A UNIQUE double seems tantalisingly within the grasp of Guernsey’s Queen of the Greens, after the irrepressible Alison Merrien guaranteed herself a place in the quarter-finals of the WBL World Cup at the Warilla club in New South Wales.
After winning her first seven matches in her nine-match round robin, she lost momentum when she lost the last two against her biggest rivals, Lorna Trigwell from South Africa, and Karen Murphy of the host country.
But the Guernsey star’s third place spot in the group sets her up for a quarter-final clash with Spain’s Lynne Metcalfe and the closeness of the encounters with Trigwell and Murphy suggests she is still in with a great chance.
Both games went to tiebreaks, Trigwell edging home 13-2, 4-14, 3-0, and Murphy squeezing through, 7-6, 5-8, 3-1.
Success in this event would enable Merrien to add the World Cup title to the WBL World Champion of Champ-ions crown she won at the same venue last November – and she would be the first player to hold both titles simultaneously.
Husband Ian finished just out of the frame for the knockout stage, but completed his group campaign with a pleasing 7-6, 7-7 win over Hong Kong’s Luis Ferneandes.
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