Ryan Ciminelli (pictured), United States, averaged 251.56 for nine games to win the qualifying of the PTT Thailand Tournament 2011, a World Bowling Tour event, at Blu-O Paragon bowling center in Bangkok, Thailand. The one-time PBA champion from Cheektowaga, N.Y. combined his three highest three-game qualifying series of 814, 737 and 713 to lead a field of 83 players with 2264 pinfall total. Six out of the top eight players, who will bypass the first two rounds of the finals were PBA professionals. A total of 42 players survived the first cut.
On a press conference on Wednesday Oct. 19th, Kyohei Akagi, chairman of the organizing committee informed, has announced that the International Bowling Championship 2012 supported by DHC, which will be part of the 2012 World Bowling Tour, will offer total prize fund of 30 million Yen or approx. 375,000 U.S. Dollars, the second-highest prize fund in the sport of tenpin bowling. The men's and women's champion each will receive $75,000.
As it is with politics, showbiz has ceased to be sports' strange bedfellow and has become its inseparable partner, not only in the romance department but also in the playing field. Boots Anson-Roa, executive director of MOWELFUND, and Puyat Sports Group probably saw this happy partnership when they thought of holding the Paeng Celebrity Bowling for Mowelfund, a special fund-raising event set for Thursday, Oct. 13, 2 p.m. to 7 p.m., at Paeng's Eastwood Bowl in Libis, Quezon City.
Jason Belmonte (pictured left) of Australia rolled his second 300 game in the finals of the PTT Thailand Tournament 2011 in the deciding match against Michael Fagan (right), United States to win the title and the one million baht top prize (approx. $32,258). The two-hander from Down Under fired the first perfecto in the last game of the Round of 20 to rocket from 9th place to first en route to earn the No. 1 seed for the eight-player stepladder finals. Fagan, who had to defeat Belmonte twice to win the title, easily won the first game, 300-211, but Belmonte rebounded with his second perfecto to seal the victory, 300-205. 
An emotional Tommy Jones (r.) of Simpsonville, S.C., dedicated his victory in the DSD Samho Korea Cup International Open at Homeplus Asiad Bowling Center Friday to the memory of his father, who died five days earlier after a lengthy battle with cancer. Jones, seeded fouth, won four consecutive matches on his way to the title. In the championship match, he defeated PBA Hall of Famer Parker Bohn III (l.) of Jackson, N.J., 237-225, to pocket 30 million South Korean Won (approx. USD26,325).
In an all-Korean TV Stepladder final, third seeded Jeong Seung-Joo (l.) won three consecutive matches to claim the title in the World Bowling Tour's Daejeon International Bowling Tournament, Friday afternoon in Daejeon, Korea. In the title match, Seung-Joo defeated Korea Professional Bowlers Association member Kim Young-Kwan (r.), 229-188, to earn 50 million Korean Won or approximately USD46,000. 
Kim Young-Kwan (KPBA) posted an 8-4 won-lost record in match play en route to earn the No. 1 seed for the TV stepladder finals in the Daejeon International Bowling Tournament Friday at Daejeon World Cup Stadium Bowling Center in Daejeon, Korea. Young-Kwan had the 15th 300 game of the main event and the 36th overall en route to 8886 pinfall total including 240 bonus. The TV finals will be an all-Korean affair as Robert Smith, United States, Mika Koivuniemi, Finland, and Japanese bowler, Sasaki Tomoyuki, missed the cut to the top 6.
Jeon Gui-Ae (pictured), Korea, posted the highest six-game series in the Round of 48 en route to lead the top 12 players into round robin match play in the Daejeon International Bowling Tournament in Korea. Gui-Ae had 1553 including handicap to leap from fifth to first place with 5876 24-game total. 18-game leader Robert Smith, United States, fell to fifth place with 5815, while Mika Koivuniemi, Finland, made the cut in ninth place thanks to back-to-back 300 games. The top 6 after 12 games round robin advance to the TV stepladder finals. 
Kim Kyung-Min of Korea averaged 241 in the second round of the finals to overtake the lead in the Daejeon International Bowling Tournament Tuesday in Daejeon, Korea with 2926 total and an average of 243.83 for 12 games. With the final six games before the cut to the top 48 to go on Wednesday, PBA champions Mika Koivuniemi (l.), Finland, and Robert Smith (r.), United States, sit in second and third place with 2917 and 2905, respectively.
Reigning PBA Player of the Year and World Bowling Tour men's ranking leader, Mika Koivuniemi, total 1515 pins and averaged 252.50 to overtake the lead after the first round of the finals in the Daejeon International Bowling Tournament. The field of 225 players was split into three squads to bowl three rounds of six games at Daejeon World Cup Stadium Bowling Center in Daejeon, Korea before the cut to the top 48. Kim Min-Seon currently holds the 48th and last place to advance with 1363 and an average of 227.17 including handicap. The finals continue Tuesday with Round Two.
Park Geun-Woo of Gyeongsangbuk-Do won the qualifying in the World Bowling Tour's Daejeon International Bowling Tournament currently underway at Daejeon World Cup Stadium Bowling Center in Daejeon, South Korea. Geun-Woo had the most consistent three-games series of all competitors with 800, 799 and 794 to lead a field of 325 Korean bowlers with 2393 total and an average of 265.89. The top 125 qualifiers will join a group of one hundred seeded players in the finals.
After the great success of the inaugural national bowling tournament for primary school students in 2010, the second edition was held August 8-9, 2011 in the same venue, Inazawa Grand Bowl, Aichi, Japan, the biggest bowling center in the world with 116 lanes on one floor. This year's tournament was organized by the Japan Bowling Congress (JBC) in cooperation with other member organization of the Bowling Council of Japan (BCJ). 196 boys and girls qualified from all over Japan for the event.
Professional bowler Park Kyung-Shin rolled the third 800 series of the Daejeon International Bowling Tournament Thursday at Daejeon World Cup Stadium Bowling Center in Daejeon, Korea. Kyung-Shin chalked up 812 and added 799 and 747 for 2358 nine-game total, an average of 262, to leap into second place in the overall qualifying standings. Park Geun-Woo of Gyeongsangbuk-Do continued to lead the field of 320 players - all from Korea - with 2393.
For the 35th year, the Japanese Junior High School Championships and High School Championships were contested during the summer holidays in July. The JOC Cup 35th All Japan High School Championships was held from July 25-26 at Shinagawa Prince Hotel Bowling Center in Tokyo. Toshiki Kudo (l) from First High School attached to Hachinohe Institute of Technology and Mitsuki Okamoto (r.) from Fukuoka Daiichi H.S. both set new records en route to win the titles.
In conjunction with 100th anniversary of the Japan Sports Association and the Japanese Olympic Committee, the Olympic Council of Asia (OCA) General Assembly was held in Tokyo. Among the attendees was IOC president Count Dr. Jacques Rogge (r.). During the ceremony Shintaro Ishihara, Governor of Tokyo Metropolitan City (center), has announced that Tokyo will bid to host the Summer
Olympic Games in the year 2020, which could offer another chance for bowling to get into the Olympics. 
Yannaphon Larp-apharat (r.) of Thailand and Singapore's New Hui Fen (l.) both rolled a 192 game en route to win the men's and women's open masters titles in the 9th Indonesia Open Monday at Jaya Ancol Bowling Center in Jakarta, Indonesia. Yannaphon earned 150 million Indonsian Rupees for his second victory in three weeks while Hui Fen pocketed 50 million Rupees for her first career international title. The top 16 Asian men and women advanced to Tuesday's final leg of the 2011 Asian Bowling Federation Tour. 
Top seeded Robert Smith (r.), United States, and Shayna Ng (l.) of Singapore made quick work of their opponents to win the men's and women's Open Masters titles in the 37th Hong Kong International Open Sunday at Hong Kong Bowling City in Hong Kong, China. Smith, a seven-time PBA champion and the 200 U.S. Open winner, who lives in Hong Kong, topped No. 3 Shaker Al-Hassan, 216-208, to wrap up the men's title. Ng flew past No. 5 Zoe Tam, Hong Kong, to claim the women's title.
Paeng Nepomuceno of the Philippines defeated former 2006 World Masters Champion Biboy Rivera, 195-184, to capture the masters title of the 40th Philippine International Open Championships June 25 at Midtown Bowl in Manila, Philippines. The USBC silver level coach, a living legend in his country, won the Philippine Masters for a record eighth time in his illustrious career and extended his own Guinness Book World Record to 123 international titles. Nepomuceno received 250,000 Philippine Pesos (approx. US$5,800).