Seniors Joy for Joyce at Landywood

Mark Joyce defeated Neal Jones 4-0 at the Landywood Snooker Club to win the fifth and final English Seniors Tour event of the season.

• Results

The 42-year-old became the fifth different winner of an English Seniors Tour event this season after coming through a field of 43 cueists in Walsall.

Joyce was the beneficiary of back-to-back walkovers on the Saturday, meaning his whitewash win against Andy Booker with breaks of 105 and 65 earned him a passage straight through to the concluding day.

The former World Snooker Tour (WST) professional dropped just two frames en route to the title match as he downed John Nicholson and Steve Donner each by a 4-1 scoreline.

A 4-2 success against Andrew Diacopoulos had earned Jones a final meeting with Joyce after he had earlier overcome event one champion Gary Miller in a deciding frame.

Joyce’s experience showed in the title match as he took the second frame on the black before a break of 52 put him one away from victory at 3-0.

Victory by a 92-35 scoreline in the fourth then earned Joyce his maiden English Seniors Tour crown.