AQ’, who has a bye into the semi-finals, comes up against Scotland’s world indoor singles champion, Paul Foster, known on the professional circuit as The Troon Tornado, and who is making a strong bid for the Scottish singles berth in next year’s Commonwealth Games.
The strong field for the singles includes defending champion, Martin McHugh, from Ireland, who beat Quemard in the semi-finals last year, Yorkshireman Mark Walton, who did the double at the Hong Kong International Classic in November, Guernsey’s Gary Pitschou, and Welshman Richard Morgan.
Jamie MacDonald has also drawn a Scot, Stuart Bebbington, from Tweedmouth, in the quarter-finals of the junior singles, knowing that success would pit him against Bowls Guernsey chief executive Garry Collins in the semi-finals.
Bill Bowman and Gus McKinnon, who go straight into the pairs semi-finals, take on the winners of the quarter-final between Guernsey youngsters Daniel de la Mare and Matt Le Ber and Irish duo Steve Millane and Richard Leonard.
Quémard, who has earned two chances of winning a British title, skips Steve Hind and John Lowery against a trio of Merriens, Alan, Mike and Paul, from Guernsey, in the triples quarter final.
That leaves the fours, in which Tommy Greechan, Lowery, MacDonald and Lee Nixon are hoping to avenge the shock semi-final defeat suffered last year by David Le Marquand’s quartet, when they take on Guernsey’s Matt and Len Le Ber, Craig Dorey and Dave Trebert in the quarter finals.
