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16 FEBRUARY 2011 UPDATE : Rumour has it there may be an all female team. There are two or three sponsors available from our own members who are in a position to sponsor a team and pay the $200 Team Registration Fee. These teams would use the ACBS Clubrooms as their home venue. For further information please contact Malcolm on 021 309 447.
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
Held at the ACBS Clubrooms : 24 October 2010
Report by Malcolm Beehre
With two players not turning up, this left a field of 18 players, 16 of which qualified for post-section play. There were four first-timers to tournament play and three of those qualified for the next round and they all performed well, with Josh Tate beating Cliff Keach 2/0, Taniela Filipo lost to Faz Powell 2/1 and Magnosh Pagdiwalla beat Louis Chand 2/0. Continue reading »
Held at the ACBS Clubrooms : 24-26 September 2010 (hosted by the APA) Continue reading »
Held at the Howick Club : 09-10 October 2010 Continue reading »
Held at the Manurewa Cosmopolitan Club : 16-17 October 2010
Report by Malcolm Beehre
A field of 9 played for the Montgomery trophy and all qualified for Post-Section play, their positions being determined by their performance during section play with the 8th and 9th qualifiers playing off to see who went through to the quarter-finals. Continue reading »
Held at the Manurewa Cosmopolitan Club 16-17 October 2010 (hosted by the ABSA):
Report by Malcolm Beehre Continue reading »