2001–02 Pro Tour Season

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2001–02 Pro Tour Season
Player of the Year DEU flag Kai Budde
Rookie of the Year FRA flag Farid Meraghni
World Champion BRA flag Carlos Romão
Team Champion DEU flag Germany
PTs 6
Grand Prix 33
Previous season:
2000–01
Next season:
2002–03

The 2001–02 Pro Tour season was the seventh Pro Tour season. It started on 18 August 2001 with Grand Prix events in Kobe and Denver, and ended on 18 August 2002 with the conclusion of the 2002 World Championships.

Grand Prix (August–September 2001)

GP Kobe

Date: 18–19 August 2001
Format: Block Constructed
Attendance: 1348

1. JPN flag Itaru Ishida
2. JPN flag Shuhei Nakamura
3. JPN flag Kei Ikeda
4. JPN flag Takayuki Nagaoka
5. JPN flag Hiroshi Kawasaki
6. JPN flag Ryo Ogura
7. JPN flag Takumi Hasegawa
8. JPN flag Kenshiro Ito

GP Denver

Date: 18–19 August 2001
Format: Block Constructed
Attendance: 402

1. USA flag Brett Shears
2. USA flag Danny Mandel
3. USA flag Brock Parker
4. USA flag Darwin Kastle
5. USA flag Sammy Batarseh
6. USA flag Mike Abraham
7. USA flag Aaron Knobloch
8. USA flag Alex Borteh

GP Santiago

Date: 25–26 August 2001
Format: Block Constructed
Attendance: 303

1. ARG flag Matias Gabrenja
2. MEX flag Gerardo Godinez Estrada
3. CHL flag Jorge Rodriguez
4. CHL flag Jose Echeverria Paredes
5. CHL flag Rodrigo Sanchez
6. USA flag Brock Parker
7. CHL flag Andrés Hojman
8. CHL flag Juan Ruetter

GP Singapore

Date: 1–2 September 2001
Format: Block Constructed
Attendance: 266

1. SGP flag Albertus Law
2. SGP flag Kelvin Yew Teck Hoon
3. SGP flag Ding Leong
4. JPN flag Michihisa Onoda
5. SGP flag Royce Ming Huang Chai
6. SGP flag Lance Chin Wei Yeong
7. SGP flag David Kwan
8. SGP flag Chang Chua

GP London

Date: 1–2 September 2001
Format: Block Constructed
Attendance: 551

1. DEU flag Kai Budde
2. FRA flag Gabriel Nassif
3. AUT flag Helmut Summersberger
4. NLD flag Matt Henstra
5. GB-ENG flag Warren Marsh
6. DEU flag René Kraft
7. FRA flag Antoine Ruel
8. FRA flag Pierre Malherbaud

Pro Tour New York

7–9 September 2001 in New York, United States.

Place Team name Player Prize Pro Points Comment
1 Phoenix Foundation DEU flag Dirk Baberowski $60,000 24 Third Pro Tour Top 8, second Pro Tour win
DEU flag Kai Budde 24 Fourth Pro Tour Top 8, fourth Pro Tour win
DEU flag Marco Blume 24
2 Les Plus Class FRA flag Amiel Tenenbaum $30,000 18 Pro Tour debut
FRA flag Gabriel Nassif 18
FRA flag Nicolas Olivieri 18
3 Illuminati USA flag Justin Gary $18,000 12 Second Pro Tour Top 8
USA flag Zvi Mowshowitz 12 Fourth Pro Tour Top 8
USA flag Alex Shvartsman 12
4 Car Acrobatic Team USA flag Aaron Forsythe $15,000 12 Second Pro Tour Top 8
USA flag Andrew Cuneo 12 Second Pro Tour Top 8
USA flag Andrew Johnson 12 Second Pro Tour Top 8

Grand Prix (September–October 2001)

GP Warsaw

Date: 8–9 September 2001
Format: Block Constructed
Attendance: 401

1. SWE flag Rickard Österberg
2. CZE flag Michal Marcik
3. SWE flag David Linder
4. SWE flag Mattias Kettil
5. POL flag Przemek Oberbek
6. POL flag Marcin Sados
7. DEU flag Felix Schneiders
8. POL flag Roman Kubera

GP Oslo

Date: 22–23 September 2001
Format: Block Constructed
Attendance: 410

1. USA flag Trey Van Cleave
2. SWE flag Anton Jonsson
3. SWE flag Johan Backfjärd
4. NOR flag Sigurd Eskeland
5. SWE flag Svante Landgraf
6. SWE flag Rickard Österberg
7. DNK flag Peter Laier
8. NOR flag Haakon Monsen

GP Minneapolis

Date: 29–30 September 2001
Format: Block Constructed
Attendance: 302

1. USA flag David Humpherys
2. USA flag Andrew Wolf
3. USA flag Brian Hegstad
4. USA flag Brian Davis
5. USA flag Craig Wescoe
6. USA flag Cassius Weatherby
7. USA flag Lee Curtis
8. USA flag Jacob Janoska

GP Vienna

Date: 6–7 October 2001
Format: Limited
Attendance: 678

1. DEU flag Stephan Meyer
2. NOR flag Eivind Nitter
3. NOR flag Nicolai Herzog
4. HUN flag Gabor Papp
5. AUT flag Matthias Künzler
6. DEU flag Holger Meinecke
7. POL flag Konrad Zawadzki
8. HRV flag Ladoslav Zupancic

GP Cape Town

Date: 6–7 October 2001
Format: Limited
Attendance: 171

1. AUS flag Ben Seck
2. ZAF flag Wagner Kruger
3. USA flag Justin Polin
4. ZAF flag Grant van Dyk
5. ZAF flag Andrew Mitchell
6. ZAF flag Pieter Loubser
7. ZAF flag Robert Thompson
8. ZAF flag Peter Klein

GP Shizuoka

Date: 13–14 October 2001
Format: Limited
Attendance: 704

1. JPN flag Kohei Yamadaya
2. JPN flag Masahiko Morita
3. JPN flag Ryouma Shiozu
4. FRA flag Olivier Ruel
5. JPN flag Katsuhiro Mori
6. JPN flag Tsuyoshi Douyama
7. JPN flag Reiji Ando
8. JPN flag Eiho Kato

GP Montreal

Date: 13–14 October 2001
Format: Limited
Attendance: 279

1. USA flag Mike Turian
2. CAN flag Louis Boileau
3. USA flag Timothy McKenna
4. USA flag Brett Shears
5. CAN flag David Rood
6. USA flag Bob Maher, Jr.
7. USA flag Peter Szigeti
8. USA flag Daniel Clegg

GP Brisbane

Date: 20–21 October 2001
Format: Limited
Attendance: 194

1. AUS flag Richard Johnston
2. NZL flag Roger Miller
3. USA flag Alex Shvartsman
4. AUS flag Egidio De Gois
5. AUS flag Lenny Collins
6. AUS flag Dante Rosati
7. AUS flag Pang Ming Wee
8. AUS flag Daniel Romans

Pro Tour New Orleans

2–4 November 2001 in New Orleans, Louisiana, United States.

Place Player Prize Pro Points Comment
1 DEU flag Kai Budde $30,000 32 Fifth Pro Tour Top 8, fifth Pro Tour win
2 FIN flag Tomi Walamies $20,000 24
3 NLD flag Jelger Wiegersma $15,000 16
4 USA flag David Humpherys $13,000 16 Third Pro Tour Top 8
5 SWE flag Anton Jonsson $9,500 12
6 CHE flag Raphaël Gennary $8,500 12 First Swiss in a Pro Tour Top 8
7 USA flag Darwin Kastle $7,500 12 Sixth Pro Tour Top 8
8 AUT flag Benedikt Klauser $6,500 12 Fourth Pro Tour Top 8

Masters – New Orleans

Place Player Prize
1 USA flag Michael Pustilnik $25,000
2 USA flag Chris Benafel $15,000
3–4 USA flag Bob Maher, Jr. $10,000
3–4 NLD flag Noah Boeken $10,000
5–8 USA flag Zvi Mowshowitz $6,500
5–8 CAN flag Ryan Fuller $6,500
5–8 SWE flag Johan Sadeghpour $6,500
5–8 FRA flag Nicholas Olivieri $6,500

Grand Prix (November 2001–January 2002)

GP Hong Kong

Date: 17–18 November 2001
Format: Limited
Attendance: 181

1. USA flag Jeff Fung
2. PHL flag Frederick Salazar
3. JPN flag Tsuyoshi Fujita
4. JPN flag Shinsuke Hayashi
5. PHL flag Bayani Manansala, Jr.
6. USA flag Steven Shears
7. USA flag Brian Hegstad
8. CAN flag Ryan Fuller

GP Atlanta

Date: 17–18 November 2001
Format: Limited
Attendance: 377

1. USA flag Eugene Harvey
2. USA flag Andrew Johnson
3. USA flag Brad Swan
4. USA flag Matt Linde
5. USA flag Bin Chen
6. USA flag Antonino De Rosa
7. USA flag Craig Wescoe
8. USA flag Alex Borteh

GP Biarritz

Date: 24–25 November 2001
Format: Limited
Attendance: 525

1. FRA flag Nicolas Labarre
2. DEU flag Kai Budde
3. ESP flag Lucio Moratinos
4. NLD flag Joost Vollebregt
5. ESP flag Ferran Vila
6. NLD flag Alexander Witt
7. FRA flag Alexis Dumay
8. FRA flag Olivier Ruel

GP Curitiba

Date: 8–9 December 2001
Format: Extended
Attendance: 329

1. BRA flag Guilherme Svaldi
2. USA flag Alex Shvartsman
3. FRA flag Antoine Ruel
4. BRA flag Leopoldo Martins
5. BRA flag Raphael Gunther
6. ARG flag Jose Barbero
7. BRA flag José Mangueira
8. BRA flag Eliton Enacio

GP Las Vegas

Date: 8–9 December 2001
Format: Extended
Attendance: 462

1. USA flag Michael Pustilnik
2. USA flag Adam Lane
3. USA flag John Balla
4. USA flag Sean Fitzgerald
5. USA flag Kaare Anderson
6. USA flag Rob Dougherty
7. USA flag Shannon Krumick
8. USA flag Scott Gerhardt

GP Sendai

Date: 15–16 December 2001
Format: Extended
Attendance: 427

1. JPN flag Kazuaki Arahori
2. JPN flag Kazuya Hirabayashi
3. USA flag Mike Long
4. JPN flag Yuki Murakami
5. JPN flag Itaru Ishida
6. JPN flag Kazufumi Abe
7. JPN flag Jin Okamoto
8. JPN flag Katsuhiro Mori

GP Houston

Date: 5–6 January 2002
Format: Extended
Attendance: 272

1. USA flag Joshua Smith
2. USA flag Brian Kibler
3. USA flag William Jensen
4. USA flag Ben Rubin
5. USA flag Bob Maher, Jr.
6. USA flag Alex Shvartsman
7. USA flag Jonathan Pechon
8. USA flag Jonathan Job

Pro Tour San Diego

11–13 January 2002 in San Diego, California, United States.

Place Player Prize Pro Points Comment
1 FRA flag Farid Meraghni $30,000 32 First Frenchman to win a Pro Tour
2 SWE flag Jens Thorén $20,000 24
3 USA flag Donald Gallitz $15,000 16
4 USA flag Andrew Wolf $13,000 16 Second Pro Tour Top 8
5 CAN flag Jeff Cunningham $9,500 12
6 PRT flag Frederico Bastos $8,500 12 Second Pro Tour Top 8
7 USA flag Neil Reeves $7,500 12
8 USA flag Eric Froehlich $6,500 12

Masters – San Diego

Place Player Prize
1 CAN flag Ryan Fuller $25,000
2 USA flag David Humpherys $15,000
3–4 USA flag Brian Hegstad $10,000
3–4 FIN flag Tomi Walamies $10,000
5–8 JPN flag Tsuyoshi Fujita $6,500
5–8 USA flag Steven O'Mahoney-Schwartz $6,500
5–8 USA flag Darwin Kastle $6,500
5–8 USA flag Rob Dougherty $6,500

Grand Prix (January–March 2002)

GP Lisbon

Date: 19–20 January 2002
Format: Extended
Attendance: 669

1. DEU flag Kai Budde
2. DEU flag Patrick Mello
3. FRA flag Olivier Ruel
4. PRT flag Marcio Carvalho
5. ITA flag Stefano Fiore
6. USA flag Alex Shvartsman
7. NLD flag Tom van de Logt
8. NLD flag Jelger Wiegersma

GP Heidelberg

Date: 9–10 February 2002
Format: Limited
Attendance: 879

1. NLD flag Kamiel Cornelissen
2. USA flag Chris Benafel
3. FRA flag Franck Canu
4. AUT flag Thomas Preyer
5. NLD flag Jelger Wiegersma
6. DEU flag Patrick Mello
7. UKR flag Yuri Kolomeyko
8. NLD flag Joost Vollebregt

GP Fukuoka

Date: 16–17 February 2002
Format: Limited
Attendance: 428

1. USA flag Alex Shvartsman
2. JPN flag Masahiko Morita
3. JPN flag Itaru Ishida
4. JPN flag Jun Ishihara
5. JPN flag Masashiro Kuroda
6. JPN flag Tsuyoshi Fujita
7. JPN flag Yusuke Sasaki
8. JPN flag Shuhei Nakamura

GP Tampa

Date: 23–24 February 2002
Format: Limited
Attendance: 409

1. USA flag Sol Malka
2. CAN flag Jeff Cunningham
3. USA flag Koby Kennison
4. USA flag Mike Emmert
5. USA flag Antonino De Rosa
6. USA flag Brian Kibler
7. USA flag Adam Racht
8. USA flag Adam Prokopin

GP Antwerp

Date: 2–3 March 2002
Format: Limited
Attendance: 614

1. DEU flag Kai Budde
2. FRA flag Florent Jeudon
3. SWE flag Mattias Jorstedt
4. DEU flag Wolfgang Eder
5. NLD flag Arjan van Leeuwen
6. DEU flag Christoph Lippert
7. NLD flag Jan Schreurs
8. DEU flag Dirk Baberowski

Pro Tour Osaka

15–17 March 2002 in Osaka, Japan.

Place Player Prize Pro Points Comment
1 USA flag Ken Ho $30,000 32
2 FRA flag Olivier Ruel $20,000 24
3 USA flag Rob Dougherty $15,000 16 Fourth Pro Tour Top 8
4 SWE flag Jens Thorén $13,000 16 Second Pro Tour Top 8
5 FRA flag Sylvain Lauriol $9,500 12
6 FRA flag Nicholas Olivieri $8,500 12 Second Pro Tour Top 8
7 USA flag Osyp Lebedowicz $7,500 12
8 FRA flag Christophe Haim $6,500 12

Masters – Osaka

Place Player Prize
1 DEU flag Dirk Baberowski $60,000
DEU flag Kai Budde
DEU flag Marco Blume
2 JPN flag Itaru Ishida $30,000
JPN flag Kazuyaki Momose
JPN flag Reiji Andou
3–4 FRA flag Amiel Tenenbaum $15,000
FRA flag Gabriel Nassif
FRA flag Nicolas Olivieri
3–4 NLD flag Victor Van der Broek $15,000
NLD flag Frank Karsten
NLD flag Jelger Wiegersma

Grand Prix (March–April 2002)

GP Barcelona

Date: 23–24 March 2002
Format: Limited
Attendance: 699

1. NLD flag Noah Boeken
2. DEU flag Christoph Lippert
3. FRA flag Olivier Ruel
4. ESP flag Carlos Barrado
5. NLD flag Stan van der Velden
6. DEU flag Reinhard Blech
7. FRA flag Raphaël Lévy
8. FRA flag Franck Canu

GP Kuala Lumpur

Date: 30–31 March 2002
Format: Limited
Attendance: 236

1. SGP flag Ding Leong
2. SGP flag Chang Chua
3. SGP flag Yujian Zhou
4. THA flag Veerapat Sirilertvorakul
5. USA flag Alex Shvartsman
6. SGP flag Nicholas Wong
7. TWN flag Tobey Tamber
8. PHL flag Edsel Alvarez

GP Naples

Date: 6–7 April 2002
Format: Limited
Attendance: 295

1. FRA flag Pierre Malherbaud
2. NLD flag Jelger Wiegersma
3. DEU flag Kai Budde
4. FRA flag Olivier Ruel
5. DEU flag Patrick Mello
6. DEU flag Iwan Tan
7. FRA flag Raphaël Lévy
8. DEU flag Christoph Lippert

Pro Tour Nice

3–5 May 2002 in Nice, France.

Place Player Prize Pro Points Comment
1 NOR flag Eivind Nitter $30,000 32
2 NLD flag Bram Snepvangers $20,000 24
3 DNK flag Svend Geertsen $15,000 16 Fourth Pro Tour Top 8
4 USA flag Brian Davis $13,000 16 Second Pro Tour Top 8
5 DEU flag Kai Budde $9,500 12 Sixth Pro Tour Top 8
6 SWE flag Anton Jonsson $8,500 12 Second Pro Tour Top 8
7 USA flag Gary Talim $7,500 12
8 CHE flag Benjamin Niedrig $6,500 12

Masters – Nice

Place Player Prize
1 NLD flag Alexander Witt $25,000
2 USA flag Justin Gary $15,000
3–4 DEU flag Kai Budde $10,000
3–4 FRA flag Antoine Ruel $10,000
5–8 SWE flag Jens Thorén $6,500
5–8 DEU flag Patrick Mello $6,500
5–8 FIN flag Tomi Walamies $6,500
5–8 FRA flag Nicholas Olivieri $6,500

Grand Prix (May–July 2002)

GP Nagoya

Date: 11–12 May 2002
Format: Team Limited
Attendance: 576 (192 teams)

1. JPN flag Masashiro Kuroda
1. JPN flag Katsuhiro Mori
1. JPN flag Masahiko Morita

2. JPN flag Naoki Kubouchi
2. JPN flag Shuhei Nakamura
2. JPN flag Kimio Imai

3. JPN flag Ryo Ogura
3. JPN flag Ryouma Shiozu
3. JPN flag Koji Nose

4. JPN flag Takayuki Nagaoka
4. JPN flag Tsuyoshi Fujita
4. JPN flag Masayuki Higashino

GP Milwaukee

Date: 11–12 May 2002
Format: Standard
Attendance: 652

1. USA flag Eric Taylor
2. USA flag Patrick Chapin
3. USA flag Mike Turian
4. USA flag Neil Reeves
5. USA flag David Petersen
6. USA flag Brian Kibler
7. USA flag William Jensen
8. USA flag Steve Cassell




 

GP New Jersey

Date: 29–30 June 2002
Format: Team Limited
Attendance: 603 (201 teams)

1. USA flag Eric James
1. USA flag Kyle Rose
1. USA flag Norman Woods

2. USA flag Justin Gary
2. USA flag Zvi Mowshowitz
2. USA flag Alex Shvartsman

3. USA flag Jason Huang
3. USA flag Paul Sottosanti
3. USA flag Adam Fischer

4. USA flag Alex Borteh
4. USA flag Chris Benafel
4. USA flag Eric Froehlich

GP Taipei

Date: 13–14 July 2002
Format: Standard
Attendance: 209

1. TWN flag Sheng Hsun Hsia
2. TWN flag Kang Nien Chiang
3. TWN flag Joe Yi Xiang Wang
4. SGP flag Albertus Law
5. TWN flag Morris Song
6. TWN flag Wen-Jien Hwang
7. TWN flag Chang Ming Tung
8. TWN flag Lucifar Sun




 

GP São Paulo

Date: 13–14 July 2002
Format: Standard
Attendance: 341

1. ARG flag Gabriel Caligaris
2. BRA flag Felipe Desiderati
3. FRA flag Antoine Ruel
4. BRA flag Luis Sérgio Massaro
5. BRA flag Raphael Fontana Günter
6. BRA flag André Barreto
7. BRA flag Michel Shirozono
8. BRA flag Rodrigo Castro




 

2002 World Championships

14–18 August 2002 in Sydney, Australia.

Final standings

Place Player Prize Pro Points Comment
1 BRA flag Carlos Romão $35,000 32 First Brazilian to win a Pro Tour
2 DEU flag Mark Ziegner $23,000 24
3 ARG flag Diego Ostrovich $15,000 16 First Argentinian in a Pro Tour Top 8
4 USA flag David Humpherys $13,000 16 Fourth Pro Tour Top 8
5 MYS flag Sim Han How $9,500 12 First Malaysian in a Pro Tour Top 8
6 IRL flag John Larkin $8,500 12 Second Pro Tour Top 8
7 FIN flag Tuomas Kotiranta $7,500 12
8 USA flag Ken Krouner $6,500 12

Team competition

Place Country Player Prize Pro Points
1 DEU flag Germany Mark Ziegner $10,000 6
Kai Budde $10,000 6
Felix Schneiders $10,000 6
2 USA flag United States Andrew Ranks $5,000 5
Eugene Harvey $5,000 5
Eric Franz $5,000 5