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© JP PARMENTIER / EPBF WOJCIECH<br />
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NEWSLETTER<br />
POOLCOMPS.COM CZECH OPEN <strong>2007</strong><br />
TRAJDOS<br />
WINS SEASON-OPENER<br />
Winner Wojciech Trajdos<br />
> Wojciech Trajdos from<br />
Poland is the fi rst Euro-Tour<br />
Champion in <strong>2007</strong>. In his very<br />
fi rst appearance on the tour,<br />
the formerly barely known<br />
underdog managed to win the<br />
title at the PoolComps.com<br />
<strong>Czech</strong> <strong>Open</strong> with an impressive<br />
run of 11-1 sets and became<br />
the fi rst ever Polish player to<br />
win a Euro-Tour stop. Trajdos<br />
had a comfortable start as he<br />
cruised undefeated through<br />
the fi rst rounds of the bookedout<br />
288 players strong fi eld,<br />
before he started into the<br />
round of the Last 64 with close<br />
victories over seeded players<br />
Stephane Cohen (FRA, 10-8)<br />
and Daryl Peach (GBR, 10-9).<br />
On his straight way to the Last<br />
16 single-ko stage, he then<br />
suffered a 9-10 loss against<br />
Russian Konstantin Stepanov.<br />
But in his following decisive<br />
match on the one-loss side<br />
against Italian veteran Bruno<br />
Muratore, Trajdos showed<br />
no nerves with winning 10-9<br />
despite having trailed 8-9. On<br />
his way to the fi nal he later<br />
on seemingly effortless scored<br />
fl awless wins over David Pascasi<br />
(ITA, 10-5) and German<br />
aces Ralf Souquet (10-4) and<br />
Thomas Engert (10-5). In the<br />
title-match, he again had to<br />
face Konstantin Stepanov, who<br />
-after having sent Trajdos to<br />
the one-loss side earlier- did<br />
let follow wins over the Germans<br />
Wilhelm Georg (10-6)<br />
and Joern Kaplan (10-4), before<br />
besting betting-favourite<br />
Marlon Manalo (PHI) with 10-6<br />
in the semi-fi nal.<br />
Different to the fi rst match<br />
between the two „young-guns“,<br />
it was Trajdos who took control<br />
right from the start and consequently<br />
jumped to a 7-2 lead.<br />
Indeed, Stepanov fought back,<br />
winning the next four racks to<br />
close the gap to one single rack.<br />
But Trajdos kept his fast and<br />
loose playing-style going and<br />
secured the next three racks for<br />
the fi nal score of 10-6. Together<br />
with the immortal prestige of<br />
having won such a high-class<br />
tournament an all-smiling Trajdos<br />
received a winner‘s cheque<br />
of 6.500,00 Euro.<br />
<strong>2007</strong> - No. 01<br />
ABOUT IBPF<br />
International Billiard Promotion<br />
Foundation (IBPF),<br />
that is the new organizer’s<br />
name of the poolbilliard<br />
<strong>Eurotour</strong>, the only existing<br />
successfull European professional<br />
tournament series<br />
in pool for now over 12<br />
years. The IBPF is the exclusive<br />
partner of the European<br />
Pocket Billard Federation<br />
(EPBF). With its whole<br />
power and engagement,<br />
the IBPF, decisively supported<br />
by <strong>Eurotour</strong> titlesponsor<br />
Dynamic Billard,<br />
wants to further develope<br />
the <strong>Eurotour</strong> with a completely<br />
revised system.<br />
www.epbf.com<br />
CO-SPONSORS
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POOLCOMPS.COM CZECH OPEN <strong>2007</strong> TO WRITE HISTORY<br />
The inaugural Euro-Tour stop in<br />
<strong>2007</strong> has set new records for<br />
a number of reasons. At first<br />
tour-organiser IBPF received an<br />
incredible 403 annoncements<br />
for this tournament, a more<br />
than solid confirmation for the<br />
enormous efforts in the past<br />
three years to further increase<br />
the tour being successful so far.<br />
Despite playing the new system<br />
with the Top 32 of the overallrankings<br />
being seeded for the<br />
Last 64 - what led to an increased<br />
total of 288 spots for this<br />
tournament - a waiting list with<br />
far more than 100 names on it<br />
had to be built. In this context it<br />
was interesting to see, that not<br />
less than 15 of the seeded Top<br />
32 have lost their first matches<br />
in the Last 64 and only 9 of<br />
them made it into the single-ko<br />
stage of the Last 16.<br />
The worst case of being eliminated<br />
without winning a single set<br />
became reality for altogether 6<br />
seeded players, under them No.<br />
4 seed Fabio Petroni (ITA), who<br />
had arrived to <strong>Liberec</strong> with the<br />
merites of having won the previous<br />
tour-stop in Malaga.<br />
It will be interesting to see, what<br />
these statistics will look like in<br />
September, when this system<br />
will be repeated at the Pool-<br />
Comps.com Dutch <strong>Open</strong>. For<br />
the next three tourstops in Italy,<br />
Germany and Austria, players<br />
can rely on the wellknown system<br />
with every player beginning<br />
at the same point and a finalround<br />
of 32 players.<br />
Another novelty was the composition<br />
of the winner‘s podium.<br />
With winner Wojciech Trajdos,<br />
runner-up Konstantin Stepanov<br />
and semi-finalist Marlon Manalo,<br />
not less than three of the Last 4<br />
had never reached a Euro-Tour<br />
winner‘s podium before, what is<br />
unique in Euro-Tour history in its<br />
15th year.<br />
Last but not least, the internet<br />
statistics of the official tour-website<br />
www.eurotour.nu reached<br />
another all-time high with nearly<br />
26.000.000 hits during the tournament.<br />
This number becomes<br />
even more impressive as the<br />
viewers of the LiveStream on<br />
the BWin-site are not part of this<br />
statistics.<br />
<strong>2007</strong> - No. 01<br />
DIAMOND 9 SERIES INFO<br />
A lot of important revises<br />
have helped to further increase<br />
the standard of the<br />
EPBF <strong>Eurotour</strong>. What has<br />
been already successful in<br />
the past, was now further<br />
developed for the sake of<br />
pool billiards sports in general<br />
as the „<strong>Diamond</strong> 9<br />
Series“. Long-termed contracts<br />
with organizers onspot<br />
are the key-point.<br />
They help all involved parties<br />
like players, visitors,<br />
sponsors and media, to<br />
plan for their respective<br />
purposes. Additionally, the<br />
total prize-money was increased<br />
to now €40.000.<br />
<strong>2007</strong>-02-21 - <strong>2007</strong>-02-25<br />
PoolComps.com <strong>Czech</strong> <strong>Open</strong><br />
<strong>Liberec</strong> / <strong>Czech</strong> Republic<br />
<strong>2007</strong>-04-11 - <strong>2007</strong>-04-15<br />
PoolComps.com Italy <strong>Open</strong><br />
Napels / Italy<br />
<strong>2007</strong>-05-02 - <strong>2007</strong>-05-06<br />
PoolComps.com German <strong>Open</strong><br />
Sindelfingen / Germany<br />
<strong>2007</strong>-06-13 - <strong>2007</strong>-06-17<br />
PoolComps.com Austria <strong>Open</strong><br />
Rankweil / Austria<br />
<strong>2007</strong>-09-12 - <strong>2007</strong>-09-16<br />
PoolComps.com Dutch <strong>Open</strong><br />
Deurne / Netherlands<br />
<strong>2007</strong>-10-17 - <strong>2007</strong>-10-21<br />
PoolComps.com Swiss <strong>Open</strong><br />
Frauenfeld/ Switzerland<br />
<strong>2007</strong>-12-05 - <strong>2007</strong>-12-09<br />
PoolComps.com Costa del Sol <strong>Open</strong>,<br />
TBA / Spain<br />
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TOUR STOPS <strong>2007</strong>
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TOUR STOP TOP 32 EURO RANKING TOP 32<br />
Pl Name Nat. Pts<br />
1 TRAJDOS Wojciech POL 630<br />
2 STEPANOV Konstantin RUS 510<br />
3 MANALO Marlon PHI 440<br />
3 ENGERT Thomas GER 440<br />
5 AYAS Murat TUR 370<br />
5 KAPLAN Jorn GER 370<br />
5 LOPOTKO Hubert POL 370<br />
5 SOUQUET Ralf GER 370<br />
9 ALCAIDE David ESP 330<br />
9 BABICA Radoslaw POL 330<br />
9 FAZANES Antonio ESP 330<br />
9 FOLDES Vilmos HUN 330<br />
9 FULCHER Jonni GBR 330<br />
9 GEORG Wilhelm GER 330<br />
9 MAJID Imran GBR 330<br />
9 PASCASI David ITA 330<br />
17 CABELLO Carlos ESP 300<br />
17 DAS Serge BEL 300<br />
17 FEIJEN Niels NED 300<br />
17 KAPLAN Thomasz POL 300<br />
17 MURATORE Bruno ITA 300<br />
17 OTTERMANN Nicolas GER 300<br />
17 SKOWERSKI Karol POL 300<br />
17 TSCHUDI Marco SUI 300<br />
25 ALCOBERRO David ESP 275<br />
25 FELDER Michael AUT 275<br />
25 GENNISSEN Rienus NED 275<br />
25 MASSEY Damian GBR 275<br />
25 ORTMANN Oliver GER 275<br />
25 PAPADOPOULOS John GRE 275<br />
25 PEACH Daryl GBR 275<br />
25 SCHMIDT Michael GER 275<br />
More Rankings on<br />
www.epbf.com<br />
Main<br />
Sponsor<br />
Pl Name Nat. Pts<br />
1 FEIJEN Niels NED 2420<br />
2 ENGERT Thomas GER 2340<br />
3 ORTMANN Oliver GER 2300<br />
4 PETRONI Fabio ITA 2105<br />
5 VAN DEN BERG Nick NED 2095<br />
6 MAJID Imran GBR 2080<br />
7 FULCHER Jonni GBR 2010<br />
8 STOLKA Harald GER 2005<br />
9 DRAGO Tony MLT 1985<br />
10 STEPANOV Konstantin RUS 1800<br />
11 TSCHUDI Marco SUI 1800<br />
12 ALCOBERRO David ESP 1780<br />
13 ALCAIDE David ESP 1775<br />
14 PEACH Daryl GBR 1775<br />
15 FOLDES Vilmos HUN 1770<br />
16 SOUQUET Ralf GER 1755<br />
17 SCHMIDT Michael GER 1750<br />
18 MURATORE Bruno ITA 1735<br />
19 DABOVIC Dejan AUT 1730<br />
20 HYBLER Roman CZ 1710<br />
21 CHAMAT Marcus SWE 1690<br />
22 REIMERING Christian GER 1670<br />
23 KAPLAN Jorn GER 1665<br />
24 KEMPTER Martin AUT 1660<br />
25 UZZELL Kevin GBR 1635<br />
26 KAPLAN Thomasz POL 1620<br />
27 LELY Alex NED 1610<br />
28 BABICA Radoslaw POL 1595<br />
29 TOT Sandor SCG 1590<br />
30 OSBOURNE Craig GBR 1570<br />
31 STOJANOVIC Philipp CRO 1550<br />
32 ROTER Mariusz POL 1530<br />
More Rankings on<br />
ww.epbf.com<br />
RANKINGS<br />
<strong>2007</strong> - No. 01<br />
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PICTURES<br />
<strong>2007</strong> - No. 01<br />
Lagging for the Break: The<br />
finalists of the PoolComps.<br />
com <strong>Czech</strong> <strong>Open</strong> Wojciech<br />
Trajdos (left) and Konstantin<br />
Stepanov take up the<br />
action.<br />
PoolComps.com <strong>Czech</strong><br />
<strong>Open</strong> Champion <strong>2007</strong>:<br />
Wojciech Trajdos (POL)<br />
Runner-up Konstantin Stepanov<br />
(RUS) jumped from<br />
No. 28 to No. 10 in the<br />
Euro-Tour overall rankings.<br />
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PICTURES<br />
<strong>2007</strong> - No. 01<br />
Betting-favourite „Marvellous“<br />
Marlon Manalo (PHI)<br />
reached the semi-final in<br />
his first ever Euro-Tour<br />
appearance.<br />
Another Top 4 finish for<br />
Thomas Engert (GER),<br />
who is the new No. 2 in<br />
Europe, closely behind<br />
new leader Niels Feijen<br />
(NED).<br />
The Top 4 of the Pool-<br />
Comps.com <strong>Czech</strong> <strong>Open</strong><br />
<strong>2007</strong> (from left to right):<br />
Thomas Engert, Marlon<br />
Manalo (both 3rd), Champion<br />
Wojciech Trajdos,<br />
Runner-up Konstantin<br />
Stepanov.<br />
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