Mark Dawes bucked the trend from the last three games played in the previous 1st Round matches in the Ambassador Cruise Line World Indoor Open Singles Championship - where Qualifiers ended the hopes of the three seeded players - who were all previous winners of this title.
Dawes kept his hopes of a third world indoor singles title alive after a determined 9-4, 9-7 victory over regular Scottish qualifier Ronnie Duncan from the Midlothian club near Edinburgh.
He found himself 4-1 down after four ends of the opening set, but turned the match around with a finishing burst of 3, 1, 2 and 2 to win 9-4.
He carried that momentum into the second set, once again going on a scoring spree of 3, 2 and 1 to lead 6-0 over the first third of the match.
Duncan dug deep and replied with a treble and double, then after dropping a single he once again forged a further count of two shots to level the set at 7-7.
However the finishing line was so near yet so far over the run to the finishing and the Scot dropped back to back singles and missed out 9-7.
Dawes continues his title chase against England international team mate Martin Heitzman on Thursday 23rd March at 10am.
RESULT
WORLD OPEN SINGLES - ROUND 1 Cont'd (16th January / Match 3)
ENG (Mark Dawes /6) bt SCOT (Ronnie Duncan / Q) 9-4, 9-7;
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