As you have probably seen online I bowled really well in the singles event in Taipei and led the field. I started off playing further in than in the doubles, playing about 10 at the arrows to 5 at the break point. I had to make sure my Siege had enough surface on to even out the reaction off the back of the pattern. The WTBA have brought a new ruling in that you can adjust the surface of the ball in-between games now so I was able to keep scuffing the ball every couple of games.
I led the singles pretty much from start to finish only having a few problems with certain pairs in the house. It seemed a few pairs of lanes had a lot of hang off the gutter and it was tough not to leave 2-8-10 combinations. But the slightest move to the right saw the ball jumping off the back of the pattern and it was very easy to go through the face.
Unfortunately for me the final pair for the step ladder developed that hang and I had a lot of trouble. The first game the lanes behaved themselves but as the oil pushed down a little I got into that 2-8-10 territory again! In hindsight a bit more surface or a move to the right with more ball speed would have been the answer but its all too quick at the time. I came away with a silver medal and I am very pleased with my overall performance in Taipei. The pattern was very tough and a great practise for Las Vegas and the World Championships. That's 2 World Games in a row I have come 2nd!! One day maybe I will break the pattern and go one better!
Myself, Darren Cundy and Chris Buck made the 36 hour trip from Taipei straight to Las Vegas. We got bumped to a later flight from Kaohsiung to Hong Kong so had access to the Dragon Air executive lounge for 5 hours and upgraded to business class which helped make the trip a bit more comfortable (shame they couldn't extend the upgrade to the Hong Kong to San Francisco flight!!!)
At Hong Kong we had a quick change over and boarded the long haul flight to the USA, we took off at 14:30 and landed at 12:30 the same day due to the 15 hour time difference. Very strange, none of us had any idea what day it was!
Unfortunately on arriving in San Fran we had a long layover waiting about 6 hours for the short flight to Las Vegas. This was the tough one as we were so tired it was difficult to keep our eyes open! We eventually boarded and once I was in my seat I didn't even stay awake for take off!!! I literally fell asleep instantly and opened my eyes and we were landing in Vegas!!!
We got a taxi to the hotel where we will be for the week and I went straight to sleep and didn't even move I don't think for 13 hours! The rest of the girls were to arrive the day after on a direct flight from Gatwick.
Zara
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