25th November, Hong Kong, China: Swedish two-hander, Jesper Svensson concluded the Men's Singles qualifying round of the HKGX 2025 IBF World Championships as overall leader after topping the third squad with Korea's Baek Seung Min in second and Nicolas Carter of Denmark in third.

The newly-crowned PBA Tournament of Champions winner, Svensson amassed a total of 1497 over the six games qualifying round to top both Squad 3 and winner of the overall standings. Baek, who finished second to the Swede, totaled 1455 to end up second overall.

Finland's Luukas Vaananen was equally impressive with a third place finish in the third squad and sixth in the overall standings. Squad 2 leader, Nicolas Carter of Denmark and Squad 1 leader, Ji Geun of Korea ended up third and fourth positions with 1442 and 1430 respectively.

Vaananen and Rafiq Ismail of Malaysia, who finished second to the Korean, took up sixth and seventh positions. Markus Jansson of Sweden, Mathias Ankerdal of Denmark and Mihal-Alin Dragnia completed the top ten.

Abdulrahman Al Doseri of Qatar, who shot the championship's first perfect game in the third squad, survived to make the cut for Round 2 sharing 31st and 32nd positions with UAE's Nayef Eqab on 1313, averaging 218.83.

Missing the cut by just three pins was Andrew Anderson of USA with 1310. Others who were closed to making the cut were Paul Purps of Germany, Daiya Saito of Japan and Mate Balazs-Becsi of Romania all missing out by four pins on 1309.

The top 32 will advance to the Round 2 head-to-head Matchplay finals on November 27. They will be divided into four groups and will bowl seven matches, earning 3 points for a win, 1 point for a draw and 0 point for loss. The winner of each group will proceed to the semi-finals.

The women will take to the lanes tomorrow, November 26 for their six games qualifying round which is divided into two squads. Again the Top 32 in the combined standings will advance to the Round 2 Matchplay finals.