Promising start for Singapore women
Tan settled down quicker than Jasmine to reel in 228, 203 and 241 in her next three games to surge into the lead while Jasmine continued to struggle with 167 in her second but started to pick up her pace with 251 and 223 to gradually move up the field.
By the fifth game, Cherie had 14 pins margin over Putty with Jasmine continuing to make up more grounds. A lowly 176 from Cherie saw Jasmine taking over the lead after she rolled 232.
The second defending champion, Tannya Roumimper of Indonesia completed the top 6 with 1594. Geraldine Ng, who had a good first half struggled in the second half to end up in 14th position with 1505 ahead of Bernice Lim and Fok Ka Wai, who could not get into their usual strides to finish a dismal 22nd and 24th positions.
The women will resume with their second block tomorrow morning at 9.00am where the top 6 finishers will advance to the stepladder finals. The men will contest their first block this afternoon.