Three South Perth Bowlers Progress To Australian Open Singles Knockout Stage

Glenn Pauling Aus Open 2016

Adrian Durrant, Glenn Pauling and Scott Walker have all won through their sections at The 2016 Australian Open Singles.

At Robina, Adrian Durrant defeated John Millington (21-17), former international cricketer Kepler Wessels (21-17) and Tim Brissett (21-11).

Glenn Pauling was drawn at Benowa and accounted for former Western Australian Dale Marsland 21-13. He then took care of Max Kleinig who represented the Adelaide Endurance at the latest Australian Premier League Series (21-11) and lastly Graeme Spry (21-7).

Scott Walker had little difficulty in progressing through his section at host club Broadbeach, defeating John Breust (21-13), Paul Inglis (21-8) and David Rixon (21-7).

Other South Perth players failed in their quests to reach the 256-man elimination stage. At Musgrave Hill Ryan Havercroft lost to Darren Morrison (4-21) and James Gregory (7-21), before an improved showing in a loss to Mark Foley (17-21).

Neale Griffin lost a thriller (20-21) to Andrew Walker and then to Muhammed Amir (12-21) before finishing well to defeat James Laverty (21-6).

Greg Reagan was unable to repeat his giant-killing exploits of last years event when he sent international representative Nathan Rice packing. Drawn at Southport, he fell to Irishman Jeremy Henry (6-21), defeated Jozef Lasak (21-6) and bowed out with a loss to Jake Fehlberg (12-21). At the same venue, Ken Pride suffered defeats to Kenneth Diplock (18-21), Rodney Graff (19-21) and Brendon Conway (9-21).