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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 | 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 |