2009 European Play offs and European Champs

[Rane]

I would love to see Robin Hull win. He was very unfortunate with his career.

[Rane]

Hmm. Seems like Hull didn´t show up.

[TheTrooper]

No, according to SBil (the Finnish billiards association) he was not able because of something jobrelated.

[Forman]

I see Drago is through to the semis with a convincing 4-0 win inculding some good breaks, you never know we might be seeing drago on the main tour again yet.

[spike]

I see Drago is through to the semis with a convincing 4-0 win inculding some good breaks, you never know we might be seeing drago on the main tour again yet.

let's hope so. Would be great to see him back

[dannyd0g]

I see Drago is through to the semis with a convincing 4-0 win inculding some good breaks, you never know we might be seeing drago on the main tour again yet.

through to the final too with another 4-0 !!

It looks like he will be playing either Roy Stolk or Yvan Van Velthoven

http://www.global-snooker.com/2009-E...ff-Results.asp


It's a funny thing with Drago - he obviously loves playing. But he's openly said he hates Prestatyn. Does he really want to subject himself to another year of qualifiers at that place if he does win back a main tour place.

[rivercard]

Yes, I see Tony can still play a bit.. I have to say I don't want Stolk to win it, he was on the Tour a few years ago and couldn't win a match and he's not really a young talent either. Velthoven lost against Drago in their group match 2-0, but they were two very close frames, I guess Tony won them on the blue or pink so that's a tough call.

It's a funny thing with Drago - he obviously loves playing. But he's openly said he hates Prestatyn. Does he really want to subject himself to another year of qualifiers at that place if he does win back a main tour place.

I'm not sure about that either. He would have to win 5 matches to get to televised stages, that's nearly impossible. It would also mean he had less time to play pool and I think he has a better chance to win international pool tournaments than to reach the last 16 of any snooker tournament.

[Matt_2745]

I guess Drago has been in Prestatyn for the PIOS anyway so if he's going to be there, it may as well be for main tour matches.

[Mignon]

Any idea about the other semifinal result? What a shame the Polish site is down! But I think GSC is in Belgium.....

[Matt_2745]

Stolk is 3-0 up.

[Mignon]

Thanks, yes, he's been 3-0 up for a while now.....

[Matt_2745]

4-2 it is then, looking at how both Drago and Stolk have been scoring it looks like Tony has a great chance.

[JanieWatkins]

Hm, who's this Igor Figueiredo? Sounds like another Itaro Santos (Brazilian representing Germany). And judging by the break board he's pretty good.

read my article on global snooker.

Igor is 4 times Brasilian champ but on 10 foot tables playing 10 reds
this was his first event on a full sized snooker table.

he will be entering the pios - and I'm off to learn Portugeuse at evening classes!

Streaming will be available as soon as possible. At the moment they are tryin to arrange for a phone line to be put in so the stream could be uploaded. We have had many and various comms problems here already.

[JanieWatkins]

Hmm. Seems like Hull didn´t show up.

Just as he was about to travel Robin got a call about some urgent matter in his business and had to cancel his trip to stay in work.

[Goldspark]

read my article on global snooker.

Igor is 4 times Brasilian champ but on 10 foot tables playing 10 reds
this was his first event on a full sized snooker table.

he will be entering the pios - and I'm off to learn Portugeuse at evening classes!

Thanks for that, will be interesting to see how he gets on.

Incidentally I was reading about a strange snooker variant called Sinuca Brasileira which appears to be popular in Brazil.