Bowls: Thomson in quarter-finals
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Your support makes all the difference.Andy Thomson, winner of the Saga World Indoor Championship in 1994 and 1995, cruised through to the quarter-finals of this year's event with a convincing 3-1 win over South Africa's Neil Burkett in Preston.
Thomson needed only three ends to take the first set after opening with a maximum four and adding a single and double for a 7-0 whitewash.
Thomson dominated the second set, leading from the opening end to wrap up a 7-3 win in six ends, but Burkett counted on four of five ends played in the third set for a 7-1 win.
However, Thomson got back into his stride in the fourth set, opening with three successive singles before Burkett picked up a fourth-end single.
But that proved his last contribution to the scorecard and a two from Thomson gave him the set 7-1, and the match.
New Zealand's Rowan Brassey captured the last quarter-final spot when beating the three-times former champion Richard Corsie in a five-set match. Brassey captured the opening two sets, but Corsie put up a determined fight, claiming the third and fourth to force the game into a decider.
Corsie said: "I was happy with the way I played but I didn't think I got a break from start to finish and that's what made the difference."
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