Third place in Dynamic Italy Women Open
November 15, 2012
Picture by EPBF. Quarterfinalists from left: Jennifer Vietz (Ger), Ina Kaplan (Ger), Martine Christiansen (Nor), Me, Oliwia Czyprunska (Pol), Natalia Sherostan (Rus) and Ana Mazhirina (Rus). Far left outside the picture is Barbara Bolfelli (Ita) and in front her son Thomas:)
Sunday started with my QF against Jennifer Vietz (GER) and that was a long match. We both went to the hill and I thought I was done when she missed the 8. She left me a bank to the side and I pocketed that and the nine to win the match. That made me ran out of steam for the SF against Martine and I did too many mistakes. She went on to win the tournament though, it was a good day for Norway!!
The official Europe women’s final ranking for 2012 is concluded and I ended up on 6th place with Martine on 7th. This means we will get some spots for WC’s and international ranking tournaments next year. I only hope that our federation follow up with support so we can actually go to them all. This will mean a lot for Norway, we are now three players in the international arena, Line Kjørsvik, Martine Christiansen and myself. BRING ON 2013!
This is the last tournament outside Norway this year, bu t I still have a few domestic tournaments to play. I will keep you posted:)
Oh, I almost forgot: I am currently playing with a OB2 shaft on my Fury TP-9 and it works perfect! I was really happy with the EXII aswell, it plays almost exactly like a Z², but I actually switched to OB when I had my P2 many years ago and I prefer that soft hit.
I also visited the Longoni factory when I was in Italy, I will make a new post on that. It was impressive!
Thanks for all the support!!
Ine:)
Links to:
Results from Dynamic Italy Women Open
Ranking Dynamic Italy Women Open
Final EPBF European Women Ranking 2012
Pressrelease from EPBF ( also on Pro9.co.uk, sixpocket.de etc etc)
In the quarterfinals from the winners side!!
November 10, 2012
YEESSS! Finally I play good. At least when it matters:) I am now in the quarterfinals after winning 7-6 against Caroline Roos (SWE). Earlier today I have played against Ann-Sofie Löfgren from Sweden also (7-5) and Vega Marin from Spain (7-2).I play again tomorrow at 11, the draw will be done right before my match so I do not know who I am playing.
My fellow Norwegian and club mate Martine Christiansen is also in the quarterfinals. A good day for Norway:)
Time to relax, it has been a long day.
Remember to follow the livestream on kozoom.com!
Ine:)
Getting ready
November 9, 2012
Arrived in the hotel and venue, and everything looks great! The only thing is that we were informed tonight that we are using break box, 9 on the spot and three point rule… I would love to have known this a week ago, but I got a practice table and found the spot. I think I am ok:)
I will play my first match tomorrow at 10 against Marin from Spain. I do not think I will have livestream, the mens divison will take those 8 tables. But, you can find the livestream on http://www.kozoom.com/en/pool-billiard/
Ine:)
Dynamic Italy Women Open
November 7, 2012
Sorry for the lack of posts, I will try to find the joy i writing again:)
Tomorrow I leave for Italy, I really look forward to a few days of. Friday will be just driving around, relaxing and saturday the tournament begins! So far we are 29 participants, which is way to low, but still, it is 29 and not 19:)
The tournament will be held at the same time and place as the European Open for the men so I am sure the venue will be good.
You can follow the tournament on http://www.eurotouronline.eu ( select the womens tournament) or the high quality livestream on http://www.kozoom.com.
I will try to post during the weekend:)
Thanks for reading and have a good poolweekend!
World Championship 10-ball
August 22, 2012
Tv table
As you can see the tv table venue is spectacular here in Manila. Here it is a sport for everybody, not just for the half crazy people staying inside playing pool all weekends:) The venue is Robinson galleris mall and tha tmeans we have a lot of audience all the time. Which is good for the sport. There is upsides and downsides playing in a mall. As said, we are exposed to the public and that is very good. Personally I have a problem with the ongoing neverstopping noice… You have people talking, babies crying, music from 5 different places as once etc etc. All this make it more difficuly to focus. Add jetlag and you have problem. Which is what happened in my second game yesterday.
I played really well in my first match against B. R Jung ( KOR) I hardly missed a ball and I felt really good. Second match (back to back) the jetlag kicked in in the middle of the match. My opponent Y. T Chan (TPE) played good but left me plenty of opportunities and I could not take them. I lost 6-3. Third match (also back to back) I felt better and also played better. So did K. Yukawa unfortunatly. She played really solid and did not leave me much on the occasional miss. I lost 6-2.
Today I prepared for C. Y. Chou (TPE, world champion teams) but it was not good enough. I lost 6-1, but I was on the table doing good jump shots and getting out of safeties. I just did not get really into the game and I need to work on my safety play. Tonight I play my last match against Rubilen Amit (PHI) and I will do my best to give her a good match:)
Ine
Ine Helvik 