2019 Antalya Open (pool)

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2019 Antalya Open
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Tournament information
Dates7–10 November 2019
VenueLimak Atlantis Resort
City Antalya
Country Turkey
Organisation(s) Euro Tour, World Pool-Billiard Association
Format Double-elimination, Single-elimination
Final
ChampionFlag of Estonia.svg  Denis Grabe  (EST) (m)
Flag of Poland.svg  Oliwia Zalewska  (POL) (f)
Runner-upFlag of Albania.svg  Eklent Kaçi  (ALB) (m)
Flag of Germany.svg  Tina Vogelmann  (GER) (f)
Score9–2 (m) / 7–6 (f)

The 2019 Antalya Open (also known as the 2019 Dynamic Billiard Antalya Open) was a professional nine-ball pool tournament held from 7 to 10 November 2019 in the Limak Atlantis Resort in Antalya, Turkey. The event was the sixth and final Euro Tour event of 2019, following the Klagenfurt Open. The men's event was won by Estonia's Denis Grabe, who won his third Tour win, defeating Eklent Kaçi 9–2. The women's event was won by Poland's Oliwia Zalewska, who won her first Tour event. She defeated Tina Vogelmann in the final 7–6.

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Tournament format

The 2019 Antalya Open was a professional nine-ball event, the sixth and final Euro Tour event held in 2019. The event featured two brackets, held from 7 to 9 November 2019 for the men's event, and 8 to 10 November for the women's event. [1] Both events were first played as a double-elimination tournament. It was held at the Limak Atlantis Resort in Antalya, Turkey. [2] The men's event became a single-elimination bracket at the round-of-32, while the women's event remained a double-elimination tournament until the round-of-16. [2] All matches were played as race -to-nine racks . [3] [4]

The tournament was the first Euro Tour event held in Turkey since the 1999 Turkish Open won by Germany's Ralph Eckert. [5] [6]

Prize fund

Both the men's and women's event's prize fund was similar to those of other Euro Tour events, totalling € 38,000, of which €4,500 was awarded to both of the winners of the event. [7] [8]

PlacePrize money
Winner€4,500
Finalist€3,000
Semi-finalist€1,750
Quarter-finalist€1,250
Last 16€1,000
Last 32€600
33–48€275
Total€38,000

Tournament summary

Men's event

The men's event was held from 7–9 November 2019 with 181 participants. [9] The double-elimination stage featured nine rounds. [10] [11] Nick Malai defeated former winner Ruslan Chinachov 9–1 in the opening round, however, both players won their remaining matches and reached the single-elimination round. [12] British players Mark Gray and Darren Appleton also met in the first round; the 2012 WPA World Nine-ball Championship winner Appleton won 9–5. Gray commented post-match that his break was to blame, and that the "better player undoubtedly won". [11] Having won, Appleton qualified for the winner's third round, but decided to sleep prior to the match. Instead of waking in time for his 4:30 pm GMT match with Albin Ouschan, Appleton overslept, forfeited the match, and also his loser's qualification round match, scheduled to also be against Gray. [13] Two several-time Euro Tour winners Mario He and Thorsten Hohmann met in the loser's qualification round. Hohmann led 6–3, before He won five of the next six racks to lead 8–7, however Hohmann won the next two frames to eliminate He. [13]

The single-elimination round was played on the 8 and 9 November. Hohmann met fellow German player and reigning WPA World Nine-ball champion Joshua Filler. [13] Filler outplayed Hohmann, and won 9–3. [13] Mark Gray defeated Tomasz Kapłan 9–2 to meet Filler in the last 16, where Filler won 9–7. [14] Francisco Sanchez-Ruiz defeated Albin Ouschan 9–2 in the last 32 before defeating Wiktor Zielinski 9–1 to reach the quarter-finals. At the quarter-final stage, Sanchez-Ruiz was defeated by Russian youngster Fedor Gorst 5–9. Elsewhere, Denis Grabe defeated Mieszko Fortunski 9–6, Eklent Kaçi defeated Sanjin Pehlivanovic 9–5 and David Alcaide defeated Joshua Filler 9–7. [14] The first semi-final saw Kaci defeat Alcaide 9–4, whilst Grabe defeated Gorst 9–6. [14]

The final was held at 5:30 pm GMT between Grabe and Kaci. Grabe was playing in his fourth Tour final, having won two prior events in 2014, [15] whilst Kaci was playing in his fifth final, having won two prior events including the 2019 Austria Open prior in the season. [16] With Grabe leading 4–1, Kaci missed a shot on the 2-ball and conceded the rack in frustration. [17] Referee Nikola Pešo deemed the act as unsportsmanlike and awarded both rack six and an additional rack to Grabe. Leading 6–1, Grabe won three of the next four racks to win the tournament. [17]

Women's event

The women's event took place from 8 to 10 November, [18] with 34 participants. [19] The double-elimination round lasted six rounds. [20] The top four ranked players on the Tour all reached the last 16. [21] Russia's Kristina Tkach (first seed) won her matches 7–1 and 7–3 to draw Veronika Ivanovskaia in the knockout round. Tkach won the match 7–6 to reach the quarter-finals. [20] Belarusian player Marharyta Fefilava (second seed) won her two qualifying matches 7–0 and 7–2 to meet Kamila Khodjaeva in the last 16. Fefilava defeated Khodjaeva 7–4 to reach the quarter-finals. [20] Both Ana Gradišnik (third seed) and Kateryna Polovinchuk (fourth seed) also reached the last 16 round, but lost to Christine Steinlage and Oliwia Zalewska respectively. [20]

The quarter-finals started with Tkach defeating Pia Filler 7–4, whilst Zalewska defeated Melanie Suessenguth 7–4. The bottom half of the draw featured Steinlage defeating Diana Stateczny 7–3, and Tina Vogelmann defeating Fefilava 7–4. [20] In the semi-finals, Zalewska defeated Tkach 7–5, whilst Vogelmann defeated Steinlage 7–3. [22] The final was played between Tina Vogelmann and Oliwia Zalewska. Vogelmann was playing in her first Euro Tour final, [23] whereas Zalewska had won three events prior, including the preceding event, the Klagenfurt Open. [24] [22] Vogelmann took an early lead in the match, leading 4–2 after six racks. Zalewska won the next three racks to lead, but the match became tied at 6–6. Vogelmann broke for the match, but had a dry break . Zaleska chose to push out , but Vogelmann left the table safe after her shot. With no clear shot, Zaleska fluked both the 1-ball and 2-ball, and ran the rack to win the match and tournament. [22]

Results

Men's competition

Below is the results from the round of 32 (Last 32) onward with positions were determined by performance in the double-elimination round. Players in bold denote match winners: [2] [7] [25]

1st Round 2nd Round Quarterfinals Semifinals Finals
          
Flag of Germany.svg  Joshua Filler  (GER)9
Flag of Germany.svg  Thorsten Hohmann  (GER)3
Flag of Germany.svg Joshua Filler 9
Flag of the United Kingdom.svg Mark Gray 7
Flag of the United Kingdom.svg  Mark Gray  (GBR)9
Flag of Poland.svg  Tomasz Kapłan  (POL)2
Flag of Germany.svg Joshua Filler 7
Flag of Spain.svg David Alcaide 9
Flag of Greece.svg  Nick Malai  (GRE)5
Flag of Spain.svg  David Alcaide  (ESP)9
Flag of Spain.svg David Alcaide 9
Flag of the Netherlands.svg Niels Feijen 8
Flag of Poland.svg  Wojciech Sroczynski  (POL)5
Flag of the Netherlands.svg  Niels Feijen  (NED)9
Flag of Spain.svg David Alcaide 4
Flag of Albania.svg Eklent Kaçi 9
Flag of Albania.svg  Eklent Kaçi  (ALB)9
Flag of Greece.svg  Nikos Ekonomopoulos  (GRE)3
Flag of Albania.svg Eklent Kaçi 9
Flag of Serbia.svg Aleksa Pecelj 2
Flag of Serbia.svg  Aleksa Pecelj  (SER)9
Flag of Russia.svg  Maksim Dudanets  (RUS)1
Flag of Albania.svg Eklent Kaçi 9
Flag of Bosnia and Herzegovina.svg Sanjin Pehlivanovic 5
Flag of Germany.svg  Ralf Souquet  (GER)9
Flag of Greece.svg  Dimitris Loukatos  (GRE)8
Flag of Germany.svg Ralf Souquet 7
Flag of Bosnia and Herzegovina.svg Sanjin Pehlivanovic 9
Flag of Bosnia and Herzegovina.svg  Sanjin Pehlivanovic  (BIH)9
Flag of Finland.svg  Jani Siekkinen  (FIN)4
Flag of Albania.svg Eklent Kaçi 2
Flag of Estonia.svg Denis Grabe 9
Flag of Estonia.svg  Denis Grabe  (EST)9
Flag of Poland.svg  Mariusz Skoneczny  (POL)6
Flag of Estonia.svg Denis Grabe 9
Flag of Hungary.svg Oliver Szolnoki 5
Flag of Russia.svg  Ruslan Chinachov  (RUS)8
Flag of Hungary.svg  Oliver Szolnoki  (HUN)9
Flag of Estonia.svg Denis Grabe 9
Flag of Poland.svg Mieszko Fortunski 6
Flag of Poland.svg  Mieszko Fortunski  (POL)9
Flag of Russia.svg  Andrey Seroshtan  (RUS)7
Flag of Poland.svg Mieszko Fortunski 9
Flag of Greece.svg Alexander Kazakis 3
Flag of the United Kingdom.svg  Imran Majid  (GBR)6
Flag of Greece.svg  Alexander Kazakis  (GRE)9
Flag of Estonia.svg Denis Grabe 9
Flag of Russia.svg Fedor Gorst 6
Flag of Austria.svg  Albin Ouschan  (AUT)2
Flag of Spain.svg  Francisco Sanchez-Ruiz  (ESP)9
Flag of Spain.svg Francisco Sanchez-Ruiz 9
Flag of Poland.svg Wiktor Zielinski 1
Flag of the Netherlands.svg  Tim De Ruyter  (NED)5
Flag of Poland.svg  Wiktor Zielinski  (POL)9
Flag of Spain.svg Francisco Sanchez-Ruiz 5
Flag of Russia.svg Fedor Gorst 9
Flag of Poland.svg  Konrad Juszczyszyn  (POL)9
Flag of Poland.svg  Daniel Maciol  (POL)5
Flag of Poland.svg Konrad Juszczyszyn 1
Flag of Russia.svg Fedor Gorst 9
Flag of Russia.svg  Fedor Gorst  (RUS)9
Flag of Russia.svg  Sergey Lutsker  (RUS)5

Women's event

The following results are from the knockout stages following the round of 16. Players in bold denote match winners: [26]

Last 16
Race to seven racks 		Quarter-finals
Race to seven racks 		Semi-finals
Race to seven racks 		Final
Race to seven racks
        
Flag of Russia.svg  Kristina Tkach  (RUS)7
Flag of Germany.svg  Veronika Ivanovskaia  (GER)6
Flag of Russia.svg Kristina Tkach 7
Flag of Germany.svg Pia Filler 4
Flag of Germany.svg  Pia Filler  (GER)7
Flag of the Czech Republic.svg  Veronika Hubrtova  (CZE)4
Flag of Russia.svg Kristina Tkach 5
Flag of Poland.svg Oliwia Zalewska 7
Flag of Germany.svg  Melanie Suessenguth  (GER)7
Flag of Norway.svg  Ine Helvik  (NOR)1
Flag of Germany.svg Melanie Suessenguth 4
Flag of Poland.svg Oliwia Zalewska 7
Flag of Ukraine.svg  Kateryna Polovinchuk  (UKR)5
Flag of Poland.svg  Oliwia Zalewska  (POL)7
Flag of Poland.svg Oliwia Zalewska 7
Flag of Germany.svg Tina Vogelmann 6
Flag of Slovenia.svg  Ana Gradišnik  (SLO)6
Flag of Germany.svg  Christine Steinlage  (GER)7
Flag of Germany.svg Christine Steinlage 7
Flag of Germany.svg Diana Stateczny 3
Flag of Germany.svg  Diana Stateczny  (GER)7
Flag of Germany.svg  Ina Kaplan  (GER)5
Flag of Germany.svg Christine Steinlage 3
Flag of Germany.svg Tina Vogelmann 7
Flag of Germany.svg  Tina Vogelmann  (GER)7
Flag of the Netherlands.svg  Tamara Peeters  (NED)6
Flag of Germany.svg Tina Vogelmann 7
Flag of Belarus.svg Marharyta Fefilava 4
Flag of Belarus.svg  Marharyta Fefilava  (BLR)7
Flag of Belgium (civil).svg  Kamila Khodjaeva  (BEL)4

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