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Sat & Sun 12 - 13 May 2001
Weekend Handicap Singles Tournament (The Amelia Hall Plate)
Marcus Retains Title
Over the weekend 15-year-old MARCUS EVANS won Nailsea Croquet Club’s May Tournament for the second consecutive year. The event was run as a Hands Ladder, in which each player starts with an index of 50 and this increases with each win and decreases with each loss, by an amount determined by the difference between the players ratings. Players may play as many games as they can fit in over the weekend. Visitors travelled from Bath, Cheltenham, Edgbaston and Truro to compete in the tournament.
MARCUS played five games on Saturday, winning four of them, finishing the day with a rating of 62. His only loss was against NICK CARTER who had an excellent day winning four games out of four and finished the day at the top of the ladder with an index of 66. In his game against his coach, PETER DYKE, PETER started well making nine hoops with his first ball, but he then made a costly fault at hoop two from which MARCUS made an eleven-hoop break. MARCUS went on to win the game by 13 points and PETER finished the day in third place with two wins out of three and an index of 54.
On the Sunday morning, NICK used five of his eight bisques (extra turns) to score nine hoops. PETER hit several long roquets and scored eleven hoops, putting NICK under pressure. NICK managed to score only two hoops with his second ball before running out of bisques. PETER hit in again and scored nine hoops before a poor hoop approach let him down. From then on it was quite a tussle and NICK managed to reduce PETER’s lead to four before the two players ran out of time. After the game they were both lying in second place with a rating of 60.
In the meantime MARCUS had won two more games increasing his index to 68 and PETER and NICK needed to win three more games to catch him. So MARCUS chose to sit out in the afternoon. PETER won another game to finish in second place, but GRETA STRINGER beat NICK.
HAMISH HALL, the manager, presented the Amelia Hall Plate to MARCUS and reduced his handicap from 7 to 4½. PETER’s came down from 8 to 7 under the Automatic Handicapping System.
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