{"id":23338,"date":"2018-01-23T12:18:01","date_gmt":"2018-01-23T12:18:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/thecardiffian\/?p=23338"},"modified":"2018-01-23T12:18:01","modified_gmt":"2018-01-23T12:18:01","slug":"penarths-jason-greenslade-world-bowls-win","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/thecardiffian\/2018\/01\/23\/penarths-jason-greenslade-world-bowls-win\/","title":{"rendered":"Penarth\u2019s Jason Greenslade in World Bowls win"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">JASON Greenslade survived a tricky first round encounter at the Just 2018 World Professional Indoor Bowls Championships to guarantee a match against world number one Paul Foster.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Greenslade, the world number 16, beat unseeded Robert Gordon (8-2, 6-6) but was made to work for his victory on Monday night.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Despite taking the first set 8-2, <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The Welsh Wizard<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u00a0was forced to stave off a determined Gordon who fought back in the second set, but the Scot was unable to get over the line to force a deciding set.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Greenslade\u2019s next opponent, Foster, has six World Indoor Championship singles titles to his name, bettered only by fellow Scot Alex Marshall.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Greenslade\u2019s best result in the open singles is second in the 2012 World Championships<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">, but he won the open doubles title in the 2017 World Championships with Les Gillett.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400\">On the professional bowls tour games are scored by sets, with each set consisting of nine ends where players will take turns to bowl at a smaller ball named a jack.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The player whose ball is closest to the jack at the end of each end earns a point, and the player with the most points after nine ends wins the set.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400\">A player wins the game by either winning two sets, or by winning and drawing a set. In the event of a tie after three sets a three end tie-breaker is played to decide the winner.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Greenslade started bowling at the age of eight after being introduced to the game by his parents, both of whom were Welsh internationals.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400\">He bowls at Sully Indoor Bowls Club, Penarth, and Dinas Powis Bowling Club.<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><em><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The World Championships continue today on BBC online or via the red button.<\/span><\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>JASON Greenslade survived a tricky first round encounter at the Just 2018 World Professional Indoor Bowls Championships to guarantee a match against world number one Paul Foster. Greenslade, the world number 16, beat unseeded Robert Gordon (8-2, 6-6) but was made to work for his victory on Monday night. Despite taking the first set 8-2, The Welsh Wizard\u00a0was forced to stave off a determined Gordon who fought back in the second set, but the Scot was unable to get over [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":120,"featured_media":23387,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[176,15,4],"tags":[2170,500,5319,4464,5320,5321,181,5322],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-23338","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general","category-penarth-g-q","category-sport","tag-bowls","tag-championship","tag-dinas-powis","tag-dinas-powys","tag-indoor-bowls","tag-jack","tag-penarth","tag-sully"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Penarth\u2019s Jason Greenslade in World Bowls win - The Cardiffian<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/thecardiffian\/2018\/01\/23\/penarths-jason-greenslade-world-bowls-win\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_GB\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Penarth\u2019s Jason Greenslade in World Bowls win - The Cardiffian\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"JASON Greenslade survived a tricky first round encounter at the Just 2018 World Professional Indoor Bowls Championships to guarantee a match against world number one Paul Foster. 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