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Gray and Ouschan took Euro-Tour titles

16/04/2016 Gray and Ouschan took Euro-Tour titles With solid performances, Mark Gray (GBR) won the Dynamic Billard Austrian Open and Jasmin Ouschan (AUT) won the Ballazzo Austrian Women’s Open in Alpina Sports and Wellness Hotel in St. Johann i.Pg., Austria. The men’s final was played between highly favored Mark Gray and underdog Ronald Regli (SUI). The way to the final match today lead Regli over Petri Makkonen (FIN) 9:7, Ivo Aarts (NED) 9:6 and Marco Teutscher (NED) 9:5 in the semi-finals. Gray defeated Imran Majid (GBR) 9:3, Sebastian Staab (GER) 9:6 and Joshua Filler (GER) 9:6 for his seat in the final match. Gray, being the favored player here took the stage and opened his account first. After Gray took a 2:0 lead, Regli was able to pull two racks back and tie the match at 2:2. The match went along quite evenly with both players taking racks but Gray always had that small advantage over Regli at all times. At 5:5, Gray went ahead and took the next three racks in order to get […]

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Juva humiliated Ortmann at Dynamic Billard Austrian Open Euro-Tour

15/04/2016 Juva humiliated Ortmann at Dynamic Billard Austrian Open Euro-Tour At the Dynamic Billard Austrian Open 2016 in St. Johann i.Pg., Austria, Markus Juva (FIN) trounced former World 9-ball Champion Oliver Ortmann (GER) 9:3 in the loser’s qualification round. Ortmann, who had been sent to the loser’s side by a narrow 8:9 defeat against Eklent Kaci (ALB) earlier today, made his way through to the loser’s qualification round with victories over Milan Mrva (SLK) 9:7 and Marco Spitzky (GER) 9:7. There he met Juva who just lost his last match with Sebastian Staab (GER) 7:9. On paper, Ortmann was the clearly favored player. But sometimes the paper does not tell the truth. Juva quickly got speed and after 2:2, he managed to win five racks in a row which put him up 7:2 over Ortmann. He then took a time-out and when he came back, Ortmann took the next rack. But that was it for the German. Java won two more racks in a row and defeated Ortmann 9:3. This booked Juva a seat in […]

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Austrian Open 2016

Mark Gray (GBR) gewinnt Austrian Open 2016 im Finale gegen Ronald Regli (SUI) mit 9-5. Den 3. Platz belegen Marco Teutscher (NED) und Joshua Filler (GER). Die Austrian Womens Open 2016 gewinnt Jasmin Ouschan (AUT) im Finale gegen Kamila Khodjaeva (BEL) mit 7-6. Den 3. Platz belegen Vania Franco (POR) und Amalia Matas (SPA). Direkt im Anschluss an die Pool Billard Europameisterschaft in St. Johann/Österreich findet an gleicher Stelle der nächste Euro-Tour Stopp des Jahres statt. Vom 14. – 16. April 2016 werden im Alpina Wellness & Sporthotel die Austrian Open 2016 der Damen und Herren stattfinden. Für die Herren geht es neben dem Gesamtpreisgeld von 34.000 Euro natürlich auch um viele wertvolle Punkte für das Ranking zur Qualifikation zum diesjährigen Mosconi Cup Anfang Dezember. Titelverteidiger der Austrian Open ist Niels Feijen aus den Niederlanden, er bezwang im letzten Jahr das deutsche Ausnahmetalent Joshua Filler im Finale mit 9-7. Die letzte Euro-Tour Veranstaltung in Italien ende Februar 2016 konnte der junge Pole Mieszko Fortunski für sich entscheiden, er bezwang vor einigen Wochen den deutschen Ausnahmespieler […]

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Feijen wins Dynamic Billard Austrian Open over Filler

01/08/2015 In a high class quality final match, Niels Feijen (NED) defeated Joshua Filler (GER) with 9:7 in the final match of the Dynamic Billard Austrian Open. The writing was on the wall that this match would be a thriller. And the many spectators in the venue and on the computer screens were not disappointed. To the contrary. The final contained everything one could wish for. The first racks were close to perfect. Both players hardly made any mistakes and after nine racks the scoreboard displayed a small advantage for Feijen with 5:4. Then Filler made a mistake when he attempted a safety on the 2-ball when Feijen played a push-out instead of handing the situation back to Feijen. He left an open table for Feijen and „The Terminator“ ran out, taking a 6:4 lead over Filler. Feijen could continue with this strong performance and after 13 racks, he was on the hill leading 8:5. He attempted a shot on the 3-ball but he missed it. Filler got back to the table and took that […]

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Filler trounced Ortmann in a clash of the generations

31/07/2015 Joshua Filler (GER) powered past former World Champion Oliver Ortmann (GER) 9:2 in the second winner’s round of the Dynamic Billard Austrian Open. The match between the two Germans was really a clash between the generations. On one side Ortmann with all his victories and merits in the past, always to be considered a tough opponent. In the other corner Joshua Filler, young gun on fire who just became third in an international straight pool event in New York, USA. The match was expected a close fight. But it turned out to be everything else but that. To the contrary, Filler started out like a hurricane and played marvelous pool. His break shot was there and he made no mistakes in the early stage of the match. Ortmann’s disadvantage was that his break was not there and Filler punished him for that without mercy. In all fairness, it must also be stated here that Filler did have Lady Luck on his side in the match. However, after seven racks the scoreboard displayed an unbelievable […]

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Austrian Open 2015

Niels Feijen (NED) gewinnt Austrian Open 2015 im Finale gegen Joshua Filler (GER) mit 9-7. Den 3. Platz belegen Sebastian Ludwig (GER) und Francisco Diaz-Pizarro (SPA). Im Anschluss an die derzeit laufende Pool Billard Europameisterschaft der Junioren in Österreich findet der 4. Euro-Tour Stopp der Saison statt. Im sehr schönen Alpina Sporthotel in St. Johann haben sich bislang mehr als 230 Teilnehmer gemeldet und diese werden vom 30. Juli – 01. August 2015 um das Gesamtpreisgeld von 34.000€ spielen. Die letzte Euro-Tour fand zuletzt Anfang Juni im nordhessischen Baunatal statt und der Gewinner der German Open 2015 hieß am Ende Petri Makkonen aus Finnland, er bezwang im Finale Konrad Juszczyszyn aus Polen mit 9-3. Wir sind gespannt ob Petri Makkonen seine gute Form halten konnte und auch in St. Johann eine Siegchance haben wird. Die insgesamt mehr als 230 Meldungen sind ein Ausrufezeichen, das die Euro-Tour, entgegen vieler Aussagen, am Ende ist. Die Euro-Tour ist die härteste und qualitativ beste Pool Billard Turnierserie der Welt und ist weiterhin für viele die Herausforderung überhaupt. Die Austrian […]