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“Napoleon” loses to “The Kaiser” with 8:9 Tight matches determine the final day

Saturday, April 16, 2011: The results speak for themselves. 50% of the matches went hill-hill. This shows how close the power density of the players is. “The Kaiser” was always trailing with one or two racks to “Napoleon” . But somehow the Swedish could not enlarge the advantage. To the opposite, Souquet was always able to come back which lead to the score of 8:8. It was Chamat to break the balls. He was completely unlucky since all balls were spread wide open, the 1-ball was on but no ball was pocketed. He left an open table to Souquet who used this chance to gain the first lead in the entire match: 9:8. Marcus Chamat Another thriller happened between Petri Makkonen and Roman (SWE) Foto: EPBF/AMM Hybler. None of the two actors ever managed to gain a two-rack-lead over the other. In the end, Makkonen turned out to be the luckier of the two, winning…9:8! The match between Manuel Gama and went similar. The experienced Gama always trailed by one or two racks to the young gun from Greece. In the end, Kazakis had the better outcome winning over Gama with… 9:8! Thomas Mehtala already had a comfortable 6:3 lead over Scotsman when Shaw decided to fight back and keep a foot in the door. He ran rack after rack and the match went to a hill-hill situation. Then, Shaw scratched while he attempted to play a safety shot. But Mehtala was not able to benefit from that, making another error. That gave Shaw the opportunity to snatch the rack and the match and win with… 9:8!

Published April 16, 2011, 11:51

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Results from the Last 16 players Ralf Souquet (GER) v Marcus Chamat (SWE) 9 : 8 Manuel Gama (POR) v Alexander Kazakis (GRE) 8 : 9 Petri Makkonen (FIN) v Roman Hybler (CZE) 9 : 8 (NED) v Ivica Putnik (CRO) 9 : 4 (GBR) v (RUS) 6 : 9 Thomas Mehtala (SWE) v Jayson Shaw (SCO) 8 : 9 (GER) v Gabor Solymosi (HUN) 9 : 3 Mario He (AUT) v Chris Melling (GBR) 2 : 9

Quarterfinal matches: Ralf Souquet (GER) v Alexander Kazakis (GRE) Petri Makkonen (FIN) v Niels Feijen (NED) Konstantin Stepanov (RUS) v Jayson Shaw (SCO) Oliver Ortmann (GER) v Chris Melling (GBR)

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