SEMIFINALS & FINAL:
Total pinfall over two games (plus 8 pins per game ladies' bonus)

	Name	Nat.	1	2	Total	Name	Nat	1	2	Total
	TANYA PETTY	GER	192 + 8	192 +8	400	PETER KNOPP	GER	245	209	454

	Name	Nat.	1	2	Total	Name	Nat	1	2	Total
	PIRITTA KANTOLA	FIN	202 +8	184 +8	402	ACHIM GRABOWSKI	GER	289	255	544

FINAL

	Name	Nat.	1	2	Total	Name	Nat	1	2	Total
	PETER KNOPP	GER	279	230	509	ACHIM GRABOWSKI	GER	212	279	491

THE FINAL TOUCH
It was something of a dream come true for the organizers of the 2nd Istanbul Open to have a finale with all the thrills and spills of a roller coaster ride.
The script called for man v woman in both semifinals where, maybe sadly, both the young ladies were eliminated, but nobody would have dared to have forecast the scores that would come in the final.
When Peter Knopp of Frankfurt, Germany opened up the fist game with a 279, leaving the 4-pin in the first ball of the tenth frame, and Achim Grabowski of Duisburg, also in Germany, hit a meagre 212, it looked as though Knopp has the match sewn up.
But no, back came Grabowski with a 279 in the second game and Knopp had to pull out all the stops for a 230 to clinch this strikefest by just 18 pins.
Bith finalists are in the bowling business, Knopp with a respected pro shop business and Grabowski proprietor of a very nice center in Duisburg.
"We've known one another for about 100 years," joked Knopp after the final, "but we've only met head-to-head a couple of times. We both just wanted to have a good final to show the crowd how exciting bowling can be, and I think we proved that."
Our picture shows the three German top place finishers as Tanya Petty, last year's runner-up took third place, on the podium with (l to r) Addie Ophelders, president of ETBF, Ahmet Recep Tekcan, president of the Turkish Bocce, Bowling & Darts Federation, and Kim Thorsgaard Jensen, ETBF vice-president.

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