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Ralf Souquet has won the 2009 German Open in Sindelfingen with a 8-4 victory over Britains Imran Majid in the final yesterday evening.
The win further enhances Souquet’s number one ranking position and he is now 550 points clear of Niels Feijen in second. Souquet has been near dominant over the last 7 tournaments and ranking positions are drawn from these seven results on a rolling basis.
It will of course be difficult to maintain this level of form over another twelve months but with three tournament victories in the last 6 event plus a runner-up spot last time out in Italy Souquet is certainly staking his claim for the number one spot for a long period of time.
Another great tournament for the UK players and this result puts Imran Majid up to Number 4 in the European rankings.
The EPBF Eurotour Top 16
- Ralf Souquet (Germany) - 3170
- Niels Feijen (Holland) - 2620
- Nick Van Den Berg (Holland) - 2200
- Imran Majid (Great Britain) - 2195
- Marcus Chamat (Sweden) - 2135
- David Alcaide (Spain) - 2055
- Mark Gray (Great Britain) - 1975
- Sandor Tot (Serbia) - 1875
- Craig Osborne (Great Britain) - 1855
- Tony Drago (Malta) - 1845
- Mateusz Sniegocki (Poland) - 1845
- Dimitri Jungo (Switzerland) - 1800
- Christian Reimering (Germany) - 1790
- Daryl Peach (Great Britain) - 1775
- Thomas Engert (Germany) - 1770
- Karl Boyes (Great Britain) - 1735
In the ranking list, which is used to determine places at major International events, Britain has the most players in the top 16 with no less than five. The next event takes place in August, the 2009 Austrian Open.
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Majid beat fellow Brit Phil Burford
We went into this morning with no less than nine British cueists still remaining in the German Open event. After this morning’s round we had seven players progress to the last 16 stage.
The players to fall were youngster Phil Burford who lost 8-5 to fellow Brit, Imran Majid and Daryl Peach who was beaten 8-6 by German star Thomas Engert.
Many of the last 16 matches have already been completed which means I can already tell you that Ralf Souquet will play Mark Gray in the quarter finals. Also, Craig Osborne and Karl Boyes have already reached the last 8.
As I write Darren Appleton is locked at 6-6 with Engert and Majid is leading Shaverdi 6-4. Ricardo Jones and Chris Melling have been beaten so the Brits are starting to thin out a little bit!
More news later.
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We are continuing, as a nation, to make a massive impact on the Internetional pool scene. The German Open concludes tomorrow with nine of our original 16 entrants still standing in the last 32 knockout stage.
Those players include past Eurotour winners and two world champions. Daryl Peach, Darren Appleton, Karl Boyes, Imran Majid, Craig Osborne, Ricardo Jones, Phil Burford, Mark Gray and Chris Melling. These true brits are joined by an honorary Brit in Tony Drago as well.
On the plus side only Imran Majid and Phil Burford have drawn each other so we have a chance of getting 8 players through to the last 16, this would have been unimaginable 5 years ago, but through hardwork and dtermination I would say that we have the best players in Europe at the moment, if not the world.
Updates throughout the day tomorrow complete draw here: http://www.eurotouronline.eu/
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Recent World Pool Masters Champion Darren Appleton
The Dynamic German Open started yesterday with a field of around 256 of Europe’s best pool players including the likes of Darren Appleton, Daryl Peach, Ralf Souquet, Nick van den Berg and Tony Drago.
€40,000 in prize money is up for grabs with the winner receiving €5,000 and vitally important ranking points, the German Open is one of 7 rounds in the EPBF Eurotour and the EPBF rankings act as qualifiers to International events.
You can find the action Eurotour Online
The action continues until tomorrow afternoon when a winner will be crowned. The two hottest players on the tour this year are Ralf Souquet and Niels Feijen but after his recent World Masters win Darren Appleton will be looking for another title.
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After last weekend’s first GB 9 Ball Tour win, Craig Osborne has conitnued his solid form. We feel very hard done by now if a British player does not make it into the last four and we are becoming so used to our star players winning Eurotour events.
Osborne is the player currently left flying the flag after having defeated Mateusz Sniegocki 9-7 in the quarter finals to get that first ever semi final spot in the Eurotour.
Although Osborne has been a solid player over the last couple of years and has also been to the World Championships, he has never been a ‘major’ performer. However, with the way he played last weekend in lifting the Southern Masters 9-ball title 2009 could well be his breakthrough year.
In the other quarter finals Marko Vogel beat Pedro Fonseca 9-8 and the other two matches are still being played. David Alcaide and Marcus Chamat (5-3 at time of writing) and on the TV table Dimitri Jungo leads Ralf Souquet 3-1.
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The Eurotour returns to action today for the Italian Open from Castel Volturno. Many of our top British players are in action including Darren Appleton, Imran Majid, Karl Boyes and Daryl Peach.
What I wanted to mention though was that the Eurotour are once again providing a live stream of the main match table. You are now required to login to be able to view the stream, however, I will point out that the login page is not secure. Name, Address and Phone number are required alongside email address, why I don’t know. Surely name and email address would have sufficed. I just hope they don’t start spamming me with loads of rubbish I am not interested in.
You can be creative however if you don’t want to pass on your full details, for example, a full zip code is not required.
That said the actual quality of the stream is good, at times I am getting buffering so they could have a bandwidth issue on site as I can’t imagine that my 6.5meg download is too little. It is live all weekend, however, I believe you are not able to watch the final due to a Eurosport contract.
There will be some great matches coming up over the course of the next three days so stay tuned, one thing to make it more user-friendly would be commentary, at the moment this is not available. I suppose multi-languages watching could be the problem.
http://www.eurotouronline.eu/
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Niels Feijen has today won the Paris leg of the EPBF Eurotour. Europe’s professional 9-ball pool circuit.
He beat Austria’s relative unknown Mario He 9-4 to pick up the €5000 first prize. The win also propels Feijen into the number 1 spot on the overall rankings.
Eurotour Complete Results
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I meant to mention this event earlier in the week but it slipped my mind.
The Eurotour returns for its first event of the 2009 season, the French Open. This 9-ball tour is the largest in Europe and a myriad of World Champions and major tournament winners compete on a regular basis.
Today see’s the last 32 stages after two days of tough double elimination competition.
Eurotour stalwarts, Mark Gray, Daryl Peach, Imran Majid, Ralf Souquet and Niels Feijen have all reached the important stages with a couple of surprises as well, Scott Higgins and Fraser Patrick (both British) have reached the last 32 stage with Higgins already into the last 16.
For full results and a free live stream visit the official website below:
http://www.eurotouronline.eu
I also must mention that our latest podcast has also been released:
On the Baize - Snooker & Pool Podcast
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This tournament actually started yesterday but I didn’t get around to posting anything.
It should be another good event for the Brits on show as we currently have both the European 1 & 2 in Mark Gray and Imran Majid respectively. Joining them are the World Champion, Daryl Peach, World bronze medallist, Karl Boyes, Recent GB9 winners Darren Appleton and Jayson Shaw.
It is uncanny that in the space of around 3 years Britain is almost dominating European (and world) 9-ball pool events. Without doubt it is due to our natural ability as cueists and probably comes from excellect fundamentals learned through snooker (the majority of the players mentioned have dabbled in the large table game).
It has been a case of one gets there and the rest will follow as a number of British players have been on the winners rostrum both in Europe and further afield, the cameraderie whilst on tour is second to none and all the Brits stick together and perform as a solid unit. The only time this breaks down is when they draw each other!!!
I forgot to mention our Junior European champion as well in Phil Burford who is also in Weert flying the flag in the men’s division - this young player has honed his skills to the max and currently sits as the number 1 pro player on the GB9 Tour, a massive feat for one so young and inexperienced.
Anyway you can find out the results for yourself at www.eurotour.nu but I do expect some solid UK performances on this one.
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