Hong Kong bowlers once again returned empty-handed from the World Cup Singles Championship when both representative Stanley Lai and Queenie Lai failed to qualify for the play-offs but the positive side is that the results show that Hong Kong is catching up with the bigger nations.
Stanley Lai, who won a silver in the 2012 World Singles Champion of Champions, started the competition well, defeated Ozkan Akar (Turkey), Scott Roberts (USA) and Frans Roberts (Nederland) in the first three games. In the fourth game he played Ali Forsyth, the New Zealander who won the Fours gold in last year’s World Championship and is a previous World Champion of Champions winner. Lai drew level with Forsyth in the first set but lost marginally in the second to register his first defeat in the tournament.
