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New South Wales Open Billiards
Joe Minici defeated Joe Millen to win the New South Wales Open
Billiards at the Marconi Club, Sydney, on 5th December 1999. Trailing
by about 200 points in the 4 hour final, Minici made a terrific break of
266 which helped him to get back on level terms. Playing a skilful top-
of-the-table game he went on to win 1268-985, averaging 25.3 for the
match. Minici also took the highest break in the tournament with 328
which he made in his quarter-final against Darren Martin.
Results :
Quarter-finals (2 hours)
Bruce Ashby 609, Todd Haywood 430;
Joe Millen 648, Adrian Hinks 441; Phil Miller 609, Trevor Bell 245; Joe
Minici 708 (328, 172), Darren Martin (119) 577.
Semi-finals (3 hours)
Joe
Millen (100, 100, 90, 87, 54) 966, Phil Miller (54) 625; Joe Minici (205, 154,
96, 95, 86, 54, 53) 1272, Bruce Ashby (51) 436.
Final (4 hours)
Joe Minici
(266, 153, 126, 118, 79, 76, 73, 66) 1268 [25.3], Joe Millen (89, 68, 68, 66,
66, 65, 62, 60, 59, 50) 985 [19.7].
Source : Tony Ledger