2024 European Championships U19 STRAIGHT POOL - SEMI FINALS - Felix VOGEL vs Mika VAN BERKEL

ladies and gentlemen welcome to the stri through semifinals of the 2024 dynamicard Europe chionship [Applause] inia on table number four under 19 division representing Finland ran and oppent representing Ukraine Constantin Ian referee Serbia goalkeeper on table number three under 17 representing Norway and his opponent [Applause] representing andek keeper Daniel May Germany table number two under 17 division representing ital alio and his representing Poland yob referee P Finland scorer KAG turkey on table number one under 19 division representing the Netherlands mik Corner representing Germany Felix [Applause] for Germany and scor keeper [Applause] players please for the break welcome everybody to the damic bilard European championships 2024 in the U division poetri Slovenia on the feature table we have the under 19 semifinal in the straight bull division for Germany we have Felix fogal and for the Netherlands we have Mika van bero it's a race to 100 points for place in the final the winner of the event qualifies for the WPA world junior Championship in New Zealand so a lot at stake there we have the youngster Felix ful has already done quite some big things in his young career if you look at he finished in the final of the EUR tour I believe in Estonia and also had a pretty good European championships along the big men so he'll be breaking so could be a little Advantage for V beol good Q ball long one ball and not so much future the seven ball does go but will be difficult to get from the one to the seven and there might be a 98 combination as well but you will have to hold the one ball and usually it makes this shot a little bit more tricky yeah nice long shot but shot to make it and see what he was going to get after it's called a seven ball I really think this is quite aggressive big shot though will split the whole pack ooh sweet shots beautiful actually I really thought that was scary but uh he never moved the flin huh look at this body great queuing still some work to do we'll get to the 14 would like to take away the 15 as soon as possible needs to open up that 9 12 15 cluster on the left and would like to stay away from the balls if he shoots the 10 ball because he will push more balls towards the 15 9 and 12 so let's see can he play the 15 run into the 11 possibly just softly or the nine okay managed to open up the big cluster open the up a little bit but as you can see it's kind of Scrappy still on the bottom would like to take away the bottom balls first yeah got a little bit short I believe he was playing for the five ball what can he get on the 11 if he draws away from the six and then angle on the 11 to bump the 12 well that works not sure if he was playing the little bump on the six but definitely has a great chance here on the 11 to run into the 12 now main thing is either take away the nine ball as soon as possible or the three ball because you need to do something with the two six also choose to stun into the two ball now the two will go off the six as a break shot yeah I like that just yeah a t too soft could opt to play the five as a break shot but always more danger because you're further away from the stack and you still need to get a nice angle on it as as well need some angle on the three ball too get to his break shot must be feeling very comfortable as he's playing quite fast but quite straight on the three can he still draw just past the side pocket okay it's a clever solution there to stop the cub in the rack can definitely give himself a nice angle on the five and he actually on this kind of break shot it really makes a big difference what kind of angle you get on the five so everybody has some preference some like it to be straighter and punch the ball more and some like it to give a big angle and Go full in here's that seven ball look at that seven ball what a cut it was a difficult rack quite Scrappy chose to leave the Q ball in the rack so has ball in kitchen or CU ball in kitchen I do like this kind of angle not too much Top Spin but can go into the 14 pretty decent result at least a more wider opening as you could see played a little bit of Top Spin I was just hoping not to hit the front ball full in the face which he done very nicely does already have two break shots possible either the 11 or the four does have the 14 as a key shot could have the 714 okay nice nice opening there played with such a speed that it was always going to end up on 147 or the three would still like to get the 15 or the eight out as soon as possible can he take the 12 okay not exactly sure why he was bumping this 11 as I did like the break shot from there so Force should take the 14 and then go back down table on the one like I said the force still goes as a break shot little longer shot this time now yeah this was really tricky for a second I was hoping he would shot the eight of course nothing he can solve but doesn't make it very easy to be honest so does manage to get close to his break shot and nice angle for a second looked like he was a little bit trapped still managed to get there so two RS now 28 nil it's a race to 100 so big opening score definitely could earn him chance to get to the final nice little split in between and here the eight good speed control so good play Top Spin Off the r two rails forward did play the draw distance was running in into the six ball there full call the four can always go off the 10 good queing now don't think there is a 8 10 combination because you would like to get rid of those two balls they're pretty pretty much in a bad place yeah could shoot the 15 now push the balls open to the other corner and play with draw so you always have the seven ball the only bad news is that that three ball good pushed with the eight as well we cut the six and run into the three and at least open this up okay that's the first phase but slowly it's getting into trouble can go real first on the nine to have the seven in the side or maybe one of the three to the corner no did cheat the pocket it's difficult because there is the shot clock as well I believe and especially in these kind of situations you need to do something and oh this is risky yeah I was wondering if he could have played for the short side on the 38 and then hopefully open up something with the 210 coming in from that angle on the 210 there was always a big scratch so 33 points as an opener and like I mentioned it's still quite Scrappy so Felix has been in his chair for definitely 15 20 minutes and then to have a scrappy layout now if he makes a good shot on the 12 he can run into the two ball and always have the 83 from there things get a little easier that's what he's played just enough to be able to make the then but lost the C Ball a bit get on the 38 four ball I believe still does go to the side and then push the 13 out as a break shot and then maybe go real first to make the 10 unless he gets the one ball after of course it's the it's a thing you don't know how well that was going to open up so he choosing the 10 so a little bit surprised he doesn't take away the two Ball but probably took the 14 as the one didn't go so just to make sure he had all the balls available he a little bit off the rail oh that was the thing he got straight on the two and now we'll have to jack up Cub on the ra jack up to be able to get to his break shot if he Place follow runs into the 13 well definitely has a cut on the third but like I mentioned before he set for 15 20 minutes had to start off with this awkward eight points because things were not so easy and then now has a big break shot here's the break shot for Mika and then here he tried to open up the 210 but honestly not too sure if that was the right shot and then here jacked up has hit it nice just jacking up the speed is more difficult because you tend to stun it very firm and he had to hold a q ball so big shot here doesn't have to worry about the Q ball Q ball will definitely track towards the short rail because of the Top Spin doesn't want to play it too soft though because you could stick against the back yeah it's overcut it by little bit there did he get some luck after well never was going to get very lucky but no it's no awkward queuing straight 11 ball now again I would not like to shoot the 13 and push more balls over towards the five because you're going to tie them up again possibly with the nine did play it softer than I expected him to play but then still now there is nine balls in that same corner you need to play the perfect cuq to still be able to run out on this small angle on the nine is he able to draw away from the 14 still can take the eight but has to take away that 14 or five as soon as possible so let's see what would his end be I would guess oh that's a bad bump on the five could have play with draw to always have the five with the one or the four ball actually not sure why he went forward yeah actually force him to take away the break shot he's missed it and did he leave a break shot for Felix well nothing usual but still could go either from the 10 as a break shot or the 15 so there is possibilities and this early mistake this inning for Mika will definitely give Felix some some stroke because now the balls are actually comfortable in the open gets some feel gets also a little bit more confidence because Mika missed quite early again so so when you make a mistake and you get back to the table quite soon after that early mistake you made didn't really hurt you that much did end up a little funny here doesn't have to play the awkward shot could take the 10 and go to the 12 Play 10 12 three and then play the 15 as a break shot or 10 15 12 and shoot the three in the side okay nice shot on the 15 will have to use the well still could go anywhere but I do like that temp ball it's one of those break shots where you don't have to care so much to get the QQ ball perfect or great angle just leave angle on the 10 and you can smash him o does you have enough angle I would like to be on the bottom long rail or anywhere near would be already nice did get a little bit straight as you can see still does have a break shot like you can cheat the pocket create angle but now you actually have to force the QQ ball instead of natural going forward because of the cut so this rack missed the break shot Felix difficult shot there and then Mika ran out of shape missed the three and then left a wide open chance for fogal he's on this break shot now and be warned this could go wrong is not a gimme CU ball will be slow he's looking at going over the short rail CU ball won't have so much speed and if he catches a ball thick on the rack could be frozen to the stack after so needs to catch if he goes from the back needs to catch the point or at least skim off a ball as you can see so sensitive was trying to stun run the QQ ball and catch the point okay so maybe some early nerves who knows score now 41 to 15 now in this case I would just tell myself not to do too much I'd rather take a fall than leave Mika something open oh yeah not sure if this is what I would have done as you can see a little bit too much Top Spin needed yeah either some right spin or or stun but easier said than done so long nine ball if he makes this can get on the five possible chance Spears it in I believe he's got perfect on the five well little straighter than I thought still would love to play the five and even if I catch the one Thin it's going to push one or two balls out that's the only thing you need from here yeah was trying to leave himself a big cut on the two trying to cheat the angle look what he's given Felix one good shot will spread the rack yeah definitely wasn't easy look to be straighter could have drawn the C ball back and got this two ball in the same corner so now we'll look to catch the 12 got the three ball [Music] first but as you can see as long as he doesn't catch the ball full he was most of the time going to be okay on that shot and he's got the 12 will need a little bit more space after but for now he should be fine could go forward a little bit and play the four and go two rails into the stack again he chose to play the four not sure why he would want to leave himself that 12 playing 712 now similar shot than he had before I just don't think he can check the QQ ball in between the three and the eight so that's that's why he might opt just to go around and leave himself different but as you can see he's trying to get some angle here and there because he needs to open up the 56 1413 I believe that is so now it's looking at playing the 13 after but that will only push the ball maybe over to the 1511 does he still have have the five was thinking to catch the five Fuller take some speed of the Q ball it's called the five Big Shot here because that cluster of five Balls next to it they don't really go anywhere so last ball has to do something yeah definitely no doubt this youngster has great technique great fun fundamentals but this game is a little bit more than just two pocket balls or to be able to to force the cable around so big shot needs something does he get in between no think his run is over unless he goes very aggressive but can't imagine that six goes to the side yeah big stroke there okay so that six ball still did go so managed to shoot his way out of it could play 148 if he gets straight on the eight it's a stop shot on the eight and has perfect angle on the 15 to get to the 11 as a break shot center of the table probably left himself a little more angle so let's check out the other semifinals of course we also have the under 17 going on let's look at the under 19 first rku ran now up 50-13 against Constantin ianov most of the people would expect probably Ruan to be in the final and then the under 17 yakob shroot is up 2917 against alesio bonan Singa and Max bko from Slovenia is up 36- 19 against Robin H Patterson so just wondering I believe Felix has taken a timeout this an important shot because if he makes this break Shot opens up the cluster then we're basically tied at around 40 41 42 so will definitely get to the nervy part I believe in this match as you can see Poland's shot at the table table two oh might have hooked himself behind the three ball end of run so we will see the Ukrainian no it's not the Ukrainian excuse me the Italian alesio bonan Singa at the table so new name for me unless okay he's going for the bank shot blasted in so it looks like ful is back doesn't have too much angle on the 11 not too far off from the 11 so this is a must make this is one of those where if you miss him there is really no excuse like you basically missed a shot you're supposed to make which can put some extra pressure on there well and then again he's missed another break shot yeah just wondering what could be the reason because he had perfect angle to go with Top Spin would never be close to the scratch because the kbo would slide off the stack and because the Top Spin would curve towards the short rail so thing I do know is that this is a great chance for the Dutchman and with a lucky bump on the eight can play the eight and run into the 913 guaranteed to have the three ball or the two ball after yeah my split I believe the 10 does work as a break shot do take the 13 out to make up a little bit of room yeah play that with good speed good enough to actually open them up but not too crazy where you lose the Q ball or you push the balls together so it does need to work on the 711 don't think the 11 goes so like to take out the seven as soon as possible so the end for me would probably be either either 4 12 1510 or 1 12 1510 but I would like to take away that seven ball he's waiting quite long and also to get from the 11 to the four is not great it's just quite a lot of cubal movement which is great it always feels great when you're in stroke but now we'll need good angle on the 11 to still get decent on the four and that's some traveling and if you get too much angle should be fine though stun of the real one Diamond just get decently straight on the four would be fine well not straight on the FL small angle can kill the Q ball and then now does have a small angle so could go into the re and out no stop shot left himself just okay angle didn't like to be completely straight on the 15 ooh lift himself a big angle again on this 10 he expecting at least a little bit of draw to yeah just just get a smidth straighter because the most break shot we've seen missed was with over angle that's here was the mistake from fogal nice split after from from be and Felix has missed the similar break shot like this before so these two players are probably two of the straightest Shooters in the building right now in that building yeah good shot on the 10 yeah honestly not great oh this is a replay from the break shot the seven ball after he shot I was not big fan because kind of relied on some luck after just because it's a little bit messy on the bottom and the three ball was blocking the 11 or the one still made it work he's on his way to get to 70 points yeah I think he was trying to get to that little cluster of three 136 15 I believe now things will really depend on if that five ball still does go does not have angle on the three ball to go to the cluster now from this field feel don't think the five does go the reason why I would want the five to go is because the nine could be your break shot so you don't want to take away the nine yeah as you can see was forced to open up that cluster and the only shots they've been missing is when they were postponing that problem when they were waiting to open up this then they kind of had to do too much and mistakes happen it's just because of extra movement with the QQ ball so not 70 balls got to 62 ful on 27 needs to hit some kind of a gear only small runs so far for the German can you believe he's missed that same eightball yeah kind of all over the place at this moment yeah maybe just more focused on the CU ball was trying to leave himself nice on the 14 as Mika does have a great angle to run softly into the six he only needs to hit the six soft and I don't know why he's taking away the eight yeah r way too far on this five ball so two rails forward does open the cluster yeah worked out great it's nice on the six now a little bit of work as the 14 doesn't go to the corner so float forward get straight on the three or small angle play the three and the 14 in the top right corner does he have a different plan could shoot the 14 the side and the three in the bottom right corner still okay so the 14 I guess goes to the side pocket will need to hold a q ball yeah so does manage to still get to the break shot after that missed opportunity from vogul yeah does have a great break shot can play full Top Spin really always will have good opening on the rack well maybe not full Top Spin but stunt top should be fine thing is withraw is because the the cuq ball line will Arc if you catch the ball a little bit thin the CU will go all the way to the short rail so I like to play top on this just like that good shot there is on 70 a little bit more than two rcks to go for the Dutchman I think it's pretty fair to state that the German fogal is in big trouble we'll go into the cluster here always the two as a backup could have done with a little bit more Pace those as you can see still clustered up on the sides oh and this is so risky there was no need to run into the balls directly again he never had a backup shot so big shot on the 12 just slid in there used all of the pocket there but still at the table that's what counts so now again needs to get to the 11410 as soon as possible so I would like I still need to take away the 158 thinking 158 go to the five and then you always have the 10 four or 11 left himself the wrong angle on the five so then could go eight ball is he going to run in them play Draw or is he going to leave one to the side think I would stop the Q ball just one ball over and play either the 11 or the 14 inside yeah and most preferable I would like to take out the four because it opens up the 10 and there's more room in between so you don't have to bump them and then now would like to get to the 11 as soon as possible because it doesn't go in the top right corner so 11 one six could work just needs to get close to straight so where he is now is fine and rather have too much angle going towards the short rail than to the left towards the 10 yeah looking good starting to wonder if ful will still get a chance in this match so was looking at the tangent line I believe he hits the bottom side of the two so we'll play with draw oh no this catch the top side of the two this is what I in general call the the Torsten break shot because he likes to play this shot knowing that if you play full draw it comes back to the center and you can let the stroke out then again would have liked to go forward to the one and then start to push the balls more to the center you don't want to take the nine and start pushing them together again he's on the three ball now same thing just trying to get on the four maybe a small nudge on the one and then position myself nicely to open that small cluster of three yeah he chose to go directly in him just now will manage to get the five and the two out or can he go 51 how much can he play on the pocket here yeah this causes him to still get from the bottom side to the top side from the bottom side which is most of the time difficult it's easy for him to get from the seven to the one but then need still needs to get to the 1115 can he don't think he can run into the 11 or I would like to do it now as she go to the 14 here okay so six balls on the table we'll definitely make five in this rack so that's going to put him on 98 so still needs to put some work on the break shot so apparently the 13 does go to the side so let's see if he leaves himself yeah perfect on the side pocket so stun maybe a diamond out we'll bring him on 98 and basically fal's only chances right here because I would not expect a lot of trouble after the break shot seems like the RS are opening nice and was a difficult run out actually managed nicely yeah ful who had three opportunities I believe was three and highest run 15 12 and missed his first shot so yeah he obviously knows that will be difficult to get to a final making these kind of mistakes so big shot for FAL will catch the top side of the three so can play Stunt up if you play draw the K comes all the way back to the short rail okay they play it very soft why did he play So Soft still got on the two but for a second but he did not have anything else but he's made the two he's through to the final so we have our first finalist mik vber from the Netherlands beats Felix fogal and we will definitely keep an eye on him as he's waiting for either Ru ranan or even of Conant oh I see R ranan is in the final as well so it will be R ran from Finland against FCO in the final so the final I believe is at 1 p.m. so hopefully we'll see you back then and we will have either the under 17 or the under 19 so hopefully we'll see you then thanks for for than