Tony Southern
The BWPPA tour returned to Savannas Pool & Snooker, Whitefield, Manchester, for the final event of this season, Event 4 from the 18-19 November 2023.
They were competing for the first prize of £250 from a prize pot of £560, and the title of 2023 Predator Cues GB 9-Ball Champion.
Early action saw Joe Burns take a 7/4 win over Challenge no.1 Darren Brook.
In the winner’s qualifiers, Tony Southern came back from 2/6 v Fred Dinsmore to defeat him 7/6, and Dave Beaumont beat Burns 7/2. Dinsmore than whitewashed Brook 6/0 to make yet another semi-final
In the semi-finals, Southern had an 7/2 win over Burns, in his debut semi-final, and in the other semi-final, Beaumont edged Dinsmore 7/5 in a thriller, with Dinsmore again throwing away a big lead, from 6/2 to lose.
It was to be a Beaumont v Southern v final, for the 2nd event in a row, both started well, but Southern was soon 4/1 ahead, only for Beaumont to come back to 3/4 down. Southern then had his best spell of the season, winning the next 4 frames to win his 1st BWPPA main event since 2017, move above Dinsmore into 2nd in the end of season rankings, and denied Beaumont a perfect winning season.
2 days prior to this, the same 2 players had contested the Ultimate Pool Wheelchair showcase final, which Southern won on a blackball shoot out, others playing were Gary Swift and Aslam Abubaker.
In between the BWPPA final and the publishing of this report, Swift and Southern won the G1 and G2 snooker gold medals at the World Ability Games in Thailand, congratulations to them both on a fabulous achievement.
A video of the main event final is available to watch here.
Due to low numbers, there was no challenge event. Congratulations Darren Brook, for finishing top of the challenge rankings for 2023, and winning a lovely aspire cue from main tour sponsors Predator.
Pictures of the event can be found here in the BWPPA gallery.
The latest BWPPA ranking list can be found here. (not updated due to site error)
For finishing 1st, Beaumont won a Predator Cue and Case.
Tony Southern (2nd), Fred Dinsmore (3rd), Danny Luton (4th) won cues, and Swift (5th) won a cue case.
The BWPPA would like to thank all our sponsors:
We Are All Making A DIfference (formally Gentlemen’s Night Out), Predator Cues, Simonis Cloth, Aramith Billiard Balls, Kamui, Cuescore, Shark Racks, Tiger Cues of Warrington and our patron Dynamite Darren Appleton, and Fred Dinsmore Billiards.
We would also like to thank long time BWPPA supporter Big Dave Knight from www.pro9.co.uk for his great support including providing our event posters.
We also are always looking to expand the sponsorship side of the tour, so if you or your company would like to become one of our sponsors, please visit our contact us page, or contact the BWPPA chairman at tonysouthern@bwppa.com.
You can be a part of the world’s largest wheelchair pool tour; please keep checking on http://www.bwppa.com and http://www.pro9.co.uk for further information. In addition to our national tour stops there is also the possibility of representing Great Britain in international tournaments such as the EPBF European Championship and WPA World 9-ball Championship for wheelchair players.
The tour will be back in 2024, at Savannas, Happy Christmas and New Year to all our sponsors and supporters.
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