Alan Carter played Luke Andrews who is a very capable player and although Paul, who compiles these reports, didn't get to see much of his match, judging by the scoreline, Luke was always in control.

Mark Sutton played Rob Brookes, who is a good player, but who is really struggling with his form, having lost every game this season. Mark got in early and made a useful 20 which would have been more but for the slowness of the tables. The tables at Longbridge always seem quite close together and Mark was right on the side cushion and could not get a proper stance to pot a blue in the middle. He duly missed it, but it did not really matter as soon after, he fluked a red and managed to put together a break of 67 from it winning the match without his opponent scoring at all.

Dave Thomas was having a real battle against their captain, Phil. There were no real fireworks from either player, but Dave always had his nose in front. It got really scrappy at one point and the match took a long time to complete but Dave managed to hold his advantage through to the end.