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EPBF Dynamic Italy Open 2008
EPBF Euro Tour
Holiday Inn Resort
Via Domitiziana KM 35-300
Castel Volturno (CE)
Italy
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9-12 April 2008

Darren Appleton - 2008 EPBF Dynamic EuroTour Italian Open Champion.
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Well received first EuroTour win for Yorkshire's finest pool player!

No less than 242 players participated at the “Dynamic Italy Open” in the wonderful hotel Holiday Inn Resort in Castelvolturno, including 20 British and 2 Irish players, with no fewer than 33 different countries represented.

The eventual winner was Darren Appleton (GBR) defeating Bruno Muratore (ITA) in the final. Appleton chose one of the toughest routes to the final imaginable needing wins over 5 previous EuroTour winners in a row in the single elimination stage (Tony Drago, Oliver Ortmann, Imran Majid, Mark Gray and Bruno Muratore) to take the title that has been long overdue in many eyes.

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Darren Appleton with Pierpaolo Marino FC Napoli MD.
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Once again it was a great event for the 20 British players as many of them romped their way through the field of competitors, 7 of them reaching the single elimination "Last 32" stage, but many were clustered in the same half of the draw so it wasn't long before they were knocking each other out of the event.

Mark Gray eliminated Damian Overton in the Last 32, and then ended the hopes of Karl Boyes in the Last 16 stage, only to be eliminated himself by another Brit (Darren Appleton, of course) in the Semi-Finals. Appleton also put paid to the hopes of Imran Majid in the Quarter-Final stage.

So, apart from the bitter-sweet victories against each other, it was another fantastic event for the UK players and we all wait in anticipation of the updated rankings, no less impatiently than Martin Chapman who earns an honourable mention for logging his best EuroTour performance to date, his 9-7 victory over previous EuroTour champion Jonni Fulcher winning him his first berth in the Last 32 stage.

Rank	Points	Prize-money (Euros)
1	630	6,000.00
2	510	3,800.00
3-4	420	2,500.00
5-8	350	1,500.00
9-16	300	1,000.00
17-32	275	850.00
33-48	250	100.00
49-64	235	Total Prize Fund 44,000 Euros
65-96	220
97-128	200
129-192	180
193-256	160

THE EURO TOUR ITALIAN OPEN 2008
THE LAST 32
Mark Gray	9 : 2	Damian Overton
Karl Boyes	9 : 4	Radoslaw Babica
David Alcaide	9 : 5	Martin Chapman
Antonio Fazanes	9 : 2	Markus Juva
Darren Appleton	9 : 4	Tony Drago
Oliver Ortmann	9 : 7	Marcus Chamat
Nick van den Berg	9 : 8	Martin Larsen
Imran Majid	9 : 6	Serge Das
Thomasz Kaplan	9 : 7	Dmitri Jungo
Martin Kempter	9 : 7	Marco Tschudi
Sebastian Staab	9 : 7	John Vassalos
Daryl Peach	9 : 6	Aristeidis Damoulakis
Niels Feijen	9 : 6	Giuseppe Iacobucci
Rafael Guzmann	9 : 4	Manuel Gama
Thomas Engert	9 : 5	Mohammed Yassin
Bruno Muratore	9 : 4	Christian Reimering

THE EURO TOUR ITALIAN OPEN 2008
THE LAST 16
Mark Gray	9 : 8	Karl Boyes
David Alcaide	9 : 7	Antonio Fazanes
Darren Appleton	9 : 5	Oliver Ortmann
Imran Majid	9 : 8	Nick van den Berg
Martin Kempter	9 : 8	Thomasz Kaplan
Daryl Peach	9 : 3	Sebastian Staab
Niels Feijen	9 : 5	Rafael Guzmann
Bruno Muratore	9 : 8	Thomas Engert

THE EURO TOUR ITALIAN OPEN 2008
THE QUARTER-FINALS
Mark Gray	9 : 8	David Alcaide
Darren Appleton	9 : 8	Imran Majid
Martin Kempter	9 : 6	Daryl Peach
Bruno Muratore	9 : 8	Niels Feijen

THE EURO TOUR ITALIAN OPEN 2008
THE SEMI-FINALS
Darren Appleton	9 : 6	Mark Gray
Bruno Muratore	9 : 2	Martin Kempter

THE EURO TOUR ITALIAN OPEN 2008
THE FINAL
Darren Appleton	9 : 2	Bruno Muratore

Good luck to you all, from everyone at Pro9!!!

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