Lloyd retains Gosport & Fareham title

MARK Lloyd has won the Gosport & Fareham Snooker League’s scratch singles championship for the second year running.

The 18-year-old from Gosport retained the title by beating ex-professional Danny Auld 5-1 in the final at Stoke Snooker Club.

Lloyd, who also beat Auld in last season’s final, said: “I was fortunate that Danny wasn’t playing as I know he can and was missing the chances to win the frame in one visit.

“I just had to capitalise and get over the winning line. As the standard of the game is so good, you need to be winning frames in one or as little amount of visits possible.”

A former national champion at under-16 and under-18 levels, Lloyd has qualified for the last-16 of this season’s English Under-21 Championship in Leeds on Saturday.

He added: “I’m just looking forward to the upcoming tournaments now. I managed to reach the final of the English Under-21s last year and I’m hoping to get a nice run at the weekend and the next couple of years.

“Then I’m hoping to enter the Pink Ribbon (charity event in Gloucester) as well, playing some of the best amateurs and a few pros in these events.”

Picture by Tim Dunkley

Have you got any snooker news?

Send me your snooker news now. It doesn’t have to be from a Cuestars tournament. E-mail me details or contact me via Facebook and you could be on the Cuestars website and in your local newspaper. E-mail: [email protected]

Tim Dunkley (World Snooker coach)