It was not all plain sailing, far from it, but the YC&AC entries to the 2019 Bowls Japan tournaments — Singles, Pairs, Triples, Fours and International — are now confirmed.
Listed below, in the order in which the finals will be played, we are:
BJ MIXED TRIPLES
Motoko Tsuyama
Ippei Iwasaki
Toshiharu Saito
Kazuko Yasuda
Tomohiro Hamada
Jun Adachi
Tournament to be held at YC&AC, Sunday, September 15
BJ FOURS
Kazuko Yasuda (Capt.)
Alex Hendy
George Ishiguro
Kaz Umeda
Toshiharu Saito (Capt.)
Saori Hamada
Tom Tyrrell
Hirofumi Nakajima
Hans Pauli (Capt.)
Jun Adachi
Motoko Tsuyama
Tomohiro Hamada
Captain Kumar (Capt.)
Yoko Ishiguro
Ippei Iwasaki
Terry Potticary
On standby: Yuko Sasaki
Tournament to be held at YC&AC, Monday September 16
6TH BJ INTERNATIONAL
Jun Adachi
Ippei Iwasaki
Kazuko Yasuda
Tournament to be held in Akashi, Kobe, October 12–14
BJ SINGLES
Men: Alex Hendy; Jun Adachi
Women: Saori Hamada; Kazuko Yasuda
Finals to be played at Shiawase-no-mura in Kobe, October 5 and 6
BJ PAIRS
Men: Alex Hendy & Marcel Niederhauser; Tomohiro Hamada & Hirofumi Nakajima; George Ishiguro & Toshiharu Saito
Women: Saori Hamada & Kazuko Yasuda
Finals to be played at Akashi, Kobe, November 9 & 10
Lawn Bowls 