FOUR former winners were in action in yesterday's first round of the
#140,000 Midland Bank World Indoor Bowls Championship in Preston with
two of them, Hugh Duff and John Price, surviving to the second round
while Terry Sullivan and David Bryant tumbled to defeat.
Duff and Sullivan clashed in what turned into an exciting five-set
encounter before Duff won through, but the major surprise was the defeat
of Bryant.
The three times former champion produced some of his vintage form
after losing the opening set 7-6 to Australia's Denis Katunarich,
hitting back to take the second set 7-2 and the next 7-6. ''But I
couldn't last the pace,'' said Bryant.
Katunarich took the fourth set 7-2 to force the decider in which he
dropped three shots on each of the first two ends after a tactical
error. ''I decided on a short jack but did not play it well and Denis
took full advantage,'' said Bryant.
Former Auchinleck man Hugh Duff, now resident in England and playing
under their colours in the international series, had to work hard for
his 4-7, 7-3, 7-0, 6-7, 7-3 win over 1985 champion Terry Sullivan, whose
Welsh international colleague John Price, the winner two years ago and a
beaten finalist last year, beat Belfast's Noel Graham 7-6, 7-5, 7-0.
Irvine's Jim Muir, omitted from the championship last year after an
administrative blunder, made up for lost time when he needed a total of
just 15 ends to send New Zealand's Gary Lawson tumbling to a 7-2, 7-1,
7-1 defeat.
East Lothian's Graham Robertson became the fourth Scot through to the
second round with a 7-3, 7-3, 7-2 win over New Zealand's Peter Belliss
last night.
Belliss, winner of the world outdoor title in 1984, stretched his
abysmal record in these championships with his fifth successive
first-round defeat.
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