardapps.com. European Pocket Billiard Federation, accessed August 13, 2018 .
- ^ A b Thomas Overbeck: Massive surprises on the first day of the Euro Tour. In: europeanpocketbilliardfederation.com. European Pocket Billiard Federation, August 2, 2018, accessed August 13, 2018 .
- ↑ a b c d e f Eurotour Ranking. Ranking Overall - After - ET - 2018 - O9 - St. Johann im Pongau - Austria - Eventnr: 2018020. In: eurotouronline.com. European Pocket Billiard Federation, accessed August 13, 2018 .
- ↑ Scoresheet: Philipp Stojanovic - Iker-Andoni Echeverria. In: billiardapps.com. European Pocket Billiard Federation, accessed August 13, 2018 .
- ↑ Scoresheet: Konrad Juszczyszyn - Marc Bijsterbosch. In: billiardapps.com. European Pocket Billiard Federation, accessed August 13, 2018 .
- ↑ Scoresheet: Fedor Gorst - Mario He. In: billiardapps.com. European Pocket Billiard Federation, accessed August 13, 2018 .
- ↑ Thomas Overbeck: Ouschan pipped Saris to the post. In: europeanpocketbilliardfederation.com. European Pocket Billiard Federation, August 3, 2018, accessed August 13, 2018 .
- ↑ Scoresheet: Mario He - Iker-Andoni Echeverria. In: billiardapps.com. European Pocket Billiard Federation, accessed August 13, 2018 .
- ↑ Scoresheet: Konstantin Stepanov - Mario He. In: billiardapps.com. European Pocket Billiard Federation, accessed August 13, 2018 .
- ↑ Scoresheet: David Alcaide - Kim Laaksonen. In: billiardapps.com. European Pocket Billiard Federation, accessed August 13, 2018 .
- ↑ Scoresheet: Mario He - Niels Feijen. In: billiardapps.com. European Pocket Billiard Federation, accessed August 13, 2018 .
- ↑ Scoresheet: Eklent Kaci - David Alcaide. In: billiardapps.com. European Pocket Billiard Federation, accessed August 13, 2018 .
- ↑ Player Rankings: Mario He. In: billiardapps.com. European Pocket Billiard Federation, accessed August 13, 2018 .
- ↑ Player Rankings: Eklent Kaci. In: billiardapps.com. European Pocket Billiard Federation, accessed August 13, 2018 .
- ↑ a b Scoresheet: Mario He - Eklent Kaci. In: billiardapps.com. European Pocket Billiard Federation, accessed August 13, 2018 .