European Grand Prix 2016 - Copenhagen
winner: Takashi Yamakawa
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Top 15 players EGP 2016 after 4 stages
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A very good start of the tournament for Takashi Yamakawa from Japan who scored 7/7. Tom Schotte, leader of the 2016 EGP after 3 stages, scored only 3 points. He will have to do better tomorrow if he wants to keep his position at the top. Second place for Jeroen Everts 6/7 and third place for Oskar Eklund 5/7.

​Ranking of the 18 players after round 7:
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1: 7 pts [477] YAMAKAWA Takashi (5539) {JPN}
2: 6 pts [440] EVERTS Jeroen (5231) {SWE}
3: 5 pts [422] EKLUND Oskar (150016) {SWE}
4: 4 pts [454] KASHIWABARA Takuji (839) {FRA}
              [427] TASTET Marc (2) {FRA}
              [407] FELDBORG Karsten (92) {DNK}
              [404] DE GRAAF Jan C. (4012) {NLD}
              [400] LUND JENSEN Erik (93) {DNK}
              [358] GARDEBRINK Christian (1505) {SWE}
10: 3 pts [384] KORTENDIJK Albert (5012) {NLD}
                [377] SCHOTTE Tom (2795) {BEL}
                [370] JOHANSSON Erik (1493) {SWE}
                [362] STEENTOFT Benkt (1301) {SWE}
                [309] BADSTED Palle (1025) {DNK}
15: 2 pts [326] FAHLESON Rikard (150045) {SWE}
                [290] LITSAS Andreas (300018) {GRC}
                [266] AAGAARD-HANSEN Jens (1019) {DNK}
18: 0 pt [205] WIDMAN Linnea (150055) {SWE}
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Takashi Yamakawa - winner EGP Copenhagen


SCHOTTE Tom 22-42 DE GRAAF Jan C.
EGP Copenhagen, round 1


YAMAKAWA Takashi 49-15 EVERTS Jeroen
EGP Copenhagen, round 1


YAMAKAWA Takashi 36-28 KASHIWABARA Takuji
EGP Copenhagen, round 3


YAMAKAWA Takashi 40-24 EKLUND Oskar
EGP Copenhagen, round 5
Ranking of the 18 players after round 11:

1: 10 pts [888] YAMAKAWA Takashi (5539) {JPN}
                [850] EVERTS Jeroen (5231) {SWE}
3: 8 pts [844] KASHIWABARA Takuji (839) {FRA}
4: 7 pts [828] FELDBORG Karsten (92) {DNK}
              [812] EKLUND Oskar (150016) {SWE}
6: 6 pts [823] TASTET Marc (2) {FRA}
              [778] DE GRAAF Jan C. (4012) {NLD}
              [756] LUND JENSEN Erik (93) {DNK}
              [726] STEENTOFT Benkt (1301) {SWE}
                        GARDEBRINK Christian (1505) {SWE}
              [659] JOHANSSON Erik (1493) {SWE}
12: 5 pts [729] KORTENDIJK Albert (5012) {NLD}
                [720] SCHOTTE Tom (2795) {BEL}
14: 4 pts [590] BADSTED Palle (1025) {DNK}
15: 3 pts [572] LITSAS Andreas (300018) {GRC}
16: 2 pts [579] FAHLESON Rikard (150045) {SWE}
                [529] AAGAARD-HANSEN Jens (1019) {DNK}
18: 0 pt [461] WIDMAN Linnea (150055) {SWE}
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Takashi Yamakawa (3rd place at WOC 2013) and Jeroen Everts qualified for the final with 10/11. Takashi continued his winning streak of day 1 in round 8 on the second day of tournament but lost in round 9 against Karsten Feldborg. Jeroen Everts started the tournament with a loss in round 1 against Takashi, from then on only wins for him.

Jeroen won the first game of the final, Takashi won the second , so there was a third game. Takashi won that game 33-31.
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Takuji Kashiwabara won 39-25 against Karsten Feldborg in the final round. They met again in the playoff for 3rd and 4th place and Takuji scored another 39-25 win.

Top 4 EGP Copenhagen:
  1. Takashi Yamakawa (JPN)
  2. Jeroen Everts (SWE)
  3. Takuji Kashiwabara (FRA)
  4. Karsten Feldborg (DNK)
I won the Copenhagen EGP!  I enjoyed the tournament so much.
I hope I can play another European tournament in the future.

Takashi Yamakawa


YAMAKAWA Takashi 30-34 FELDBORG Karsten
EGP Copenhagen, round 9


YAMAKAWA Takashi 34-30 TASTET Marc
EGP Copenhagen, round 10


KASHIWABARA 39-25 FELDBORG
EGP Copenhagen, 3/4 playoff


YAMAKAWA Takashi 24-40 EVERTS Jeroen
EGP Copenhagen, final game 1


EVERTS Jeroen 29-35 YAMAKAWA Takashi
EGP Copenhagen, final game 2


YAMAKAWA Takashi 33-31 EVERTS Jeroen
EGP Copenhagen, final game 3