:00:00. > :00:42.Hello, and welcome to half-times of from the quarterfinals of the open
:00:43. > :00:47.singles of the world indoors bowls championship at Potters. It
:00:48. > :00:53.featuring six former champions and the number 14 and 15 seed. Nick
:00:54. > :00:58.Brett faced Stewart Anderson of Scotland. Gourlay was up against
:00:59. > :01:05.Greg Harlow. And Jamie Chestney up against four-time winner Paul Foster
:01:06. > :01:08.and Darren Burnett faced Les Gillett, first up, the match between
:01:09. > :01:12.David Gourlay and Greg Harlow. At the start of the second set,
:01:13. > :01:17.something that we rarely see in the sport of bowls, both the red and
:01:18. > :01:23.green bowl touching that jack, that meant the opening end of the second
:01:24. > :01:28.set was declared no 0. Nevertheless, Greg Harlow, the 2010 champion,
:01:29. > :01:31.began a fightback and he went on to take the second set 10-4. We'll join
:01:32. > :01:57.him at the start. Change again, it's all about winning
:01:58. > :02:01.the end. Not accumulated shots. Just doing what Greg Harlow did in the
:02:02. > :02:06.first set. That's not going to help him when he needs a runner. No,
:02:07. > :02:09.certainly doesn't help. Just put himself under a bit of a pressure at
:02:10. > :02:22.the moment, David. Has he got the running? Oh...
:02:23. > :02:31.Clipped through the gap. That's very unlucky. And a touch. Still one the
:02:32. > :02:34.green and he didn't drop back. If they drops back he would probably
:02:35. > :02:47.about the shot. And David can't believe he's gone through that.
:02:48. > :02:52.Tie-break ends, those little bit of luck not going your way can make a
:02:53. > :03:01.huge difference. Looking to tie this up now. And he can afford to reach
:03:02. > :03:08.it. Easy, easy. Well, it's pretty... Mmm, he slipped under. It gives
:03:09. > :03:12.David Gourlay a shoulder. It doesn't matter if he turns that ball over,
:03:13. > :03:17.it's already one to green. Always hard to repeat a bowl.
:03:18. > :03:25.Very much inclined to put more weight on.
:03:26. > :03:35.Yep, that's exactly what David's done. So easy to do that. Wayent --
:03:36. > :03:40.you want to force it through a little bit. I still think that Greg
:03:41. > :03:45.has to play for the red ball. He needs another one, cos David could
:03:46. > :03:48.be tempted to get a bit quicker with his last. Trying to get the green
:03:49. > :04:11.bowl clean. Well, Greg not even bothering with
:04:12. > :04:15.the red ball. Just going for a cover in case David uses more weight and
:04:16. > :04:21.gets it on the respot. This is his last bowl, so interesting to see
:04:22. > :04:24.whether he drives this or not. I think I would be tempted to go a bit
:04:25. > :04:43.quicker, to be honest. I say green. That's brave, David. Brave to play
:04:44. > :04:50.that sort of weight on the forehand because it just holds on. It's dead
:04:51. > :04:54.pace. A little bit unlucky he didn't get the green bowl onto the other
:04:55. > :05:06.one. That was a brave shot. First end, Greg Harlow. Played that a bit
:05:07. > :05:12.more, just to try and make sure... He's forearm run is normally so
:05:13. > :05:20.reliable as well. So for the first time in the match, Greg Harlow is in
:05:21. > :05:23.front. Good time to do it. First end of the tie-break and he delivers a
:05:24. > :05:34.jack. David Gourlay would be the last ball. The length, 29.5m. He
:05:35. > :05:51.won't want to be playing his last bowl at this end.
:05:52. > :06:05.Decent opening for Greg here it. Does he get much better front
:06:06. > :06:10.toucher? 5 inch gap. It's now past the tee by 4 inches. It's been a bit
:06:11. > :06:15.a slow burn game for Greg Harlow. He came out of the blocks a little bit
:06:16. > :06:19.on the sluggish side and then really moved up the gears and he's been
:06:20. > :06:26.getting better and better as the match has progressed. Some reply
:06:27. > :06:34.here from David. Not the gap again! Well, very nearly. Got the gap last
:06:35. > :06:37.time. One red. Still available on the backhand, he didn't grab the
:06:38. > :07:00.jack in its jaw, so to speak. Just not there. David has to play
:07:01. > :07:22.again to attack the jack. Must reach it and turn it around the corner.
:07:23. > :07:31.David dropped it? He has. Well, I think that's one opportunity too
:07:32. > :07:36.much for Greg Harlow. Even if he had got up on the green and dropped off
:07:37. > :07:43.it, it would've been good. But... Greg will be all over this jack this
:07:44. > :07:48.time. Not a lot of room. As he stepped up now... Time-out called.
:07:49. > :07:53.Greg has two time-outs remaining. Plenty of time-outs. He knows how
:07:54. > :08:04.important this is. He'll want to do it with the third bowl.
:08:05. > :08:15.He's going for jack. Well, he knows if he gets his own bowl, he's
:08:16. > :08:25.straight on the red. Yep, there it is. He's still one down but it's a
:08:26. > :08:33.distance away. Just about favoured David still for the end. Two bowls
:08:34. > :08:35.to Greg's one. This has to be close. Lot of pressure out there. No doubt
:08:36. > :08:48.about it. Extremely good line.
:08:49. > :08:56.APPLAUSE Well, it's good.
:08:57. > :09:00.He's happy he has drawn the shot but he's not happy where it'sed
:09:01. > :09:16.finished. It's not easy for Greg. Well, I
:09:17. > :09:22.don't know, if he's a good shot available to him. If he gets back a
:09:23. > :09:30.little bit quicker, he may get the jack if he times it. The back edge
:09:31. > :09:37.of the bowl. Send the jack sideways across to the wing green. I think
:09:38. > :09:41.knowing that David would be close, I would be happy enough for this
:09:42. > :09:45.situation, it's not an easy one but at least it's playable. Outside of
:09:46. > :09:52.the mat once again, with the back foot. Trying to get the bowl a wee
:09:53. > :09:58.bit of a chance to get back down again. Will he hold this line? All
:09:59. > :10:01.on connection now. Nope. Good effort. Just a bit inside the line.
:10:02. > :10:22.The right idea to try and punch Now, what's interesting now is that
:10:23. > :10:31.the Greg Harlow moves onto the last bowl, so advantage Harlow. This at
:10:32. > :10:37.least we could do with another tight end. It's a good game. It's been
:10:38. > :10:40.really good bowling, good conversion shots, good running balls. A lot of
:10:41. > :10:50.good tactics going on, as you would expect from these two players.
:10:51. > :10:56.It's so impressive that David Gourlay is able to compete at this
:10:57. > :11:01.level when he doesn't play competitive bowls. You can practice
:11:02. > :11:05.all you want, Robert, but it's the competitive bowls that make you
:11:06. > :11:14.sharp. The match practice is the big thing.
:11:15. > :11:30.APPLAUSE Once again... It's a decent bowl but
:11:31. > :11:38.it's the wrong side of the jack. Only a foot away.
:11:39. > :11:55.A bit difficult with this for David. It's slightly passed. Ever so
:11:56. > :11:59.slightly passed. The first end of the tie-break, it was once you put
:12:00. > :12:06.the weight on, it's hard to get back. He ask caught in that
:12:07. > :12:10.in-between shot. And the same sort of situation after his first bowl.
:12:11. > :12:12.Exactly. Why he couldn't afford to be short with it. He's trying after
:12:13. > :12:23.this one. And do well to get back from there.
:12:24. > :12:27.That's what I'm saying. Once you go over the weight, you look good for a
:12:28. > :12:35.long time and then it just holds off. The gap was 12 inches. Soon as
:12:36. > :12:39.you go past the jack it starts to bend. This is the end where you're
:12:40. > :12:44.allowed to destroy it and nominate destroy the end and replay it. The
:12:45. > :12:49.front bowl of David's a big problem for that. He may have been tempted
:12:50. > :12:55.to go for that second, even if he got rid of that front bowl. I
:12:56. > :13:01.would've been. He doesn't want to leave an angle for... He would be
:13:02. > :13:06.tempted to run this now. A bit stronger, try to get the bowl off
:13:07. > :13:17.cleaner. He can't afford to not make a disturbance.
:13:18. > :13:29.Gone quick. Getting something. Good bowl. Well played, David Gourlay.
:13:30. > :13:33.Played it really well. The front bowl now is close enough to give
:13:34. > :13:39.Greg a problem, although you would expect him to beat it. After his
:13:40. > :13:46.last bowl, he left that in the line for the draw. Should be inside that,
:13:47. > :13:52.that was a good bowl by David, because if I don't make a
:13:53. > :13:56.disturbance, I'm in so much trouble. Greg will want to do it with this
:13:57. > :14:00.ball, he won't want to leave it till in last.
:14:01. > :14:04.Just trying to remember his first delivery. He's got the edge ball to
:14:05. > :14:21.help him. APPLAUSE
:14:22. > :14:27.Well, looks good to me. I think we still one on the red. Measure for
:14:28. > :14:31.short. Come on, Dan, put your life on the life. It's green. There's no
:14:32. > :14:37.mistake - it's green. I think that David is sort of saying to him, have
:14:38. > :14:44.another look. Yes, he is. He has seen that. It's green. And it's just
:14:45. > :14:52.a wee indicator that he fancies that. Does he draw or run the ball?
:14:53. > :14:58.I think he has to draw it now. If he runs the ball, it's a tough one to
:14:59. > :15:03.draw. The last bowl of the match. If he turns over, plays a backhand, and
:15:04. > :15:09.gets in behind the jack, he's thinking about this. Does he want to
:15:10. > :15:15.run it, does he want to draw it? It depends how much he can see it as
:15:16. > :15:22.well. Has to reach, no matter what. A bit of a disturbance so they
:15:23. > :15:27.stopped the clock. Goes again. The thing about the draw, if he taps his
:15:28. > :15:37.own bowl down, he gets the single. Taking more time. Got plenty of
:15:38. > :15:43.time-outs. Time-out called. David has no time-outs remaining. There we
:15:44. > :15:50.go. I thought had an extra one left but he doesn't. He has to play this
:15:51. > :15:54.bowl within 45 seconds. Imagine losing a bowl to a time-out. I think
:15:55. > :16:01.he'll draw this. He'll get the win. That's the key. Got a couple of
:16:02. > :16:05.options on the back hand draw. The only damage with drawing it, you're
:16:06. > :16:10.inclined to make sure you're reaching and if that's that case,
:16:11. > :16:19.you just sail past. This is a big bowl. So much pressure.
:16:20. > :16:29.He'll just be glad to give it a chance, that's all. All he's looking
:16:30. > :16:39.for. Give it some sort of a hope. Needs to get to his own. He's got 2.
:16:40. > :16:44.No, he's got it. You don't see David Gourlay wiping his brow too often,
:16:45. > :16:49.but my goodness me, it was a pressure bowl. And some respects, a
:16:50. > :16:58.little bit unlucky to bring it into the open. He could have had it just
:16:59. > :17:05.in front of the jack but Greg has a shot. Both players have used their
:17:06. > :17:11.time-outs. I've a feeling the green bowl is second shot. So, I would
:17:12. > :17:18.say, it's a heavy draw. I think it would be a Harlow special. He has
:17:19. > :17:26.nominated to kill this end with the bowl. He's trying to draw the bowl
:17:27. > :17:33.off. If he gets inside to the red, he would be very happy. He's got the
:17:34. > :17:38.split as well. That's out of the eation now -- equation now. Big
:17:39. > :17:44.drive on his favoured forehand. He looks under. He's in the area for
:17:45. > :17:54.there front bowl. Oh! My goodness, he flipped it! I don't believe it.
:17:55. > :18:00.He's flipped. Well, my goodness me, we do say sometimes that Greg gets
:18:01. > :18:09.in the area and he gets some very fortunate results. And here is Greg
:18:10. > :18:14.Harlow after that dramatic finish. How do you sum up what happened on
:18:15. > :18:21.the last bowl of the match? To be honest, it was a fluke. You have
:18:22. > :18:26.been on the receiving end, every player, you get some. I had two
:18:27. > :18:32.shots available. The clean bowl out, I had second bowl, so I would've
:18:33. > :18:38.won. David short bowled onto the jack, I had the bowl into the ditch.
:18:39. > :18:43.I had either and won on a fluke. The guys in the commentary box said you
:18:44. > :18:49.were roughly on target, but you got 150% out of it. I agree totally. The
:18:50. > :18:54.two targets were bowl out clean or bowl clean onto jack, into the
:18:55. > :18:59.ditch. I got half the front. I was an inch away from being perfect. The
:19:00. > :19:05.gods why smiling on me. So Greg Harlow through to the semi-finals
:19:06. > :19:12.and he'll play the winner of our next match, the defending champion
:19:13. > :19:58.Nick Brett and Stewart Anderson. Anderson leads 7-5 as we join it in
:19:59. > :20:07.Stewart gets in first. He's done a lot of damage the first 2 bowls. He
:20:08. > :20:18.certainly has. Been the better player.
:20:19. > :20:41.But Nick is not number one for nothing. He needs to win this
:20:42. > :20:44.Yeah, this is a deliberate bowl. About 2 yards through. That's
:20:45. > :21:00.deliberate from Stewart. Forearm on his weight again. No
:21:01. > :21:04.choice, has to be. No, he pulled that across his body. I thought he
:21:05. > :21:09.had got his own! That would've been a shocking result. Well, Nick is in
:21:10. > :21:17.trouble now. He has committed himself, hasn't he? Looking for
:21:18. > :21:21.another one in. Tactical, that was a good second bowl. We could see the
:21:22. > :21:25.bowl at the bottom of screen and that was a good bowl from Stewart
:21:26. > :21:30.Anderson. He put another one back. I don't know whether this one is
:21:31. > :21:36.deliberate. No, I think he was trying to draw that. Nick may just
:21:37. > :21:44.go for the bowl. I think he will. He has to. Stewart Anderson has got the
:21:45. > :21:49.last bowl. If he loses two, he goes into the last end four down and
:21:50. > :21:56.that's almost impossible. Even going into 3 down is a hard ask on the
:21:57. > :22:02.last end. I think so. He tried to clip the bowl out. Not the jack, but
:22:03. > :22:06.the bowl. He's close! Ooh! Wow! That's really unlucky. Jack in a
:22:07. > :22:13.ditch would have been very difficult to beat. That jack was going back
:22:14. > :22:20.into the ditch as well. That was so unlucky. A perfect strike. He's gone
:22:21. > :22:27.hiding and I can't blame him. That's cruel. That wood have ended up two
:22:28. > :22:31.feet away from his bowl in the ditch and it would've within a hard shot
:22:32. > :22:38.to beat. Whereas now, before you said, Andy, I would even back myself
:22:39. > :22:43.in this one. Yes, short bowl coming in. Not very close but that doesn't
:22:44. > :22:49.really matter. Good enough for the win. Wow wow, it's a long way away.
:22:50. > :22:52.I'm sure that Stewart will smile at that one. That was a long way away.
:22:53. > :23:02.Good It doesn't need to be pretty, just
:23:03. > :23:05.needs to score. Get closer than your opponent. That's what he did. 8-5, a
:23:06. > :24:11.good position here for Stewart Well, no better indoor championships
:24:12. > :24:16.than these, no matter where you are in the world. It gets the biggest
:24:17. > :24:20.crowds, the best TV audiences and I think it's fair to say, Andy,
:24:21. > :24:25.probably the most exciting matches. Without a doubt. We've been trend
:24:26. > :24:32.well this week. Top class bowling from day one. Fantastic pairs games,
:24:33. > :24:38.mixed pairs games, ladies singles final. Really, really good bowls. As
:24:39. > :24:42.you say, the crowds have been fantastic from day one. Once again,
:24:43. > :24:50.Stewart Anderson getting in there. First 2 bowls. Yeah, Nick has to
:24:51. > :24:53.change his game around a little bit. Wonder if he'll do something
:24:54. > :24:59.tactically different. This bowl was not close. I think he's trying to
:25:00. > :25:03.run the jack through. He's very deliberately put the first bowl
:25:04. > :25:07.through the head. I think the next bowl from Stewart would be not near
:25:08. > :25:14.the jack, deliberately trying to split the two red bowls. Run for
:25:15. > :25:20.cover. Trail shot still has to be played. It's hard to pick up the
:25:21. > :25:25.jack. You know, just bring it back, that four feet, to the 3 shots. But
:25:26. > :25:31.it's very definitely there. I just wonder - I was going to say - would
:25:32. > :25:36.Nick drive the two bowls? No matter when Stewart put his last one, he'd
:25:37. > :25:43.be after it. I think this is deliberate. He's trying to trail the
:25:44. > :25:48.jack. Yep, that's what he's after. Well, it stayed on. That gives
:25:49. > :25:56.Stewart a little bit more to think about. I think he needs another
:25:57. > :26:00.bowl. He probably does. His third delivery has beaten Nick's bowl.
:26:01. > :26:16.Both these bowls could go out the head.
:26:17. > :26:24.Yes, very much on a nice draw line, here, just to split the reds.
:26:25. > :26:32.Perfect. Absolutely perfect. That's good. There isn't a 3 here, I'm
:26:33. > :26:38.sure, for Nikki. Possible to score 3. -- impossible to score 3. Having
:26:39. > :26:51.a drive, too wide. A bit of a Well, a deserved first set for
:26:52. > :27:00.Stewart Anderson. Was the better player. No complaints from Nicky.
:27:01. > :27:15.Stewart Anderson looks for a Just have a little chat. She's got a
:27:16. > :28:14.game off. Still doing a lot of damage on those
:28:15. > :28:18.first bowls. Just playing, he's frustrating Nicky into so many
:28:19. > :28:23.running bowls here. He's close. Got to hit strike once again. Yep.
:28:24. > :28:26.That's good bowling from Nicky as well, recovering well with that
:28:27. > :28:30.strike. Well, he's really just trying to hang in at the moment,
:28:31. > :28:35.isn't he? But he's hanging on because he knows he's been totally
:28:36. > :28:42.outdrawn. A good thing for Nicky, he's got such a big forehand runner
:28:43. > :28:49.and he hits a high percentage. 5 feet from the ditch. . Certainly
:28:50. > :28:53.expect Stewart to draw this one. Had itline 3, he would've been very much
:28:54. > :28:58.looking for second shot. But 5 feet, has to go for the shot.
:28:59. > :29:09.And he has. Now, that's great stuff. A little bit close to the ditch. But
:29:10. > :29:15.he played it well. That's a superb ball.
:29:16. > :29:23.Normally you get a wry smile out of Stewart when he does that. Nick has
:29:24. > :29:30.no choice but to draw close as well. Trying to encourage this one up.
:29:31. > :29:34.Good effort. Very good effort. The problem with that, that blocks a
:29:35. > :29:41.path now for him to take the green bowl out. That's it exactly. Just
:29:42. > :30:12.blocks the way. Stewart trying to draw now.
:30:13. > :30:17.That could be. It could be hard to tell. But that's really good stuff.
:30:18. > :30:28.Two green. Well, you can see the red ball in
:30:29. > :30:36.front, Andy. That's where the difficulty is for Nick Brett. He has
:30:37. > :30:43.to play it on the forehand. Try to take the two green bowls out. Having
:30:44. > :30:49.a good look at it. Don't believe it! Don't believe there was a gap there.
:30:50. > :30:54.I can understand if it was a full drive, but such controlled weight.
:30:55. > :30:58.There isn't a gap there. You have to see the bowl coming down. I don't
:30:59. > :31:03.think it touched anything. Oh, it must get one of the green, onto the
:31:04. > :31:10.other, finds the gap. Nothing moved. Nothing moved. Well, I have to say,
:31:11. > :31:18.that was a very, very good shot. Nothing for it. Oh, dear me.
:31:19. > :31:31.Well, Stewart Anderson, 5-0 in front. Playing very well. Well, this
:31:32. > :31:36.is the thing about Stewart, he is... Such a gifted player that he's up
:31:37. > :31:41.there, ranked number 9, and that's really too low for a player of his
:31:42. > :31:55.quality. Yes, he's definitely a top 8 players, without a doubt.
:31:56. > :32:05.Once again, no mistake. Getting into the foot of a jack. He won't be
:32:06. > :32:09.thinking about anything, Stewart, other than what he's trying to do at
:32:10. > :32:13.the moment. He'll be in there, battling for his place in the
:32:14. > :32:18.Commonwealth Games team, probably against people like Ronnie Duncan
:32:19. > :32:24.and one or two others. Ronnie is an excellent player. As far as I was
:32:25. > :32:28.concerned, he should be in the team. That is only my opinion, that
:32:29. > :32:34.doesn't count. He is going to force himself into the squad and hoping to
:32:35. > :32:41.make the Commonwealth team. A big difference between indoor and
:32:42. > :32:45.outdoor. And Stewart's experience outdoors isn't what it's like
:32:46. > :32:49.indoors. But the difference is the location. It's in Australia.
:32:50. > :32:51.Scotland have so much talent available, they really have. Pick
:32:52. > :33:04.two teams. They would do well. Well, Nick, in between runner... He
:33:05. > :33:11.has. He won't get back if he has got any weight at all. He knows that as
:33:12. > :33:20.well. Even for the world number one it's a hard shot. He's finding his
:33:21. > :33:22.hard today, is Nicky. In fact, any player would be fighting this
:33:23. > :33:37.hard,000 way that Stewart Anderson Wants the take the side bowl away if
:33:38. > :33:43.he can. That's a lot better than what it was. Covers the jack with
:33:44. > :33:49.the front toucher. Back to the draw, I think. Second set could run away
:33:50. > :33:57.from the world number one very, very easily. Gonna have to play a big
:33:58. > :34:04.bowl here. He's in the area. Will he get back? A good bowl, a close bowl.
:34:05. > :34:06.He's still 3 down and I wouldn't be at all surprised if Stewart Anderson
:34:07. > :34:17.decides to go deep with this Here are the boys, the experts. Here
:34:18. > :34:21.you go, lads. I could do as well as that, Nick Brett. They're in the
:34:22. > :34:25.restaurant every night. They are all drinking water.
:34:26. > :34:34.I think that Stewart would be going deep with this one, staying away
:34:35. > :34:42.from the head. Yeah, good ball here. That's the deep one.
:34:43. > :34:49.Well, Stewart is more or less teasing Nicky on this one. To be
:34:50. > :34:55.fair, if Nicky does hit the target here, he would get the shot with his
:34:56. > :35:00.deepest bowl. Having a run. He needs a jack to go right back. He's
:35:01. > :35:02.interested. Front bowl is the problem. Yep. Front bowl was always
:35:03. > :35:22.the problem. Still probably 3 down. Suggesting two. 2 shot, Stewart
:35:23. > :35:29.Anderson. He didn't look at that it too much. Taking his word at it. A
:35:30. > :35:35.quick look. The scoreboard is ticking over and the ends are
:35:36. > :35:39.disappearing. Well, Nick Brett simply couldn't make any inroads nor
:35:40. > :35:43.match the outstanding form of his opponent, and Stewart Anderson
:35:44. > :35:47.comfortably took the second set as well, to book his spot in Saturday's
:35:48. > :35:51.semifinal. Stewart,000 guys in the commentary
:35:52. > :35:56.box were watching you and they were purring about your play today. And
:35:57. > :36:01.wondering have you played better? Well, I must have, he has never seen
:36:02. > :36:05.me playing better. So that answers that question. I'm really pleased
:36:06. > :36:10.with the way I played. You need to play like that to beat Nicky. And
:36:11. > :36:16.can you put your finger on why you played so well today, of all days?
:36:17. > :36:22.Think that made the change. Yeah, the first set, as Nicky said, a few
:36:23. > :36:27.alterations there and there. I thought I was playing ping pong with
:36:28. > :36:33.the jack. I'm just happy to get through to the next round. The next
:36:34. > :36:37.match is with Paul Foster up against the number 14th seed, Jamie
:36:38. > :36:43.Chestney. It was Chestney who won the first set, before Foster fought
:36:44. > :37:46.back. Into the tie-break, and Foster strikes first. He leads 1-0 with
:37:47. > :37:53.Closer this, doesn't want to get into the jack. He's got the gap. The
:37:54. > :37:57.jack would've been Tight against the red. Not easy to
:37:58. > :38:53.pull down there now. Got to just Time-out called. Jamie has two
:38:54. > :38:58.time-outs remaining. . We all know what Paul Foster is going to play.
:38:59. > :39:04.He would be crunching onto the bowl with the jack. He's always trying to
:39:05. > :39:10.think two bowls ahead. I think he needs to run for cover on this. He
:39:11. > :39:15.can't afford to go anywhere near it. Sometimes, it's just, you can't
:39:16. > :39:20.make... A position any better. And Paul Foster needs to run the bowl
:39:21. > :39:24.onto the jack and hope to squeeze it across to his own... Hard to see
:39:25. > :39:31.from the angle, but you can see a fraction on the red bowl. Oh, wow.
:39:32. > :39:38.Possibly off the short green one as well. Not sure if the angle is
:39:39. > :39:42.there. Green bowl is the target. If he misses that he could get the red
:39:43. > :39:46.bowl clean. He would be happy just to hit this.
:39:47. > :39:56.Oh, he's in the area here. Got a chance. Front bowl... Oh! He wanted
:39:57. > :40:00.a crunch. But it's actually not too bad, because he can now see it. But
:40:01. > :40:10.he wanted to crunch it. Bowl onto the jack. Took it out clean as a
:40:11. > :40:17.whistle. Murrers around the crowd. Not an ease one for Jamie. They
:40:18. > :40:20.enjoyed this match. Paul Foster coming
:40:21. > :40:46.Respot is covered. Has to flick the bowl off, but the second shot... One
:40:47. > :40:55.red. He has to go and try to flick it off. He normally favours the
:40:56. > :40:59.forehand. He could even get shot solid. Jack solid could even do it.
:41:00. > :41:09.He knows it. It always looked outside.
:41:10. > :41:17.Well, I think there was a prediction from someone that it would go down
:41:18. > :41:22.to the last end of the tie-break. It was always going to be a tight game.
:41:23. > :42:24.A matter of who was going to get over the
:42:25. > :42:26.He's trying with this one. Really close.
:42:27. > :42:37.APPLAUSE This is going to get interesting
:42:38. > :42:43.now, Robert. Testing for both players. Paul may be tempted by
:42:44. > :42:49.this. Paul just checking how many time-outs he has. Which means he is
:42:50. > :42:56.going to take a slow walkup. He has to be tempted. He could play the
:42:57. > :43:01.back hand, rest the bowl off. A chance he can edge the bowl away.
:43:02. > :43:08.He's even got the angle coming back off his own. It works like that sort
:43:09. > :43:13.of shot to me. Paul has nominated to kill the end with this bowl. He's
:43:14. > :43:18.going for the kill. The only time you're allowed to kill an end. So he
:43:19. > :43:22.has to nominate it and he has. Yeah, the angle off that green is almost
:43:23. > :43:27.perfect, into the jack. A bit surprised he's going with this one,
:43:28. > :43:36.I have to say. I thought he could've drawn that off. Got a lot of big
:43:37. > :43:41.drive. He's close. He's in the area. Oh, well. Is it going to run all the
:43:42. > :43:51.way? That's close. I think it's off. Just off I think. , yep, goes back.
:43:52. > :43:58.Paul Foster has made the kill but he can't do it another time.
:43:59. > :44:05.You're only allowed to do it once. You can nominate as often as you
:44:06. > :44:10.wish but you're only allowed to kill it once. And Jamie Chestney will
:44:11. > :44:14.have that particular situation up his sleeve. He can do it. Had a
:44:15. > :44:21.couple of those. In fact, Paul Foster, he did it last time. Mixed
:44:22. > :44:32.pairs. Drawn the jack off. Last end of the tie-break. Some game, that
:44:33. > :44:52.one. Certainly great entertainment. Paul Foster starts off again.
:44:53. > :45:03.Any turn now from Paul is really good. I wonder. I wonder will Jimmy
:45:04. > :45:09.have a go with this. Think he's got to draw first bowl. I would've
:45:10. > :45:13.thought so. 2 inches. But he's winding up to go for the controlled
:45:14. > :45:19.weight. Very aggressive. He's looking. Just gone. Yep. But he
:45:20. > :45:27.didn't nominate. I think he was looking for the jack
:45:28. > :45:29.in the tich and Paul Foster might decide to put one behind this. A
:45:30. > :45:49.quick look. Foster would be thinking to himself,
:45:50. > :45:55.anything in this position would be really good. If he's able to plant
:45:56. > :45:59.the ball in there, it would be absolutely marvellous. Staying down
:46:00. > :46:06.the same. Can't afford to get the back edge of his own. That's what
:46:07. > :46:11.he's doing, trying to come around it in on the backed hnd. Doesn't want
:46:12. > :46:13.to be too far away from it. Nothing too close to the ditch. That's not
:46:14. > :46:23.bad. He's nominated in case he gets a,
:46:24. > :46:28.the wrong end off the bowl and jack bounces out. Although to be fair,
:46:29. > :46:30.the respot wouldn't been bad either. But jack in a ditch is what he's
:46:31. > :46:44.looking for. Got to be better this time. Still
:46:45. > :46:48.going. Oh! A back end of the bowl, I was thinking he was going to get
:46:49. > :46:50.that. I wonder if Paul Foster will now decide to put a blocker in? It
:46:51. > :47:01.wouldn't be a bad shot. Not convinced that a respot cover is
:47:02. > :47:19.worth while. Jamie Trying to find centre line here.
:47:20. > :47:24.This isn't bad. Needs to pull back deep now, needs to pull back...!
:47:25. > :47:28.Well, he's on the forehand. It's not going to affect the forehand. I
:47:29. > :47:31.think that Paul would have preferred to drop across to the forehand,
:47:32. > :47:37.because Jack in the ditch is very possible. Going to push Jamie a bit
:47:38. > :47:44.wider. He missed his two. Could actually help. So he's nominated
:47:45. > :47:51.again to kill the end. He's allowed to do that as often as he wishes. So
:47:52. > :47:56.he's going on time-outs, cos he only has one bowl after this, if needed.
:47:57. > :48:06.How's I think he's under. Goodness me,
:48:07. > :48:09.Paul Foster, he puts another bowl close to his last done the forehand,
:48:10. > :48:20.Jamie is going to have Apart from a dead draw. Yep. He can
:48:21. > :48:27.draw it ask try to pull the jack through. Goodness me, this is
:48:28. > :48:31.interesting. The only downside, going first bowl. Doesn't give you
:48:32. > :48:37.any other options now. I think that's exactly what Paul is trying
:48:38. > :48:41.to do. He's trying to drop in short on the forehand to block that. Now
:48:42. > :48:45.this one needs to pull strong as well. This is pretty good. Pretty
:48:46. > :48:50.good here. That's very good. That's very. It's still there to kill it.
:48:51. > :48:55.But it's a very good bowl for the stop the jack being pushed through.
:48:56. > :48:59.Can't do much more than what he's done.
:49:00. > :49:07.He's managed to scratch his way through this match by turning up the
:49:08. > :49:12.volume on his performance. And now he's sitting line match.
:49:13. > :49:24.He's going again. The fourth time on the forehand. Want to make sure your
:49:25. > :49:26.hands are well dry for this one, Jimmy. Plenty of
:49:27. > :49:43.He's under again. Yep. Gone. Well, all credit to Paul Foster. Goodness
:49:44. > :49:48.me, he was pushed all the way. He didn't play well in the first set
:49:49. > :49:53.but he did push it through in the second. Kept Jamie Chestney down to
:49:54. > :50:00.other a couple of scoring ends. And only one of two tie ends at the
:50:01. > :50:06.start. Won the third 1, takes it 2-1. On the ring, Paul Foster here.
:50:07. > :50:13.Looked like hard work for you. How difficult was it to find your stride
:50:14. > :50:20.in the second? The It was hard work coming towards the commentary box. I
:50:21. > :50:25.was dropping 3s and fours and Jimmy was nailing it. I drop a 3. But
:50:26. > :50:31.Jamie deserved to play one more set. The second set, you got to forget
:50:32. > :50:36.about it. Dug in and lose a few. That was a great start. But you just
:50:37. > :50:44.got to keep plugging away. I showed a lot of fight today. I know there's
:50:45. > :50:48.a lot of room in the tank yet. I put a lot in matches and lost. But I
:50:49. > :50:55.still dug deep and happy to get through. To the last of our
:50:56. > :51:23.quarterfinal matches between former champion Darren Burnett and
:51:24. > :51:29.Getting that first bowl going, hasn't he? Darren on the mat but
:51:30. > :51:36.it's important to give the officials just enough time to actually mark
:51:37. > :51:38.the ball. Quite right. We're all keen to get on with it. But they got
:51:39. > :51:46.to nip in and Turned his back on it. Line is
:51:47. > :51:51.really good. Certainly better for weight. Yeah, he obviously knew it
:51:52. > :51:53.wasn't enough but it wasn't a correction. Not quite a big enough
:51:54. > :52:21.correction to win the shot. Certainly coming in for a good
:52:22. > :52:26.second. Well played. He should be happy with that one. Front and a
:52:27. > :52:33.jack. But he's not leaving any shoulder. For Darren to come
:52:34. > :52:36.Darren more interested in this one. Would suggest he must be reaching.
:52:37. > :52:57.Very close now. Good second. If you're a team match now, and you
:52:58. > :53:04.were a skip, you would change this hand and say, "Just draw dune here,
:53:05. > :53:09.but without a visit to the head, you're tempted to stick the hand
:53:10. > :53:17.you're playing all game." There's very little benefit on the forehand
:53:18. > :53:28.unless he stops a few Short. He doesn't want a shoulder. Well,
:53:29. > :53:32.that's OK. Well, mmm... It would be fine for his last ball but at the
:53:33. > :53:40.moment he's given Darren Burnett a chance. I think that Darren has just
:53:41. > :53:49.got to play virtually the same as his third bowl. Just squeeze the
:53:50. > :53:53.jack across to his bowl. Literally a draw with 3 or 4 inches of pace.
:53:54. > :54:01.He's interested in it. He's pushing it forward. Just going to die under.
:54:02. > :54:09.Oh, there has to be a chance for Les to run that bowl. Looks like there's
:54:10. > :54:14.no danger. His backhand rested the bowl out for four shots. Even on the
:54:15. > :54:19.draw, he could turn the jack for a couple. The advantage of going for
:54:20. > :54:23.that bowl, he rests that, but if he gets in here, and moves the jack
:54:24. > :54:28.into this position here, it's worth 3 at least. And there's no danger,
:54:29. > :54:39.absolutely no danger. Second bowl is past the jack. Big moment in this
:54:40. > :54:45.set, in this match. He can almost afford any weight he wants here.
:54:46. > :54:52.Looked like he's shaping up to draw. No, he's going for it. He has to go
:54:53. > :54:56.for this. It's behind the jack. Not jack high. Big bowl in this match.
:54:57. > :55:01.Is it going to turn? It's coming now! Is it going to turn... It's
:55:02. > :55:09.coming now... It's very close to the jack. He's got it! Don't know if
:55:10. > :55:15.he's made four out of it but he's making... And it's going to be close
:55:16. > :55:20.for the third and fourth. Oh, my goodness me. That looks very close
:55:21. > :55:26.to the four. Great bowl, great bowl, Les Gillett. He played it well. He
:55:27. > :55:31.knew how important that was. He played it with beautiful weight just
:55:32. > :55:57.to touch the bowl down. Great shot. Absolutely great shot.
:55:58. > :56:20.Now he's having a smack. Gone for the percentages.
:56:21. > :56:30.He's given another one Way away. He's given four away? Or has he?
:56:31. > :56:36.It's just gone off. He was off target, Greg. He didn't want to hit
:56:37. > :56:40.the red one. That would've been a very unfortunate result. It's a
:56:41. > :56:47.measure. Looked to be 3 here, and if that bowl had stayed on, 4. It was a
:56:48. > :56:53.nervy drive at that, all those green ones to hit. I would have given you
:56:54. > :56:58.probably what is left of my mortgage if it was on your forehand. I would
:56:59. > :57:03.have liked to have thought so. If I was a coach for Les, you have been
:57:04. > :57:10.drawing so well, just go down there and draw it. I'm amazed he played
:57:11. > :57:16.that shot. Perhaps it was the winning line coming up, and even the
:57:17. > :57:23.wobble. But when you're drawing so well... I know. ..Just draw it and
:57:24. > :57:29.give it a chance. See how the red bowls do here. This is a measure to
:57:30. > :57:31.stay in the match. It's in. I think we got another, another round here.
:57:32. > :57:43.It's quite tight. Very tight. Players have had a look. Les has a
:57:44. > :57:49.good look. I've a feeling it's a red though.
:57:50. > :57:54.Going back again very, very tight. They appreciate the players need
:57:55. > :58:07.this to be millimetre perfect. That's the match. Shake of hands.
:58:08. > :58:11.Goodness me, he just about got away with it, Les, after dominating the
:58:12. > :58:15.match, to be fair. But he did play it well.
:58:16. > :58:20.Well done to Les Gillett, through to the semifinal where he faces Paul
:58:21. > :58:26.Foster. That's on the red button on Saturday morning from 9:30. Then
:58:27. > :58:31.we're on BBC one at 2:30pm for the other semifinal between Greg Harlow
:58:32. > :58:35.and Stewart Anderson. Now we know the semifinal line-up, and judging
:58:36. > :58:40.by the quality of players still left in the tournament, we should be in
:58:41. > :59:04.for a great weekend. From all of us at Potters, bye-bye.
:59:05. > :59:06.Oh, my goodness me, I don't like the look of that.
:59:07. > :59:09.The Robshaws are going back in time again...