CHESHAM TRIPLE GROUP TWO STAR TOURNAMENT

BRADLEY HUDGELL TRIUMPHS

Bradley Hudgell and Dacre Pell travelled to Chesham on Remembrance Day to take part in the Chesham Triple Two Star Tournament events.

In the Grade 3 U18 Boys event, for players with less than 1000 points in the National Junior Ranking List, Bradley, seeded four, was the only seeded player to reach the winners final group. The event is played with 27 players in 9 groups over three rounds of group matches. After two easy wins in the first round, Bradley's two wins in the second round included the number one seed Daniel Smalley (Northants), a player ranked 91 in England and 430 points higher, 11-9, 11-7, 11-6 to reach the winners final group.

Meanwhile Dacre, whose two wins in the first round included Alexander Forshaw (Surrey) ranked 200 places above him 12-10, 11-5, 13-11 and his two second round wins over Arun Sathasivan (Essex) and Darren Silva, both at 11-8 in the fifth and 50 and 150 places respectively above him took Dacre into the winners final group with Bradley. They were joined in the final winners group by Joel Carton (Leics), midway between Bradley and Dacre, in the Ranking List. Bradley emerged the event winner with wins of 11-7, 11-7, 11-8 over Joel and 11-7, 9-11, 11-5, 11-9 over Dacre. Dacre's defeat by Joel 11-7, 13-11, 11-8 left him in third place overall.

In the Grade 2 U18 Boys event for players with less than 1400 points Bradley narrowly failed to reach his second winners final group when losing 4-11, 12-10, 7-11,11-7, 7-11 to Ross Sax by (Berks), the England number 80, in the second round group. In this group Bradley had beaten Lewis Creighton (Hants) and 50 points above him 11-4, 16-14, 11-6. In the runners up final round Dan Smalley avenged his earlier defeat 3-1 but in defeating Thomas Dantzig (Middlesex) 3-1 Bradley finished 5th overall.

Dacre finished runner up in each of his group matches in this eyent with 5 game wins over higher rated Matthew Leung (Middlesex) and Darren Silva again to finish 14th out of 27. An excellent performance by both players which will see further movements up the Ranking List.

On the current Rating List issued the day before this event Bradley is ranked 205 with 668 points and Dacre 436 with 401 points.

There are four Tournaments at Chesham over the Christmas holiday period for various boy and girl age categories and any player wishing to partake should contact Arthur Clark for further information.