Monkstone Pétanque Club

The first ever (annual?) Club Singles were held at the Club on 6 September 2025. There were a total of 28 entries, 20 Men and 8 Ladies (inc 3 Juniors) so both a Men’s and Ladies’ Singles were held.

Both competitions had a 3 round Qualification Stage in the Morning followed by an Elimination Stage in the afternoon. The Men’s Elimination stage was divided into Main, Plate for the top 16 from the morning and a Repechage for the remaining 4.

Ladies Competition

The morning Qualification Stage threw up few surprises but mention should be made of Maddie Bartlett who ranked #4.

The Quarter Final of the Elimination Stage in the afternoon went very much as might have been expected but the later stages saw a very tight finish between Penny Wooller and Amanda Jenkins with Penny squeezing home for a place in the Final. On the Other side of the draw Maddie Bartlett overcame Diana De for the chance to meet Penny in the Final which was another close run thing with Maddie just coming up short at the end.

So the Final has been contested between a newcomer to the Club, although Penny had played the game at league level some years ago, and one of our exciting crop of Juniors.

Perhaps this will encourage more Ladies to come forward next year – in Singles its anybody’s game!

Men’s Competition

Main

In the Main there were no great surprises but mention should be made of Tony Cooper (4), Paul Hawkins (6) and Keith Miller (7) who are all relative newcomers to the game. Unfortunately they all fell at the first Elimination hurdle except Keith Miller who went on to defeat Phil Roberts (2), Claude Razavet (3) and Sean Smith (1), the tournament favourite.

Huge congratulations to Keith for an outstanding performance.

Plate (Qualification Rankings Below are all +8)

In the Plate, those who were Ranked after the morning session from 9 to 16, Tony Martin, an experienced but infrequent player of the game, came through to beat newcomer Lloyd Kinsey in the Final.

Repechage (Qualification Rankings Below are all +16)

The big surprise was to see Tony Smith in the Repechage. As Tony himself put it “I’ve had a S*$% day”. Well done to Keith Thomas for fighting through and taking the Final against Peter Lippett

A big thank-you to Claude Le Razavet who organised the competition – a first at MPC for Claude. Hopefully he is a leader and other members will follow in his footsteps and organise one of the Club competitions. Help is always available if you haven’t done it before.

Monkstone PC open Triples were contested today with 15 teams taking part. The weather was mixed, mainly sun and cloud but apart from a couple of very light showers we escaped the threatened rain.

The format was pools of 4 in the morning with Gold and Silver elimination competitions in the afternoon.

It was great to see a many members from MPC, including couple of our up and coming Juniors, Maddie Bartlett & Kitty Johnson, taking part against some of the best players in the WPA.

ENTRY LIST

QUALIFICATION STAGE RESULTS

GOLD COMPETITION RESULTS

     Winners – Good, Bad & Ugly                              Runners Up – International All Stars

SILVER COMPETITION RESULTS

            Winners – Three Point 5                                         Runners Up – Platonquers

MPC Members

The following teams from MPC have entered the club’s Open Triples on Sunday 22 June. We have a total of 15 entries and 1 more entry would be great to avoid byes and to make the afternoon knockout as 2 groups of 8 which makes for a great competition.

If you haven’t entered please consider getting a team together and entering – first come first served. If we get more than 16 entries there will be a waiting list and the entries will only be allowed if we get to 20.

Whether or not you are playing, we would still appreciate any raffle prizes you can donate.