Leon Azzopardi won the last Blackball Nations Cup qualifying tournament after seeing off Clayton Castaldi 10-3 in the men’s final. Azzopardi was very consistent throughout the game with Castaldi who couldn’t do so much against his opponent. In the under 18 final, Denzel Falzon beat Steven Muscat 9-7 while in the under 23 final, Matthias Debono was better than Casdy Vella as he won 9-3. Joseph Tabone beat Chris Galea 10-4 in the over 40 final while Johan Grixti achieved success in the 50+ final after a victory of 10-7 against Joe Camilleri.
A total of eight qualifying tournaments were held from which the Maltese national team was officially selected to compete in Bridlington for this year’s edition of the Nations Cup in the third week of March.
