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T9B The Double Chance Amateur/Rookie Series 2013
The St Albans Hurricane Room
Unit 8 Verulam Industrial Estate
224 London Road
St Albans
Hertfordshire
AL1 1JF
www.hurricaneroom.co.uk
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Saturday 25 May 2013

Courtney too good for the field at T9B

Courtney Symons again showed his class at Event 4 of the T9B Amateur Series. Symons, now a 5 times T9B tournament winner, battled through the field yesterday at the Hurricane Room in St Albans to move himself up to 5th in the five event Amateur Series. Symons playing off a handicap of -3 will now be cut and join Luke Rollison on -4 for the remainder for the season. Before this event Courtney was in need of ranking points after he missed event three but now looks to have confirmed his place in the Amateur Series Grand Finals held at St Albans on the 27th July 2013.

Symons event began with a match against Phil Wildman, Courtney was never behind winning 7v3, the match however wasn�t the best with both players making a few uncharacteristic mistakes. Symons followed this result with wins against Dean Reeve (7v1) Lionel Brown (7v4) and Geoff Windeatt (7v5). Courtney's chances of scooping the Jackpot were crushed in the next match by the smallest of margins as new player to T9B Liam Monk defeated Symons 7v6. So this meant Courtney at this event only took one place in the Quarter Finals. Courtney made the most of this one chance though beating Lionel Brown 7v3 to confirm his place in the Semi Finals.

Tom Staveley, fresh from his first T9B event win in High Wycombe last weekend would have been hoping for more of the same, but it wasn't to be, as Staveley lost his first two matches 7v6 against Terry Arnold and Liam Monk. Liam as mentioned earlier is a new player to T9B, he has just returned from a trip to America playing cuesports experiencing some good success and results against some big name players. Liam's day began with a good 7v3 win against Sunny Garib, he followed this with the two hill-hill wins over Staveley and Symons but then ran into two in form players... Last season's Amateur Series Grand Final winner Jonathan Vaughan and Aslam Abubaker who reached the Final of the BWPPA last weekend in Barnsley, Liam was defeated in both matches by scoreline 7v5 and 7v2 respectively.

It was great to have Robin Cripps with us all the way from Penzance, Cornwall but it wasn�t to be Robin's day as he didn't seem to get going, losing matches to Jonathan Vaughan (7v3) and Dean Reeve (7v5).

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