Results from Monday 2 December (Day 1) 2002 World Croquet Championship
[<<] [>>] by Roger White
at Wellington
2nd December 2002
(World Championship)
Block A
David Openshaw [E] bt Doug Grimsley [USA] 26-2 TP, bt John Swabey [B] 26-0 TP, bt Martin Clarke [A] 26-0
Reg Bamford [SA] bt John Versey [NZ] 26-9, bt Terry Walker [NZ] 26-0 QP, bt Stephen Forster [A] 26-25
Clarke bt Walker 26-18, bt Versey 26-0 TP Forster bt Swabey 26-1 TP, bt Grimsley 26-11
Grimsley bt Walker 26-19
Versey bt Swabey 26-1
Wins after 3 rounds: Openshaw 3, Bamford 3, Forster 2, Clarke 2, Versey 1, Grimsley 1, Walker 0, Swabey 0
Block B
Dave Mundy [E] bt Peter Parkinson [NZ] 26-23, bt Max Donati [A] 26-19, bt Sue Lea [NZ] 26-18
Mark McInerney [I] bt Lea 26-0 TP, bt Curtis Drake [USA] 26-9, bt Parkinson 26-11
Robert Fulford [E] bt Drake 26-0 TP, bt Lea 26-15, bt Donati 26-1 SXP
Drake bt Bruno Hess [D] 26-10
Donati bt Hess 26-0
Parkinson bt Hess 26-3
Wins after 3 rounds: Fulford 3, McInerney 3, Mundy 3, Parkinson 1, Donati 1, Drake 1, Lea 0, Hess 0
Block C
David Maugham [E] bt Bob Cherry [USA] 26-0 TP, bt Chris Williams [W] 26-0 TP, bt Trevor Bassett [A] 26-14 TPO
Williams bt Paul Skinley [NZ] 26-3, bt Andrew Johnston [I] 26-0
Greg Bryant [NZ] bt Johnston 22-21, bt Kevin Garrad [IOM] 26-0 TP
Skinley bt Cherry 26-0 TP, bt Bryant 26-16
Bassett bt Garrad 26-3 TP, bt Johnston 26-23 TP
Cherry bt Garrad 26-10
Wins after 3 rounds: Maugham 3, Williams 2, Bryant 2, Bassett 2, Skinley 2, Cherry 1, Johnston 0, Garrad 0
Block D
Bruce Fleming [A] bt Phil Cordingley [E] 26-9, bt Alan McInerney [I] 26-4 TP, bt Bruce Baker [NZ] 26-6
David Goacher [E] bt McInerney 26-9, bt Cordingley 26-16, bt Cameron Lyes [NZ] 26-11
Baker bt Ahmed El Mahdi [Eg] 26-13 DP, bt Louis Nel [C] 26-6
Lyes bt Nel 26-3, bt El Mahdi 26-23
McInerney bt Nel 26-15
Cordingley bt El Mahdi 26-18 TP
Wins after 3 rounds: Fleming 3, Goacher 3, Baker 2, Lyes 2, Cordingley 1, McInerney 1, El Mahdi 0, Nel 0
Block E
Jerry Guest [E] bt Simon Williams [I] 26-20, bt Bob Jackson [NZ] 22-21, bt Nelson Morrow [NZ] 26-6
Jocelyn Sutton [A] bt Morrow 26-5, bt Walid Wahban [Eg] 26-6, bt Williams 26-21
Jackson bt Paul Bennett [USA] 26-9 DP, bt Peter Couch [NZ] 26-8 TP
Bennett bt Williams 26-18, bt Wahban 26-7
Couch bt Wahban 26-3, bt Morrow 26-0
Wins after 3 rounds: Sutton 3, Jackson 2, Couch 2, Guest 2, Bennett 2, Williams 0, Wahban 0, Morrow 0
Block F
Dennis Bulloch [NZ] bt Peter Batchelor [NZ] 26-0, bt George Latham [A] 26-0 TP, bt John Gibbons [E] 26-8
Peter Trimmer [E] bt Harps Tahurangi [NZ] 26-15, bt Masaaki Yamada [J] 26-2 TP, bt Jerry Stark [USA] 26-16
Stark bt Latham 26-9, bt Batchelor 26-17 Gibbons bt Yamada 26-5, bt Tahurangi 26-20 TP
Latham bt Tahurangi 26-0 TP
Batchelor bt Yamada 26-2
Wins after 3 rounds: Bulloch 3, Trimmer 3, Stark 2, Gibbons 2, Batchelor 1, Latham 1, Tahurangi 0, Yamada 0
Block G
Chris Clarke [E] bt Kevin Beard [A] 26-9 TP, bt Joe Hogan [NZ] 26-1 TP, bt Mik Mehas USA 26-23 DP
Brian Wislang [NZ] bt Hogan 26-12, bt Beard 25-21, vs. Ronan McInerney [I] unfinished
Mehas bt Jose Riva [Sp] 26-20, bt Peter Filbee [NZ] 26-5
McInerney bt Filbee 26-1, bt Riva 26-1
Hogan bt Filbee 26-0 TP
Beard bt Riva 26-7
Wins after 3 rounds: Clarke 3, McInerney 2, Mehas 2, Wislang 2, Beard 1, Hogan 1, Riva 0, Filbee 0
Block H
Ed Duckworth [E] bt Ed Cunningham [I] 26-4, bt Kevin Fellows[NZ] 26-11, bt Toby Garrison [NZ] 26-0 TP
John Prince [NZ] bt Michael Heap [E] 26-9, bt Steve Meatheringham [A] 26-22
Keith Aiton [S] bt Prince 26-0 TP, bt Cunningham 26-2 TP
Garrison bt Aiton 26-12 TP, bt Heap 26-11
Fellows bt Meatheringham 26-12
Heap bt Fellows 26-8
Meatheringham bt Cunningham 26-16
Wins after 3 rounds: Duckworth 3, Aiton 2, Garrison 2, Prince 2, Meatheringham 1, Heap 1, Fellows 1, Cunningham 0