Open Singles

The 2019-20 Championships

The full draw for the competition this year is shown below. The deadlines by which matches in each round must be completed are (updated July 23rd 2020):

• Round 1: November 22nd 2019
• Round 2: January 10th 2020
• Last 16: August 31st 2020
• QF: September 15th 2020
• SF: September 30th 2020

If you have any issues in fulfilling your remaining fixtures please contact a committee member directly or email nbsa.org.uk@gmail.com

For Round 1 the top player of each pair in the flow chart is the home player. For later rounds check the full draw below.

Full Draw

Players in bold are the home players in each round. These are allocated as the first player in Round 1 and by random draw thereafter.

Round 1
2	Wayne Martin	vs	Mick Garratt
10	James Robinson	vs	John Fountain
15	Adam Hussain	vs	Manfred Corbin
18	Keith Holgate	vs	Patrick Hort
23	Phil Minchin	vs	Richard Wheelhouse
31	Michael Sharp	vs	Terry Thompson
Round 2
33	Dan Norton	vs	Winner of match 2
34	Audie Miller	vs	Selina Dean
35	Andy Teale	vs	Chris Winter
36	David Casey	vs	Ben Monk
37	Allen Shaw	vs	John Fountain
38	Craig McMorran	vs	Dave Jobling
39	Nav Hussain	vs	Dan Moll
40	Winner of match 15	vs	Alan Caulton
41	Jason Ashurst	vs	Winner of match 18
42	Cary Davies	vs	Piotr Machon
43	Shaun Parkinson	vs	Robert Garratt
44	Winner of match 23	vs	Fred Mulheron
45	Steve Whitt	vs	Paul Bell
46	Wayne Smith	vs	Ben Cooper
47	Nick Sharp	vs	Kai Kong Tsang
48	Winner of match 31	vs	Toby Bowley
Last 16
49	Winner of match 33	vs	Winner of match 34
50	Winner of match 35	vs	Winner of match 36
51	Winner of match 37	vs	Winner of match 38
52	Winner of match 39	vs	Winner of match 40
53	Winner of match 41	vs	Winner of match 42
54	Winner of match 43	vs	Winner of match 44
55	Winner of match 45	vs	Winner of match 46
56	Winner of match 47	vs	Winner of match 48
QF
57	Winner of match 49	vs	Winner of match 50
58	Winner of match 51	vs	Winner of match 52
59	Winner of match 53	vs	Winner of match 54
60	Winner of match 55	vs	Winner of match 56
SF
61	Winner of match 57	vs	Winner of match 58
62	Winner of match 59	vs	Winner of match 60

The 2018-19 Open Singles

Match Report

Frame 1: Chris Winter 60 – 19 Richard Wheelhouse

Chris to break. Rich plays a good safety but left with a thin clip on a red following Chris escape misses. Chris in first scores 15 but then a massive miscue. He leaves a thin red but rich jaws it. Chris takes a red but fails to get on a colour. Chris wins the safety battle and picks off another 14 points. Rich pull off a good safety trapping Chris behind the pink, which has made its way into the baulk area, but Chris escapes. Another safety battle ends with Chris picking out a long red. Another 13 to Chris and the remaining reds awkwardly placed Chris plays a good safety and the picks up another red to lead 46 – 4 with 67 on. Rich misses a red and Chris takes another 9 to lead 55 4 with 51 on. Rich picks up 7 points and now needs a snooker. He plays a great safety to baulk cushion and Chris plays a containing shot. Rich wins the safety battle scores 8 and lays a snooker behind the black. Chris plays a good escape. Rich s safety leaves the red as a thin cut to green pocket and Chris takes it and finishes the frame off.

Frame 2: Chris Winter 95 – 0 Richard Wheelhouse

Rich breaks and the reds are quite open. A safety battle follows. Rich misses a red leaving Chris in with a good chance around the pink. Chris breaks down unexpectedly on 28 but leave the white tight to the pack. Chris gets first chance at a red in the safety exchange that follows and pots a good brown in the middle pocket to get in again, this time making 39 in the end playing a good safety. Leading 67 nil with 59 on. A couple of shots later Chris picks out a good long red, colour and another long red to start a break of 28 to seal the frame.

Frame 3: Chris Winter 77 – 4 Richard Wheelhouse

Chris pots a red and lays a good snooker behind green. Rich escapes leaving a possible red to middle but bridging is awkward. Chris misses and rich plays a good attacking safety opening the reds wide. Chris picks out a good escape off one cushion, dropping to a red on the black cushion. In the following safety battle rich catches a red thick Chris gets in but both pink and black are congested with reds. He makes 14 before missing a cut to corner but the white is in baulk rich pots a good long red but leaves only a tough pink from under the side cush. He attempts it to middle but misses. Chris in with the reds open he makes 22 before missing a medium range red. Rich isn’t left anything easy though and misses a tricky red. Chris plays a containing safety and rich nails him to the baulk cush. Chris replies with an excellent thin clip on a red to get back to safety and a snooker behind yellow is a bonus. Rich plays cushion first to find a good contact on a red to bring the white back up to baulk. The safety exchange is really high quality. Eventually rich catches a red thick to push another over a black pocket. Chris makes 14 and plays another good safety. Rich misses a thin edge of a red in reply and Chris has the balls replaced. Rich gets it right this time and forces a mistake from Chris but he gets a fortunate cannon to make a pot on the red tough. Rich misses but a couple of shots later gets in with a good long red. He takes yellow and gets down to the reds but jaws the next ball. Chris leads 54 4. Chris steps in to make 23 and take the match.