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Filler and Maciol grab the Gold Medals

Filler and Maciol grab the Gold Medals The Dynamic European Championships – Youth, Seniors & Ladies Portoroz, Slovenia – 1-16 aug 2014 02/08/2014 The first medals have been awarded at the 2014 Dynamic Billard European Youth Championships in Portoroz, Slovenia. Joshua Filler (GER) won the juniors division while Daniel Maciol (POL) took the title in the pupils division. Filler has been one of the favorite players in the event. Being the defending champion in the pupils, he played his first year in the juniors division since he has reached the age limit. But also in the juniors, no one was able to stop Filler. He eliminated Tian Zhang (SWE) in the semi-final with 100:67 and won the final match over Spasian Spasov (BUL) with 100:47. Spasov, who overcame Daniel Tangudd (SWE) in the semi-final, was the underdog in the final. He fought his way through the chart and the second place is definitely a huge success for the Bulgarian. Maciol had a tough match in the semi-final with Patrick Hofmann (GER). He just managed to […]

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Dutch juniors send team Slovenia home

German also juniors on their way Sarajevo,  Bosnia  &  Hercegovina:  Team   Netherlands   defeated  team Slovenia in the  junior’s division with 2:1. The  last  round of  today  featured  team’s matches  at  the  Dynamic  Billard EPBF  European  Championships Youth.  While   the   pupils   had   a loser’s round going on,  the juniors had  already  entered  the  single elimination  stage.  There,  team Netherlands  had to deal with team Slovenia.  In  9-ball,  Nathalie Seichter  (NED) tried to  defend the Dutch  colors.  But  she  got  simply overpowered  by  Slovenia’s  Denis Kragolnik  with  8:3  in  45  minutes. That  turned  the  score  1:0 in  favor of  team  Slovenia.  At  that  time, Guido Janssen (NED) was  leading 5:0  in  8-ball  over  Ana  Gradisnik (SLO)  and  her  brother  Klemen  Gradisnik  (SLO)  was trailing  25:42  to  Tim  De Ruyter  (NED).  Everything  looked  like  the  decider  would  once  again  be  the straight  pool match. And that  turned  out  to  be  true.  Janssen  easily  won  his 8-ball  over  Ana  Gradisnik  with  7:1.  While  the  team   score  was  tied  at  1:1,  De Ruyter  played a much better straight  pool  than  […]