Junior division player was the winner again!!!
      For the second time this season, the winner of the European Series of Dynamic Billiard Best of the East comes out of the juniors division. Back in April, Mariusz Skoneczny , still the Junior division player, had taken out the main prize. This time, the player who took out the gold medal in Kiev, Ukraine, was the 16-years old, Mieszko Fortunski , who, in the final match, defeated Karol Skowerski , 9:8.

      The tournament, that took place on perfectly arranged premises of the Weekend Club in Kiev, was the thorough success of the team from Poland. In the quarterfinals there were Polish players only. Best pretenders from other countries: A. Koshevoy, D. Osipienko, V. Koriagin, Y. Novosad (all of ), J O`Brien  i N. Tapanchev  were all defeated in the 1/16 stage. 54 players from 7 countries registered for the tournament. Some good players, who did not qualified even to the knock-out stages were: the winner of the Ukrainian Open 2006 & the silver medalist of the Bulgarian Open 2007 Babken Melkonian , well known on the Tour Dimitriy Czuprov  or Hubert Lopotko , who was in the fifth place in the provisional ranking. In the absence of the ranking leader, Mateusz Sniegocki , who was competing at the World 10-ball Championships in Manila, Philippines, there were chances to take over the provisional ranking lead. Dominik Zajac  (3rd) and Artiom Koshevoy  (2nd) got only the 9th place, but it was Artiom Koshevoy, who returned to the ranking leader`s place. Still, Sniegocki is only 15 points behind, whilst Mariusz Skoneczny , Adam Skoneczny  and Karol Skowerski  are not that far behind either. There are still two more tournaments to come very shortly, Slovakia Open in October and Hungary Open in November.

      There was also a separate tournament for the women players. The winner was Jana Pavlutskaya , the runner up was Yulia Evsieyenko , third places went to Viktoria Nagornaya  and Daria Krasnozhon .

      At the moment, the ranking chart counts no less than 280 participants from 10 countries.

      The very special guest of the Ukraine Open 2008 was the honorable V-ce Minister of Sports of Ukraine, Mr. Miroslav Vasilic Dutcak. Reports and highlights from the tournament were screened on the Channel 1 of the Ukrainian Television and on the Kiev`s Channel. Many thanks to the Kiev`s Weekend Company for the sponsor`s support