[UPDATE: Full results are now available, click the link below to download.]
Hi all
I have in the results from 4 of the 6 groups that played this weekend. Sorry – but working to 11.30pm on a Sunday doesn’t give me much time to chase up the others! I will send them out as soon as I get them, and obviously this will delay the groups for next weekend but hopefully only by half a day!
Last week I mentioned that a team was close to remaining undefeated for the entire day, so I have done a bit of research into the results I have – which are 2007 onwards – to see what the best performances have been to date. There have been no dominating doubles pairs but a few singles rounds stood out as pretty bloody damn good. (By the way, I am sure Matt Power will have input for this as his records go back a long way…)
In the 2009 Singles, David Kilpatrick shot 24/4 in round 1, while then ACTEBA President Doug Percy almost matched him by shooting 23/5, but this was in round 2, so had a bit more weight to it. 2010 saw a string of high scores in round 1, with Pete Smith hitting 20/4, Simon Wade 21/3, and Neil Whitbread 23/5. Sterling Cross smashed 27/5 in round 2 while Matt Harmon entered the fray as a seed in round 3 by hitting 21/3.
But the two best performances I have on record dwarf all of these.
First of all, take a crack at Adam Marlow shooting 25/3 in round 4 – that’s right, round 4, the top 32 – on his way to a state final that year. Not even Steven Woods or Matt Harmon have nailed scores like those that late in the trials.
Then let’s look at Kenny Nicol’s 2010 Singles efforts. Kenny’s scores for the first three rounds were 20/4, 23/5 and 21/7. This gave him a win/loss record of 64/16, or an incredible 80%! Mind you, it’s probably been a while since Kenny had to play the rest of us mere mortals. I shudder to think what the seeds would do to us if they all had to play round one…
Special mention does have to go to Mike Stanker, who shot 18/14 in a group of 9 one year but still finished 5th and missed out on getting through! This is the highest amount of wins a player has achieved without qualifying for the next round. I won’t mention lowest scores because I’m pretty sure one of my efforts is in there somewhere…
WELL, this has all been leading up to something. At 11 o’clock on Sunday morning, Group 1 of the 2011 Open Doubles Round 2 commenced at the Labor Club. By 5 o’clock that afternoon, the players had dispersed having seen Matt Power and Dean Welsh annihilate their group to tune of 20 wins and only ONE loss. That’s 95.24%. That’s going through a full season, playing 4 frames every week, and only losing 3 frames. That’s hitting 5 sixes in a row and having the last ball bounce a metre inside the boundary. That’s scoring a try every 5 minutes but getting one disallowed because of a forward pass. That’s having a tee shot on a par 4 finish an inch from the cup. That’s having… ok I’m done.
Well done to Matt and Dean on a great day’s play. We are still searching for that elusive perfect day but I am sure it will be a long time before their effort is matched. Seriously – ONE LOSS in a whole day of eight ball? How is anyone that good? And I haven’t even mentioned that Matt and Dean had by far the toughest group of the six…
In other news, Group 3 proved the closest of the day, with only 5 frames separating 1st from 8th.
Hopefully I will get the missing results early and can send them out, but until then, enjoy the attachment.
http://www.acteba.com.au/downloads/2011_Open_Doubles_Round2_Results.xls
