Swiss-man Larry Ventobel had his fingers crossed when talented Dane Britt Brondsted quickly found the line of the 2011 Brunswick Italia Challenge and put in a great series to challenge for the lead, but, disappointing for her, finishing in second place with an amazing
1431 over the six games, just 25 pins short of first place.
Tuesday and Wednesdays are slow days in European tournament bowling and just the one squad each day until the flow of international players commences on Thursday with two squads, 14:00 and 18:00, then full squads Friday and Saturday todecide the qualifiers for Sunday's finals.
STANDINGS AFTER TUESDAY, JUNE 21.
| Qualified directly to final step 3 (Position 1 - 8) | |||||||||
| POS | NAME | NAT | GEN | BEST PINS |
LAST GAME |
SQUAD # | SQUAD COUNT |
HAND | |
| 1 | Vontobel, Larry | SUI | M | 1455 | 211 | 05 | 2 | R | |
| 2 | Brøndsted, Britt | DEN | F | 1431 | 221 | 11 | 1 | R | |
| 3 | Baravaglio, Luca | ITA | M | 1420 | 234 | 02 | 1 | R | |
| 4 | Osella, Luca | ITA | M | 1417 | 280 | 02 | 1 | R | |
| 5 | Boccato, Marco | ITA | M | 1406 | 247 | 06 | 2 | R | |
| 6 | Spadavecchia, Andrea | ITA | M | 1397 | 220 | 02 | 3 | R | |
| 7 | Santu, Alessandro | ITA | M | 1365 | 230 | 03 | 1 | R | |
| 8 | Vercellino, Mario | ITA | M | 1353 | 255 | 02 | 2 | R | |
| Qualified to final step 1 (Position 9 - 36) | |||||||||
| POS | SEED | NAME | NAT | GEN | BEST PINS |
LAST GAME |
SQUAD # | SQUAD COUNT |
HAND |
| 9 | 1 | Favero, Alessandro | ITA | M | 1350 | 219 | 03 | 1 | R |
| 10 | 2 | Cimino, Fabio | ITA | M | 1349 | 248 | 05 | 3 | R |
| 11 | 3 | Ecoffey, Xavier | SUI | M | 1343 | 205 | 04 | 2 | R |
| 12 | 4 | Medveditskov, Alexander | RUS | M | 1343 | 202 | 11 | 2 | R |
| 13 | 5 | Celli, Maurizio | ITA | M | 1335 | 257 | 04 | 2 | R |
| 14 | 6 | Silletti, Alessandro | ITA | M | 1334 | 212 | 02 | 1 | R |
| 15 | 7 | Fanizza, Pierfranco | ITA | M | 1326 | 209 | 03 | 4 | L |
| 16 | 8 | Sanfelici, Dante | ITA | M | 1324 | 244 | 02 | 1 | R |
| 17 | 9 | Origlia, Eros | ITA | M | 1323 | 241 | 05 | 3 | R |
| 18 | 10 | Buzzelli, Daniela | ITA | F | 1318 | 201 | 03 | 2 | R |
| 19 | 11 | Bados, Vivien | FRA | M | 1307 | 195 | 05 | 2 | R |
| 20 | 12 | Tomatis, Daniele | ITA | M | 1306 | 234 | 01 | 1 | R |
| 21 | 13 | Battagli, Giovanni | ITA | M | 1300 | 226 | 06 | 2 | L |
| 22 | 14 | Celli, Massimiliano | ITA | M | 1299 | 205 | 05 | 3 | R |
| 23 | 15 | Prandi, Federico | ITA | M | 1298 | 182 | 04 | 1 | R |
| 24 | 16 | Reverdito, Roberto | ITA | M | 1291 | 183 | 02 | 2 | L |
| 25 | 17 | Oliaro, Luigino | ITA | M | 1290 | 231 | 06 | 2 | R |
