Polish National Ranking Tournaments

Adam Stefanov won this weekend’s Polish National 5 star Ranking event at the 147 Break in Warsaw, defeating the home clubs Michal Zielinski 4-3 in the final.



Some notable casualties on Saturday - Krzysztof Wróbel (2nd in the rankings for 4 and 5 star tournaments), Karol Szuba-Jabłoński (3rd) and Kamil Zubrzycki (4th), which means Zielinski increases his lead in the rankings.

Today’s results:

Grzegorz Biernadski 3-4 Marek Zubrzycki
Maciej Relich 1-4 Michał Zieliński
Marcin Nitschke 3-4 Adam Stefanów
Michał Ebert 4-1 Rafał Jewtuch

Marek Zubrzycki 1-4 Michał Zieliński
Adam Stefanów 4-2 Michał Ebert

Michał Zieliński 3-4 Adam Stefanów

High break for the tournament was Grzegorz Biernadski with a 120.

Notable how many of the top players in Poland are currently under 21 - Stefanów is 18, Zieliński 20, Ebert 18, Biernadski 19, Relich 18, Zubrzycki 16 and Szuba-Jabłoński 17.

Krzysztof Wrobel stormed to victory in the Polish National Championships this weekend, white-washing his opponent Marcin Nitschke in the final.



Results from the knock out stages (winners from each of four groups had a bye for one round, 2nd and 3rd place from each group had to play an extra round):

Mateusz Baranowski 4 - 0 Maciej Relich
Jaroslaw Kowalski 4 - 2 Patryk Maslowski
Marcin Nitschke 4 - 0 Rafal Gorecki
Adam Stefanov 4 - 2 Rafal Jewtuch

[b]Grzegorz Biernadski 5 - 4 Mateusz Baranowski
Krzysztof Wrobel 5 - 1 Jaroslaw Kowalski
Karol Szuba-Jablonski 3 - 5 Marcin Nitschke
Michal Zielinski 5 - 2 Adam Stefanov

Krzysztof Wrobel 6 - 2 Grzegorz Biernadski
Marcin Nitschke 6 - 1 Michal Zielinski

Krzysztof Wrobel 7 - 0 Marcin Nitschke

High break for he tournament was a 123 by Jaroslaw Kowalski