30 March, Doha: Qatari bowler, Talal Al-Marri win the title of Ramadan Tournament 2024 open division on March 30, 2024 at Qatar Bowling Center, Doha, Qatar. Al-Marri who also one the leaders in the qualifying round defeated Abdulrahman Al-Kheliwi of Saudi Arabia in a 1-game match 223 - 192 in favor to Talal. Abdulrahman landed in second place winning 15,000 QR. On the other hand, Fahad Al-Ragheeb of Kuwait ended in 3rd place with 10,000 QR cash prize. The Champion of this tournament take home 20,000 QR cash and trophy. Congratulations to all the winners!

Convincing victory for Qatar

9th July, Hong Kong: Bader Al Sada and Nasser Al Mansouri led from start to finish to give Qatar its first gold medal at the 20th Asian School Tenpin Bowling Championship with a convincing victory in the Boy's Doubles.

Al Sada scorched the lanes at SCAA Bowling Centre with a stunning 279 in his opening game as his partner, Al Mansouri added a 256 to give the first Qatari pair a total of 535. Singles gold and bronze medallists, Hideaki Hata and Naoto of Japan rolled 517 totake up second, 18 pins adrift.

The Qatari pair continued their relentless pace reeling in 497 and 486 in their next two games to extend their lead to 131 pins at the helfway mark. Hong Kong B Team's second pair of Wilson Chan and Derick Yau moved into second spot, 16 pins ahead of Hong Kong A Team's first pair of Alex Yu and Keith Mark.

Japan slipped down to fourth after managing only 425 and 408 in games 2 and 3. Al Mansouri rolled the championship's first 300 in the fourth game and with Al Sada adding 222, Qatar stretched their lead even further to 186 pins.

After two events, Singles gold medalist, Hata led the All-Events standings with 2800 from 12 games contested. Al Mansouri moved into second spot with 2755 while Kanno was placed third with 2724. The girls will contest their Doubles event after lane dressing later today.

Competition will shift to the Team of Four tomorrow over two blocks on three games each. The top 16 boys and top 16 girls based on their All-Events standings (18 games) will qualify for the Masters finals on July 11 and 12.

Source: http://abf-online.org | Photos by: Terence Yaw, Hong Kong. 

24 May, Doha: Qatari, Ali Al-Ali bagged the title of Ramadan Tournament 2019 Champion on May 24, 2019 at Qatar Bowling Center. Ali who also lead the qualifying round defeated Sultan Al-Qatan in a 2-game series 373 - 335 in favor to Ali. Sultan landed in second place winning 15,000 QR. On the other hand, Yousef Al-Emadi ended as 3rd placer after leading a game for position 3 to 12 winning 7,000 QR. The Champion of this tournament take home 25,000 QR cash and trophy.

8th March, Doha: 2018 World Championships Trios gold medallist and second-seed, Wu Siu Hong of Hong Kong captured the PBA-WBT H.H. Emir Cup 2019 with victory over topseed, Ryan Lalisang of Indonesia in the championship match.

Challenger and winner of Step 4 finals, Wu took a 31-pin lead over Lalisang, 204-173 in the first match. In the second match, both started off with two consecutive strikes, a spare in the second frame and another strike each in the fourth frame.

Wu failed to spare his fifth frame giving the Indonesian a slight lead but the Hong Kong national recovered with five consecutive strikes to put the tie beyond his opponent. Although Lalisang responded by striking home from frame eighth to win the second match, 236-234, Wu clinched the title with a two-game total of 438-409.

"I didn't have a good start during the first block of the qualifying rounds but managed to find a good line to bowl in the second block to qualify in the top bracket," said Wu after his victory. Results...

"I had a modest start in the Step 2 finals but when I had a few big games, I knew I had a chance to make the knockout finals. In the match against Keith Saw in Step 4, I was confident I could beat him when I saw he was struggling to repeat the form he showed in Step 3 finals.

"Again in the championship match against Lalisang, I knew it would be a tough match as the Indonesian is a very good bowler but when he too struggled in the first match, I knew I could win. It's defiitely a good start to the year and I'm looking forward to do well for the rest of the year."

The champion, who pocketed the top prize of US$20,000, had earlier brushed aside, Saw, 438-360 in Step 4 finals to face topseed, Lalisang. Saw defeated fourth-seed and compatriot, Muhd Jaris Goh, fifth-seed, Michael Mak of Hong Kong and Ghanim Aboujassoum of Qatar, 467-428-382-410 to advance to Step 4 finals.

Lalisang picked up US$12,000 as first runner-up while Saw took home US$6,500 as second runner-up. Jaris Goh, Mak and Aboujassoum earned US$3,500 each for finishing fourth to sixth positions.

Fifty-four bowlers from 14 countries took part in the PBA-WBT H.H. Emir Cup 2019 qualifying through four squads of 12 games. 24 qualifiers contested Step 1 finals with the top 12 advancing to Step 2 finals joined by the top 8 seeded qualifiers from the general standings. The field was cut to six to advance to the knockout stage from 20 finalists in Step 2 finals.  Source: http://abf-online.org/results/emircup19_Step5.htm | Photos by: Terence Yaw     Results...

Doha, 17-Feb-19:. Otso Kahila (photo left) of Finland bagged the 1st place for the Masters event in the 9th International Friendly Match 2019 at Qatar Bowling Center on 16th February 2019. His compatriot Pyry Puharinen landed in 2nd place while Jesse Ahokas in 3rd place. In girls division, Finns Peppi Konsteri (photo right) won the masters event. While Nora Kjellås of Norway landed in second place and Mila Nevalainen of Finland in ended in 3rd place.   View the scores

All event winners, for boys division Finn, Jesse Ahokas bagged the first place with a combined series of 4176 against next to him from Peru Yum Ishikawa ended in second place with 3947 while another Finn landed in 3rd place Otso Kahila with 3947. For girls division, Finns dominated this event after Peppi Konsteri won 1^st place with a combined scores of 3847 while her compatriot Pittu Vianen ended up in 3^rd with 3572 while Jenny Mathiesen of Norway landed in second with 3684. View the scores

Meanwhile, in the Team Event, Swedish team won the gold medals after shooting 5012 total series against the next team Finland with only 2 pins difference 5010 ended in Silver place while Bronze goes to Peru team with 4944 series. In the girls division, team of Finland bagged the Gold medals with 5009 series against Norway team's 4397 ended in Silver while Bronze goes to Mexico team ended with 4173 series. View the scores

Doubles event, duos from Finland, Onni Riikonen and Otso Kahila snatched the 1st place rolled with 2745 series. Landed in 2nd place Norway, EirikBjørnstadSkoglund and VetleVålbekken 2646 and Peru, Yum Ishikawa and Dai Yuzuriha with 2592 series in 3rd place. In girls division, Mila Nevalainen and PeppiKonsteri of Finland won the first place with a series of 2402 against their compatriot duos ReettaNeuvonen and PiituViianen landed in 2nd with a series of 2306 and duos from Norway, Nora and Jenny bagged the 3rd place with 2252 series. View the scores

Doha,12-Feb-19: Finn, Jesse Ahokas (pictured left) won the singles event  rolling a series of 1480 on Tuesday, February 12, 2019 at the 9^th International Friendly Match at Qatar Bowling Center. His compatriots PyryPuharinen and Onni Rikonen landed in second and third place. For girls division, Jenny Mathiesen of Norway (picture right) bagged the 1^st place with 1306 against PeppiKonsteri 1227 of Finland ended in 2^nd place. Yumi Yuzuriha of Peru won 3^rd place with 1182.   View the scores