Tom Blair wins Essex Junior Open U15

In an amazing performance Comberton's own Tom Blair stormed through to win the Essex Junior Open Boys U15 competition last weekend in Redbridge Essex. His Comberton training partner Will Collett was knocked out in the first round. But Sam Bradshaw stayed in the running and it looked like being an all Comberton final as he pushed through the other half of the draw. He saw off two opponents 3/0 taking him through to the semi-final before being knocked out.

But the performance of the day was certainly Tom's - under his trading name of Thomas Blair ;) .After a good start in the early rounds, he had a tough semi-final match finally winning 3/2 against Daniel Wheeler. This took him up against Jagpal Sehmbi who had beaten Sam Bradshaw in the other semi in three hard games. Luckily Tom still had the energy to win this final 3/1. He was one of the few players able to break the monopoly of Essex players in the overall results from the weekend. He took away an imposing trophy and quite a few national ranking points. Well done.