At the end of qualifying, Denmark's Jesper Agerbo led with 1454. wining the 1,000 Euro bonus prize. Second was Martin Larsen (Sweden) on 1448 with Osku Palermaa (Sweden) third on 1446 which included a 300 game, and Tore Torgersen fourth on 1415. Russia's Alexey Parshukov rounds out the top 5 on 1415.
The highest placed UK player was John Wells in sixteenth place with 1356 ahead of Dom Barrett 20th on 1341, Paul Moor 36th on 1310 and Zara Glover 42nd with 1296. Stuart Williams qualified through the desperado with a 248 game. A total of 56 people will contest Sunday's final for the 15,000 Euros first prize.
In round 1 of the final, Stuart Williams makes it through to round 2 in
eighth place with 861 over 4 games along with Zara Glover on 840 in
14th place and Paul Moor with 835 in 16th place. They join places seeded 17th to 24th in the next round.
In round 2 Dominic Barrett goes through in first place with 940 over 4 games. Stuart Williams is eliminated in 18th place with 799 along with Zara Glover in 23rd place with 7 and Paul Moor 24th with 762.
Round 3 is completed with Dominic Barrett going through in sixth place with 891 over 4 games. John Wells eliminated in 16th place with 822.
Round 4 saw the final 8 playing 2 games head to head with total pinfall deciding who went through. Osku Palermaa (Finland) defeated Tore Torgersen (Norway) 459-362 while Pasi Uotila (Finland) defeated Robert Andersson (Sweden) 389-376. England's Dominic Barrett beat MArtin Larsen (Sweden) 458-443 and Alexey Parshukov (Russia) beat Jesper Agerbo (Denmark) 464-408.
In the semi final, Pasi Uotila defeated Osku Palermaa 493-435 and Dom Barrett defeated Alexey Parshukov 482-426.
In the final, Dominic Barrett defeated Pasi Uotila 490-413 to take the title and 15,000 Euro first prize.
The full tournament results are available at
http://www.ankaraopen.com
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