Such different endings (№5 (17) from November, 15th, 2007)

The fifth stage of the Open cup of Petersburg on Factory "Start" prizes have won Alexey Solovev and Ekaterina Lazarko.

The fifth stage has collected on start of all wishing to play billiard-players and billiard-players. And if man's tournament was not counted several leading players in the female almost all strongest sportswomen of Petersburg acted. This time in the program there was «a Combined pyramid» (at the previous stages participants played «the Free pyramid» and one time in "Combined" and "Dynamical").
It is interesting that absolute champions of Petersburg of 2006 participated in the ending of both tournaments of the fifth stage the master of sports Alexey Deniss and the candidate for the master of sports Evgenie Zheldina.
However neither that, nor another did not become winners. From men the first place was occupied with the champion of Russia of 2005 in command offset among youth the master of sports Alexey Solovev, and it has made it rather convincingly, having won a final duel with a whitewash 3:0. And here the female ending proceeded very tensely. Business has reached to контровой, and the victory in last sphere was literally pulled out by the participant of the last year's World championship on «the Free pyramid» Ekaterina Lazarko – 3:2.

Here is how winners have commented on the success:

Ekaterina Lazarko:
– We with Eugene Zheldinoj have spent all tournament, I consider, well, we have passed on the top grid, and both I, and it have managed to win against the champion of Russia Olga Milovanovoj. To a great regret, the ending has passed during inconvenient day time at a total absence of spectators. And after all we fought to the last a sphere and it was on what to look. It was possible to win this exclusively difficult duel to me to that I am inexpressibly glad. Before I met Eugene Zheldinoj in a cup-final of Longoni, and there too was контровая, and too to become the first it was possible to me.

Alexey Solovev:
– I in this tournament played easily, all meetings won, giving to the contender of no more than one party. But on an easy victory in the ending, certainly, did not count, after all the most experienced Alexey Deniss has appeared my contender. Today was, probably, not it, and my day. I am very happy with this my dry victory over the strong player.

 

Boris Kamensky ("Drive a sphere!", specially for "БМ")