Mika’s wingman losing to Sajich was not that surprising. Even though his play has gone up a lot, I am more surprised why Petri was chosen as one of the 16 prelim players. Probably chosen to represent his country so that whole of Euro is represented.
Sajich won 6 in row when down 0-3.
Melling loss is a big upset of the day even though any of them can beat each other in short race to 7
2 Oceanians in last 16-probably the most number in this event.
Looking at scores for Day 1, Average racks won by losers 2.75. Which means winning margin is 4.25 racks which is quite big, not surprising for winner breaks. For such short race , better to have alternate break.
Table was breaking easy in later matches . Really should be 9 on spot instead of 1. :grin-square: