2024 World Singles Ninepin Bowling Classic Championships – Men's single

Men's single at the 2024 World Single Ninepin Bowling Classic Championships
Location	Brezno, Slovakia
Dates	27-28 May 2024 (Qualifying) 30 May - 1 June 2024 (Knock-out phase)
Competitors	64 from 15 nations
Medalists
Tim Brachtel   Germany   Philipp Vsetecka   Austria   Hrvoje Marinović   Croatia   Matthias Zatschkowitsch   Austria

The men's single event at the 2024 World Singles Ninepin Bowling Classic Championships was held in Brezno, Slovakia. Qualifying took place on 27-28 May, while the knock-out phase occurred from 30 May to 1 June 2024.

The defending champion was Serb Vilmoš Zavarko, winner of the 2022 edition in Elva, who did not take part in the competition this year.

Qualifying

Starting places

The starting places have been allocated on the basis of each nation achievements during the previous championships. The first were given on the basis of the places taken by the teams during 2023 World Championships, and the rest in reference to the competition of previous championships taken.

	AUT	CRO	CZE	DEN	EST	FRA	GER	HUN	ITA	MKD	POL	ROU	SRB	SVK	SLO	Total
Number of seeds	6	6	4+2	2	3	3	5+1	4+2	3	2	2	5	4+1	3	4+2	64

Results

All players played qualifying game with 120 balls. Best 32 qualified to the knock-out phase.

Rank	Name	Country	All	Clear off	Faults	Total	Notes
1	Lukas Temistokle	Austria	436	271	0	707	Q
2	Christian Wilke	Germany	438	258	1	696	Q
3	Alen Kujundžić	Croatia	436	256	0	692	Q
4	Manuel Weiß	Germany	439	248	0	687	Q
5	Mario Nüßlein	Germany	417	266	0	683	Q
6	Tim Brachtel	Germany	421	258	0	679	Q
7	Jaroslav Hažva	Czech Republic	423	252	0	675	Q
8	Igor Kovačić	Serbia	427	248	0	675	Q
9	Bojan Vlakevski	Croatia	407	267	0	674	Q
10	Hrvoje Marinović	Croatia	407	265	0	672	Q
11	Zsombor Zapletán	Hungary	427	242	0	669	Q
12	Attila Nemes	Hungary	398	267	0	665	Q
13	Zoltán Móricz	Hungary	409	256	0	665	Q
14	Lukas Huber	Austria	421	242	0	663	Q
15	Erik Kuna	Slovakia	417	245	0	662	Q
16	Branko Manev	Croatia	423	238	0	661	Q
17	Marcel Ivančík	Slovakia	398	262	1	660	Q
18	Martin Rathmayer	Austria	409	249	0	658	Q
19	Michał Szulc	Poland	409	248	2	657	Q
20	Mikołaj Konopka	Poland	395	259	1	654	Q
21	Matthias Zatschkowitsch	Austria	403	249	0	652	Q
22	Peter Nemček	Slovakia	415	235	0	650	Q
23	Čongor Baranj	Serbia	411	232	1	643	Q
24	Ivan Totić	Croatia	421	222	1	643	Q
25	Matej Lepej	Slovenia	415	225	0	640	Q
26	Martin Janits	Austria	402	235	2	637	Q
27	Žiga Požar	Slovenia	407	230	1	637	Q
28	Duško Ajdin	North Macedonia	399	237	3	636	Q
29	Daniel Tepsa	Serbia	410	226	0	636	Q
30	Milan Blecha	Czech Republic	408	226	0	634	Q
31	Claes Folmer Hansen	Denmark	395	238	3	633	Q
32	Philipp Vsetecka	Austria	400	229	0	629	Q
33	Kristjan Mijatović	Slovenia	404	225	0	629
34	Sašo Trpkovski	North Macedonia	382	245	4	627
35	Manuel Lallinger	Germany	403	223	0	626
36	Michal Pytlík	Czech Republic	403	223	2	626
37	Lukas Funk	Germany	408	218	4	626
38	Uroš Ramić	Serbia	420	205	0	625
39	Bystrík Vadovič	Slovakia	396	226	1	622
40	Károly Kozma	Hungary	410	212	0	622
41	Luka Bolanča	Croatia	383	236	0	619
42	Blaž Čerin	Slovenia	412	207	0	619
43	Armin Egger	Italy	395	223	0	618
44	Adrijan Lončarević	Serbia	407	211	1	618
45	Roberto-Daniel Laposi	Romania	381	236	1	617
46	Frédéric Koell	France	414	202	4	616
47	Rostislav Gorecký	Slovakia	383	232	0	615
48	Petr Hendrych	Czech Republic	390	224	1	614
49	Jan Bína	Slovakia	403	211	1	614
50	Kaido Kirs	Estonia	402	201	4	603
51	Zdeněk Ransdorf	Czech Republic	408	194	1	602
52	Ion Cercel	Romania	390	211	1	601
53	Peer Pratzer Aaron	Italy	384	216	2	600
54	Jakub Osiewicz	Poland	388	210	1	598
55	Martin Folmer Hansen	Denmark	391	205	5	596
56	László Karsai	Hungary	386	209	1	595
57	Ștefan Romeo Bălan	Romania	374	219	2	593
58	Aleksandar Milinković	Serbia	382	209	1	591
59	Petruț Ovidiu Mihalcioiu	Romania	395	196	1	591
60	Daniel Braun	Czech Republic	363	224	1	587
61	Markko Abel	Estonia	389	197	0	586
62	Corentin Rauscher	France	381	201	1	582
63	Alex Posch	Italy	386	185	3	571

Finals

According to the results of the qualification, 32 players were put together in bouts, which took place on standard match rules - 4 sets of 30 throws. The competitor who obtains a larger number of sets wins. With an equal number of sets decides a higher total score.

Schedule

Second Round - Thursday, 30 May

Match #	Lanes	Player 1	Score	Player 2	Set 1	Set 2	Set 3	Set 4
1st unit 10:00 (CEST)
SCM 1	5 – 6	Lukas Temistokle	1 - 3 576 - 639	Philipp Vsetecka	144 - 162	134 - 161	160 - 167	138 - 149
SCM 2	7 – 8	Marcel Ivančík	2 - 2 653 - 688	Branko Manev	166 - 156	190 - 177	129 - 183	168 - 172
2nd unit 11:15 (CEST)
SCM 3	5 – 6	Bojan Vlakevski	1 - 3 610 - 662	Ivan Totić	148 - 144	142 - 185	152 - 157	168 - 176
SCM 4	7 – 8	Matej Lepej	3 - 1 645 - 664	Igor Kovačić	154 - 190	170 - 154	164 - 152	159 - 168
3rd unit 12:30 (CEST)
SCM 5	5 – 6	Mario Nusslein	3 - 1 653 - 594	Dusko Ajdin	176 - 167	179 - 138	166 - 127	132 - 162
SCM 6	7 – 8	Matthias Zatschkowitsch	4 - 0 719 - 633	Attila Nemes	166 - 147	192 - 144	187 - 178	174 - 164
4th unit 13:45 (CEST)
SCM 7	5 – 6	Mikolaj Konopka	2 - 2 652 - 662	Zoltán Móricz	160 - 182	170 - 141	140 - 181	182 - 158
SCM 8	7 – 8	Daniel Tepša	0 - 4 634 - 668	Manuel Weiß	147 - 166	152 - 161	167 - 168	168 - 173
5th unit 15:00 (CEST)
SCM 9	5 – 6	Alen Kujundžić	2 - 2 652 - 630	Milan Blecha	153 - 160	131 - 148	176 - 142	192 - 180
SCM 10	7 – 8	Michał Szulc	1 - 3 569 - 678	Lukas Huber	138 - 172	130 - 190	148 - 167	153 - 149
6th unit 16:15 (CEST)
SCM 11	5 – 6	Zsombor Zapletán	2 - 2 663 - 623	Peter Nemček	169 - 144	177 - 151	172 - 173	145 - 155
SCM 12	7 – 8	Žiga Požar	1 - 3 657 - 642	Tim Brachtel	149 - 157	170 - 180	152 - 168	186 - 137
7th unit 17:30 (CEST)
SCM 13	5 – 6	Jaroslav Hažva	3 - 1 703 - 688	Martin Janits	156 - 169	189 - 177	181 - 179	177 - 163
SCM 14	7 – 8	Čongor Baranj	1 - 3 673 - 665	Hrvoje Marinović	190 - 167	157 - 160	164 - 171	162 - 167
8th unit 18:45 (CEST)
SCM 15	5 – 6	Erik Kuna	3 - 1 678 - 643	Martin Rathmayer	170 - 162	167 - 150	160 - 175	181 - 156
SCM 16	7 – 8	Claes Folmer Hansen	0 - 4 562 - 685	Christian Wilke	153 - 175	146 - 169	135 - 175	128 - 166

Round of 16 - Friday, 31 May

Match #	Lanes	Player 1	Score	Player 2	Set 1	Set 2	Set 3	Set 4
1st unit 09:00 (CEST)
SCM 17	1–2	Philipp Vsetecka	2 - 2 663 - 652	Branko Manev	176 - 166	183 - 162	154 - 168	150 - 156
SCM 18	3–4	Matej Lepej	3 - 1 645 - 646	Ivan Totić	156 - 155	151 - 161	166 - 165	172 - 165
2nd unit 10:15 (CEST)
SCM 19	1–2	Matthias Zatschkowitsch	3 - 1 663 - 592	Mario Nüßlein	164 - 154	171 - 138	173 - 143	155 - 157
SCM 20	3–4	Manuel Weiß	2 - 2 637 - 629	Mikołaj Konopka	156 - 146	171 - 178	160 - 149	150 - 156
3rd unit 11:30 (CEST)
SCM 21	1–2	Lukas Huber	2 - 2 672 - 647	Alen Kujundžić	162 - 183	166 - 154	166 - 167	178 - 143
SCM 22	3–4	Tim Brachtel	2 - 2 676 - 669	Zsombor Zapletán	163 - 177	167 - 152	175 - 155	171 - 185
4th unit 12:45 (CEST)
SCM 23	1–2	Hrvoje Marinović	2 - 2 633 - 628	Jaroslav Hažva	156 - 181	178 - 150	147 - 150	152 - 147
SCM 24	3–4	Erik Kuna	2 - 2 633 - 618	Christian Wilke	152 - 171	144 - 173	157 - 153	165 - 136

Quarterfinals - Friday, 31 May

Match #	Lanes	Player 1	Score	Player 2	Set 1	Set 2	Set 3	Set 4
1st unit 14:00 (CEST)
SCM 25	5 – 6	Philipp Vsetecka	3 - 1 628 - 616	Matej Lepej	161 - 154	154 - 162	143 - 136	170 - 164
SCM 26	7 – 8	Matthias Zatschkowitsch	2 - 2 670 - 677	Manuel Weiß	141 - 164	169 - 174	177 - 168	183 - 171
2nd unit 15:15 (CEST)
SCM 27	5 – 6	Lukas Huber	1 - 3 683 - 700	Tim Brachtel	163 - 171	178 - 187	170 - 182	172 - 160
SCM 28	7 – 8	Hrvoje Marinović	–	Christian Wilke	Walk-over

Semifinals - Saturday, 1 June

Match #	Lanes	Player 1	Score	Player 2	Set 1	Set 2	Set 3	Set 4
10:30 (CEST)
SCM 29	1 – 2	Philipp Vsetecka	3 - 1 662 - 633	Matthias Zatschkowitsch	183 - 150	173 - 172	159 - 149	147 - 162
SCM 30	3 – 4	Tim Brachtel	4 - 0 706 - 617	Hrvoje Marinović	166 - 139	166 - 155	184 - 171	190 - 152

Final - Saturday, 1 June

Match #	Lanes	Player 1	Score	Player 2	Set 1	Set 2	Set 3	Set 4
12:00 (CEST)
SCM 31	5 – 6	Philipp Vsetecka	1 - 3 667 - 672	Tim Brachtel	146 - 161	178 - 157	172 - 181	171 - 173

Bracket

	Round of 32 30 May						Round of 16 31 May						Quarterfinals 31 May						Semifinals 1 June						Final 1 June
	1	Lukas Temistokle	1	576
	32	Philipp Vsetecka	3	639
							Philipp Vsetecka		2	663
							Branko Manev		2	652
	17	Marcel Ivančík	2	653
	16	Branko Manev	2	688
													Philipp Vsetecka		3	628
													Matej Lepej		1	616
	9	Bojan Vlakevski	1	610
	24	Ivan Totić	3	662
							Ivan Totić		1	646
							Matej Lepej		3	645
	25	Matej Lepej	3	645
	8	Igor Kovačić	1	664
																			Philipp Vsetecka		3	662
																			Matthias Zatschkowitsch		1	633
	5	Mario Nüßlein	3	653
	28	Dusko Ajdin	1	594
							Mario Nüßlein		1	592
							Matthias Zatschkowitsch		3	663
	21	Matthias Zatschkowitsch	4	719
	12	Attila Nemes	0	633
													Matthias Zatschkowitsch		2	677
													Manuel Weiß		2	670
	13	Mikołaj Konopka	2	652
	20	Zoltán Móricz	2	662
							Mikolaj Konopka		2	629
							Manuel Weiß		2	637
	29	Daniel Tepša	0	634
	4	Manuel Weiß	4	668
																									Philipp Vsetecka		1	667
																									Tim Brachtel		3	672
	3	Alen Kujundžić	2	652
	30	Milan Blecha	2	630
							Alen Kujundžić		2	647
							Lukas Huber		2	672
	19	Michał Szulc	1	569
	14	Lukas Huber	3	678
													Lukas Huber		1	683
													Tim Brachtel		3	700
	11	Zsombor Zapletán	2	663
	22	Peter Nemček	2	623
							Zsombor Zapletán		2	669
							Tim Brachtel		2	676
	27	Žiga Požar	1	657
	6	Tim Brachtel	3	642
																			Tim Brachtel		4	706
																			Hrvoje Marinović		0	617
	7	Jaroslav Hažva	3	703
	26	Martin Janits	1	688
							Jaroslav Hažva		2	628
							Hrvoje Marinović		2	633
	23	Čongor Baranj	1	673
	10	Hrvoje Marinović	3	665
													Hrvoje Marinović		W	w/o
													Christian Wilke		L
	15	Erik Kuna	3	678
	18	Martin Rathmayer	1	643
							Erik Kuna		2	618
							Christian Wilke		2	633
	31	Claes Folmer Hansen	0	562
	2	Christian Wilke	4	685