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The draws for the Semi Finals of the Singles competitions have been released

The main Singles K/O draw can be found here

The Singles Plate K/O draw can be found here

The Ladies Singles K/O draw can be found here

Alternatively all draws can be accessed via the links on the homepage

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beat ricky 3.1 in quality semi in which all 4frames wer 1st visit dishes ...both played 1bad shot each in the match n no safety shots ina 20minute pot fest...bad luck 2ricky he played wel n just bumped in2 me ona goin day(woz shocked i didnt expect it at all as stil cant practice at mo)...maybe best ov 5 not enuf frames as the match can b over ina blink ov an eye ...:angel: p.s. look foward in 2playing the gr8 mr eddie taylor ina over 40s blast from the past final

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Funny enough myself and Sean where talking about frame distances, and we too concluded that the frame distances are far to short for the latter stage of the tournament.

I am perfectly happy to play best of 3 up to last 8 or 16, but thereafter there should be incremintal increases in frames thereafter. I dont think its unreasonable to have best of 7, 9 or even 11 for the final.

The argument that it makes it a leveller on low frames is fine in pribncipal but even short distances their aren;t many shocks. Added to that it should be the most prestigous of individual competitions and the winner should represent the standard of the event.

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i agree shaggy the latter stages should be longer:clap: we lost our semi final before we got going not that im making a excuse we got beat up badly but it was over very quickly and we was only warming up but hope farron and ray win it now they played great last night and they gonna take some beating on top form lads:handshake:

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that's the reason i don't ever bother entering the singles, it's not the journey out for a best of 3 or 5

there's a handful of croydon players who are more then capable making a dry break your only shot yet that can't be maintained over a longer distance!

longer distance is much more interesting as there's less luck and a bit of match/gameplay involved