The 2019 Treviso Open (sometimes known as the 2019 Dynamic Billard Italian Open) was a nine-ball pool tournament, and the second Euro Tour event of the 2019 season. The event was held from 8 to 11 May 2019, at the Best Western Premier BHR Treviso Hotel in Treviso, Italy. The event had a total prize pool of â¬38,000 with the winner of each event receiving â¬4,500. The event followed the Leende Open, and preceded the Austria Open.
The event was won by Polish player Konrad Juszczyszyn who defeated the Netherlands' Ivar Saris in the final 9âÂÂ6. The defending champion was Fedor Gorst from the Netherlands, who defeated Mateusz à Âniegocki 9âÂÂ7 in the 2018 Treviso Open final. However, Gorst failed to progress to the knockout round. Russia's Kristina Tkach was the defending champion of the women's event, having defeated Oliwia Zalewska in the 2018 final 7âÂÂ0. Tkach successfully defended the championship, defeating Marharyta Fefilava in the final 7âÂÂ5.
The men's event was held from 8 to 11 May, and the Women's took place between 9 and 11 May. Both events were first played as a double-elimination tournament. It was held at the Best Western Premier BHR Treviso Hotel in Treviso, Italy. The men's event became a single-elimination bracket at the round-of-32, while the women's event remained a double-elimination tournament until the round-of-16. All men's matches were played as -to-nine , whilst the women's matches were race-to-seven racks. The men's defending champion was Netherlands' Fedor Gorst, who defeated Mateusz à Âniegocki 9âÂÂ7 in the 2018 Treviso Open final. Russia's Kristina Tkach was the defending champion of the women's event, having defeated Oliwia Zalewska in the previous year's final 7âÂÂ0.
Both the men's and women's event's prize fund was similar to those of other Euro Tour events, totalling , with being awarded to the winners of the event.
208 participants entered the men's event held from 8 to 11 May. Mike Massey, the 72-year-old World Trickshot Champion competed at his first Euro Tour event. Massey lost both of his games to Bruno Ernst and Juan Antonio Pina-Hidalgo. Albin Ouschan lost his initial match 9âÂÂ4 against Casper Matikainen. Ouschan won the next two matches, before he lost to Vitaliy Patsura 9âÂÂ6, and failed to progress. Defending champion Fedor Gorst also failed to progress, he lost two of his three matches, to Konstantinos Koukiadakis and Ruslan Chinakhov.
In the single-elimination round, six-time winner Mark Gray defeated Sebastian Staab 9âÂÂ8 in the last-32 stage. Gray led 4âÂÂ2, but Staab won four consecutive racks to lead 6âÂÂ4. The pair shared the next four racks with Staab leading 8âÂÂ6. Gray won the next three racks to win the match. Post-match, Gray commented he was mystified as to how he won the game. Francisco Sánchez Ruiz and Mario He also finished on a . Sánchez RuÃÂz won the match, despite not leading before that point.
Polish player Konrad Juszczyszyn reached his second Tour final, defeating Alexander Kazakis, Casper Matikainen, andàPijus Labutis. His opponent was Ivar Saris, who was playing in his first Euro Tour final, after defeating David Alcaide, Ruslan Chinakhov, and Mateusz à Âniegocki. Neither player had won a Tour event prior. The final was played, and had an increased number of , with Juszczyszyn leading throughout. He led at 4âÂÂ3 and 6âÂÂ4 before Saris won the next two to tie the match at 6âÂÂ6. Juszczyszyn won the next three racks to win his first Euro Tour event 9âÂÂ6.
A total of 44 participants played in the women's event between 9 and 11 May. This was the first event of the 2019 season for the women, as the Leende Open had no women's division. Number one ranked Kristina Tkach defeated Sara Rocha 7âÂÂ2 and Veronika Ivanovskaia to progress to the single-elimination round. Second ranked Jasmin Ouschan had to win two deciding racks to progress, after defeating both Kristina Jaeger and Veronika Hubrtová 7âÂÂ6. Euro Tour third ranked player Marharyta Fefilava completed a whitewash of Nathalie Seichter, before a 7âÂÂ4 win over Poland's Iza Lacka. Ana Gradià ¡nik played Turkey's Eylül KibaroÃÂlu in the qualification round. Kibaroglu led 6âÂÂ3, and had two balls to pot to win the match. She accidentally herself behind the . Gradià ¡nik took advantage and won the following four racks to claim a victory and progress to the single-elimination rounds.
In the last-16 stage, Ouschan lost to Ivanovskaia 7âÂÂ4, resulting in Tkach being guaranteed to remain as the highest ranked player after the event. The 2018 runner-up Oliwia Czuprynska also lost at this stage, being defeated by Natalia Seroshtan 7âÂÂ4. The semi-final lineup was made up of Tkach, Gradià ¡nik, Fefilava and Kateryna Polovinchuk. The first semi-final had Gradià ¡nik leading 6âÂÂ5 over Tkach; she made errors in both the 12th and 13th racks to allow Tkach to win 6âÂÂ7. Fefilava defeated Polovinchuk 7âÂÂ1. The final was contested between the first and third ranked players on the Tour, with Tkach taking an early 5âÂÂ1 lead. Fefilava took four of the next five racks to trail at 6âÂÂ5, before Tkach won the next rack to retain the championship.
The results for the men's knockout round is shown below. Players in bold denote match winners.
The following results are from the knockout stages following the round of 16. Players in bold denote match winners: