Women at WKC13

 Words and Pictures by Steve Plimbley.

So Friday Ladies Taikai.
Looking at the draw for the individuals , it was clear that the girls would have a hard task to win through the pools to the next round.

Alice and Alex were on first as the opening matches.
Alice lost the first point but recovered quickly to score and eventually lost in encho to kote.
Unfortunately this was her only match as the pool only had 2 people.
Alex also lost in encho to Men in her first match.
Sorry to say i missed her 2nd match
Kim won her 1st match DM-K , lost the 2nd 0-K in encho after tying the match M-K.
She won her pool though and progressed to the next round.
Frankie lost 1st match 0-M and the 2nd 0-KM but she put up a good fight and got stuck in.
Kim was the only one to progress out of the pools.
Kim lost her 2nd round match to the Korean No3 0-DK.

The semi finals were an all Japan afair.
Jap8 v Jap 2 0-M in encho
Jap6 v Jap7 KM-T nice jodan from Jap6

Jap6 v Jap8 0-M in encho.

……………….

Team event
BG v Chinese Taipei

1 Kim 0-KD
2 Karen 0-MM
3 Jayne 0-KM
4 Frankie 0-M
5 Alex X

The score disguises some very hard fought matches

GB v Singapore
1 Kim MM-0
2 Karen M-0
3 Jayne X
4 Frankie 0-M
5 Alex X

Thats better….

So we managed to get out of the pools.

2nd round GB v Canada
The Canadians are very strong yet this i thought was our best result even though we lost

1 Kim 0-M
2 Karen X
3 Jayne 0-M
4 Frankie X
5 Alex X

Semi finals were
Japan v Germany
Canada v Korea

Final
Japan v Korea

Japan won

Alex Burch got a fighting spirit prize.
I thought all of the girls did well, stood up and gave it 100%.