Singapore youths make impact
Tan returned an impressive 1254 from two of her best 3-games series of 651 and 603 to lead her fellow team-mates in the overseas pool. Michaela Oehler, competing as a member of the Singapore Sports School took second spot with 1208.
Asian Youth Championship Team gold medalist, Gina Lim finished third with 1186 ahead of development squad rookie, Kristel Oh and Ilma Nur Jannah occupying all the five slots in fourth and fifth.
Mak’s team-mate, Leo Tse took third spot with 1279 followed by Australia’s Sam Cooley in fourth with 1277, SBF’s Gregory Gan and Singapore Sports School’s Keith Saw completing the top 6 with 1271 and 1257.
The overall lead changed hands several times and the latest leader was 2008 Singapore Open Youth champion, Chong Jun Foo of Malaysia, who chalked up an amazing 1463 to dislodge overnight leader and Asian Youth Championship Team gold medalist, Khoo Beng Khai.
Hong Kong wonder kid, Michael Mak topped the Men’s Open table with 1458 followed by Malaysia’s Zaid Izlan in second with 1455. 2009 Asia Ranked No. 1, Wu Siu Hong took third spot with 1426.
Qualifying will continue through to Thursday, March 18 and the Masters finals will be staged over Friday, March 19 and Saturday, March 20.
The top 3 local Men’s Open and top 2 local Ladies’ Open finishers in the finals will make Team Malaysia while the top 3 men and top 2 ladies foreign finishers will make up the Rest fo the World team for the Canon Cup 2010 Challenge on Sunday, March 21.