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Quarter-finals : G Oliver bt W Burke 633/341, D Gibb bt C Allport 420/157, D Taylor bt G Kwok 500/390, W Carey bt M Taylor 614/207.

Semi-finals : G Oliver bt D Gibb 484/293, W Carey bt D Taylor 622/219.

Final : W Carey bt G Oliver 382/320.

Highest Break : W Carey (142).

Last Sixteen : R Clark bt A Tamehana 2/0, D Yin bt M Barton 2/0, R O’Connor bt N Clarkson 2/0, K Lu bt S Watson 2/0, L Paul bt A Tangihaere 2/0, M Reilly bt G Backman 2/1, J Rehman bt J Tialata 2/0, B Davies bt K Joyce 2/0.

Quarter-finals : R Clark bt D Yin 2/0, K Lu bt R O’Connor 2/1, L Paul bt M Reilly 2/0, B Davies bt J Rehman 2/0.

Semi-finals : R Clark bt K Lu 2/0, L Paul bt B Davies 2/1.

Final : L Paul bt R Clark 2/0.

Highest Break : R Clark (52)

• ABSA Open Veteran’s Snooker (over 50 years) : 13-14 March 2010
  Entry fee $30 - ENTRIES CLOSED
• APA Regional Men’s & Womens 8-Ball : 20-21 March 2010
  Entry fee $50 (includes NZPA Levy) - ENTRIES CLOSED
• Barton McGill Open Snooker : 27-28 March 2010
  Entry fee $60 (includes NZBSA Levy) - ENTRIES CLOSE 14 March
• ABSA A-Grade Billiards : 17-18 April 2010
  Entry Fee $30 (includes NZBSA Levy) - ENTRIES CLOSE 01 April
• ABSA Women’s Snooker : 24-25 April 2010
  Entry Fee $30 - ENTRIES CLOSE 10 April
• ABSA B-Grade Snooker : 01-02 May 2010
  Entry Fee $30 - ENTRIES CLOSE 23 April

Other events :

• Monday Night 9-Ball Comp : ACBS Clubrooms, 713 Mt Albert Rd, Royal Oak - Entry Fee $10 - all entries paid out in prizes.  7.30 pm start.  For further info contact David 0274 766 746
• 9-Ball Tournament (ACBS Clubrooms : 10-11 April 2010). $40 entry fee payable on the Saturday morning by 9 am.  Format - Random Draw 2 life until Final (i.e. only 1 life in the Final).  ALL ENTRY FEES PAID OUT IN PRIZES (PAYOUTS TO LAST 5).  Further details contact Tony de Fontenay 021 025 2254
• APA Pool League (8-Ball and 9-Ball) - see APA Pool League on home page and download registration forms (2) to be received no later than 29 March 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

Player profiles have been updated.

Venue : ACBS Clubrooms, 713 Mt Albert Road, Royal Oak

Entry Fee : $10 per person per night - all entry fees paid out in prize money

Limited to first 16 paid entries

Format : Straight knockout - race to five frames

Further info please contact David on 0274 766 746

9-Ball Comp : 08 February 2010 : a strong field of ten players made two sections of five.  Nick Pera and Marvin qualified in Section 1 with Nick unbeaten.  Section 2 saw Molrudee and Matt qualify, with Matt unbeaten.  In the semi’s, Nick played Molrudee with Molrudee an upset victor, and Marvin defeated Matt 3/0 in the other semi.  Marvin continued on with some fine form.

9-Ball Comp : 01 February 2010 : a strong field of twelve players arrived for Monday’s 9-Ball.  We ran two sections with two qualifiers from each, with Glen Coutts, Matt Edwards and Molrudee in one section it was always going to be tough to qualify.  Glen and Matt qualified from Section 1 and Jamie and Ning from Setion 2.  Matt beat Ning 3/1 and Glen won over Jamie 3/2.  The Final (race to 3) was a quick affair with Glen playing his best pool of the night, and winning 3/0.

The 2010 9-ball comp commenced on Monday 18 January.  A field of ten played section play with two qualifiers from each section.  Molrudee and Marvin successful from Section 1 and Glen Coutts and Cliff from Section 2.  In the Semi-finals, Molrudee beat Cliff 3/1 and in a close match Marvin beat Glen 3/2.  In the Final Molrudee again proved too strong, defeating Marvin 3/0.

Week 5 : for the final Monday competition for this year we played section play again.  The first semi-final was between Marvin and Richard with Richard winnin gout 3/1 and the other semi-final, Molrudee defeating Frank.  Molrudee again played great pool to defeat Richard 3/1 to take out the Final.  Molrudee retained her form from the recent APA Regional 8-Ball Pairs event, when partnered with her husband, defeated Kevin Sun and Kevin Zhang to reach the final, just going down to Jordan Davey and Jimmy Henry, 5/4.  The next Monday competition will be 18 January 2010.

Week 4 : the numbers were a bit lower this Monday with 9 players, so we decided to use a section/round robin format with a race to three frames.  Section 1 saw Kevin Zhang and Kevin Sun qualify and Section 2 qualifiers were Marvin and Molrudee.  Molrudee defeated Kevin Sun, and Kevin Zhang won over Marvin.  The Final (race to 5 frames) was won by Kevin Zhang with Molrudee again proving she is a formidable opponent.

Week 3 : a field of 12 took part.  The winner from the last two weeks (Tim) drew Kevin Sun in the first round.  In a very tight match Tim prevailed.  There was a round two upset with Cliff defeating Tim.  Marvin beat Cliff in one Semi-final and Molrudee, carrying on with her great form from the Auckland B-Grade comp, defeated Jacky in the other Semi-final.  Molrudee defeated Marvin 5/3 to take the major share of the stake money.  Please note that the last Monday of competition for this year is 14 Decemer and will recommence on 18 January 2010.

Week 2 of the Monday night 9-Ball knockout had a field of 13.  It was decided to play Race to 5 frames for the evenings competition.  It was a good cross-section of players with two women players in the draw.  Week 1’s winner, Tim, had a tough first up match against Marvin which went to the wire 5/4.  In the Semis Molrudee, one of the female players put up a good game before going down to Tim and in the other, David was down 4/1 against Jacky before taking the match 5/4.  The Final was a repeat of last Monday with Tim playing flawless 9-Ball, being the winner.

Tournament Format: Randon Draw - 2 life (finishes at end of Semi-finals - i.e. only one life in the Final).

ALL ENTRY FEES PAID OUT IN PRIZES - PAYOUTS TO THE LAST 5 ONLY

For further details contact Tony de Fontenay 021 025 2254

Seven pairs contested the title this year and with three of those pairs having a female players, hopefully we are in for better numbers in the Women’s tournaments in 2010.

Top qualifiers were Kevin Sun and Kevin Zhang with six wins.  Second were last year’s winners, Jon Grimley and Tony de Fontenay; third were Jimmy Henry and Jordan Davey.  The fourth qualifiers were new members Molrudee and Ivica Vujanic.

The Semi-final between Sun/Zhang and the Vujanic’s turned into a very tactical match with the two Kevin’s not knowing how to keep out Molrudee, who looked like getting four clearances to level at 4-all when she missed an easy black.  After five minutes of safety play Ivica doubled the black.  The final frame was broken by Zhang who failed to get a ball and Molrudee cleared up to win 5/4.  The other Semi-final was won by Davey/Henry.

The Final was won by Henry and Davey, taking nearly one and a half hours and probably should have been played with a timer-clock.

The APA have been lucky this year to have Kevin Zhang join us and very fortunate to also have Molrudee Vujanic, who is certainly going to be a force to be reckoned with in the Regional and National Women’s tournaments.

Semi-Finals : I Vujanic/M Vujanic bt K Sun/K Zhang 5/4,  J Davey/J Henry bt J Grimley/T de Fontenay 5/2.

Final : Davey/Henry bt Vujanic/Vujanic 5/4.