Cheung The Champ At Challenge Tour One
Cheung receives the trophy from tournament director Brendan Moore
Hong Kong’s 20-year-old Ka Wai Cheung won the opening event of the 2019-20 Challenge Tour series, beating Oliver Brown 3-1 in the final.
Cheung won six matches at the tournament in Nuremberg, Germany, to take the £2,000 top prize and win a Challenge Tour event for the first time.
The top player in the Challenge Tour rankings after ten events will be awarded a Tour Card, with the next eight going into a play-off event for a second card.
Cheung showed his potential when he won the world under-18 title in 2015. Earlier this year he represented Hong Kong at the World Cup in China, alongside Andy Lee, and they performed impressively, coming through a tough group to reach the knock out stages before losing to Scotland.
The next Challenge Tour event is in Newbury, England, on September 21-22.
All results:
Pre–Qualifiers.
Oliver Brown 3 Sean O’Sullivan 1.
Dave Finbow 3 Sybren Sokolowski 1.
Rolf Mahr w/o Shuaib Safiullah
Round one results.
Luke Pinches 3 Conor McCormack 1.
Liam Davies 3 Gary Thompson 2.
Sydney Wilson 3 Keishin Kamihashi 1.
Ian Preece 3 Paul Davison 1.
Aaron Hill 3 Callum Lloyd 0.
Oliver Brown 3 Lewis Gillen 0.
Ryan Davies 3 Joshua Cooper 0.
Fergal Quinn 3 Sean King 1.
Jamie Curtis-Barrett 3 George Pragnell 2.
Tyler Rees 3 Dean Young 1.
Robbie McGuigan 3 Ben Mertens 1.
Andy Marriott 3 Andrew Doherty 1.
Zsolt Fenyvesi 3 Jamie McArdle 1.
Alex Millington 3 Andreas Ploner 2.
Chris Keogan 3 Jakob Pfeifer 0.
Patrick Whelan 3 Rolf Mahr 0.
Peter Devlin 3 Saqib Nasir 1.
Matthew Glasby 3 Eric Pei 0.
Sean Maddocks 3 Garry Coulson 0.
Rory McLeod 3 Fabian Haken 0.
Daniel Womersley 3 Alex Taubman 0.
Andrew Pagett 3 Dylan Emery 2.
Ka Wai Cheung 3 Sanderson Lam 1.
Steven Hallworth 3 Ross Bulman 1.
Stuart Watson 3 Aaron Busuttil 1.
Manasawin Phetmalaikul 3 Dave Finbow 2.
Florian Nuessle 3 Kuldesh Johal 2.
Ronan Whyte 3 Daniel Schneider 0.
Zak Surety 3 Tony Corrigan 1.
Ashley Hugill 3 Daniel Holoyda 0.
Lukas Kleckers 3 Andres Petrov 1.
Round Two results.
Ian Preece 3 Sydney Wilson 0.
Luke Pinches 3 Liam Davies 1.
Robbie McGuigan 3 Peter Devlin 1.
Oliver Brown 3 Aaron Hill 2.
Tyler Rees 3 Jamie Curtis-Barrett 0.
Andrew Pagett 3 Stuart Watson 0.
Ryan Davies 3 Fergal Quinn 2.
Chris Keogan 3 Andy Marriott 1
Zak Surety 3 Manasawin Phetmalaikul 1.
Steven Hallworth 3 Ashley Hugill 0.
Michael Collumb 3 Daniel Womersley 2.
Zsolt Fenyvesi 3 Alex Millington 2.
Patrick Whelan 3 Matthew Glasby 2.
Lukas Kleckers 3 Florian Nuessle 1.
Sean Maddocks 3 Rory McLeod 1.
Ka Wai Cheung 3 Ronan Whyte 0.
Last 16 results.
Oliver Brown 3 Ryan Davies 0.
Robbie McGuigan 3 Tyler Rees 1.
Ian Preece 3 Luke Pinches 0.
Zak Surety 3 Steven Hallworth 0.
Chris Keogan 3 Zsolt Fenyvesi 2.
Andrew Pagett 3 Sean Maddocks 0.
Ka Wai Cheung 3 Lukas Kleckers 1.
Patrick Whelan 3 Michael Collumb 2.
Quarter Finals
Ka Wai Cheung 3 Zak Surety 2.
Oliver Brown 3 Ian Preece 2.
Patrick Whelan 3 Andrew Pagett 1.
Chris Keogan 3 Robbie McGuigan 2.
Semi Finals
Oliver Brown 3-2 Chris Keogan
Patrick Whelan 0-3 Ka Wai Cheung
Final
Ka Wai Cheung 3-1 Oliver Brown
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