Saturday, January 8, 2011

UK Open 2011 - day 4

Another good day for Rafal - 6 games won and 3 lost. Rafal stays in 2nd place with 28-12 and +1531. The bad news is he is now already 5 points behind the leader Steve Balment who has far better spread which means that to win the tournament Rafal would have to win 6 games more than Steve. The problem is there are only 8 rounds left to be played which means if Steve wins at least 3 games tomorrow he's guaranteed to win the title.
As I have predicted Nigel is getting weaker each day. 5-4 on day 4 for him means that he's now tied on points (29-11) with the 2nd placed Nathan Benedict of USA. If Nathan pulls it off in Coventry it would be a great success which would surely echo in the TWL-world.
And finally Poland is set to claim the 2nd place in the team competition behind Malaysia. It is now almost 4 points clear of USA.
Go go Rafal and save the 2nd place!

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