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Dates | 23 March–3 April 2011 |
Venue | Steel Palace |
City | Brandenburg |
Country | Germany |
Organisation(s) | European Pool Championships |
Champions | |
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Straight pool | |
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8-Ball | |
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Women's |
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Wheelchair |
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9-Ball | |
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Women's |
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Wheelchair |
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10-Ball | |
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Wheelchair |
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The 2011 European Pool Championships was a series of professional pool championships that took place at the Steel Palace, in Brandenburg, Germany. The events were played between 23 March and 3 April 2011 were part of the European Pool Championships; and featured events for men, women and wheelchair players across four pool disciplines: straight Pool, eight-ball, nine-ball, and ten-ball. The tournament was hosted by the European Pocket Billiard Federation and organised by the International Billiard Promotion, with the final of the men's nine-ball event broadcast on Eurosport. Austria was the most successful nation, winning three events – all by Jasmin Ouschan. Jouni Tähti won two of the three wheelchair events, losing just one match in the final of the nine-ball tournament to Henrik Larsson.
The European Pool Championships are an annual series of pool tournaments for players in Europe which were first held in 1980. [1] The 2011 event was held between 23 March and 3 April 2011 at the Steel Palace in Brandenburg, Germany. [2] The series features events for four disciplines of pool – straight, eight-ball, nine-ball, and ten-ball. [1] [2] Every event had a separate tournament for men, women and wheelchair competitors. [1] The event was hosted by the European Pocket Billiard Federation and organised by the International Billiard Promotion. [3]
The tournaments were played as a double-elimination bracket, with players qualifying for a single elimination knockout. Each discipline was played to a different length, with matches in straight pool being played to 125 points in the men's event, and 75 in the women's competition. [4] [5] The eight and ten-ball events was played as a race–to–8 rack, with the women's and wheelchair as race–to–6 racks. [5] The nine-ball event was held as race–to–9 racks for the men's and juniors series, with women's and wheelchairs as race–to–7 racks. [6] [5] The final and semi-finals of the nine-ball event was broadcast on Eurosport. [7]
The event began with the straight pool events held between 24 and 26 March for men and women. [8] [9] The quarter-finals of the men's event featured three German players, but were all defeated. [10] In the semi-finals, Tomasz Kapłan defeated Petri Makkonen 125–102 and Fabio Petroni defeated Roman Pruchay 125–73. [11] Polish player Kaplan won the final, the first pole to win the event defeating Petroni 125–17. [12] [9] In the women's event, defending champion Jasmin Ouschan reached the final for a second year, and won the event with a 75–31 win over Line Kjørsvik. [9]
The eight-ball event was played between 26 and 28 March. Dominic Jentsch of Germany won the men's event, defeating compatriot Ralf Souquet in the final, 8–1. [13] Dutch player Kynthia Orfanidis had previously reached two semi-finals, but won her first European championship by defeating Finland's Marika Poikkijoki in the women's eight-ball final 6–4. [14] In the first of three wheelchair events, the eight-ball tournament was won by Jouni Tähti, a 5–1 victory over Belgium's Kurt Deklerck in the final. [14]
The nine-ball event was held between 28 and 1 April, [5] with both the men's semi-finals and final broadcast on Eurosport. [15] [16] Nick van den Berg defeated Huidji See in the first semi-final 9–7 in a match filled with mistakes, whilst Mario He defeated Francisco Sanchez-Ruiz 9–7. [15] [16] In the final, the number one ranked player on the Euro Tour, van den Berg defeated He 11–3. [17] [6] Both of the players who met in the final of the women's straight pool final, Ouschan and Kjørsvik contested the semi-final of the women's nine-ball event. Ouschan won again, this time in a 7–0 whitewash of Kjørsvik. [18] In the final she met Gerda Hofstätter who defeated Anastasia Nechaeva 7–4. [18] The all-Austrian final was won by Ouschan, 7–2. [19] [20] In the wheelchair event, six-time European champion Henrik Larsson met Tähti in the final. Larsson lead 3–1 and 5–3 before winning the match 7–6 on a deciding rack. [20]
The ten-ball event was only being held for the second time in the championships and was played between 30 March and 2 April. French player Stephan Cohen met Poland's Radosław Babica in the men's final, where Cohen won 8–6. [21] [7] Ouschan won her third event of the championships in the women's ten-ball event, after she defeated Nataliya Seroshtan 6–1. [7] The wheelchair ten-ball event was a rematch of the wheelchair nine-ball final between Larsson and Tähti, with Tähti winning 5–1. [7] Ouschan was the event's most successful player, winning three events, the nine-ball, ten-ball and straight pool. She lost her only match of the championships in the quarter-finals of the eight-ball competition. [7] Tähti won two of the three wheelchair events, losing his only match in the final of the wheelchair nine-ball to Larsson 5–6. [22]
Date(s) | Discipline | Winner | Runner-up | Semi-finals | Ref. |
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24-26 March | Straight Pool (men) | ![]() |
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26-28 March | Eight-ball (men) | ![]() |
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28-31 March | Nine-ball (men) | ![]() |
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30 March-2 April | Ten-ball (men) | ![]() |
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24-26 March | Straight pool (women) | ![]() |
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26–28 March | eight-ball (women) | ![]() |
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28–31 March | nine-ball (women) | ![]() |
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30 March–2 April | ten-ball (women) | ![]() |
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26–28 March | eight-ball (wheelchair) | ![]() |
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28–31 March | nine-ball (wheelchair) | ![]() |
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30 March–2 April | ten-ball (wheelchair) | ![]() |
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