Willie Thorne's Under 21's - Event 10 (October 2007)

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DUNKLEY WINS SERIES AND NEW PB 133

WILSON CLAIMS 2ND UNDER 21?S

Although Alex Dunkley lost the 10th Under 21 event his only defeat in five finals, Willie Thorne?s 2-0 in a reduced match to Kyren Wilson he secured enough points to win the year long ranking series with two events remaining.

The South Coast teenager also upped his personal best break to 133 a total clearance in a second round trouncing of Alex Anastasiou, Lee Shanker pocketed the only other century 112.

Wilson who won April?s event captured the 2nd frame of the final on the black the series champion required a clearance on the colours but missed the last ball and conceded in a low key match late starting due to the bottom half of the draw being slow.
With the win Wilson who leads the Under 16 rankings moves ahead of Nick Jennings into 2nd place the only change in the top 6.

The day?s winner defeated Aaron McIntyre 4-1, Kevin Yates 4-2 breaks 83,77 and 65, Scott McGaw 3-1 and finally the previous days Under 16 winner Danny Douane, 14, shoots up to 12th, 3-2 on the black after Douane led 2-1 benefiting from the miss rule.

Dunkley opened with a 4-0 beating of Anastasiou the133 and a 74 break, John Fountain 3-0,71 break and Sameer Knight now 9th in his first semi final 3-1, Dunkley 54 and a black ball 4th frame.

Mears rethink profits

Ryan Mears declined at first to play in the plate but regrouped himself to beat Kevin Yates 2-0, in the final, Mears 50 break after losing to the same player in the first main  4-2, Mears just dropping one frame in the event.
For the 3rd consecutive month Yates ended up a losing finalist after twice missing out to Dunkley in the main event.

Hiren Zinzuwadia reached the plate semi finals at the first attempt and young Tom Kerslake posted his best performance at the same stage.

Next event Sunday  November 4th, 11.30am start, ?15 entry fee.

Malcolm Thorne

Last 32 ? 10 points
K.Wilson (Kettering) bt A.McIntyre (Southampton) 4-1
K.Yates (Derby) bt R.Mears (Aldershot) 4-2
D.Douane (Derby) 40 bt T.Kerslake (Derby) 4-1
J.Jelley (Leicester) bt M.Sheehan (Bromsgrove) 4-0
S.Knight (Leicester) bt H.Zinzuwadia (Leicester) 4-2


Byes ; T.Brown (Chesterfield), S.Mcgaw (Southampton), J.Stone (Nottingham), J.Bradford (Chester), L.Shanker (Derby), A.Taubman (Chester), N.Jennings (Winchester), A.Anastasiou (Derby), A.Dunkley (Southampton), O.Brown (Chesterfield), J.Fountain (Nottingham).

Last 16 ? 15 points
McGaw bt T.Brown 4-1, Wilson 65,77,83 bt Yates 4-2,
Douane 68 bt Stone 4-2, Shanker 40,71,112 bt Broadford 4-0,
Knight 63 bt Jelley 4-3, Jennings 75 bt Taubman 4-1,
Dunkley 74,133 bt Anastasiou 4-0, Fountain 40, bt 40,44 O.Brown 4-3.

Quarter finals ?15 - 30 points
Wilson bt McGaw 3-1, Douane bt 50 Shanker 3-2,
Knight bt Jennings 3-2, Dunkley 71 bt Fountain 3-0.

Semi finals ?20 ? 60 points
Wilson 55 bt Douane 3-2, Dunkley 54 bt Knight 3-1.

Final ?60/?40 ? 150/100 points
Wilson bt Dunkley 2-0

Plate ? Semi Finals ?15 ? 7 points
Mears bt Kerslake 2-1, Yates bt Zinzunwadia 2-0,

Final ?40/?25 ? 15/10 points
Mears 50 bt Yates 2-0.

Rankings Top 32 ? 10th event
1(1)A.Dunkley 881, 2(3) K.Wilson 577, 3(2) N.Jennings 469,
4(4) K.Yates 320, 5(5) L.Shanker 310, 6(6) R.Mears 293,
7(7) Stephen Craigie 263, 8( J.Fountain 250, 9(13) S.Knight 231,
10(9) N.Jones 213, 11(10) R.Binns 193, 12(25) D.Douane 182,
13(14) J.Jelley 179, 14(11) M.Mann 176, 15(12) M.Jelley 172,
16(22) S.McGaw 169, 17(19) J.Stone 163, 18(15) J.Lisowski 150,
19(16) L.Page 150, 20(17) L.Highfield 150, 21(18) L.Highfield 147,
22(24) A.Anastasiou 143, 23(20) K.Callaghan 140, 24(21) J.Pricthett 138,
25(23) C.Downing 135, 26(31) O.Brown 121, 27(26) S.Mooney 116,
28(33) A.McIntyre 108, 29(34) T.Kerslake 105, 30(27) A.Harris 105,
31(28) M.Wasley 103, 32(29) O.Tydeman 101.