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Thrilling matches at the 14th Carrom Euro Cup in Rome, Italy.

(Report by ICF Media Commission)

The 14th Carrom Euro cup held from 11th to 13th June in Rome ended on Sunday by the Prize Distribution Ceremony, in which ECC president Arif Naqvi announced that the 15th Euro Cup has been alloted by the ECC to France.

About one hundred Carrom players from France, Germany, Holland, Italy, Poland, Slovania, Switzerland and United Kingdom participated in this year's Euro Cup, which was held in three disciplines: Singles, Doubles and Team Event.

The team from Czech Republic could not attend at the last minute due to the death of the father of an important member

of the team.

the 14th Euro Cup was opened on Thursday evening by Arif Naqvi, President of European Carrom Confederation and ICF,

who appreciated that the Carrom Euro Cup has been held every year without any interval and has contributed to its popularity and rise of the standard. He said that the 14th Euro Cup should be taken as a rehersal for the 3rd World Cup which would be taking place from 27th September to 1st October in Richmond, Virginia USA. Naqvi appreciated the dedicated hard work done by Elisa Martinelli and other members of the Italian Carrom Federation to make the event successful.

The teams Championship conducted on first day, 11th June, was won by the UK with an edge of only one point against Germany. Switzerland came on third place.

The points are as following:

1. UK 25 points

2. Germany 24 points

3. Switzerland 15 points

4. France 14 points

5. Italy 12 points

6. Poland 0 points

Simultaneously the doubles Campionship was conducted on the same day which was won by Italy's Weerasinghe Sriyantha and Cristiani Gianluca agians Collard Steve and Pierre Dubois of France, with 25 to 24 . Both sides gave a excellent performance. At one point the score in the final game was 24 to 24. Leu Jonathan and Pierre Fabian of France came on third place.

The Singles Event , which was conducted on 12th and 13th June, was won by Karnal Abedin of UK for the third consecutive time. After the 11 round of matches the final was held between Karnal Abedin of UK and Pierre Dubois of France. While Karnal was leading clearly after 11 rounds with 20 points in hand Pierre Dubois of France, Peter Boecker of Germany and Abdul Malik of UK followed him with 18 points each, while Pierre had edge with Bucholz points.

The final between Karnal Abedin and Pierre Dubois was extremely exiting. While Karnal won the first game clearly, Pierre gave him a very good fight in the second game, winning the game clearly. The third game was however dominated by Karnal Abeding and he won the match and the trophy for the third consecutive time. Peter Boecker of Germany came on the third place.

The meeting of the General Council of the European Carrom Confederation was also held during the Euro Cup in Rome. It was attended by the representatives of France, Germany, Holland, Italy, Slovania (as guest), Switzerland and United Kingdom. The 15th Euro Cup was alotted to France and is to be held near Paris.

Poland's Paulina Nowakowska and UK's Nazrul Islam were included in the ECC General Council as two new Vice Presidents.

The 14th Euro Cup was concluded with prize distribution ceremny and a closing speech of the ECC President Arif Naqvi

at a restaurant rear the sea side of Rome. Naqvi asked the players to forward to 3rd. World Cup (2010) in USA, while Elisa Martinelly thanked on behalf of the italian federation to all players and sponsors for the coperation.

Presidents.

The present Office Bearers of the ECC are as following:

President: Arif Naqvi (Germany)

Vice Presidents: Paulina Nowakowska (Poland)

Nazrul Islam (UK)

Secretry General: Elisa Martinelli (Italy)

Treasurer: Kurt Scherrer (Switzerland)

!4th Carrom Euro Cup Results

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Singles Event: ( 91 player )

Winner: Karnal Abedin (UK)

2nd: Pierre Dubois (France)

3rd.: Peter Boecker (Germany)

Doubles Event:

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Winner: Weerasinghe Sriyantha and Cristiani Gianluca (Italy)

2nd: Collard Steve and Pierre Dubois (France)

3rd.: Leau Jonathan and Fabian Pereira (France)

Teams Event

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1. UK

2. Germany

3. Switzerland

4. France

5. Italy

6. Poland

13th Euro Cup

09-13th July 2009 at Lenk, Simmental, Switzerland

Under the authority of European Carrom Confederation

Organised by Swiss Carrom Association

13th Carrom Euro Cup a grand succes

Winners of the Singles Championship

(We thank the Italian Carrom Federation for 13th Euro Cup photos - Editor)

Karnal Abdin of UK is agian European Carrom Champion.
During the 13th Carrom Euro Cup 2009 at Lenk, Switzerland, Karnal Abdin successfully defended his European Title, by winning all 12 matches and defeating Jonathan Leau of France in Final by 25:01, 25:12. Jonathan Leau and Fabian Pereira (both France) came on second and third places. A total number of 86 players participated in Singles Event, which was conducted with Swiss System of 8 boards or 25 points (whichever is first) based on 2 winning points plus Bucholz points and Coins difference.

The doubles event was won by Fabian Pereira and his 12 year old partner Radjou Venou of France, who surprised by winning the final beating Murshad Khan and Ala Miah of UK, who came on second place. Steffen Eder and Jan Geister of Germany came on third place.

The UK Team also defended the Teams Championship title beating all other countries. France came on second place, while Germany on third place. Germany, Italy and Switzerland had 18 points each, but the coins difference was in favour of Germany. Poland (which participated with full team for the first time) came on 6th place behind Switzerland. Poland scored 6 points.

Best woman player was Elisa Martinelli of Italy.

Arif Naqvi and Roger Meyer were the Chief Referees, while the final matches were conducted by Claudio Motta of Italy.

Earlier on 10th July the 13th Carrom Euro Cup, under the auspices of the European Carrom Confederation, was inaugurated by ECC president Arif Naqvi (who is also ICF president) at Lenk in Simmenthal, Switzerland, surrounded by beautiful mountains. Naqviappreciated the excellent arrangements made by the Swiss Carrom Association and also praised the rising standard of Carrom in Europe and welcomed some new countries willing to join ECC. Speaking on behalf of the host country Roger Meyer welcomed the participants and thanked the ECC and other federations for their support.

Also in the prize distribution ceremony on 12th evening, ECC president Arif Naqvi praised the arrangements and claimed that the 13th Euro Cup was a great success and the excellent performances of the players in 13th Euro Cup will also reflect in the Carrom World Cup in 2010 in USA.
Roger Meyer of Switzerland thanked all participants and sponsors for their support.

During the meeting of the Board of Management of the European Carrom Confederation, during the Euro Cup, it was decided to send Greetings to the participants of the SAARC Countries Championshipin Mumbai and Asian Carrom Championsip in Pune in August this year. It is hoped that the Asian players who have always been inspiring the players all over the world will have excellent performances during these championship and continue raising the prestigue of Carrom.

Teams Championship

Ranking	Nation	Wins	Coins
1.	England	36	306
2.	Frankreich	24	109
3.	Deutschland	18	-3
4.	Italien	18	-20
5.	Schweiz	18	-69
6.	Polen	8	-323

Singles Event

Karnal Abedin of UK beat Jonathan Leau of France in Final by 25:01, 25:12

Ranking	Player	Win Pt.	Buchol Pt.
1.	Karnal Abdin	24	186	242
2.	Jonathan Leau	20	188	148
3.	Fabian Pereira	18	195	110
4.	Amitha Ubhayathunga	18	181	66
5.	Abdul Malik	18	179	117
6.	Sriyantha Weerasinghe	16	194	24
7.	Nazrul Islam	16	190	42
8.	Pierre Dubois	16	187	108
9.	Mouraly Venou	16	184	99
10.	Heiko Wurst	16	177	65
11.	Abdul Wahid	16	176	95
12.	Thomas Scheuerl	16	172	71
13.	Gianluca Cristiani	16	168	75
14.	Kevin Seiger	16	153	44
15.	Cornel D'Silva	16	151	83
16.	Steeve Collard	16	144	62
17.	Carlito Bollin	15	165	99
18.	Mervin Kalinga	14	172	10
19.	Shuab Ahmed	14	171	56
20.	Lorenzo Hürlimann	14	171	30
21.	A Rahman Khan	14	168	48
22.	Claudio Motta	14	165	57
23.	Murshad Khan	14	162	53
24.	Rajesh Chilveri	14	160	42
25.	Radjou Venou	14	160	38
26.	Anders Illi	14	158	37
27.	Tobias Krüger	14	158	22
28.	Marcel Egli	14	158	5
29.	Ish Kumer Gupta	14	155	58
30.	Abdul Khan	14	155	-1
31.	Vittorio Canisi	14	148	20
32.	Rafi Dewangso	14	144	31
33.	Wolfgang Peter	12	180	5
34.	Stefano Stucchi	12	164	15
35.	Andreas Hurtig	12	157	3
36.	Paolo Martinelli	12	152	6
37.	Ingo Frauenrath	12	150	-22
38.	Gabriele Pellegatta	12	150	-42
39.	Alfred Rajadurai	12	144	34
40.	Armin Steiner	12	144	-11
41.	Nitesh Sinha	12	143	-40
42.	Francesco Pedicini	12	140	-17
43.	Stefan Eigenmann	12	139	-10
44.	Ala Miah	12	138	67
45.	Jonas Hürlimann	12	138	-1
46.	Patrice Dumas	12	137	-60
47.	Elisa Zucchiatti	12	134	29
48.	Bernhard Sander	12	134	-13
49.	Jalal Ahmed	12	134	-19
50.	Steffen Eder	12	134	-64
51.	Ahad Miah	11	161	-66
52.	Viktor Baumgartner	10	160	-38
53.	Jan Geister	10	152	-32
54.	Stéphane Cano	10	140	-36
55.	Anhar Ali	10	136	28
56.	Gunter Seibert	10	132	-1
57.	Armin Schneider	10	132	-2
58.	Stefano Fabiano	10	132	-63
59.	Giorgio Balicchi	10	131	-42
60.	Riccardo Maurizi	10	128	5
61.	Norbert Mothe	10	127	-29
62.	Jakub Nowakowski	10	124	-5
63.	Paolo Ometto	10	123	15
64.	Harvey Gomes	10	121	-18
65.	Sylwester Pogorzelski	10	121	-78
66.	Andrea Croci	10	120	-1
67.	Frank Fehr	10	118	-36
68.	Walter Buchmann	10	118	-54
69.	Rolf Schmid	10	117	-38
70.	Fabio Tomasi	10	110	-17
71.	Hans Faller	10	102	-18
72.	Abdullah Nauandish	8	136	-19
73.	Kurt Scherrer	8	127	-36
74.	Fabien Vicart	8	121	-39
75.	Uwe Schneider	8	121	-44
76.	Robert Durrer	8	115	-72
77.	Ajay Pal	8	97	-113
78.	Riz Careem	8	94	-86
79.	Noam Mayer	7	87	-128
80.	Michael Helbling	6	100	-123
81.	Azir Uddin	6	99	-109
82.	Barbara Thomas	4	98	-153
83.	Cezary Kubicki	3	89	-205
84.	Laura Zava	0	100	-263

Doubles Championship

Fabian Pareira and Radjou Venou of France beaten Mursha Khan and Ala Miah of UK in Final by 25 : 11 points

1.	Fabian Pereira + Radjou Venou	10	50	52
2.	Murshad Khan + Ala Miah	10	41	63
3.	Steffen Eder + Jan Geister	10	40	31
4.	A Rahman Khan + Abdul Malik	10	39	102
5.	Stefano Stucchi + Amitha Ubhayathunga	8	44	35
6.	Gabriele Pellegatta + Paolo Ometto	8	43	10
7.	Anders Illi + Mervin Kalinga	8	35	22
8.	Andreas Hurtig + Abdullah Nauandish	8	34	31
9.	Rajesh Chilveri + Abdul Khan	7	47	32
10.	Elisa Zucchiatti + Sriyantha Weerasinghe	7	47	12
11.	Shuab Ahmed + Anhar Ali	6	44	13
12.	Giorgio Balicchi + Vittorio Canisi	6	40	10
13.	Bernhard Sander + Frank Fehr	6	38	-2
14.	Fabien Vicart + Kevin Seiger	6	37	-24
15.	Nitesh Sinha + Ajay Pal	6	34	4
16.	Kurt Scherrer + Stefan Eigenmann	6	30	-8
17.	Gunter Seibert + Ingo Frauenrath	6	29	6
18.	Rolf Schmid + Robert Durrer	6	24	-26
19.	Harvey Gomes + Azir Uddin	4	42	-39
20.	Stefano Fabiano + Riccardo Maurizi	4	36	-10
21.	Stéphane Cano + Norbert Mothe	4	36	-33
22.	Armin Schneider + Uwe Schneider	4	34	-25
23.	Jalal Ahmed + Ahad Miah	4	32	4
24.	Marcel Egli + Barbara Thomas	4	28	-31
25.	Fabio Tomasi + Andrea Croci	4	26	-50
26.	Armin Steiner + Hans Faller	4	24	-18
27.	Jonas Hürlimann + Noam Mayer	2	26	-42
28.	Walter Buchmann + Riz Careem	0	28	-119

13th EUROCUP LENK SWITZERLAND JULY 20

Kuspo the great Eurocup venue

Pedicini & Croci pracricing

Relaxing outside

Stucci & Friend

Carlito and others trying out new skills

Gunter vs Riz

Frank vs Rolf

Jakub vs Jan

Laura vs Barbara

Players checking the score board

The final - Karnal Abdin vs Jonathan Leau

Team event - Italy vs Switzerland, Germany vs France

UK vs Poland

Elisa & Paolo enjoyong the beautiful mountains

Roger with the prizes

Prize giving ceremony

3rd place France

UK Team - the winners

Jan & Steffen from Germany 3rd place Doubles

Murshad Khan & Ala Miah runners up

Fabian Pereira and Radjou Venou 1st place Doubles

Elisa best woman player

The winners - Karnal. Jonathan and Fabian

Swiss organizers relaxing after the successful weekend

12th Euro Cup 2008, Sutton, U.K.

Results:

Singles Event:

Winner: Abdin Karnal

Runner-up: Ali Sunahar

3rd: Miah Shomsu

Teams Event:

Winner: U.K.

2nd.: France

3rd. : Germany

4th.: Italy

Final Match between Karnal Abdin and Sunhar Ali: 2:1 (Best of three)

White Slams: 3

Singles Event

(Ranking after 10 rounds)

Name, Points, Bucholz, Diff.Coins

1. Abdin, Karnal 18 132 82

2. Ali, Sunahar 16 133 81

3. Miah, Shomsu 16 120 66

4. Pereira Fabian 16 108 132

5. Leau Jonathan 14 129 82

6. Cristiani, Gianluca 14 120 64

7. Malik, Abdul 14 119 125

8. Hussein, Altaf 14 119 40

9. Weerasinghe, Sriyantha 14 105 10

10. Khan, Mar 14 100 94

11. Boecker, Peter 13 129 83

12. Wahid, Abdul 12 127 21

13. Dubois, Pierre 12 124 86

14. Polchow, Dirk 12 118 61

15. Mumit Abdul 12 117 -18

16. Miah Shaheen 12 115 70

17. Wurst Heiko 12 114 8

18. Nessakh, Karim 12 108 61

19. Venou Mouraly 12 106 49

20. Abdin, Ansar 12 104 24

21. Narkar, Chandan 12 100 57

22. Wolfgang, Peter 12 100 32

23. Stucchi, Stefano 12 93 29

24. Hussein, Mukith 12 84 -3

25. Islam, Nazrul 11 121 35

26. Ubhayathunga, Amitha 10 123 -30

27. Rajadurai, Alfred 10 113 13

28. Khan, Abdul 10 113 11

29. Miah, Ala 10 113 -25

30. Krueger, Tobias 10 112 16

31. Kumar, Ish 10 107 23

32. Martinelli, Paulo 10 105 12

33. Khan Murshad 10 105 -17

34. Sander, Bernhard 10 100 -50

35. Liyange, Ari 10 99 -24

36. Frauenrath, Ingo 10 97 12

37. Steiner, Armin 10 95 -8

38. Ciepli, Jeremy 10 94 60

39. Seibert, Gunter 10 94 -27

40. Balicci, Giorgio 19 93 7

41. Dumas; Patrice 10 83 17

42. Venou, Radjou 10 80 6

43. Shuab Ahmed 9 109 -13

44. Martinelli, Elisa 9 101 -42

45. Kurera, Susil 8 102 -35

46. Begum, Ruhena 8 101 -12

47. Niandish, Abdullah 8 100 11

48. CarbralRosawald 8 98 -81

49. Hurtig Andreas 8 96 -12

50. Shahid, Abdus 8 96 -13

51. Rahman, Moklisur 8 88 16

52. Bonsang, Alain 8 85 -76

53. Philips, Patrick 8 84 14

54. Nowakowski, Jakub 8 82 -20

55. Nowakowska, Paulina 8 78 -72

56. Fabiano, Stefano 8 74 -3

57. Venou, Randjit 8 74 -57

58. Schneider, Armin 7 79 -54

59. Faller, Hans 7 74 -63

60. Cano, Stephane 6 103 -28

61. Donnini, Rodolfo 6 93 -33

62. Neuhauser, Emilie 6 86 -69

63. Mothe, Norbert 6 86 -73

64. Tomasi, Fabio 6 65 -75

65. Banerjee, Suve 5 71 -125

66. Glasberg, Joseph 5 66 -83

67. Pizzinat, Flavio 4 64 -136

68. Banerjeb Dipal 0 71 -233