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Open Midweek AC Advanced Tournament
Association Croquet
This Tournament is an Association Croquet singles competition at held Watford and open to
members of Croquet England.
It is also listed in the
CqE fixtures calendar.
Open Midweek AC Advanced
Tournament results by year:
'A' block: the Cassiobury Cup (current holder: Bryan Harral)
'B' block: the Cassiobury Salver (current holder: John Gosden)
Entries:
Allocation: 15 March. Closing: 7 May. Those who wish to enter and pay online may do so
through the CqE website in same way as entering a CqE Tournament.
Alternatively, postal entries should be submitted together with entry fee using the standard
CqE Tournament entry form.
Entry fee:
£25 (CqE Premium members), others £39. Pay online
(see above) or by cheque to the secretary, payable to "Watford (Cassiobury)
Croquet Club".
Format:
AMD, provisionally Class Singles with two independent blocks.
Lunches:
A cold lunch will be provided for £5 per day.
Notes:
Play starts at 09:30 each day.
Drinks and biscuits are provided free of charge, and a cold lunch will be available for a small fee.
Details of parking and other arrangements will be sent to participants before the event.
The first day of the tournament was played in very pleasant May
sunshine all day for what proved to be a long day. Play in the 'A' block
started a bit late because a couple of the courts were having a fresh
haircut finished, but nobody seemed too bothered about that. Thereafter
play continued all day with just a short lunch break, with the last game
of the day between Neil Adams and Jonathan Smith only finishing at
8:35pm. The sprinklers in the newly-installed irrigation system were set
to come on at 8pm, but only scheduled on alternate days, and fortunately
this wasn't one of them! The second day was cloudier and cooler, but
thankfully remained dry.
In the all-play-all 'B' block of 6 players Stephen Harbron was on good form, losing only to
Richard Peperell, and he emerged at the end of the tournament as the only player
in his block with 4/5 to win the Cassuiobury Salver.
Meanwhile in the 'A' block of 10 players, played with a Flexible
Swiss format, Andrew Winn was on top form and completed the tournament
undefeated on 100% from his 5 games to win the Cassiobury Cup.
But perhaps the most dramatic finish was in the last game of the
second day between Don Beck and Jonathan Smith to decide the last place
in the block, played to a time limit in order to bring the event to a
timely close. In his last turn when time was called, Jonathan ran Rover
and pegged out one of his balls to go 2 points up, leaving Don's two
balls cross-wired. Jonathan's other ball and one of Don's balls were
both for peg. So Don's only option for his final turn was to score 2
points to draw level by running Rover and pegging out with his backward
ball to force a sudden-death 2-ball ending with both remaining balls for
peg. This required hitting a 25-yarder at Don's other ball near corner
IV. Don dramatically hit the 25-yarder, managed to approach Rover from 4
yards sideways off partner, ran a long hoop... and then missed the 4-yard return roquet to deny
him an easy peg-out! leaving Jonathan with a narrow +1(T) win.
Mary Rose
GC Inter-Club Championship
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