As far as I can see at the end of the block stage of the AC World Championships in Adelaide, three of our five members playing in the field of 80 qualified for the knockout stage: Miranda Chapman, Paddy Chapman and James Death;  Ian Lines will be involved in a play-off; and Keith Aiton just failed to make the cut.

Update on Tuesday: Ian Lines won his play-off against Greg Bryant and so qualified for the main knockout.  In the first round, Miranda plays Rutger Beijderwellen, Paddy playes Simon Hockey, James plays Brian Cumming and Ian plays Jenny Clarke.

Update on Wednesday: Miranda beat Rutger and James beat Brian, but Paddy and Ian lost.  Still, two in the last 16 isn’t bad!

Update on Thursday: Sadly, thats as far as we got.  James lost 3-2 to Simon Hockey (who I think is Australian) and Miranda
3-1 to Stephen Forster, also from the host country.  The quarter-final lineup is Reg Bamford v Stephen Forster,  Simon Hockey v James Hopgood,  Robert  Fletcher v Samir Patel and Malcolm Fletcher v Marcus Evans.  Meanwhile, Keith seems to have won his block in the plate, but I can’t find the draw for the plate knockout yet.

Full results are available on the Croquet Scores website.

Dan Greenaway was undefeated on 5/5 in the one-ball tournament for the Hansen trophy on Saturday, 27th April.  Rachel Rowe was runner-up on 4/5, in a good entry of 20 players, raising £100 for the Breast Cancer campaign.  Peter Death managed the event, and Linda, Peter and Roger Berkeley provided a welcome tea.

The full results were:

Name	Won	Played	%
Dan Greenaway	5	5	100%
Rachel Rowe	4	5	80%
Michael O Brien	3	4	75%
Martin Wroughton	4	6	67%
Ian Dovey	4	6	67%
Bob Thompson	3	5	60%
Lawrence Whittaker	3	5	60%
Don Martin	3	5	60%
Ray Mountfield	3	5	60%
Arthur Rowe	3	6	50%
Omied Hallam	3	7	43%
Michael Finnigan	2	5	40%
Derek Buxton	2	5	40%
Richard Sanville	2	5	40%
Cliff Daniel	2	5	40%
Mick Haytack	2	6	33%
Peter Death	1	4	25%
Sue Wileman	1	4	25%
Eileen Buxton	1	5	20%
Roger Berkeley	0	4	0%