COMMONWEALTH gold medallist Richard Corsie was the man of the moment
in Preston yesterday.
Just a few hours after having been named as successor to David Bryant
in the world bowls players' association, Corsie continued his bid for a
record fourth win in the #132,000 Churchill Insurance world indoor
singles championship with his second successive straight-sets win.
Following his first-round demolition of Russell Morgan that included
three world records, Corsie swept aside the challenge of Australia's
Cameron Curtis 7-5, 7-4, 7-4.
The Edinburgh man raced to a 6-0 lead in the opening set but Curtis
hit back. ''The opener could have gone either way. Cameron came back
well and I was a bit fortunate to win it,'' said Corsie later.
The Scot continued to dominate the second set moving 5-1 ahead before
wrapping up a 7-4 victory and in the next, with the scores tied at 3-3
he counted a decisive 3 on the fifth end.
East Lothian's Graham Robertson and Dunfermline-born Hong Kong man
Mark McMahon saw their pairs hopes end at the quarter-final stage when
they went down in straight sets to six-times former winners Bryant and
Tony Allcock.
The Scots led 5-3 after five ends of the opening set but successive
doubles gave the former champions a 7-5 win. Bryant and Allcock again
came from behind in the second and, helped by a maximum 4 on the fifth
end, edged home 7-6 and they repeated that scoreline in the third set.
''The match was a lot closer than the scoreline suggests -- all three
sets could have gone either way,'' said Bryant.
McMahon said: ''We can't have any complaints. I had chances to
capitalise on promising positions and didn't do it.''
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