GC World Championship Presentation

Report in pictures by Ray Hall

Ready for the Presentation

Appreciative crowd after the Final

Speech by Patricia Duke-Cox, CA Vice-President

Aston Wade, winner of the Plate

Karim Ghamry won the Bowl

The Shield was won by Stuart M Smith

World Champion Matthew Essick receives the trophy from Ian Burridge, WCF President

and is congratulated by 2019 World Champion, Ben Rothman.

Winners and losing finalists with Ian Burrdge and Mike Town, Tournament Manager

Late starts in block play

The following players will have a late start in the first session of play on the following days :
They will play on whichever of lawns 1, 4 or 5 finishes first.

Saturday 30th July
Block C
Joel Taylor v Peter Payne

Sunday 31st July
Block D
Ian Lines v Nelson Morrow

Monday 1st August
Block G
Nick Archer v Dusan Turcer

Tuesday 2nd August
Block D
Sherif Abdelwahab v Yasser Fathy

Wednesday 3rd August
Block F
John-Paul Moberly v Tomass Freimanis

The 7 qualifiers are :

Simon Carter    ENG
Mostafa Eissa    EGY
Tim Jolliff    ENG
Ben Rothman    USA
Ian Lines    ENG
Dominic Nunns    ENG
Joel Taylor    ENG

The seventh is due to today's withdrawal of Evan Newell (IRL)

Our Media Channels

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We will be streaming many of the matches via the Croquet England YouTube page.

All WCF Members have nominated valid players for their Membership places. The list below shows these 38 players and also the previously awarded Ranking and Wild Card Places.