Catch up May 2008, exams and world champ!

Hello

I am sorry for not updating my blog. I have been very busy. I am about to sit my SAT exams and am getting ready for my new school year in Ecclesbourne secondary school. I am very excited about it.

I have just been to the World Championships in Cambridge. I have been practicing very hard for this tournament and have been playing well in the EASB junior tournaments taking frames and matches off very good players. My breaks in practice and matches have been more consistent.

I played very well in the World Championships. I came 4th in my group which is my best finish since I started playing in the championships in 2006. I won 2 matches and came close against the 2007 World Billiards Champion Chitra Magimairaj in our frames even though I lost 3-0. I made it to the semi finals of the World Plate event and lost in 2 close frames to the winner Malgorzata Sikorska - we had played in the groups as well and I lost 2-1 to her. Before the semi finals I beat Jan Hughes 2-0 and Martina Lumsden 2-1.

On sunday 4th May I played in the World Ladies Junior Championships. I beat 15 year old Georgina Holloway 2-0 in the semi final and went into the final with alot of focus. I played 15 year old Joanne Davies and played my best match snooker ever to win the match 2-0. I pretended I was playing Reanne and concentrated really hard to pot the balls and play safe where I needed to. Mum and Dad were very excited and proud and couldn't believe that I had played so well. I had my photograph taken with Ellie, on my own and with Joanne and our referee Dan.

We came back home and I took my trophy into school. My teacher Miss Lemmings was very excited when I showed her the trophy.

I am going to continue to practice my snooker but I also have to practice for my county pool game for Derbyshire ladies which is in 2 weeks. In my last match I won 4 out of 4 and got the player of the match. Dad was playing for the County mens B team and got 3 out of 4 which he was very happy with.

My dad has told me that I have been selected to play billiards for England in the Junior Nations Cup in Vienna in August. I was very excited to hear this. I love billiards but I don't play it that often. A couple of weeks ago I went to Pontins to play in the European Under 19 billiards tournament and played some of my team mates for the austrian tournament. I played well considering that I haven't been playing.

I came second in the Junior snooker red league last season and will be getting another trophy at the next exhibition at the club. This time though I am struggling and have found it difficult to win the close frames. There is plenty of time left though to move up the league table :)

That's all for now. I shall try and update my blog more often after sats. Thanks for looking at my website.