The final two players have been decided for this year’s edition of the Xmas Open.
Earlier in the week we had the first semi-final between the two-time champion and current defending champion, Jamie Woods taking on Andy Peel who was coming off a fine win over Jason Rockstroh in the quarter finals.
Jamie jumped out to a two-set lead hitting a lovely 130 check out along the way. Andy responded well by taking a set, but he never looked likely against Jamie who looked comfortable throughout winning the match by 4 sets to 1.
Playing in the other semi was Dom Friend who is the only other player to win this competition, taking on the challenge from Seumas Rose who has been playing very well all year to date.
The match looked dead and buried at 3 sets to nil in favour of Dom only for Seumas to rally in the fourth and fifth sets to claw it back to 3/2.
In the sixth set, both payers leg averages were high, well into the 70’s, 80’s and 90’s, but with both players on checkouts in each of those legs in the set, it was Dom who was able to hit his doubles. Dom getting across the line in the end winning the match by 4 sets to 2 - 3/0 3/1 3/0 1/3 1/3 3/0.
That means there won’t be a new name on the trophy this year. All that’s left to decide is whether or not Jamie goes back-to-back to makes it 3 Open titles, or if Dom levels it up to make it 2 titles apiece, and round off a nice season after earlier claiming his 1st Premier League title.
The Xmas Open is proudly sponsored by Dyson Automotive, thanks for your support.
Contributed with thanks to Jamie Maher.
Seumas Rose
Dom Friend wins the 2nd semi-final at Mika on Sunday. Photo contributed
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