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Press Release 15: EBT Masters 2013 participants

12 women and 12 men will participate in the 6th edition of the EBT Masters, which will be held in Bratislava, Slovakia on 30 September 2013 in Bowling Centre BNC.

The EBT Masters 2013 will be held just after the conclusion of the BNC Open (EBT 2013 Stop 14), which will be held in the same centre on 23-29 September 2013.

In each division of the EBT Masters, there will be 11 robin matches, each over one game, fol- lowed by a three persons stepladder final, in which 2 one game matches is played to deter- mine the winner in the men’s respectively the women’s division.

Players participating in the EBT Masters 2013 are the highest ranked bowlers in each division by the conclusion of the 2012.

No excuses have been received in the men’s division, while two players in the women’s division have been replaced; Rebecka Larsen from Sweden by Lisanne Breeschoten from The Nether- lands and Cassie Staudinger from Australia by Ida Andersson from Sweden.

The following players will attend the EBT Masters 2013 in Bratislava.

EBT Masters 2013 Women’s Division Birgit Pöppler, Germany (1) Sandra Andersson, Sweden (2) Britt Bröndsted, Denmark (3) Krista Pöllänen, Finland (4) Nina Flack, Sweden (5) Heidi Thorstensen, Norway (6) Josefine Linderoth, Sweden (7) Nicole Sanders, Netherlands (10) Sascha Wedel, Denmark (11) Joline Persson-Planefors, Sweden (12) Lisanne Breeschoten, Netherlands (13) Ida Andersson, Sweden (14)

EBT Masters 2013 Men’s Division , England (1) Mika Koivuniemi, Finland (2) Martin Larsen, Sweden (3) Mike Fagan, USA (4) Stuart Williams, England (5) Thomas Larsen, Denmark (6) Dennis Eklund, Sweden (7)

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Osku Palermaa, Finland (8) Sean Rash, USA (9) , USA (10) Tony Ranta, Finland (11) Paul Moor, England (12)

Kim Thorsgaard Jensen EBT Director

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