Rodney Talbot (#87) at WSC 2001

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Rodney Talbot (#87) at WSC 2001

Background Information
	Given name(s): Rodney Surname(s): Talbot Home: Keiraville, NSW, Australia Age: 44 Awards: Queensland state champion 2000 Hobbies: tennis, soccer Occupation: horticulturist WSC 2001 Team: Australia

Tournament Ups and Downs

Each pole is labelled at the top with the tournament round. The player's rank that round is shown below.

Round-by-Round
High score: 557 Average for: 394 Average against: 407
Round 1		Talbot played #43 Jere Mead (United States) and lost 367 to 507 (a spread of -140) . Current ranking: #77. Current record: 0-1, -140.
Round 2		Talbot played #65 Margarida Ana de Souza (Trinidad and Tobago) and lost 378 to 401 (a spread of -23) . Current ranking: #71. Current record: 0-2, -163.
Round 3		Talbot played #86 Christopher Sykes (Canada) and lost 284 to 633 (a spread of -349) . Current ranking: #88. Current record: 0-3, -512. Talbot is mentioned in this round's commentary (1 hit).
Round 4		Talbot played #53 Dan Laurentiu Sandu (Romania) and lost 349 to 406 (a spread of -57) . Current ranking: #88. Current record: 0-4, -569.
Round 5	Larger photo available	Talbot played #88 James Charles Wright (Gibraltar) and won 425 to 341 (a spread of 84) . Current ranking: #81. Current record: 1-4, -485.
Round 6		Talbot played #67 Maor Eichler (Israel) and won 348 to 337 (a spread of 11) . Current ranking: #76. Current record: 2-4, -474.
Round 7		Talbot played #24 John Luebkemann (United States) and lost 373 to 381 (a spread of -8) . Current ranking: #79. Current record: 2-5, -482.
Round 8	Larger photo available	Talbot played #42 John Grayson (Wales) and won 471 to 389 (a spread of 82) . Current ranking: #68. Current record: 3-5, -400.
Round 9	Larger photo available	Talbot played #61 Aaron Clottey (Ghana) and won 429 to 371 (a spread of 58) . Current ranking: #63. Current record: 4-5, -342.
Round 10		Talbot played #47 Peter (Pepito) Arreola (Saudi Arabia) and won 445 to 314 (a spread of 131) . Current ranking: #51. Current record: 5-5, -211. Talbot is mentioned in this round's commentary (1 hit).
Round 11	Larger photo available	Talbot played #72 Paul Yandisha Kalumba (Zambia) and won 501 to 399 (a spread of 102) . Current ranking: #42. Current record: 6-5, -109.
Round 12		Talbot played #27 Paul Stephen Cleary (Australia) and lost 342 to 386 (a spread of -44) . Current ranking: #50. Current record: 6-6, -153.
Round 13		Talbot played #08 Robert Felt (United States) and lost 277 to 556 (a spread of -279) . Current ranking: #60. Current record: 6-7, -432.
Round 14	Larger photo available	Talbot played #82 Michael Arthur Quao (Ghana) and lost 333 to 497 (a spread of -164) . Current ranking: #64. Current record: 6-8, -596. Talbot is mentioned in this round's photo captions (1 hit).
Round 15	Larger photo available	Talbot played #85 Alan Sinclair (Scotland) and lost 325 to 464 (a spread of -139) . Current ranking: #71. Current record: 6-9, -735.
Round 16	Larger photo available	Talbot played #66 David Delicata (Malta) and lost 403 to 495 (a spread of -92) . Current ranking: #74. Current record: 6-10, -827.
Round 17		Talbot played #63 Chris Cree (United States) and lost 387 to 420 (a spread of -33) . Current ranking: #77. Current record: 6-11, -860.
Round 18		Talbot played #78 Mario Miranda (Philippines) and won 397 to 303 (a spread of 94) . Current ranking: #73. Current record: 7-11, -766.
Round 19		Talbot played #78 Mario Miranda (Philippines) and won 387 to 373 (a spread of 14) . Current ranking: #71. Current record: 8-11, -752.
Round 20		Talbot played #54 Dixon Assesa (Kenya) and won 557 to 274 (a spread of 283) . Current ranking: #64. Current record: 9-11, -469.
Round 21	Larger photo available	Talbot played #81 Kwame Poku (Ghana) and won 421 to 381 (a spread of 40) . Current ranking: #58. Current record: 10-11, -429.
Round 22		Talbot played #39 Karl Khoshnaw (Kurdistan-Iraq) and lost 361 to 473 (a spread of -112) . Current ranking: #63. Current record: 10-12, -541.
Round 23		Talbot played #69 Samuel Fomum Tanee (Cameroon) and won 498 to 360 (a spread of 138) . Current ranking: #57. Current record: 11-12, -403.
Round 24		Talbot played #65 Margarida Ana de Souza (Trinidad and Tobago) and won 405 to 299 (a spread of 106) . Current ranking: #50. Current record: 12-12, -297. Talbot is mentioned in this round's commentary (1 hit). Talbot is mentioned in this round's photo captions (1 hit).

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