The BWPPA tour made a welcome return at the Shooters Sports Bar in Birmingham from 7-8 May 2022.
Current no.1 ranked player Daniel Lee was unable to attend.
There was a strong field of 13 players competing for the 1st prize of £250, this included 2 new players Ben Norfolk and Geoffrey Bland, who both performed well on their debuts. Phil Hendrickson and John Greensmith both returned to the tour after many years away, and in a 1st round clash, Greensmith won 7/6.
Other action in the early stages through up some good matches, but the top 4 seeds, Fred Dinsmore, Roy Kimberley, Dave Beaumont and Tony Southern, all made it through to the winner’s qualification round.
Other early action saw newcomer Bland have a great win 7/1 over BWPPA stalwart Frankie ‘hot-wheels’ Gillen, and Gary Swift had a good 7/2 win over Aslam Abubaker.
We would all like to thank Aslam Abubaker for sourcing a new trophy sponsor, The Trophy Parlour in Leicester.
In the winner’s qualifiers, Southern missed a difficult 9b at hill-hill and lost 7-6 to Dinsmore, and Kimberley beat Beaumont to 7/3.
In the losers’ side later stages, Southern beat Hendrickson 6/5, and Beaumont beat Abubaker 6/3.
In the semi-finals, Dinsmore reached yet another final with a 7/0 whitewash over Beaumont, and in the other semi-final, Southern again missed match ball to lose to Kimberley 7/6.
It was to be a Kimberley v Dinsmore final.
A video of the main event final is available to watch here.
Pictures of the event can be found here in the BWPPA gallery.
The first 2 racks went to Dinsmore, who then missed a tough 9b down the rail to lead 3/0. Kimberley fought back well to level at 3/3, and the old foes traded frames to go 5/5.
Dinsmore was then snookered in rack 11, but played a great kick shot combo to pot the 9b to go 6/5 up, and then he broke and ran the last rack to win title and return to the top of the BWPPA rankings.
The BWPPA would like to thank all our sponsors:
We Are All Making A DIfference (formally Gentlemen’s Night Out), Predator Cues, Simonis Cloth, Aramith Billiard Balls, Kamui, Cuescore, The Trophy Parlour, Birmingham Bierkeller Sports Bar, Rileys, Tiger Cues of Warrington, and our patron Dynamite Darren Appleton, and Fred Dinsmore Billiards.
We would also like to thank long time BWPPA supporter Big Dave Knight from www.pro9.co.uk for his great support including providing our event posters.
We also are always looking to expand the sponsorship side of the tour, so if you or your company would like to become one of our sponsors, please visit our contact us page, or contact the BWPPA chairman at tonysouthern@bwppa.com.
You can be a part of the world’s largest wheelchair pool tour; please keep checking on http://www.bwppa.com and http://www.pro9.co.uk for further information. In addition to our national tour stops there is also the possibility of representing Great Britain in international tournaments such as the EPBF European Championship and WPA World 9-ball Championship for wheelchair players.
From 2-3 July 2022, the tour will visit a new venue, Riley’s in Leicester for Event 2.
THE BWPPA EVENT NO.1 (2022 W.A.M.A.D CUES PLAYERS CHAMPIONSHIP)
THE MAIN TOURNAMENT
SEMI-FINALS
| Dave Beaumont | 0 : 7 | Fred Dinsmore |
| Tony Southern | 6 : 7 | Roy Kimberley |
THE FINAL
| Roy Kimberley | 5 : 7 | Fred Dinsmore |
THE CHALLENGE TOURNAMENT
THE FINAL
| Phil Hendrickson | 5 : 4 | Geoff Bland |
