Bexhill's 15-year-old England International, Jimmy Robertson, took his second Frank Sandell Snooker, Roundstone Car Centre Grand Prix title of the season by winning the CGS (Brighton) Ltd Challenge at Chichester's Triangle Club.

After missing the second event of the series, Robertson matched his performance at the first event by not dropping a frame all day. Although he won the final 2-0, 12-year-old Billy Rushton from Worthing put up the strongest competition that Robertson has faced so far this season, taking both high-scoring frames to the pink. Rushton, who was appearing in his first singles final, greatly exceeded his number twenty-two seeding and was therefore undoubtedly an appropriate recipient for one of the Hunters Inn Performance awards.

Rushton reached the final at the expense of three top-sixteen players, disposing of East Grinstead's Mark Bright, 11, 2-0 in the last sixteen, sponsors' son Neal Gozzett (18) 2-1 in the quarter-finals and the host club's Gareth Gaffney, 17, 2-1 in the semis with some fearless potting. In the other half of the draw Robertson found little competition, winning many frames in one or two visits and eliminating the beaten finalist from the last event, Dave Dunn, 14, from Chichester in the semi-finals. Robertson's victory puts him seven points clear of Dunn at the half-way stage of the series.

In the Junior Handicap, Kieron Fryer, 12, of East Grinstead won his first tournament by beating Worthing's James Kipping, also 12. Consolation for Kipping arrived in his rise to joint leader of the Handicap series with Chichester's Scott Sparrow, 17 and David Trounce, 15, of Worthing. The Senior Handicap was won by Worthing's Matthew Dumbleton, 16, who beat Chichester's Joe Lloyd, 14.

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