Positions 25-48 from the original six
qualifying games play a further four games
with fifty per cent of their pinfall from
qualifying carried forward.
Then positions 1-24 will do the same.
The top 24 from these over the total of ten
games will progress to the semi-finals.
Leonidas Maragkos
Leader after stage 1
QUARTER FINALSTANDINGS AFTER GROUP:
Top 24 qualify for Semi-Finals The
completion of the four games for the field
of 48 qualifiers still
has Krista Pollanen of Finland (pictured) as
the leader, she gallantly held off all
challengers through the quarter finals. A
third of the 24 field progressing to the
semi-finals are women, so could we have a
female champion yet again, following the
Malta Open and the San Marino Open?
Krista still had a 60 pin advantage as the
heat of battle subsided from this round.
Defending champion Paul Moor from England is
still in contention, currently in fifth
place.