Held at the ACBS Clubrooms : 19-22 March 2011

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Held at the ACBS Clubrooms : 19-21 March 2011

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Held at the ACBS Clubrooms :  19-23 March 2011

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Held at the ACBS Clubrooms : 12-13 March 2011

Report by Malcolm Beehre :  Five competitive women vied for the title of the APA Regional Women’s 8-Ball and there were some close encounters. Continue reading »

Held at the ACBS Clubrooms : 05-06 March 2011 Continue reading »

Held at the ACBS Clubrooms : 13 February 2011

Report by Malcolm Beehre : Good to see a few new faces at the start of the year.   There were three women in the field who all played well, but failed to qualify for Post-section.  We definitely could do with some more female players so that we may be able to have a section for the women in next year’s B-Grade. Continue reading »

Report by David Knight www.pro9.co.uk

Nick van den Berg had one of those days where everything seemed easy, great breaks, unmissable potting, and the confidence of a champion – producing some epic matches with one-sided results in his favour, and a couple of matches that went to the hill – on Saturday Imran Majid took him all the way, and today it was Raj Hundal’s turn to test the man from the Netherlands.  Despite these oh-so-close single elimination matches going to the wire, van den Berg’s game grew and grew as the final approached, resulting in a penultimate drubbing of his fellow countryman Niels Jeijen 9/3 in the Semi-finals, and a solid 11/8 victory in the Final against a tricky customer by the name of Tony Drago.

The more intensely you study the player list, the more familiar names you notice – a very popular event with players from these shores, and it’s not just the usual big guns who have made the trip to Paris this weekend.  A tribute to the organisers, David Bare and Gael Yard, who invited players to attend the brilliant Paris Open at the elegant Cercle Clichy Montmartre.  Despite no celebrity players receiving free invitations this year, there were plenty in attendance – all vying for a share of the 18,000 euro + prize fund on offer.

Surprising results were plentiful, as last year’s winner of this event, home favourite Vince Facquet was knocked out comparatively early in the Last 16 stage by Greece’s Nikos Oikonomopoulos, and New zealand’s Matthew Edwards has cut a swathe through the best of the field into the Semi-Finals only to be stopped by the speedy play of the other finalist – Malta’s Tony Drago.

Held at the ACBS Clubrooms : 12 December 2010

Report by Malcolm Beehre :
The last tournament of the year.  It’s amazing how, when players play in a pairs tournament they think they need to discuss shots that don’t need discussing, all on the pretext that they somehow need to play for their partner instead of playing their own game.  A simple way to get out of this train of thought is to imagine you are playing a game of singles with the player following you.  A couple of very long matches threw the timetable out.  Both went to five frames, taking one hour and ten minutes, and one hour respectively. Continue reading »

Held at the ACBS Clubrooms : 20-21 November 2010

Report by Malcolm Beehre:
This was the last ranking tournament for the year for the ABSA, and the last ranking tournament for our players going to the World Champs in Syria, early December.  First round upset was Danny Estocapio beating Eldon Lai.  Estocapio went on to be the runner-up in his section, only losing to Wyn Belmont 2/1. Continue reading »

Held at the ACBS Clubrooms : 25 October 2010
Report by Malcolm Beehre

There were some very talented youngsters in this tournament thanks to Wayne Belmont’s coaching efforts with the six players in the field that he’s been training; the youngest at only 11 years old

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