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Europe Announces 2016 Atlantic Challenge Cup Team

23/03/2016 Europe Announces 2016 Atlantic Challenge Cup Team The European Pocket Billiard Federation today announced its team to face the Americans during this year’s staging of the Atlantic Challenge Cup taking place July 8 – 11, 2016 in Schaumburg, Illinois (just outside Chicago). “After the Europeans’ success during the 2015 inaugural Atlantic Challenge Cup, the Americans will have home soil advantage and will want revenge,” said David Morris, International Billiard Promotion Foundation president. “With that in mind, the Europeans have assembled a strong line up of players who have won at the highest level just to qualify for this year’s team.” First onto the team comes Krystian Cwikla. It was the European gold in the 9-ball U19 division which ensured Poland’s top youth player a spot on the team. Poland’s Patryk Statkiewicz was part of last year’s winning team and will be able to offer Krystian plenty of advice on what to expect in Chicago. Joining Krystian on the team is the Ukraine’s talented Vitaly Patsura who won the European U19 10-ball gold medal. This […]

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Gold for Filler and Batkowski

Medal fight between Germany and Poland ended in a dead heat Sarajevo,  Bosnia  &  Hercegovina:  The  new  European Straight Pool Champions  are  Joshua Filler  (GER)  in  the  pupil’s  division  and  Sebastian Batkowski (POL) in the junior’s  division. Filler  started  out  nervous  in his  match  with  Krystian Cwikla (POL).  Cwikla  went  ahead  and took an early  31:4 lead.  He played much  calmer  and  seemed  to  be more  focussed  than  Filler.  But Filler  never  gave  in.  He  stayed  in the  match  and  Cwikla  committed some  unforced  errors.  Filler brutally  punished  that  by  running 45  balls   on  Cwikla  to  turn  the score  65:37  in  his  favor.  That shocked Cwikla.  He could  not  find his  way  back  into  the  match  and allowed  Filler  to  take  the  points needed to win the match and the Championship title with 75:43. In  the  junior’s  division,  Batkowski  found  a  tough  match  with  Tobias Bongers  (GER). The match was even for a long time. But then Batkowski ran 76 balls  in two consecutive innings on Bongers,  suddenly  leading 76:50.  Bongers hung in there and  […]