{"id":2483,"date":"2013-03-18T15:27:58","date_gmt":"2013-03-18T15:27:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.curtc.net\/wp\/?p=2483"},"modified":"2016-09-03T15:35:21","modified_gmt":"2016-09-03T15:35:21","slug":"alastair-kwan-takes-30-39-trophy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.curtc.net\/wp\/alastair-kwan-takes-30-39-trophy\/","title":{"rendered":"Alastair Kwan takes 30-39 Trophy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The CURTC 30-39 Category Tournament was played on Sunday 17th March 2013.<\/p>\n<p>Two keenly contested groups fought it out for semi-final places. In one group Alastair Kwan dropped only 2 games in winning all three of his matches while Julian Stafford, Paul Brown and Gary Weller won a match apiece. The second semi-final place was claimed by Julian Stafford who won most games overall in his three matches.<\/p>\n<p>In the second group John Firth took the top spot by winning all three of his matches. The runner-up was decided in the final group game where James Thomas beat Paddy Ward.<\/p>\n<p>The semi-finals were both taken by a score of 6-1: Alastair Kwan against James Thomas, and Julian Stafford against John Firth.<\/p>\n<p>In the final, Julian Stafford took the first game but then fell 1-4 behind. He took one more game but the superior play of Alastair Kwan took the set, match and tournament by 6-2, despite some thrilling rests that could have gone either way.<\/p>\n<td align=center valign=top><center><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp\/images\/30_39_finalists.jpg\" alt=\"Finalists in the 30 Category handicap tournament\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" border=\"0\"><font size=\"1\"><br \/>\nCategory 30-39 finalists: Alastair Kwan, Julian Stafford <\/font> <\/td>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The CURTC 30-39 Category Tournament was played on Sunday 17th March 2013. Two keenly contested groups fought it out for &hellip;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.curtc.net\/wp\/alastair-kwan-takes-30-39-trophy\/\">Continue reading &rarr;<\/a>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":2401,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[66,50],"class_list":["post-2483","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tournament","tag-66","tag-category"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.curtc.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2483","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.curtc.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.curtc.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.curtc.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.curtc.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2483"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.curtc.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2483\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.curtc.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2401"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.curtc.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2483"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.curtc.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2483"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.curtc.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2483"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}