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THE FIRST TWO PLAYERS THROUGH WITHOUT DROPPING A FRAME WERE MICHAEL JUDGE OF IRELAND AND ALEX TAUBMAN OF WALES.

MICHAEL HAD BREAKS OF 51 AND 50 IN OVERCOMING JÓN INGI ÆGISSON FROM ICELAND AND WILL MEET ANOTHER PLYER FROM ICELAND – THE 6 REDS CHAMPION KRISTJAN HELGASON.

ALEX MADE A BREAK OF 89 AGAINST FELLOW COUNTRYMAN ELFED EVANS AND HE WILL FACE JORIS MAAS OF THE NETHERLANDS FOR A PLACE IN THE SEMI FINAL.

DAVID CASSIDY WON 4 -2 AGAINST MATTHEW FORD OF ENGLAND AND WILL FACE ANDREAS PLONER OF AUSTRIA WHO LOST ONLY ONE FRAME AGAINST TYLER REES OF WALES.

DARREN MORGAN IS GETTING CLOSER TO RETAINING THE TITLE BY BEATING AIDEN OWENS FROM ENGLAND IN THE DECIDING FRAME THEREBY REVERSING THE RESULT WHEN THE PAIR LAST MET IN THE IBSF MASTERS LAST YEAR. DARREN WILL PLAY FELLOW COUNTRYMAN AND IBSF FINALIST ANDREW PAGETT WHO, DESPITE THE LATE START OF THE MATCH, WASTED NO TIME IN TAKING 4 FRAMES FROM STUART WATSON OF ENGLAND.

QUERTER FINAL LINE UP:-

DARREN MORGAN – WALES V ANDREW PAGETT – WALES

JORIS MAAS – NETHERLANDS V ALEX TAUBMAN – WALES

ANDREAS PLONER – AUSTRIA V DAVID CASSIDY – IRELAND

MICHAEL JUDGE – IRELAND V KRISTJAN HELGASON – ICELAND

MATCHES START  AT 10am SUNDAY LOCAL TIME (9am UK)

Peter Thomas

3 June 2017