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WORLD BOWLS INDOOR CHAMPIONSHIPS
at Bristol Indoor Bowls Club 25-29 April, 2022
This exciting and brand new event brings together
the World Cup, organised by World Bowls, and the World Championships of the
former World Indoor Bowls Council under one banner. It involves 64
players from 29 countries, playing in men´s singles, women´s singles and
mixed pairs. The 29 countries are (in alphabetical order):- Australia,
Botswana, Canada, England, Falkland Islands, Guernsey, Hong Kong, Hungary,
Ireland, Isle of Man, Israel, Jamaica, Jersey, Kenya, Malaysia, Namibia,
Netherlands, Pakistan, Scotland, Singapore, South Africa, Spain, Sri Lanka,
Sweden, Switzerland, Thailand, Turkey, USA and Wales.
DAY TWO Tuesday, 26 April
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Australia´s Rob Briglia and Genevieve Delves found life hard against the
favourites Alison Merrien and Stewart Anderson
The World Bowls Indoor Championships in
Bristol are serving up their fair share of shock results, and
providing great entertainment for an appreciative crowd, who love to
see outsiders upstage the favourites.
South Africa´s Colleen
Piketh, 49, a Commonwealth Games women´s pairs gold medallist in
Glasgow in 2014, and silver medallist on the Gold Coast in 2018,
crashed to an unexpected defeat at the hands of Rose Ogier, a
66-year-old legal assistant from Guernsey.
Having won her
opening match yesterday (MON), the hotly-tipped South African can
still qualify for the knockout stage if she can beat Hong Kong´s
Gloria Ha in her last group game tomorrow (WED).
In the men´s
singles, Gary Kelly, the Australia-based Irishman, who is the proud
holder of the WB World Cup, scraped through by the skin of his teeth
against Malaysia´s Fairus Jabal after winning the first set 8-2.
Jabal took the second, 9-1, but Kelly claimed the winning single on
the one-end-shoot-out, winning a tense measure by a fraction of an
inch.
Ozkan Akar, an inspirational character who is busy
developing bowls in Turkey, skipped his wife Rahsan to a splendid
9-4, 12-4 mixed pairs win over experienced Israelis Selwyn Hare and
Ruthy Gilor, while Singapore´s Zoher Motiwalla and May Lee chalked
up a surprise 5-4, 7-7 win over Ayub Qureshi, representing Pakistan,
and the mich decorated Scot, Julie Forrest.
Meanwhile,
Guernsey´s Alison Merrien and Scotland´s Stewart Anderson, who are
the International Indoor Bowls Council´s reigning men´s and women´s
world singles champions, won handsomely again, and appear on course
to win these brand new titles.
They also combined brilliantly
to beat Australia´s Robbie Briglia and Genevieve Delves, 7-1, 10-1
though the score does scant justice to the combative Aussies.
Briglia and Delves faced a couple of Channel Islanders in the
late singles session, and once again had to give best, Briglia
losing on a tiebreak to Guernsey´s Ian Merrien, husband of Alison,
and Delves suffering the same fate against Jersey´s rising star
Megan Kivlin.
RESULTS
MIXED PAIRS:- Section 1: Lara
Reaney & *Gary Kelly (Ireland) bt Garrett & Mark McGreal (Isle of
Man) 8-4, 7-5; Rahsan Akar & Ozkan Akar (Turkey) bt Selwyn Hare &
Ruthy Gilor (Israel) 9-4, 12-4. Section 2: Nurul Alyani Jamal
& M Fairus Jabal (Malaysia) bt Rose Ogier & Ian Merrien (Guernsey)
11-4, 7-6; Amy Williams (Wales) & Olle Backgren (Sweden) bt Marea
Modutlwa & Remmy Kebapetse (Botswana) 7-5, 5-5. Section 3:
*Alison Merrien (Guernsey) & *Stewart Anderson (Scotland) bt Robbie
Briglia & Genevieve Delves (Australia) 7-1, 10-1; Zoher Motiwalla
(Singapore) & May Lee (Singapore) bt M Ayub Qureshi (Pakistan) &
Julie Forrest (Scotland) 5-4, 7-7. Section 4: Ruby Hill & Andy
Walters (England) bt Ronan Olivier & Marietjie Van den Bergh
(Namibia) 10-4, 5-5; Tanida Kachanthornpak & Wattana Kadkhunthod
(Thailand) bt Daphne Arthur-Almond & Cecil Alexander (Falkland
Islands) 13-2, 8-2. Section 5: Kerry Packwood & Robert
Chisholm (Wales) bt Bill Brault & Anne Nunes (USA) 8-3, 7-4;
Devon Cooper (England) & Zoltan Pavelka (Hungary) bt Arosha
Jayasundara & Susil Don-Ramanayake (Sri Lanka) 14-2, 12-2.
Section 6: Claire Anderson & Mike Stepney (Scotland) bt Gloria Ha
& Arthur Lam (Hong Kong) 8-6, 7-6; Tom Schneiter & Marianne
Kuenzle (Switzerland) bt Maureen Caesar & Robert Simpson (Jamaica)
11-3, 5-4. Section 7: Sandra Bailie & Andy Duncan (Ireland) bt
Henk Veenstra & Saskia Scaft (Nederland) 1-13, 12-2, 1-0; Megan
Kivlin & Alex Stewart (Jersey) bt Sophy Kihuyu & Benson Wambugu
(Kenya) 17-1, 6-2. Section 8: Colleen Piketh & Jason Evans
(South Africa) bt Bobbi Charlton & Hirendra Bhartu (Canada) 10-1,
8-5; Carol Broomfield & Graham Cathcart (Spain) bt Janice Pilling
(Isle of Man) & David Bolt (England) 3-13, 8-3, 1-0.
MEN´S
SINGLES Section 1: *Stewart Anderson (Scotland) bt Arthur Lam
(Hong Kong China) 9-6, 11-2; Remmy Kebapetse (Botswana) bt Zoltan
Pavelka (Hungary) 10-2, 8-3. Section 2: Ian Merrien (Guernsey)
bt Robbie Briglia (Australia) 6-7, 7-4, 1-0; Wattana Kadkhunthod
(Thailand) bt Robert Simpson (Jamaica) 8-6, 9-5. Section 3:
Robert Chisholm (Wales) bt Benson Wambugu (Kenya) 6-5. 7-4; Mark
McGreal (Isle of Man) bt Ayub Qureshi (Pakistan) 9-3, 14-0.
Section 4: Jason Evans (South Africa) bt Alexander Stewart
(Jersey) 8-4, 2-6. 1-0; Zoher Motiwalla (Singapore) bt Olle
Backgren (Sweden) 5-3, 10-5. Section 5: Mike Stepney
(Scotland) bt Ronan Olivier (Namibia) 11-5, 10-4; David Bolt
(England) bt Graham Cathcart (Spain) 9-3, 10-2. Section 6:
*Gary Kelly (Ireland) bt Fairus Jabal (Malaysia) 8-2, 1-9, 1-0;
Cecil Alexander (Falkland Islands) bt Henk Veenstra (Netherlands)
9-3, 6-9, 1-0. Section 7: Andy Walters (England) bt Selwyn
Hare (Israel) 9-3, 17-2; Bill Brault (USA) bt Ozkan Akar (Turkey)
6-5, 7-7. Section 8: Hirendra Bhartu (Canada) bt Andrew Duncan
(Ireland) 5-5, 7-3; Tom Schneiter (Switzerland) bt Susil
Don-Ramanayake (Sri Lanka) 7-7, 10-2,
WOMEN´S SINGLES
Section 1: Sandra Bailie (Ireland) bt Marietjie Van den Bergh
(Namibia) 7-4, 7-3; Bobbi Charlton (Canada) bt Maureen Caesar
(Jamaica) 16-1, 13-1. Section 2: Megan Kivlin (Jersey) bt
Genevieve Delves (Australia) 5-4, 2-10, 1-0; Amy Williams (Wales)
bt Marea Modutlwa (Botswana) 12-3, 11-1. Section 3: Kerry
Packwood (Wales) bt Ruthy Gilor (Israel) 7-3, 15-1; Devon Cooper
(England) bt May Lee (Singapore) 8-6, 10-2. Section 4: Ruby
Hill (England) bt Saskia Schaft (Netherlands) 4-4, 6-5; Tanida
Kachanthornpak (Thailand) bt Janice Pilling (Isle of Man) 2-7, 9-0,
1-0. Section 5: Rose Ogier (Guernsey) bt Colleen Piketh (South
Africa) 2-9, 7-5, 1-0; Gloria Ha (Hong Kong) bt Daphne
Arthur-Almond (Falkland Islands) 7-4, 10-4. Section 6: Claire
Anderson (Scotland) bt Paula Garrett (Isle of Man) 14-2, 11-2;
Lara Reaney (Ireland) bt Arosha Jayasundara (Sri Lanka) 13-1, 11-3.
Section 7: Nurul Alyani Jamal (Malaysia) bt Carol Broomfield
(Spain) 7-4, 7-3; Julie Forrest (Scotland) bt Sophy Kihuyu
(Kenya) 13-4, 13-1, Section 8: *Alison Merrien, MBE (Guernsey)
bt Rahsan Akar (Turkey) 14-0, 11-2; Anne Nunes (USA) bt Marianne
Kuenzle (Switzerland) 7-5, 8-4.
STORY & RESULTS FILED BY
EVENT PRESS LIAISON OFFICER DAVID RHYS JONES DRHYSJ@AOL.COM |
27th
April 2022
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