Berndt Number 1 Seed

Marcus Berndt of Malmo, Sweden topped the 12-person round robin field after a gruelling eleven games and now awaits his three challengers before he jousts for the 2010 title.

Winning nine of the eleven games, Berndt hit 2437 scratch and 2672 with win and high score bonus points, outpointing England's Matt Chamberlain. Cypriot George Stavrinou holds third place and Menno van den Heuvel, who has bowled all 19 games today, is fourth.

This quartet advances to the stepladder final. Van den Heuvel will play one game against Stavrinou and the winner will go on to play Chamberlain, again over one game. The winner of that confrontation takes on top seed Berndt with a format change to the best of three games.

Two Maltese players achieved perfect games - Mark Spiteri rolling his first-ever 300 in the opening game and then Justin Scicluna hit his inaugural perfecto in the eleventh.