The winners of the Portuguese Dynamic Billard Open are Nick van den Berg (NED) and Jasmin Ouschan (AUT).
歐巡賽-葡萄牙公開賽於Albufeira的Salgados Palace Hotel落下帷幕，荷蘭名將Nick van den Berg和奧地利名將Jasmin Ouschan分別摘得男女組別桂冠。
Nick van den Berg and Jasmin Ouschan
Nick van den Berg had a huge mountain to climb today. He had really big obstacles in the way on his quest for the glory. Before he met David Alcaide (ESP) in the final match, he had to overcome Vitaly Patsura (UKR) in a heartbreaker with 9:8, then Tomasz Kaplan (POL) 9:6 and in the semi-final match Mark Gray (GBR) with 9:3. Van den Berg played extremely well and solid and this also continued in the final match. Alcaide could not get into the match and missed a few easy shots in the early stage of the match. That brought van den Berg in advance. Alcaide had started a few attempts for a comeback and it looked like he would be able to make the match closer again. However, whenever Alcaide got closer, he was unlucky or fell out of position or the cue ball scratched. The match just went along in van den Berg’s favour who used his chance and very deservedly took the match with 9:5 in the final match to win his 10th Euro-Tour title.
男子組比賽中，Nick van den Berg 憑藉穩健的發揮，歷經艱難入圍決賽 9-8險勝去年歐錦賽大黑馬、烏克蘭小將Vitaly Patsura，9-6力挫波蘭好手Tomasz Kaplan，9-3擊敗英國名將Mark Gray。決賽中他面對的是剛剛斬獲大師賽桂冠的西班牙名將David Alcaide。比賽中，van den Berg依舊表現得非常強勢，這也使得Alcaide一直無法進入到良好的比賽狀態中。最終，van den Berg便9-5贏得勝利，這場勝利也讓他拿到了第10座歐巡賽冠軍獎盃。
Top Eight Men:
1. Nick van den Berg (NED)
2. David Alcaide (ESP)
3.
Mark Gray (GBR)
Ralf Souquet (GER)
5.
Marc Bijsterbosch (NED)
Wiktor Zielinski (POL)
Joshua Filler (GER)
Tomasz Kaplan (POL)
In the women’s division, Jasmin Ouschan has been through a real rollercoaster ride over the past weeks. Silver medal, then early out, then Gold, then out again just to come out strong and win the Dynamic Billard Portuguese Women Open with a tremendously strong performance over Kristina Tkach (RUS) in the final match with 7:3. „I am really exhausted now and need some time for regeneration“, stated Ouschan after the final match, „these tournaments took all out of me and I am really looking forward to going home and enjoy my bike and the sun for a few days“.
女子組角逐中，Ouschan再次迎來俄羅斯Kristina Tkach的挑戰。在此前結束的歐錦賽中，Ouschan收獲不勝理想，而這一次，她用一場7-3的大勝向所有人證明，她依然是當今世界女子撞壇頂尖球員之一。奪冠之後的Ouschan表示：“現在真的有些累，我需要一些時間來恢複，這一系列比賽把我精力都掏空了，我非常希望能回家騎騎單車，沐浴在陽光下。”
Final match:
Jasmin Ouschan (AUT) v Kristina Tkach (RUS) 7:3
Semi-finals:
Jasmin Ouschan v Ina Kaplan (GER) 7:3
Kristina Tkach v Katarzyna Wesolowska (POL) 7:0
Top Eight Women:
1. Jasmin Ouschan (AUT)
2. Kristina Tkach (RUS)
3.
Katarzyna Wesolowska (POL)
Ina Kaplan (GER)
5.
Oliwia Czuprynska (POL)
Claudia von Rohr (SUI)
Marharyta Fefilava (BLR)
Kateryna Polovinchuk (UKR)
With these results in the rankings, the following players qualify for this year’s World Games in Wroclaw, Poland, through the Euro-Tour rankings: Kristina Tkach, Ina Kaplan, David Alcaide and Joshua Filler.
That concludes the coverage from the Dynamic Billard Portuguese Open in Salgados Palace Hotel in Albufeira, Portugal. The next tournament of the Euro-Tour will be the Dynamic Billard Austrian Open to be staged in St. Johann i.Pg, Austria, May 18th to 20th, 2017.
The event was hosted by the European Governing Body for Pool, the European Pocket Billiard Federation (EPBF) and organized by International Billiard Promotion (IBP). For further information and reference please go to the federation website www.epbf.com, visit us on Facebook or check out our youtube channel for regular news clips or contact our press office [email protected].
隨著比賽的結束，憑借歐巡賽積分排名獲得今年波蘭世運會資格的球員名單也正式出爐，他們分別是：Kristina Tkach, Ina Kaplan, David Alcaide和Joshua Filler。歐巡賽下一站的奧地利公開賽將於當地時間5月18日-20日在奧地利的St. Johann i.Pg進行。