In the European Women’s Championship, Kenna dropped just two frames in the knockout stages – defeating Ewelina Piślewska, former World Championship runner-up Wendy Jans and Diana Stateczny to reach the final where she overcame Latvia’s Anna Prysazhnuka 4-1 to win the prestigious trophy.
Kenna had little time to celebrate her individual victory before returning for the European Women’s Team Championship final, where her and Tessa Davidson took on the Portugal team of Vania Franco and Sara Rocha.
It was a hard-fought affair against the home nation, but Kenna and Davidson were ultimately able to get over the line in a deciding frame to complete a memorable double in the European Women’s Championship events.
Ukraine at the Double
Former professional Iulian Boiko was in stunning form in Albufeira as he won both the European Shoot Out Championship and, alongside compatriot Denys Khmelevskyi, the European Men’s Team Championship for Ukraine.
In the Shoot Out event, where matches were player over a single timed frame, Boiko defeated Viktors Jengovatovs, Maciej Kusak, Alex Borg and Nicolas Mortreux to reach the final.
Craig Steadman, who had won the European Seniors and European Seniors Team titles already earlier in the week, was his opponent in the final but Boiko denied him a hat-trick of trophies by winning the title match by a scoreline of 49-5.
Boiko and Khmelevskyi then followed this success up on the final day of the competition by winning the European Men’s Team Championship.
Having defeated fellow countrymen Anton Kazakov and Mykhailo Larkov in the last 16, the Ukrainian duo them whitewashed teams from Malta and Poland to set up a final meeting with Malta’s Aaron Busuttil and Chris Peplow.
The two teams went blow for blow in the final, with neither ever leading by more than a single frame, but Boiko and Khmelevskyi were able to earn the win in a final frame to secure victory for their country.
Nuessle Earns Victory for Austria
Austrian national champion Florian Nuessle earned victory at the European Championships by defeating Stuart Watson 5-3 in the final of the 6-red event.
The knockout stages saw Nuessle pick up victories over Gregory Cooke and Gary Milne, before an impressive whitewash win over WPBSA Q Tour Europe event winner Andres Petrov saw Nuessle reach the semi-finals.
Another whitewash victory, this time over Iulian Boiko of Ukraine, saw Nuessle reach the title match where he would face Watson after the Englishman defeated fellow countryman Harvey Chandler in the semi-finals.
Watson led 2-0 and 3-1 in the final with help from breaks of 57, 45 and 45 but Nuessle rallied to win four consecutive frames and come away a 5-3 victor in Portugal.
Historic European Disability Snooker Championship Debuts
WDBS staged the first ever European Disability Snooker Championship alongside the EBSA European Championship from 18-23 October with champions crowned across six classification groups.
The historic first ever staging of the event saw 40 cueists from six nations competing across Wheelchair, Ambulant, Intellectual, Visual and Deaf classifications in the five-day competition.
Dave Beaumont (Group 1+2), Andy Lam (Group 3), Carl Gibson (Group 4), Dave Bolton (Group 5), Matthew Haslam (Group 6) and Luke Drennan (Group 7-8) were crowned the first ever European Disability champions during a closing ceremony attended by WDBS Chairman Nigel Mawer QPM, EBSA President Maxime Cassis and FBP President Ricardo Salgado.
Click here to read a full report from WDBS on the European Disability Snooker Championship.
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