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Gold medals for Khodjaeva, Filler and Delgado Hernandez - 10-ball competition found worthy winners

07/30/2012

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The European 10-ball Champions: Jose Alberto Delgado Hernandez, Joshua Filler and Kamila Khodjaeva

The 10-ball finals are over. The new European Champions are Kamila Khodjaeva (BEL) in the girl's division, Joshua Filler (GER) in the pupil's division and Jose Alberto Delgado Hernandez (ESP) in the junior's division.

The first final to finish was the pupil's division. Only after about one hour of play, Joshua Filler pocketed his final 10-ball to defeat Andreas Madsen (DEN) clearly with 6:2. A loud scream came from Filler's mouth when he realized that the winning ball would go in. "I felt a huge load being taken off my mind", said Filler after the match, "I really wanted that title. Eventually, after four times in the final, I think I deserved a title". "I played a bit offhand in the beginning but then I was able to get back in the zone with my concentration".

The junior's final finished after the pupil's. The tension in the junior's final was very present. Tobias Bongers (GER) was leading 5:2 and 6:4 and he played solid and confident. But he should not have underestimated Delgado. The Spaniard approached Bongers rack after rack and tied the match at 6:6. The 13th rack was determined by safety play. In the end, Delgado had the better end and won the title.

In the girl's division, Kamila Khodjaeva played Ana Gradisnik (SLO). Gradisnik is known to be a slow player and forced her game onto Khodjaeva. That worked in the beginning and Gradisnik was always in the lead and went on the hill first with 4:3. But Khodjaeva showed her full experience and was able to turn the tide in the match, winning 5:4 in the end.

 

Top Eight Finishers 10-Ball:

 

Juniors

 

Pupils

 

Girls

1.

Jose A. Delgado

ESP

 

Joshua Filler

GER

 

Kamila Khodjaeva

BEL

2.

Tobias Bongers

GER

 

Andreas Madsen

DEN

 

Ana Gradisnik

SLO

3.

Moritz Lauwereyns

BEL

 

Vitaly Patsura

UKR

 

Veronika Ivanovskaia

GER

 

Wojciech Szewczyk

POL

 

Can Salim-Giasar

GER

 

Pia Blaeser

GER

5.

Denis Kragolnik

SLO

 

Mikolaj Zabecki

POL

 

Nataliya Seroshtan

RUS

 

Berk Mehmetcik

TNC

 

Daniel Guttenberger

AUT

 

Oliwia Czuprynska

POL

 

Jan-Henrik Wolf

GER

 

Pawel Kaczmarek

POL

 

Kristina Tkach

RUS

 

Gergely Papp

HUN

 

Daniel Tangudd

SWE

 

Marharyta Fefilava

BLR

 

Medal table after two of five disciplines:

 

Nation

Gold

Silver

Bronze

Total

1.

Germany

3

3

3

9

2.

Belgium

1

 

1

2

3.

Spain

1

 

 

1

4.

Denmark

 

1

 

1

 

Slovenia

 

1

 

1

6.

Poland

 

 

3

3

7.

Sweden

 

 

1

1

 

Russia

 

 

1

1

 

Ukraine

 

 

1

1

 

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