Singapore adds a silver and a bronze
11th September, Hong Kong: Daphne Tan and Jazreel Tan added a silver and a bronze medal to Singapore’s medal haul at the 22nd Asian Tenpin Bowling Championships after finishing second and third in the Women’s Masters finals on Tuesday. Daphne Tan, who was seeded second took out team-mate and third seed, Jazreel Tan, 215-169 to face top seed and two gold medalist, Jung Da-Wun of Korea in the championship match over 2-games total pinfalls.
Daphne lost the first match 172-207 to the Korean and although the Singaporean bounced back by taking the match, 237-236. But Daphne’s 2-games total of 409, was insufficient to outscore Jung.
In the earlier tightly fought second block round-robin matchplay finals, Jazreel went into the position round match as leader to face Daphne while Jung faced a third Singaporean, Cherie Tan.
Jazreel lost the match to Daphne, 194-207 and failed to remain in the lead while Jung beat Cherie 232-213 to clinch top seed for the stepladder shootout finals. The Korean totaled 3596 on six wins. Daphne settled for second with 3566 on five wins and a draw.
Jazreel made the cut for the stepladder finals in third with 3581 from five wins in this block. Cherie, who was in a distant fourth, totaled 3437 and missed the cut.
Korean women dominated the women’s division with 4 gold, 1 silver and 3 bronze medals to emerge as division champion. Malaysia and Chinese Taipei were ther other two countries who had won a gold medal each.
Meanwhile Korean to seed, Lim Dong-Jung clinched the Men’s Masters gold medal after he defeated third seed and winner of the semi-finals, Yousif Falah of Bahrain, 390-260 to win his second gold.
The All Events bronze medalist, Yousif Falah of Bahrain sailed past No. 2 seed, Hardy Rahmadian of Indonesia, 202-171 before going down to the Korean. The champion ended the second block finals with 3536 after winning six matches.
Rachmadian edged Yousif by 8 pins on a total of 3479 and four wins to claim second spot while Yousif made the cut for the stepladder finals after beating Malaysia’s Muhd Nur Aiman in the position round match.
Hong Kong’s Wu Siu Hong rallied on but missed the cut by 26 pins to finish fourth with 3445 as the Malaysian slipped down to fifth with 3439 pinfalls.
Lim’s victory gave Korean men their second gold to add to the 4 silver and 1 bronze medal won, making them the Men champion. UAE, Singapore and Hong Kong were the three other countries to have won a gold medal each.
Detailed scores: Women’s Semi & Final | Men’s Semi & Final | Photo Album.
Photos by Terence Yaw in Hong Kong.