The Egyptian consolation event has been won by Teddy Wilmot-Sitwell, playing off a handicap of 4.5, who thoroughly deserved his win after scoring a maximum 9 points in his final game. An honourable mention goes to Alan Chance, who actually won all of his Egyptian games but was nonetheless unable to surpass Teddy's total.

Meanwhile, after an elongated and dramatic semi-final in which local hero Gabrielle Higgins defeated world number 3 Jamie Burch, the final between Gabrielle and Joel Taylor of Roehampton has just entered a third and decisive game, following the sharing of two manager-pleasingly one-sided games. Gabrielle has the innings.

Joel won the decider. He reports: "I won game 3 +6. Gabs broke down on a TP having done one peel. I completed the peels and then won the three-ball ending after quite a lot of back and forth."

I realised that Paul Castell also won all of his Egyptian games and finished 3rd behind Teddy and Alan.