With five players competing in Band 4, making it through to the next round was always going to be hard, but enjoyable work for them.
Scott Cundy sailed through his group in first place and managed to get through to the second round but his opponent there proved too strong. Matt Lancey came 2nd in his group, secured his 1st round match win, following which he was very unlucky to lose 11-9 in the 5th in round two.
Dean Cundy, Josh Jenkins and Lee Morgan all advanced successfully through their groups but found opponents in the 1st round too strong. Ceri James, in Band 2, came 1st in his group, and advanced to the 2nd round where he lost a close fought game in the 5th. In the afternoon session Matt Lancey his won his Band 5 group comfortably, but found his opponent just too strong losing in the 5th set. Scott finished 1st in his band 3 group and successfully advanced to the 2nd round, where he found number 3 seed Ping Ho too powerful. Lee Morgan also got through his group picking up a good win over Daniel Keenan of Ireland, however, his next opponent proved too much.
Dean had a difficult group and, despite beating number 4 seed Billy Pegg, he failed to progress. It was a similar story for Josh Jenkins where despite beating Jersey number 1, Josh Band, he lost two tight games 3-2, and so failed to get through. Ceri was in fine form and advanced through his band 3 group in 1st position. He then disposed of John McBeath, Sullivan Morais, Wayne Mason and Damiola Thomas to reach the final. There he met Jared Patel, who he had previously met in the group stages, and again won 3-1, to take home the Band 3 title.
On the Sunday only Ceri and Dean took part. Dean enjoyed a fine run of form to defeat Emran Hussain, who was ranked nearly 2000 points higher than Dean, to reach a preliminary round where he had a close fought victory over Lukasz Janisiewicz. In the first round proper, Dean played highly ranked Gavin Maguire where Dean lost out 3-1, however he competed very well and was very close to taking the first two ends which could have meant a different result. Ceri failed to reach the knockout stages after losing out to Sherwin Remata 3-2 despite having match points.
In the Under 21s, Dean and Ceri both got through their groups, where they both met higher ranked opposition in Paul McCreery and Ashley Willetts respectively. Unfortunately, both players proved too strong for the Welsh boys.
Well done all!
