The World Cup Singles was an event inaugurated in 2005 by the organisation known as World Bowls and was held until 2019. It was contested annually between bowlers from national bowls organisations. The competition was seen as the Southern Hemisphere equivalent of the World Indoor Bowls Championships held annually in the United Kingdom and organised by the World Bowls Tour.

History The event was first held from 3-10 April 2005, at the Hong Kong Football Club indoor bowling green and Ap Lei Chau Sports Centre in Hong Kong but eventually took place every year at the Warilla Bowls Club in New South Wales, Australia.

Although players from both hemispheres were able to compete, travelling restricted the entries and the majority of the leading indoor players from the Northern hemisphere did not take part.

In 2019, World Bowls came to an agreement with the International Indoor Bowls Council (IIBC), formerly the WIBC. The agreement was to merge their two international indoor championships, the World Cup Singles and the IIBC Championships. The new event would be called the World Bowls Indoor Championships.

Past winners

Men's singles Year Winner Runner-up 2005 Mark Casey Terence Lee 2006 Neil Speirs Safuan Said 2007 Kelvin Kerkow Jeremy Henry 2008 Safuan Said Ali Forsyth 2009 Leif Selby Safuan Said 2010 Leif Selby Anthony Kiepe 2011 James Talbot Graeme Archer 2012 Jeremy Henry James Talbot 2013 Jeremy Henry Tony Grantham 2014 Jeremy Henry Tony Wood 2015 Iain McLean David Holt 2016 Jeremy Henry Andrew Kyle 2017 Jeremy Henry Muhammad Soufi Rusli 2018 Jeremy Henry David Ferguson 2019 Gary Kelly Brendan Aquilina

Women's singles Year Winner Runner-up 2005 Grace Chu Litia Tikoisuva 2006 Shirley Choy Doreen Hankin 2007 Judy Nardella Lorna Trigwell 2008 Alison Merrien Val Smith 2009 Jo Edwards Karen Murphy 2010 Jo Edwards Karen Murphy 2011 Jo Edwards Alison Merrien 2012 Alison Merrien Jo Edwards 2013 Jo Edwards Alison Merrien 2014 Caroline Brown Alison Merrien 2015 Siti Zalina Ahmad Julie Forrest 2016 Carmen Anderson Siti Zalina Ahmad 2017 Jo Edwards Lucy Beere 2018 Lucy Beere Rebecca Van Asch 2019 Jo Edwards Lucy Beere

See also World Bowls Events

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