Joe secures Plate with 31 break

SILVER Tour player Joe Kitchen compiled a 31 break in winning the Under-21 Plate final in Swindon against Jonny Mutch.

The 14-year-old from Gosport had finished third in his round-robin group while Mutch, who travels down from Cambridge, had failed to qualify from his Gold Tour group that included the eventual tournament winner Anthony Rice.

PLATE RESULTS (ONE-FRAME MATCHES)

PRELIMS: Abhay Copra (Chandler’s Ford SC) beat Austen Petty (Chandler’s Ford SC), Joshua Lee (Jesters, Swindon) beat Kaine Petty (Salisbury SC), Liam Ashman (Player’s, Westbury) beat Stefan Djakovic (Jesters, Swindon).

LAST-16: Chopra beat Lee, Ashman beat Ally Pollard (Salisbury SC), Keegan Reed (Salisbury SC) beat Victor Balgariev (Jesters, Swindon), Jonny Mutch (Cambridge SC) beat Bowen Zhu (Chandler’s Ford SC), Lewis Parnham (SWSA, Gloucester) beat Oliver Sykes (Chandler’s Ford SC), Ryan Hughes (Chandler’s Ford SC) beat Albert Warren (Salisbury SC). Byes: Joe Kitchen and Nathan Farmer (both Stoke SC, Gosport).

QUARTER-FINALS: Chopra beat Ashman, Kitchen beat Farmer, Mutch beat Reed, Parnham beat R Hughes.

SEMI-FINALS: Kitchen beat Chopra, Mutch beat Parnham.

FINAL: Kitchen beat Mutch.

Report by Tim Dunkley.