---

Matthew Bolton won his 8th Australian National Billiards Championship title - the 6th in succession.
As in 2008, his final opponent was a battling Steve Mifsud, beaten by mere 22 points after 6 hours play.

Both players also faced each other in the final of this year's Australian Open Billiards Championship (150 up), Steve Mifsud coming through winning by 6-4.


Full results are online at the Australian Billiards and Snooker Council website:

Australian National Billiards Championship (Timed) 2009
Australian Open Billiards Championship (150 up) 2009

---

Having enjoyed and gained match play experience in the Championships and the ABC Worthing's five time West Sussex championship Richard Sandell was compelled due to business commitments to transfer to Sydney in March last year, but wasted no time in joining the famous City Tattersells club and within ten days was playing both billiards and snooker in the well organised leagues.

In March this year he competed in the centenary tournament of the NSW minors championship an event in which previous champions are excluded. He was delighted to reach the final and defeat Central Coast's Adam Fitzgerald 610-735 collecting a trophy previously won by Eddie Charlton in 1950 and $A250.
Now entitled to enter the open he went on to win the New South Wales Major title at this his first attempt and thus set the record being the only player in the Leagues 110 year history to win both titles  in the same year. He added another $A 500 to his winnings.

Richard was proud to record a win in the semi final 677-414 over the highly rated Joe Minici whilst his opponent in the final  International Todd Hayward who had recorded a break of 209 beat Michael Pearson 575 - 460

The final was an entertaining one with Todd recording breaks of 105 and 90 Richards consistent scoring helped by breaks of 84 and 81 saw him home the winner 868-700

---

Perhaps the most consistent billiards player in the country, Dhruv Sitwala has been performing exceptionally well both at the national level as well as the world stage. Six finals appearances out of seven events in the last one-and-a-half-years is a testimony to the 36-year-old cueist’s growing consistency ...

Click here to read the full article

---

Hi everyone,

I created a wallpaper that I would like to share with the Billiards community:



Thanks to Karin for the idea, equipment and quality control


Feel free to download:

Size 1024x768
Size 1600x1200
Size 2133x1600