Held at the ACBS Clubrooms : 25 October 2009

Section play was a one-frame round robin, and one-frame snooker always produces some surprises.  Because scores were not kept and qualifying was based on wins, there were two secitons that required play-offs to see who qualified and they were both different situations.

Section 2 saw three players tied for second position, so one player drew a bye, and the winner of the other two played the player with a bye and the winner of this pairing was the qualifier.

In Section 4 three players were tied for winner and runner-up positions.  Once again one player drew a bye, but this time the loser of the other two played the player who drew the bye and the winner of this was the other qualifier.  Winner and runner-up were then determined by who beat who in Section Play.

In Post-Section play the format was best of three frames.  Roy Clark beat David Gourley 2/1, Barry Littlechild beat Kerry Bell 2/0 (both black to win frames), Jonathan Cox beat John Rehman 2/1, Sanjay Kumar beat Victor Tangihaere 2/0.

Clark and Littlechild had a chatty Semi-final with Clarke winning 2/1 after Littlechild potted the pink to win 2/0, but went in off it.  Kumar beat Cox 2/0 in the other Semi-final.

The Final between Kumar and Clark was a very open match.  Kumar was probably the favourite after recent success in the Clubs NZ North Island Pairs and runner-up in the ABSA/Manurewa BNZ 3000 tournament.  Kumar eventually won, but not without a few anxious moments.  Clark won the first frame and in the third, Kumar was 47 ahead with two reds left.  Clark eventually got a black with the second to last red and snookered Kumar who missed, then got a black with the last red and so could draw with the lot.  Kumar then decided he needed to be more careful and snookered Clark on the yellow.  It wasn’t a hard snooker but Clark missed and Kumar finally won 2/1.

The Plate event was won by Andrew Charleston over Anaru Tamehana.

Quarter-finals: R Clark bt D Gourley 2/1, B Littlechild bt K Bell 2/0, J Cox bt J Rehman 2/1, S Kumar bt V Tangihaere 2/0.

Semi-finals: R Clark bt B Littlechild 2/1, S Kumar bt J Cox 2/0.

Final: S Kumar bt R Clark 2/1.

Highest Break: R Clark (59)