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Croquet England AC Open Championship

Friday Singles by Andrew Gregory

Good afternoon from Surbiton.
It's hot hot hot!

11 Jul 2025 1:04PM (Tournament); 1 Readers

Progress report.
Bottom quarter:
By the time I've finished typing this, James Death will have beaten Euan Burridge 2-0.
Triple in the second.

Top quarter
Robert Fulford is game up v Sam Murray.

11 Jul 2025 1:07PM (Tournament); 2 Readers

Second quarter.
Stephen Mulliner v Mark Suter is in the decider.
Mark Avery is game up v Annabel McDiarmid.

11 Jul 2025 1:10PM (Tournament); 2 Readers

Third quarter
Jenny Clarke awaits the winner of Samir Patel v David Fuller, who are in a decider.

11 Jul 2025 1:11PM (Tournament); 2 Readers

The lawns are quick.
Lawn 2 has just been measured as 14 plummers.
Yesterday there were 28 games in the main event. Just one triple in those games.

11 Jul 2025 1:13PM (Tournament); 2 Readers

Mark Avery had a TP in each of his 4 qualifying games.

11 Jul 2025 1:15PM (Tournament); 2 Readers

Robert Fulford needs a straight rover peel to complete his match.

11 Jul 2025 1:17PM (Tournament); 2 Readers

The three matches in play are all lunching.

11 Jul 2025 1:19PM (Tournament); 2 Readers

Other 3, I should say.
Here comes Fulford's peel.
It's thru by a couple of feet.
He runs the hoop with a jump over peelee.

11 Jul 2025 1:21PM (Tournament); 3 Readers

T1 Mulliner yellow 12y N IV
T2 Suter blue just N of IV by an inch or so.
T3 Mulliner red at blue. Misses into contact.
T4 Suter black at a ball and a bit. Hits blue.

Fulford finished.
He and James Death are in opposite semis.
The semis will not be started today.

11 Jul 2025 1:26PM (Tournament); 3 Readers

T4 Suter has a cannon in IV.
Crowd thought he might promote red to 1 going to yellow.
Instead he croquets blue near middle of W bdry, rushing red 5y past yellow.
Take off christs off yellow.
Optimistic approach of 1 sending yellow to 2.
Gives himself angled chance of 1.
Bounces off.

11 Jul 2025 1:30PM (Tournament); 3 Readers

T5 Mulliner yellow hits red (22y).
Big roll going to blue.
Red goes off W boundary.

11 Jul 2025 1:32PM (Tournament); 3 Readers

T6 Suter Blue hits yellow (3y).
Takes off to red.
Just falls off lawn.

11 Jul 2025 1:34PM (Tournament); 3 Readers

The other 2 matches are both on lawn 2.

I remember when the Opens was single-banked.

Avery is on a break.
Fuller has just run 2 with an extravagant jump.

11 Jul 2025 1:38PM (Tournament); 3 Readers

Mulliner is thru 1 with a break.

This match is on lawn 3.

11 Jul 2025 1:39PM (Tournament); 3 Readers

Fuller has leave.
Patel misses 20-yarder.

11 Jul 2025 1:44PM (Tournament); 2 Readers

Avery 1 and 4-back v McDiarmid 1 and 1.

Fuller 2 and 3 v Patel 1 and 1.

11 Jul 2025 1:47PM (Tournament); 2 Readers

Mulliner has made 9.
Trying a spread but the ball at the peg is misplaced. Looks to be just south of the peg.

All other clips on 1.

11 Jul 2025 1:55PM (Tournament); 7 Readers

Fuller has break.

11 Jul 2025 1:55PM (Tournament); 6 Readers

Suter is playing ball at peg as it lies.
Hits partner (10y).

11 Jul 2025 1:57PM (Tournament); 7 Readers

Suter didn't get a good rush to 1.
Now approaching 1 from S bdry.
8 or 9 foot hoop.
Runs it.
Still some work needed to pick up break.

11 Jul 2025 2:01PM (Tournament); 4 Readers

Avery on a triple.
He's just rush-peeled 4-back after 4.

11 Jul 2025 2:03PM (Tournament); 4 Readers

Fuller has reached 2-back.
Still going.

11 Jul 2025 2:04PM (Tournament); 5 Readers

Suter has an angled hoop 2.
Runs it for the break.

11 Jul 2025 2:05PM (Tournament); 9 Readers

In easier conditions Suter might be considering a tpo here. Not today.

11 Jul 2025 2:07PM (Tournament); 7 Readers

Avery has misapproached 1-back.
This looks worse than 45 degrees.
Not sure that was a genuine attempt.
He goes off w bdry.
1-back and rover v 1 and 1.

11 Jul 2025 2:10PM (Tournament); 5 Readers

McDiarmid misses 7-yarder.

Fuller has reached 4-back (and 2).
Spread.

Suter is for 6 with reasonable control.

11 Jul 2025 2:12PM (Tournament); 5 Readers

Presumably Patel is mangling.

Avery has made 1-back.

Suter's 3-back pioneer is 6y from the hoop.

11 Jul 2025 2:17PM (Tournament); 8 Readers

Patel lifts the ball near 2 to B-baulk.
Misses 25-yarder.

Avery fails 2-back.
McDiarmid has a break if she remembers her lift.
Which she does.

Suter has made 9.
Let's call the leave an OSL.

11 Jul 2025 2:21PM (Tournament); 7 Readers

I assume Fuller left the ball at the peg not rushable to 2.
Anyhow he makes 2 off partner.
He's now overhit the rush to 3.
And overhits the approach.
Clip on 3.

11 Jul 2025 2:25PM (Tournament); 9 Readers

Mulliner red hits black (13y).
Red is for 4-back.

11 Jul 2025 2:26PM (Tournament); 9 Readers

McDiarmid fails 3.

11 Jul 2025 2:27PM (Tournament); 9 Readers

Patel hits 13-yarder.

11 Jul 2025 2:29PM (Tournament); 9 Readers

Mulliner has leave.
Black is 3y NW of IV.
Blue is 8' WSW of 1.
Yellow in B-baulk with rush to Black.

Suter Blue misses Black. (20y).

11 Jul 2025 2:32PM (Tournament); 7 Readers

McDiarmid hits 20-yarder.

11 Jul 2025 2:33PM (Tournament); 8 Readers

I missed a leave from Patel and a corner from Fuller.

Patel is thru 1 with slim prospect of a break.

Mulliner is thru 1 with no ball at 2.

11 Jul 2025 2:38PM (Tournament); 10 Readers

Fair rush to 2 from Mulliner.
Approaching from 4 yards.
Difficult jump ends up in middle of hoop, (I think).

11 Jul 2025 2:41PM (Tournament); 10 Readers

Patel now playing with his other ball.
Runs 1 to North boundary.

Avery back on the lawn.

11 Jul 2025 2:42PM (Tournament); 9 Readers

Suter misses 11-yarder.

11 Jul 2025 2:43PM (Tournament); 9 Readers

Patel misapproaches 2.
He's 2 and 2 v Fuller 3 and 4-back.

Fuller joins up.

Mulliner fails 4.
He's 4 and 4-back v Suter 1 and 4-back.

11 Jul 2025 2:46PM (Tournament); 8 Readers

Suter is in with forward ball.

11 Jul 2025 2:47PM (Tournament); 8 Readers

Patel missed 6-yarder. Maybe 7.

11 Jul 2025 2:48PM (Tournament); 8 Readers

Avery has made 2-back.

11 Jul 2025 2:48PM (Tournament); 8 Readers

Fuller's turn ends in a scatter shot.

Suter has leave.
Mulliner corners.

11 Jul 2025 2:53PM (Tournament); 7 Readers

I think Patel may have miba short one.

Fuller joins up.
Now the two are discussing.
Time, perhaps?

Patel hits 11-yarder.
.

11 Jul 2025 2:56PM (Tournament); 10 Readers

Avery must have made rover with his forward ball in an earlier turn.
He's now pegging out.

11 Jul 2025 2:57PM (Tournament); 8 Readers

Avery now plays the winner of Mulliner v Suter.

11 Jul 2025 2:58PM (Tournament); 8 Readers

Mulliner is back in. Suter's clip is on 2.

11 Jul 2025 2:59PM (Tournament); 7 Readers

Sorry I fear I'm not coping with 3 games.
At least it's only 2 now.

11 Jul 2025 3:01PM (Tournament); 7 Readers

Mulliner has leave.
Suter corners.
His balls are in II and III.
Mulliner has dolly rush to 4.

11 Jul 2025 3:02PM (Tournament); 7 Readers

In running 4 Mulliner takes too much wire to get rush to 5.

11 Jul 2025 3:05PM (Tournament); 9 Readers

Mulliner has leave.

Suter moves ball in II to middle of east boundary.

11 Jul 2025 3:05PM (Tournament); 7 Readers

Mulliner makes 5, rushes to east boundary.
Sends red in-lawn, rushes black near blue, then blue to 6.
Makes 6.

11 Jul 2025 3:10PM (Tournament); 8 Readers

Patel is coming to the end of his first break in his decider v David Fuller.

11 Jul 2025 3:11PM (Tournament); 9 Readers

Mulliner playing croquet stroke out of III.
Instead of going to 2-back black hits the peg.
And he doesn't get rush to 1-back.

11 Jul 2025 3:14PM (Tournament); 10 Readers

Mulliner 1-back and 4-back v Suter 2 and 4-back.

11 Jul 2025 3:15PM (Tournament); 11 Readers

Patel 2 and 4-back v Fuller 3 and 4-back.

11 Jul 2025 3:16PM (Tournament); 10 Readers

Patel has reverse horizontal spread

Fuller lifts Yellow (for 3) from by peg to B-baulk.
Misses to near IV.

11 Jul 2025 3:19PM (Tournament); 9 Readers

Suter corners.
Mulliner makes no progress.

11 Jul 2025 3:21PM (Tournament); 9 Readers

Jenny Clarke is practising on lawn 4.
She will play the winner of Patel v Fuller on lawn 3.
Mark Avery will play the winner of Mulliner v Suter on lawn 4.

11 Jul 2025 3:23PM (Tournament); 6 Readers

Suter corners again.
Another leave from Mulliner.

Patel has made 2, only just runs 3.
Ref is on. (Ian Plummer I believe.)
Patel hits hampered shot.

11 Jul 2025 3:25PM (Tournament); 6 Readers

Suter's balls in 1st and 3rd corners.

Mulliner sets up ladies' peel at 1-back.

11 Jul 2025 3:27PM (Tournament); 7 Readers

Suter calls for umpire as he's shooting from 1st corner. This is Black's hoop, so hitting would be handy.
Suter misses.

11 Jul 2025 3:28PM (Tournament); 9 Readers

Red peels Yellow thru 1-back.
(This avoids conceding a lift.)
Leave near 1st corner.

11 Jul 2025 3:30PM (Tournament); 8 Readers

Patel is in difficulty at 5. Again only just run the hoop. Has to take on 10-yarder. Hits, has 4-ball break.

Suter hits 20-yarder.

11 Jul 2025 3:32PM (Tournament); 10 Readers

Suter makes 2.

11 Jul 2025 3:34PM (Tournament); 8 Readers

Suter misses 6-yarder at partner in 3rd corner.
The take off the previous shot had been too thick.
Mulliner red hits yellow (12y).

11 Jul 2025 3:37PM (Tournament); 9 Readers

Patel is thru 2-back on his break.

11 Jul 2025 3:39PM (Tournament); 8 Readers

Mulliner has a 3rd corner cannon with his 4-back ball.
Nicely played, has stoppo approach with ball waiting near North boundary.

11 Jul 2025 3:41PM (Tournament); 8 Readers

Patel misapproaches 4-back.
Corners.
Fuller has dolly rush to 3 with ball at 4.

11 Jul 2025 3:46PM (Tournament); 8 Readers

Mulliner has made 3 hoops.
2-back and peg v 3 and 4-back.
Diagonal spread.

11 Jul 2025 3:48PM (Tournament); 8 Readers

I think Fuller was hoping for hoop and rush at 3, but no roquet.
Missed 9-yard dribble at partner.

Patel makes 4-back, misses partner in 2nd corner.

11 Jul 2025 3:50PM (Tournament); 9 Readers

Suter lifts black (for 3) from peg to B-baulk.
Misses to just west of 4th corner (23y).

11 Jul 2025 3:53PM (Tournament); 11 Readers

Fuller makes 4, fails 5.

Patel's balls in contact in 2nd corner.
He elects to play with ball for penult. Which is correct.

11 Jul 2025 3:54PM (Tournament); 11 Readers

Mulliner approaches 2-back from five yards to the west.
Short, but rewards himself with a fist after a good hoop.

11 Jul 2025 3:57PM (Tournament); 9 Readers

Mulliner approaches 3-back from 4th corner.
Another good hoop, another fist.

11 Jul 2025 4:00PM (Tournament); 9 Readers

Patel makes 2 hoops.
4-back and peg v Fuller 5 and 4-back.

11 Jul 2025 4:01PM (Tournament); 9 Readers

Mulliner should finish here.

11 Jul 2025 4:01PM (Tournament); 7 Readers

This could be Fuller's last shot.
It's a long one, as there's no lift.(which is why Patel chose to play the penult ball last turn.)

Fuller misses 30-yarder.

11 Jul 2025 4:05PM (Tournament); 7 Readers

Mulliner wins.

11 Jul 2025 4:06PM (Tournament); 10 Readers

Sorry no idea what happened to Patel.
Fuller is in play with 3 balls near middle of east boundary.

11 Jul 2025 4:08PM (Tournament); 10 Readers

Fuller should have done better here.
Black and blue pretty much crosswired tho.

11 Jul 2025 4:10PM (Tournament); 11 Readers

Statto informs me that Patel played the wrong ball ie red at his last turn.
Pressures of Management.

11 Jul 2025 4:13PM (Tournament); 12 Readers

Patel corners.

11 Jul 2025 4:14PM (Tournament); 11 Readers

Fuller fails to make progress with red.

Patel corners.

Fuller fails 4-back.

11 Jul 2025 4:21PM (Tournament); 14 Readers

Patel takes on 20-yarder. If he hits he could finish. He misses.

11 Jul 2025 4:24PM (Tournament); 12 Readers

We think Time is around 5pm.

Fuller rearranges the balls.

11 Jul 2025 4:28PM (Tournament); 10 Readers

Fuller winkles the Mangler out of the hut.

There seems to be a 10-yarder available.
Maybe hoop 5 is (partly) in the way?

Patel misses.

11 Jul 2025 4:31PM (Tournament); 14 Readers

Fuller has chance of break with yellow (for 5).

11 Jul 2025 4:32PM (Tournament); 16 Readers

They are off on lawn 4.
T1 Mulliner Blue 12y N of IV.
T2 Avery Yellow just S of II.
T3 Mulliner black misses blue from A-baulk.
T4 Avery Red at blue / black from B-baulk.
Misses.

11 Jul 2025 4:37PM (Tournament); 11 Readers

Fuller has break.

11 Jul 2025 4:37PM (Tournament); 11 Readers

T5 Mulliner scores zero hoops.
T6 Avery misses.

11 Jul 2025 4:41PM (Tournament); 10 Readers

Fuller has 6 or 7 yard return roquet after 1-back.
Copes.

11 Jul 2025 4:42PM (Tournament); 10 Readers

When is time exactly? We're unsure.
How slow is Fuller?
To remind you, Patel is 4-back and peg, Fuller is 4-back and break. He's just made 2-back.

11 Jul 2025 4:45PM (Tournament); 11 Readers

There are 11 minutes left on lawn 2.

11 Jul 2025 4:48PM (Tournament); 9 Readers

Fuller is for 4-back.

11 Jul 2025 4:48PM (Tournament); 9 Readers

Sorry lost track of lawn 4.
Mulliner made a point or two and had a leave.
I guess.

11 Jul 2025 4:51PM (Tournament); 12 Readers

Mulliner has just made 3 with chance of 3-ball break.

11 Jul 2025 4:52PM (Tournament); 13 Readers

Fuller has reached penult.

11 Jul 2025 4:53PM (Tournament); 12 Readers

So a feature of croquetscores.com is that I can't see the timestamps of my own comments.
So I don't know what the time was when I was told there were 11 minutes left.

11 Jul 2025 4:56PM (Tournament); 14 Readers

Fuller has made rover.
Some thinking required.

Time has been called.

11 Jul 2025 4:59PM (Tournament); 10 Readers

Blue is left near middle of West boundary.
Black is left near middle of east boundary.
Red is rushed 2y N of 4th corner.
Take off from Red to the peg.
Eight foot from the peg.
Pegs out for one point lead.

11 Jul 2025 5:03PM (Tournament); 10 Readers

Patel
Blue peg
Black 4-back.
Fuller
Red 4-back
Yellow box.

11 Jul 2025 5:04PM (Tournament); 9 Readers

Patel lifts Blue to A-baulk.
Needs to hit this 13-yarder...

11 Jul 2025 5:05PM (Tournament); 12 Readers

...Misses.

Fuller wins decider plus one on time.

11 Jul 2025 5:06PM (Tournament); 12 Readers

Back to lawn 4.
Mulliner has a clip on 1-back, unintentionally.
Avery has break, currently on 5.

11 Jul 2025 5:10PM (Tournament); 12 Readers

Mulliner
Blue 1
Black 1-back
Avery
Red 1
Yellow 4-back

11 Jul 2025 5:17PM (Tournament); 9 Readers

Avery has a New Standard Leave with blue at 4.

11 Jul 2025 5:19PM (Tournament); 10 Readers

Lawn 3
Fuller Blue 8y N of IV
Jenny Clarke Yellow just S of II
Fuller black at blue from A-baulk.
Misses to the North.

11 Jul 2025 5:21PM (Tournament); 11 Readers

Mulliner lifted blue to B-baulk, missed to near IV.

11 Jul 2025 5:22PM (Tournament); 11 Readers

T4 Clarke red hits blue from A-baulk.
Rush of black to 1 goes 6 yards past.
Fails to approach, joins up.

11 Jul 2025 5:24PM (Tournament); 10 Readers

T5 Fuller black to IV, 9y S of blue.

11 Jul 2025 5:26PM (Tournament); 11 Readers

Avery red picks up break.
Will he go for delayed triple?

11 Jul 2025 5:27PM (Tournament); 12 Readers

T6 Clarke has leave.

11 Jul 2025 5:28PM (Tournament); 12 Readers

Avery has pioneer at 6, rather than between 6 and 4-back. So no tp attempt.

11 Jul 2025 5:28PM (Tournament); 10 Readers

Avery is playing red, but has picked up the blue clip.
Let's hope this doesn't mislead either player.

11 Jul 2025 5:33PM (Tournament); 10 Readers

T7 Fuller corners.
T8 Clarke fails 1.
T9 Fuller misses 10-yarder.

11 Jul 2025 5:34PM (Tournament); 10 Readers

T10 Clarke appears to have played a good rush from III to 1, but it sails 4 yards past. The lawns are slick. Good approach and she has a break.

11 Jul 2025 5:38PM (Tournament); 8 Readers

Avery has opportunity for straight triple peel.

11 Jul 2025 5:38PM (Tournament); 8 Readers

Avery decides against peel.
Or maybe the balls decided for him.

11 Jul 2025 5:40PM (Tournament); 8 Readers

Clarke fails hoop 4.

11 Jul 2025 5:43PM (Tournament); 7 Readers

Avery
Red peg
Yellow 4-back
Mulliner
Blue 1
Black 4-back

11 Jul 2025 5:45PM (Tournament); 7 Readers

Fuller puts his first croquet stroke off the lawn.
Clarke runs 4.

11 Jul 2025 5:46PM (Tournament); 8 Readers

Sorry Clarke doesn't run 4, she hits a 5-yarder.

Now she runs 4 with potential 3-ball break.

11 Jul 2025 5:48PM (Tournament); 9 Readers

The misplaced clips on 4 have been rectified.

11 Jul 2025 5:48PM (Tournament); 7 Readers

Sorry I got clips wrong on lawn 4.
Mulliner is 1 and 1-back.

Mulliner misses 13-yarder.

11 Jul 2025 5:50PM (Tournament); 8 Readers

Avery Yellow nicely promotes red toward 4-back with black.
Doesn't get rush on blue.
Roll doesn't get rush on red.
Good approach.
Should finish.

11 Jul 2025 5:53PM (Tournament); 9 Readers

Clarke is thru 1-back.

11 Jul 2025 5:55PM (Tournament); 8 Readers

Avery runs penult close to the peg, so cannot hit the intended ball.
He can rush red near black, which is still near 4th corner.

11 Jul 2025 5:57PM (Tournament); 8 Readers

Avery is thru rover. No rush though. Partner is 2y NW of 4th corner.

11 Jul 2025 5:59PM (Tournament); 8 Readers

Avery takes off from blue by rover to black by penult.
OK rush to within 3y of partner.
3 yard peg-out...

11 Jul 2025 6:01PM (Tournament); 8 Readers

Avery wins game 1 +20.

11 Jul 2025 6:02PM (Tournament); 8 Readers

Avery wins game 1 +20.

11 Jul 2025 6:02PM (Tournament); 8 Readers

Just remembered how to do bold type.

11 Jul 2025 6:03PM (Tournament); 8 Readers

Clarke has made 9.
Let's call this a defensive OSL.

11 Jul 2025 6:04PM (Tournament); 8 Readers

I am told the plan is for the semis on lawns 3 and 4, obviously swapping for those in play, then the final on 2.

11 Jul 2025 6:06PM (Tournament); 8 Readers

G2T1 Avery blue 9y N of IV
T2 Mulliner yellow just S of II.
T3 Avery black misses blue from A-baulk.
T4 Mulliner red misses target from B-baulk.

11 Jul 2025 6:08PM (Tournament); 8 Readers

Fuller missed long double.
Clarke has leave.

11 Jul 2025 6:09PM (Tournament); 7 Readers

T5 Avery black rushes blue to red, red toward II but hoop 2 intervenes.

11 Jul 2025 6:11PM (Tournament); 6 Readers

Fuller finesses.

11 Jul 2025 6:11PM (Tournament); 6 Readers

T5 Avery has leave.

11 Jul 2025 6:13PM (Tournament); 6 Readers

T6 Mulliner has 22-yarder, maybe target?
Misses.

11 Jul 2025 6:15PM (Tournament); 6 Readers

Clarke makes one hoop, fails to pick up break, leave.

11 Jul 2025 6:16PM (Tournament); 7 Readers

Avery makes 1, plays excellent croquet stroke, then poor rush, then good approach and he has break.

11 Jul 2025 6:18PM (Tournament); 6 Readers

Fuller corners.

11 Jul 2025 6:18PM (Tournament); 5 Readers

Clarke yellow croquets red between 2 and II, takes off from black (in the vicinity of the peg) to 2, fails hoop.

Fuller black at Red (14y).
Hits.

11 Jul 2025 6:21PM (Tournament); 7 Readers

Blue is in III, yellow in 2, black croqueting red from near II.
Red is sent between 2 and peg.
Good rush on yellow to within 4' of 1.
Fuller black makes 1.

11 Jul 2025 6:24PM (Tournament); 8 Readers

Avery fails hoop 6.

11 Jul 2025 6:27PM (Tournament); 4 Readers

Some good strokes and Fuller has 4-ball break.

11 Jul 2025 6:27PM (Tournament); 5 Readers

Mulliner makes angled hoop 1 for a break.

11 Jul 2025 6:29PM (Tournament); 5 Readers

Just been on a beer run.
Mulliner's break continues.
Fuller's clip is on 5.
Clarke has break.

11 Jul 2025 6:37PM (Tournament); 5 Readers

Only one other game in play on this lovely summer evening.
James Hopgood in play on lawn 5.

11 Jul 2025 6:45PM (Tournament); 5 Readers

It looks like Time has expired on lawn 5.
No idea who has won.

11 Jul 2025 6:46PM (Tournament); 5 Readers

Mulliner has made 9.
Diagonal spread.

11 Jul 2025 6:46PM (Tournament); 5 Readers

Clarke has reached 1-back.

11 Jul 2025 6:48PM (Tournament); 7 Readers

Avery lifts black from by the peg to B-baulk.
Misses 20-yarder.

11 Jul 2025 6:49PM (Tournament); 7 Readers

Mulliner picks up 3-ball break.
Yet to dig black out of 4th corner.

11 Jul 2025 6:52PM (Tournament); 8 Readers

Clarke continues to take second ball round. I detect no thought of a triple.

11 Jul 2025 6:54PM (Tournament); 11 Readers

Mulliner has played the wrong ball.
I confess that he realised this before I did.

11 Jul 2025 7:00PM (Tournament); 8 Readers

Croquet adopts VAR!
We're looking at the livestream to determine when the wrong ball occurred.
After 4 apparently.

Mulliner
Red 4-back
Yellow 5
Avery
Blue 1
Black 6

11 Jul 2025 7:02PM (Tournament); 7 Readers

Clarke
Red 4-back
Yellow peg
Fuller
Blue 1
Black 5

11 Jul 2025 7:03PM (Tournament); 8 Readers

Clarke leaves Red 1y N of IV, yellow 18" n of red.
Black in middle of east boundary.
Blue 6y W of peg.

Fuller lifts black to A-baulk, misses 13-yarder.

11 Jul 2025 7:06PM (Tournament); 7 Readers

Fuller missed to south of red, so no promotion available.

11 Jul 2025 7:07PM (Tournament); 7 Readers

Avery runs 6' hoop 2. Chance of break.

11 Jul 2025 7:08PM (Tournament); 8 Readers

Avery has 4-ball break.

11 Jul 2025 7:11PM (Tournament); 7 Readers

Clarke's rush to 4-back not great.
Rolls up from 7y.
Fails 6' hoop.

11 Jul 2025 7:12PM (Tournament); 8 Readers

Fuller Blue shoots at Black (33y) misses.

11 Jul 2025 7:14PM (Tournament); 8 Readers

Clarke red has tricky hoop, fails into middle of hoop.

11 Jul 2025 7:15PM (Tournament); 7 Readers

Red is in 4-back. Yellow near penult.
Blue and black across 4th corner without a rush.

Fuller black taps blue.
Take off to yellow
Rushes yellow into B-baulk north of 4-back.
Croquets yellow near peg.
Rushes red South.
Now looking to see if putting black in 4th corner yields rush on blue.
Croquets red between 1 and 5.
Off in 4th corner.

Red and yellow about 12y apart, open.

11 Jul 2025 7:21PM (Tournament); 9 Readers

Clarke red prefers to shoot at blue / black.
Misses.

11 Jul 2025 7:21PM (Tournament); 9 Readers

Back to lawn 4
Avery is game up.
Blue 4-back, Black 6
Mulliner
Red 4-back
Yellow 5

11 Jul 2025 7:23PM (Tournament); 8 Readers

Avery sort of OSL.
Mulliner lifts Yellow to A-baulk, misses red (15y).

11 Jul 2025 7:24PM (Tournament); 8 Readers

Fuller has made 5. Chance of 3-ball break.

11 Jul 2025 7:25PM (Tournament); 8 Readers

Avery rushes well to 6, has rush to red.
Yellow is near 2nd corner.

11 Jul 2025 7:27PM (Tournament); 7 Readers

Poor croquet stroke from Avery fails to yield rush on red.
Now he will have to approach 1-back from the corner.
He fails to do so.

11 Jul 2025 7:29PM (Tournament); 7 Readers

Fuller black fails 1-back.

Clarke misses 20-yarder.

11 Jul 2025 7:29PM (Tournament); 7 Readers

Fuller black makes 1-back, rushes blue to 2-back.
Makes 2-back.

11 Jul 2025 7:31PM (Tournament); 8 Readers

Mulliner yellow hits blue (12y?)

11 Jul 2025 7:31PM (Tournament); 8 Readers

After 2-back Fuller black croquets blue to 4-back.

He must be planning to peg out yellow!

11 Jul 2025 7:34PM (Tournament); 5 Readers

Mulliner has break with yellow.

11 Jul 2025 7:35PM (Tournament); 4 Readers

Your commentator has lost faith in his ability to spell Riggall. But that's what's coming up on lawn 3.

11 Jul 2025 7:38PM (Tournament); 4 Readers

Mulliner continues to go round on lawn 4.

11 Jul 2025 7:39PM (Tournament); 4 Readers

Fuller black has run rover off red.
Yellow and blue wait by the peg.

11 Jul 2025 7:44PM (Tournament); 5 Readers

An expert describes one of Fuller's shots as stupid but reasonable.

11 Jul 2025 7:45PM (Tournament); 5 Readers

Yellow is off the lawn.
Blue is rushed off the east boundary.
Sent maybe 5y N of 4th corner.
Black goes off west boundary 9y S of 2nd corner.

11 Jul 2025 7:48PM (Tournament); 5 Readers

Clarke red takes contact off blue.
Rolls to 4-back.
Wrong line.
Retires to 3y east of 2nd corner.

11 Jul 2025 7:50PM (Tournament); 5 Readers

Fuller hits blue off just east of 1st corner.

11 Jul 2025 7:51PM (Tournament); 6 Readers

Clarke yellow misses Black.

11 Jul 2025 7:51PM (Tournament); 6 Readers

Mulliner is 4-back and peg.

Avery misses short lift.

At least technically short, still a 15-yarder.

11 Jul 2025 7:52PM (Tournament); 5 Readers

Fuller black rushes red 2y east of blue.
Stops red 4y south of 4-back.
Hits blue (6y).
Leaves rush to 1.

11 Jul 2025 7:55PM (Tournament); 5 Readers

Mulliner should finish.

11 Jul 2025 7:55PM (Tournament); 5 Readers

Clarke red shoots at Black/ blue.
Hits blue.

11 Jul 2025 7:56PM (Tournament); 5 Readers

Some imperfect play gives Clarke an unlikely attempt at 4-back. The hoop is failed.

11 Jul 2025 7:59PM (Tournament); 6 Readers

Fuller joins up east of hoop 1.

Clarke misses. Hilled off.

11 Jul 2025 8:01PM (Tournament); 5 Readers

Mulliner wins game 2 +11.

Match tied at 1-1. ( best of 3).

11 Jul 2025 8:02PM (Tournament); 4 Readers

Fuller makes 1.
No rush.
Rolls to 2.
Sends black off the lawn.

11 Jul 2025 8:04PM (Tournament); 5 Readers

Clarke red at blue / black.

Duff shot.

11 Jul 2025 8:05PM (Tournament); 4 Readers

Fuller black hits red.
Croquets red near hoop 4.
Lays up between hoop 2 and 2nd corner.

11 Jul 2025 8:08PM (Tournament); 4 Readers

Clarke red at blue / black.

Experts deem this suicidal.

Misses.

11 Jul 2025 8:09PM (Tournament); 4 Readers

Fuller Blue now has chance of 3-ball break.

11 Jul 2025 8:10PM (Tournament); 4 Readers

Fuller is thru 2 with rush.
Hoop 3 pioneer maybe 3y from hoop.

11 Jul 2025 8:12PM (Tournament); 7 Readers

Black is OK pioneer at 4.
Thru 3 with rush.

11 Jul 2025 8:13PM (Tournament); 8 Readers

Mulliner v Avery will resume tomorrow.

11 Jul 2025 8:14PM (Tournament); 6 Readers

Red nicely whillocked to 5.

11 Jul 2025 8:14PM (Tournament); 7 Readers

Fuller is thru 4 with balls ideally placed.

11 Jul 2025 8:15PM (Tournament); 6 Readers

Still a dozen or so spectators.

11 Jul 2025 8:16PM (Tournament); 9 Readers

Fuller is thru 5 no rush.

11 Jul 2025 8:17PM (Tournament); 8 Readers

Fuller has decided the time has come to remove his sunglasses.
1-back pioneer is 4y shy of hoop.
Better than being deep.

11 Jul 2025 8:19PM (Tournament); 6 Readers

To add the excitement I'm down to 4% battery on my phone.

11 Jul 2025 8:20PM (Tournament); 6 Readers

Good 2-back pioneer but rush to 1-back is short.

11 Jul 2025 8:21PM (Tournament); 5 Readers

Take off approach.
Thru 1-back, no rush.

11 Jul 2025 8:21PM (Tournament); 6 Readers

Big roll after 1-back.
Red a bit short, blue a bit far.
Blue hits black (4y), but knocks it away from hoop.
No attempt to approach 2-back.
Black is left in middle of West boundary.
Blue is hit off in 2nd corner.

11 Jul 2025 8:24PM (Tournament); 5 Readers

Clarke lifts Red to A-baulk.
She makes Blue/ black a target.
Misses to 2nd corner.

11 Jul 2025 8:25PM (Tournament); 6 Readers

Fuller Blue takes off from red to black.
Hits black.
Rolls them 3y WSW of 3-back.
Defends shot.

11 Jul 2025 8:29PM (Tournament); 5 Readers

Clarke red to 1st corner.

11 Jul 2025 8:29PM (Tournament); 5 Readers

Fuller looking at area wired behind 5 and or 1.

11 Jul 2025 8:30PM (Tournament); 6 Readers

Fuller Blue knocks Black between 4 and 5.
Not close to wired spot.
Rolls toward 2nd corner.
Doesn't dare leave rush.

11 Jul 2025 8:33PM (Tournament); 5 Readers

Clarke red at Black (32y).
Not close.

11 Jul 2025 8:34PM (Tournament); 5 Readers

Fuller Blue taps red.
Duff little shot.
Cut rushes black 7y N of 2-back.
Rolls up.
One yard hoop.
Through.
Taps black.

11 Jul 2025 8:36PM (Tournament); 6 Readers

Fuller rolls blue and black to 3-back.
Not in front.
Red is in 2nd corner.

11 Jul 2025 8:37PM (Tournament); 7 Readers

Clarke Red to 3rd corner.

11 Jul 2025 8:39PM (Tournament); 9 Readers

Clarke Red 4-back Yellow box (ie pegged out)
Fuller Blue 3-back Black peg.

11 Jul 2025 8:40PM (Tournament); 10 Readers

Fuller Blue lays wired posi near 3-back.

11 Jul 2025 8:41PM (Tournament); 10 Readers

Apparently there is a bit of a ball to be seen.

Clarke red hits 3-back.

11 Jul 2025 8:42PM (Tournament); 9 Readers

The crowd is now astonished.
Fuller Blue could rush black off South boundary for a 3-ball break.
But he doesn't want to touch red.
He taps black, makes 3-back.
Now rolls his balls toward west boundary.
Is he wired?

11 Jul 2025 8:45PM (Tournament); 9 Readers

Clarke red at whatever she can see.
Hits hoop 4, comes off 6y N of 1st corner.

11 Jul 2025 8:46PM (Tournament); 9 Readers

Fuller Blue rushes black 5y NNE of 4.
Seems to be close to a wired spot.

11 Jul 2025 8:48PM (Tournament); 7 Readers

I think blue has rush on black to 4-back, there is less than 1 inch between the balls.

Clarke again misses partially wired shot.

11 Jul 2025 8:50PM (Tournament); 8 Readers

Fuller Blue rushes black beyond 4-back.
Looking for wired rush.
Not sure he's got it.
Where to put Blue?
Scatter shot.
Black is 10y W of 3rd corner.
Blue is 5y South of 2nd corner.

4-back and peg v 4-back alone.

11 Jul 2025 8:53PM (Tournament); 8 Readers

Clarke red misses Black.

11 Jul 2025 8:53PM (Tournament); 8 Readers

Fuller Black rushes Red off west boundary.
Take off, rushes blue toward 4th corner.
Leaves rush in area 8y WNW of 4th corner.

11 Jul 2025 8:56PM (Tournament); 8 Readers

Clarke red at blue or black (33y).
Misses.

11 Jul 2025 8:57PM (Tournament); 7 Readers

Fuller Blue rushes black 4y west of 4-back.
Aiming for spot wired by hoop 4.
What can Clarke see?

11 Jul 2025 8:58PM (Tournament); 7 Readers

Not much, evidently.

Clarke red to 3rd corner.

11 Jul 2025 8:59PM (Tournament); 6 Readers

Fuller Blue rushes black to 4-back.
Through hoop with rush to penult.
Pretty good rush.

11 Jul 2025 9:00PM (Tournament); 7 Readers

Fuller Blue makes penult, but only by a yard or two.
Black is 2' west of the peg.
Hits black.
Rolls to rover from 4y.

11 Jul 2025 9:02PM (Tournament); 7 Readers

Good approach.

Fuller has 7 foot rush back to the peg.
Snicks it.

11 Jul 2025 9:03PM (Tournament); 6 Readers

Fuller has 7 yard peg-out.
Rolls it.
Gets it!

11 Jul 2025 9:04PM (Tournament); 6 Readers

Fuller wins game 1 +4

11 Jul 2025 9:05PM (Tournament); 8 Readers

See you in the morning.

Check the Mangler's message for the start time!

11 Jul 2025 9:06PM (Tournament); 9 Readers

I've just checked.
It's a 10am start.
The hoops on lawns 2, 3 and 4 are being reset, and we don't want to rush the hoopsetter.

See you at 10am.

11 Jul 2025 9:19PM (Tournament); 6 Readers

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