Held at the ACBS Clubrooms : 14 February 2010

This was the first tournament of 2010 and it was very pleasing to see all players well dressed.  This was also the first tournament for about twelve years, that playres were allowed to have an alcoholic drink while playing matches.  At the last committee meeting it was voted to relax the liquor restrictions to allow this, but only in non-ranking events.

It was also good to see three ladies in the field; Molrudee Vujanic was the best of the ladies, only losing one match in Section play to Greg Croudis 4/2.

Croudis was the top qualifier overall, with five wins and a +15 aggregate.  Maher Hatab also had five wins but with a +14 aggregate was the second top qualifier.

Post-section play saw Croudis playing David Bassett, David Breen playing Ross Bennett, Vujanic matched against Kirk Lu and Cliff Keach meeting Hatab in the quarter-finals.  Vujanic blitzed Lu 4/0, and 8th qualifier, Bassett toppled number one qualifier, Croudis 4/1.  The two other quarter-finals were also one-sided with Breen and Hatab both winning their matches 4/1.

The Semi-final between Hatab and Vujanic was a game of missed opportunities with Vujanic missing some relatively easy shots allowing Hatab to be up 3/0.  In the fourth match Hatab had a total clearance to win 4/0.  The other Semi-final went to the wire with Breen winning 4/3.

Breen played his usual steady game in the Final, beating Hatab, who although always plays very quickly seemed to rush too may shots, 5/2.

Photos of finalists submitted by Clive Thomson
Report submitted by Malcolm Beehre

Quarter-finals: D Bassett bt G Croudis 4/1, D Breen bt R Bennett 4/1, M Vujanic bt K Lu 4/0, M Hatab bt C Keach 4/1.

Semi-finals: D Breen bt D Bassett 4/3, M Hatab bt M Vujanic 4/0

Final: D Breen bt M Hatab 5/2

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