WDF Europe Cup Men Singles 2014

After two editions in Turkey, the European Cup will stay in Eastern Europe for 2014. Again, a young organization gets the responsibility for the nineteenth WDF Europe Cup; Romania. From 23 to 27 September, the Intercontinental Hotel in Bucharest is the royal setting for this Cup.

For the first time there are four ladies per team, until 2014 there were always two. This means that an extra day of play is added to the schedule. From now on, the teams will play over four days and the opening ceremony is the day before. Men from 30 countries come to the Romanian capital and 25 countries also bring their ladies. It was a very cosy and friendly European Cup. No debutants at this Cup, but Cyprus does return for the first time since 2000.

In the singles, it’s not immediately the most obvious names that compete for the medals that remain. David Smith-Hayes from Wales beats the last remaining Englishman Glen Durrant in the quarterfinals 5-2. Irishman David Concannon beats Jorgen Aerts from Belgium. Ireland was the only country with two players in the quarterfinals, but Jason Cullen fails to make it to the semi-finals. He loses 5-1 to a strong playing Darius Labanauskas from Lithuania. The last four is completed by the Russian Boris Koltsov. He surprisingly manages to beat the Scottish captain Ross Montgomery.

In the first semi-final, Concannon takes out David Smith-Hayes surprisingly easy 6-1. The Eastern European match between Labanauskas and Koltsov goes 6-3 to the Lithuanian. On the day of the final, the audience is presented with a great final that is won 7-5 by the Irishman David Concannon. He had not yet won any international ranking title before this victory, but he takes the gold in Bucharest. Ireland had never won gold before, so he immediately writes a nice piece of history. For Labanauskas it is his second silver after the second place in the pairs two years ago.

WDF Europe Cup Men Singles

About WDF Europe Cup Men Singles 2014

Competitors Of WDF Europe Cup Men Singles 2014

Jorgen Aerts

Robert Allenstein

Vladimir Andersen

Rokas Aniulis

Marco Apollonio

Carlos Arola

Craig Baxter

Aleksandar Boric

Michel Boulet

Kevin Burness

Tom Burquel

Brian Buur

Engin Ceylan

Krzysztof Chmielewski

Mogens Christensen

Arunas Ciplys

Mingo Claudiano

Jonny Clayton

David Concannon

Barry Copeland

Remus Cotrau

Jason Cullen

John Desreumaux

Pavel Drtil

Glen Durrant

Halgrímur Egilsson

Gary Elliott

Vegar Elvevoll

Johan Engström

Steve Eusebini

Oliver Ferenc

Gudmundur Fridbjörnsson

Adrian Frim

Rocco Fulciniti

Frank Gansen

Fernando Gavilan-Cabezas

Demetris Georgiou

Brendan Grace

Wayne Halliwell

Henrik Halsvik

Robert Hansen

Wesley Harms

Petr Hynčica

Krasimir Ivanov

Thomas Junghans

Laszlo Kadar

Aleksey Kadochnikov

Marko Kantele

Utku Karaca

Engin Kayaoglu

Christoph Kleindienst

Stig-Jarle Knudsen

Boris Koltsov

Nikolai Krustev

Darius Labanauskas

Antonis Lampropoulos

Daniel Larsson

Piotr Lega

Renaud Lescure

Felix Losan

Salvatore Mantarro

Colin McGarry

Sean McGowan

Ulrich Meyn

Nikolai Mikhalin

Steven Miles

Aleksandar Milovanovic

Scott Mitchell

Ross Montgomery

Stuart Moon

Ivan Neykov

Peter Nigitz

Dennis Nilsson

Asko Niskala

Danny Noppert

Roman Obukhov

Michal Ondo