WDF Europe Cup Men Singles 2012

The eighteenth edition of the European Cup would initially be held in Germany, but they had to give the organization back to the WDF. Belgium then wanted to take over, but they too did not get the organization up and running on time. Eventually it is decided to return to Turkey where the Cup was held two years earlier. For the first time in the history, two consecutive editions are not only held in the same country, the same place, but also in the same location; The Grand Haber hotel in Kemer. For the first time in history 30 countries are registered in the men’s competition, with three fewer teams for the ladies. Debutants are Bulgaria, Catalonia, Jersey and Luxembourg.

Two players from Scotland, two from Finland and four loners reach the quarterfinals of the singles in 2012. Not the defending champion Martin Phillips. Surprisingly, he loses to the Russian Roman Obukhov in the last 32. Jonny Clayton must now uphold the honour for Wales and he reaches the semi-finals after a 5-0 win over Alan Soutar from Scotland. The second Shot does reach the semi-finals. Gary Stone beats the last Englishman still in the tournament, Martin Atkins from Leeds goes out 2-5. Ulf Ceder from Finland defeats Rune David from Norway 5-2 and the brand-new world champion Christian Kist from the Netherlands also reaches the semi-finals with a 5-4 victory over the Finn Jarkko Komula.

Kist then defeats Jonny Clayton in the semi-finals so for the first time in six years there will certainly be no singles champion from Wales. Gary Stone wins in the other semi-final 6-3 against the last Finn, Ulf Ceder. In the final, the gap is never very big in the match, but Stone takes the lead and never gives it away again. He triumphs 7-4 against Christian Kist, making himself the second Scottish WDF Europe Cup singles champion after Peter Johnstone preceded him in 2002.

WDF Europe Cup Men Singles

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Competitors Of WDF Europe Cup Men Singles 2012

Øyvind Aasland

Martin Adams

Vladimir Andersen

Mats Andersson

Martin Atkins (Leeds)

Kagan Aytek

Roy Baillie

Craig Baxter

Tom Becker

Doroteo Bermudez

Przemyslaw Bobrowski

Thomas Bremgartner

Ulf Ceder

Cristian Cimpoca

Arunas Ciplys

Mingo Claudiano

Jonny Clayton

Darren Clifford

Alessandro Colnaghi

Jason Cullen

Rune David

Geert De Vos

Jan Dekker

Lennart Efraimsson

Halgrímur Egilsson

Vegar Elvevoll

Johan Engström

Steve Eusebini

Maksim Evmenenkov

Oliver Ferenc

Adrian Frim

David Glenn

Martin Goodin

Andrej Gorjak

Pere Grau

Gianluca Grillini

Daryl Gurney

Jani Haavisto

Robert Hansen

Wesley Harms

Glenn Honoré

Ronny Huybrechts

Krasimir Ivanov

Jiri Jenicek

Frede Johansen

Stig Jorgensen

Aleksey Kadochnikov

Christoph Kappeler

Philip Karall

Engin Kayaoglu

Joe Kieffer

Christian Kist

Christoph Kleindienst

Boris Koltsov

Jarkko Komula

Ljubomir Krkljes

Nikolai Krustev

Stefan Kuntner

Darius Labanauskas

Daniel Larsson

Renaud Lescure

Marin Marinov

Stephen McDonnell

Sean McGowan

Terry McNulty

Donie Michels

Steven Miles

Einar Moller

Ross Montgomery

Dave Moore

Gintaras Nagevius

Razyan Negot

Ivan Neykov

Tony O'Shea

Roman Obukhov

Michal Ondo

Tihomir Patrik