44th Singapore International Open 2011

DOUBLE JOY BY MALAYSIAN YOUTH
Thursday, 02 June 2011

It's a double joy for our young Malaysians ! After capturing the Youth Open titles at Malaysian International Open Championships 2011 at Sunway Mega Lanes last week, our young Malaysians continued the momentum to stamp their supremacy in wresting another identical victory in the Youth divisions. Our Malaysian youths completed a clean sweep of the Youth Open Masters titles of the 44th Singapore International Open with Aris Ardilla and Chong Jun Foo finishing one-two in the boy's division; while Syaidatul Afifah, Faten Najihah, Fatin Azmira and Steffira Zeandea rocket up the top four podium finish in the girl's division.

2010 Asian Youth gold medalist, Aris Ardilla set a cracking pace to take an early lead with his sizzling opening game of 253 but soon found himself trailing Aussie Sam Cooley after the second game.· Singapore's Jovi Ang made his bid by taking over the running after the third game but could not keep up the pace set by Aris after the Malaysian regained the lead at the halfway mark. Despite losing the lead briefly to team-mate, Chong Jun Foo after the fifth game, a re-vitalized Aris went on to end the 8-game finals with 1709 to capture the title.

Chong made a late charge in his final game but finished 19 pins behind the champion with 1690 while Cooley took third spot with 1671, a further 19 pins away. Singapore's Jonathan Ang stormed home to snatch fourth spot with 1609 to edge early pace-setter, Jovi into fifth position with 1597. Other Malaysian youths, Johnathan Chan (8th), Khoo Beng Khai (10th), Ahmad Muaz (13th), Muhd Syafiq Sajeli (14th) and Syimir Abd Razak (15th).

The Malaysian girls were much more superior than their boys counterpart sweeping the finals with the top four places. Syaidatul Afifah took a convincing victory to win her second international youth title after her triumph in Taiwan and Penang last year. Syaidatul, who took over the lead after the third game, amassed a total of 1604, 49 pins ahead of Faten Najihah in second with 1555. Early pace-setter and pint-sized, Fatin Azmira settled for third with 1545 while Steffira Zeandea completed the top 4 for Malaysia with 1513.

Singapore's best finisher was Girl's Under-18 first runner-up, Tracy See in fifth position with 1485. Tengku Emanina Laily (6th), Puteri Nadia (8th), Natasha Roslan (9th) and Radin Nur Najwa (12th) were the other Malaysian finalists.

Aris Ardilla won S$1,000 for his effort, Chong and Cooley taking home S$600 and S$400 while Syaidatul, Faten, Fatin and Steffira all won S$800, S$600, S$300 and S$200 respectively.

Reported by BC Cheah
Photos courtesy of Terence Yaw.

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Girl's Open Masters Final Results

Pos	·Bowler	Ctry	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	Score	Ave
1	·Syaidatul Afifah	MAS	204	167	215	228	191	242	183	174	1604	200.50
2	·Faten Najihah	MAS	177	178	213	234	178	179	185	211	1555	194.38
3	·Fatin Azmira	MAS	213	180	176	203	224	205	171	173	1545	193.13
4	·Steffira Zeandea	MAS	176	159	217	174	204	174	196	213	1513	189.13
5	·Tracy See	SIN	213	139	203	181	209	178	185	177	1485	185.63
6	·Tengku Emanina Laily	MAS	209	144	157	202	208	190	192	175	1477	184.63
7	·Tay Hui Wen	SIN	216	169	176	190	159	178	156	201	1445	180.63
8	·Puteri Nadia	MAS	204	190	183	202	158	129	193	168	1427	178.38
9	·Natasha Roslan	MAS	182	151	201	154	199	176	159	188	1410	176.25
10	·Kimberly Ooi Jingyi	SIN	176	155	205	124	156	170	218	185	1389	173.63
11	·Yeo Jing Yi	SIN	158	170	164	161	146	159	206	224	1388	173.50
12	·Radin Nur Najwa	MAS	193	184	142	174	139	138	218	168	1356	169.50

Boy's Open Masters Final Results

Pos	·Bowler	Ctry	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	Score	Ave
1	·Aris Ardilla	MAS	253	198	221	226	192	184	246	189	1709	213.63
2	·Chong Jun Foo	MAS	208	219	168	167	257	228	257	186	1690	211.25
3	·Sam Cooley	AUS	245	227	193	196	211	170	214	215	1671	208.88
4	·Jonathan Ng Yew Weng	SIN	231	196	184	187	200	202	185	224	1609	201.13
5	·Jovi Ang	SIN	207	248	221	184	170	189	213	165	1597	199.63
6	·Gan Ju Yen	SIN	189	212	155	213	190	212	210	196	1577	197.13
7	·Lau Ming He Alwin	SIN	157	190	185	206	242	198	200	190	1568	196.00
8	·Jonathan Chan	MAS	167	185	221	177	215	233	176	189	1563	195.38
9	·Justin Lim	SIN	190	181	238	188	208	206	148	200	1559	194.88
10	·Khoo Beng Khai	MAS	194	203	170	225	195	187	155	210	1539	192.38
11	·Alex Chong Wei Chien	SIN	148	163	226	211	224	224	159	182	1537	192.13
12	·Hussain Yaqoob	BRN	201	157	142	210	179	160	234	236	1519	189.88
13	·Ahmad Muaz	MAS	186	203	175	190	228	137	180	189	1488	186.00
14	·Muhd Syafiq Sajeli	MAS	173	236	179	191	170	180	169	181	1479	184.88
15	·Syimir Abdul Razak	MAS	223	189	210	163	156	165	171	191	1468	183.50
16	·Md Nur Hakim	SIN	168	157	181	163	217	198	203	180	1467	183.38
17	·Jappry Aw	SIN	147	200	180	167	170	152	183	254	1453	181.63
17	·Yan Cheng Han Hubet	SIN	177	158	169	185	193	182	197	190	1451	181.38
19	·Danish Ramlan	SIN	134	202	129	163	235	199	210	175	1447	180.88
19	·Suresh Elangovan	SIN	171	183	189	180	206	170	164	184	1447	180.88
21	·Nicholas Lim	SIN	180	202	183	172	168	170	197	169	1441	180.13
22	·Darren Ong	SIN	188	133	191	174	209	168	184	180	1427	178.38
23	·Joel Tan Eng An	SIN	208	210	146	182	148	192	155	183	1424	178.00
24	·Hazeem Al Merekhi	QAT	175	151	166	201	158	173	182	177	1383	172.88