Dan’s the (Plate) man

DAN Sykes, knocked out in the group stages on his Gold Tour debut, compiled a 35 break in the Plate final to deny Greenbaize players a third winner’s trophy of the day.

The 15-year-old from Chandler’s Ford Snooker Club (pictured) beat Nat Kidner to claim the silverware.

BREAKS

Dan Sykes: 35.

PLATE RESULTS (ONE-FRAME MATCHES)

LAST-16: Nat Kidner (Greenbaize SC, Bournemouth) beat Dan Parks (Woking SC), Abhay Copra (Chandler’s Ford SC) beat Matt Gillon (Stoke SC, Gosport), Liam Ashman (Player’s, Westbury) beat Callum Browne (Player’s, Westbury), Keegan Reed (Salisbury SC) beat Ally Pollard (Salisbury SC), Connor Shaw (Greenbaize SC, Bournemouth) beat Albert Warren (Salisbury SC), Bradley Cowdroy (Greenbaize SC, Bournemouth) beat Dan Compton (Copnor SC, Portsmouth), Jonny Mutch (Chandler’s Ford SC) beat Oliver Sykes (Chandler’s Ford SC).

QUARTER-FINALS: Kidner beat Chopra, Ashman beat Reed, Dan Sykes (Chandler’s Ford SC) beat Shaw, Cowdroy beat Mutch.

SEMI-FINALS: Kidner beat Ashman, D Sykes beat Cowdroy.

FINAL: D Sykes beat Kidner.

Report and picture by Tim Dunkley.