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Danial, Adania cruise into matchplay round at Youth World Cup
KUALA LUMPUR: Bowlers Danial Abu Samah and Adania Redzwan got off to promising starts at the IBF Youth World Cup in Sweden, as both advanced to the round-robin stage following strong qualifying performances.
The qualifying phase, held at Olympia Bowling in Helsingborg over three days, concluded on Thursday.
Danial finished sixth in the boys' division after rolling down 4,001 pinfalls over 18 games to comfortably make the top 16 cut from a field of 37.
Adania also did well by placing 11th in the girls' division with 3,516 pinfalls from her three-day effort, joining the 16-player matchplay round out of 31 contenders.
Slovakia's Simon Hrusovsky topped the boys' qualifying with a 4,251 total, followed by Norway's Mathias Otting (4,149) and Romania's Mate B-Becsi (4,041).
In the girls' division, Costa Rica's Elena Weinstock topped the leaderboard with 3,881, ahead of Denmark's Karen K Nielsen (3,787) and Germany's Fiona Lindemann (3,733).
The top 16 in each division will now contest a 15-game round-robin matchplay phase across the next two days, with 30 bonus pins awarded for each win and 15 for a draw.
Only the top eight will progress to the next stage.
This is the second edition of the Youth World Cup, following the inaugural event held in Peru in January last year.
Back then, Malaysia was represented by Megat Zaqrul Haiqal Megat Zairudin and Nur Hazirah Ramli.
Megat came agonisingly close to a podium finish, ending fourth, while Hazirah also impressed by reaching the quarter-finals.
