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The dawning of the Jesper Svensson era?

JEFF RICHGELS | Posted: Thursday, February 4, 2016 11:59 pm
The dawning of the Jesper Svensson era?
Jesper Svensson has a 266-pin lead heading into the final two rounds of match play at the FireLake PBA Tournament of Champions. Photo by Pro Bowlers Association.
Coming into GEICO World Series of Bowling VII in December, you had to be a fairly serious bowling fan to know who Jesper Svensson was. The amazingly powerful 2-handed left-hander from Sweden was a PBA Tour champion, but his win came last March in the 13th Kingdom of Bahrain International Open, which doesn’t carry quite the notoriety of winning a PBA Tour title on U.S. soil with TV coverage here. A stellar World Series highlighted by a win in the Chameleon Championship provided a serious...