The 2020 Treviso Open (sometimes known as the 2020 Dynamic Billard Italian Open) was a professional

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event, the only

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tournament held in 2020. The event was played from 20 to 22 February 2020 at the BHR Treviso Hotel in

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, Italy. The event had a total prize pool of

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38,000, with the winner of each event receiving €4,500. The defending champion was Konrad Juszczyszyn, who had defeated

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in the previous year's final, but was eliminated in the double-elimination round. The men's event was won by

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, who defeated Eklent Kaçi in the final 9–8. Kristina Tkach was the defending champion of the women's event, having defeated

Marharyta Fefilava Margaret Fefilova Styer (formerly Marharyta Fefilava; born 31 May 1997) is a Belarusian professional pool player from Minsk, Belarus. Fefilova has won a total of 29 Belarusian national women's championships, with an additional three national c ...

in the previous year's final. Tkach, however, lost in the quarter-finals to

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. Jasmin Ouschan met Guleikova in the final, and won 7–1. Planned future Euro Tour tournaments in 2020 were cancelled due to the

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Tournament format

The Treviso Open was the first and only

event held in 2020, and was played from 20 to 22 February 2020 at the BHR Treviso Hotel in

, Italy, and was played on 21 tables. A

event for both men and women were first played as a

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tournament, with the men's event becoming a

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bracket at the round-of-32, while the women's event remained a double-elimination tournament until the round-of-16. All men's matches were played as -to-nine , whilst the women's matches were race-to-seven racks. The men's defending champion was Konrad Juszczyszyn, who had defeated

9–6 in the

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final. Russia's Kristina Tkach was the defending champion of the women's event, having defeated

7–5 in the previous year's final . Due to the

, planned future Euro Tour tournaments in 2020 were cancelled.

Prize fund

Both the men's and women's event's prize fund was similar to those of other Euro Tour events, totalling , of which was awarded to the winner of each event.

Tournament summary

There were 211 entrants into the men's event, which began with a double-elimination round. Having been defeated by Tobias Bongers, Chris Melling was eliminated from the competition after a 8–9 loss to

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. Former European Pool Championships winner Fabio Petroni lost in his opening round 6–9 to

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, but qualified for the main stages. In the loser's qualification round,

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and

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were both defeated, by

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and

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. Two former world pool champions

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and Fedor Gorst met in the round of 32, which went , and Gorst to win 9–8. Female player Marharyta Fefilava reached the last 32, defeating Quintin Pongers in the second loser's round to qualify. However, she lost 7–9 to Mickey Krause.

defeated

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and

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9–8, Tomasz Kapłan 9–4 before defeating Gorst 9–3 to reach the final. Eklent Kaçi defeated Luzker and Karol Skowerski 9–6 before completing a

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over Maximilian Lechner 9–0. Kaçi then beat Mateusz Śniegocki 9–6 to reach the final. The final, contested between Shaw and Kaçi, saw Kaçi lead 8–7. He played a on the in rack 16, rather than play a , which Shaw described as the "wrong decision". Shaw won the rack, and then the decider to win his first Euro Tour event. There were 48 entries into the women's event. Oliwia Zalewska, who had won the previous two Euro Tour event's completed two 7–6 victories over Lynn Pijpers and Valeriia Trushevskaia to qualify for the last 16. The highest ranked player, Kristina Tkach won over Elise Qiu and Monika Zabek. The second highest ranked player, Jasmin Ouschan won both her qualifying matches 7–2. Defending champion Kristina Tkach completed a whitewash over

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, but lost in the quarter-finals to

. Having defeated Bojana Sarac 7–5 in the last 16, Guleikova beat Ina Kaplan 7–3 to reach the final. Ouschan defeated Yini Gaspar, Kateryna Zlateva and

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to reach the final. Ouschan won the final 7–1 and commented that the event was "preparation" for events later in the year.

Results

Men's competition

The results for the men's knockout round is shown below. Players in bold denote match winners.

Women's competition

The following results are from the knockout stages following the round of 16. Players in bold denote match winners:

References

External links

Official Website
{{Euro Tour 2020 Euro Tour events 2020 in Italian sport International sports competitions hosted by Italy February 2020 sports events in Italy Sports competitions in Treviso