2026 Australian Open: Day 14 wrap
The first lot of 2026 Australian Open champions were crowned after an action packed day at Club Broadbeach for the first day of finals.
Women’s Singles Final:
Jamie-Lee Worsnop has been crowned the 2026 Australian Open Women’s Singles champion after a thrilling contest against Cassandra Millerick in the final.
Worsnop flew out of the blocks to lead 7-0 after four ends, but a determined Millerick wouldn’t give up in the race to 21.
The Moama product stormed back into contention with some quality bowls to take the scores to 18-20 in Worsnop’s favour.
With the crowd on the edge of their seats, Millerick played three superb draw shots to hold game.
However, Worsnop held her nerve to play the perfect shot to win her first Australian Open championship 21-18.
Men’s Pairs Final:
Corey Wedlock and Gary Kelly went back-to-back in the Australian Open Men’s Pairs after defeating a spirited Glenn Clinckett and Jay Bye-Norris in the final.
Despite leading for the majority of the game, Wedlock and Kelly faced a serious challenge from the Clinckett and Bye-Norris combination, who won three late ends in a row to only trail by one shot after 15 ends.
However, some sensational leading from Wedlock and brilliant conversion shots from Kelly saw the reigning champions hold their lead to reaffirm their status as one of the most dominant pairs duos in the world and win 17-14.
Mixed Pairs Final:
Jamie-Lee Worsnop and Corey Wedlock continued their prosperous day in the 2026 Australian Open by claiming the Mixed Pairs title over Tahlia Lait and Adam Liddell.
Worsnop and Wedlock were in sublime form, racing out to a 10 shot lead after 10 ends and finishing by that margin 17-7.
It was the first time the Mixed Pairs was run as an official event of the Australian Open and meant that Worsnop and Wedlock finished with two titles each for this year’s edition of the Australian Open.
Women’s Fours Final
History was made at the 2026 Australian Open as the quartet of Aleena Ahmad Nawawi, Nurul Alyani Jamil, Emma Firyana Saroji and Syafiqa Haidar Afif Abdul Rahman emerged as champions in the Women’s Fours final.
The Malaysian team was clinical against young guns Gracie Retallick, Taiia Devlin, Olivia Slade and Emma Simmonds as they went on to win 18-13 in a high-class affair.
The Malaysians raced out to a six-shot lead after 10 ends, but a run of three consecutive ends, including a vital four, saw the Victorians take the lead 13-12 after 13 ends.
However, under enormous amounts of pressure, Syafiqa Haidar Afif Abdul Rahman played one of the bowls of the tournament to trail the jack and claim a five on the penultimate end to secure the win.
The victory is the second time a representative from Malaysia has won an Australian Open discipline, with Siti Zalina Ahmad claiming the Women’s Singles event in 2007.
Men’s Fours Final:
A brilliant performance from Hayden Oster, Harvey McAlister, Jacob Aitken and Tyler Pettigrew has seen them record a memorable victory over the powerhouse team of Aaron Teys, Jay Bye-Norris, Nathan Black and Corey Wedlock in the Men’s Fours final.
Pettigrew was brilliant in the lead position, setting up the rest of the team throughout the entire game.
A four from the Teys team in the last end saw the game go to an extra end, but Team Oster was able to hold on to the shot and secure a 16-13 victory and win their first Australian Open title.
Women’s Physical Disability Singles Final
Serena Bonnell has continued her dominance of the Women’s Physical Disability Singles discipline at the Australian Open after defeating Emerging Para-Jackaroo Annette Ruffle in the 2026 final 21-14.
Ruffle got off to a strong start to lead 4-1, but the back-to-back champion in Bonnell fought back to take a 10-5 lead after nine ends.
Consecutive ends, including a four, brought Ruffle back into the contest, but Bonnell was too strong, claiming her third Physical Disability Singles title and her fourth Australian Open title.
Vision Impaired Open Singles Final
Calvin Rodgers claimed his first Australian Open title after a commanding performance in the Vision Impaired Open Singles final over 2023 champion Scott Kinnear.
After a slow start that saw Kinnear take the lead, Rodgers stormed home to claim eight of the last 10 ends to win 21-10.
It is the Western Australian’s first Australian Open title after a number of runner-up finishes.
Multi-Disability Open Pairs Final:
Queensland’s Brett Sellars and Tasmania’s David Minns saluted in the Multi-Disability Open Pairs after a final against Cooper Whitestyles and Damien Delgado that went right down to the wire.
Whitestyles and Delgado started the game well to lead 3-6 after five ends, but Sellars and Minns were able to string together a good run of ends to claim seven of the next eight and lead 14-9 with two ends to play.
Needing four on the last end to send the game to an extra end, Delgado put two on the jack to hold three with one bowl remaining.
However, he dropped just short, meaning Sellars and Minns held on to win 14-13.
Intellectual Open Singles Final:
In an all-Club Helensvale final, it was Darren Jackson that claimed the inaugural Intellectual Open Singles title with an impressive display over Damon Bartholomeusz 21-4.
Claiming the first end, Jackson was sublime throughout the match, never surrendering the lead against his club mate as he went on to win his maiden Australian Open title.
Deaf and Hard of Hearing Open Singles Final:
In a tight contest that lasted 25 ends, Whittlesea’s Michael Barca overcame Maitland City’s Andrew Turner in the inaugural edition of the Deaf and Hard of Hearing Open Singles final.
It was a game that saw momentum shift on numerous occasions, with both players unable to score a multiple in the early stages.
A four from Barca to take him to 15-10 up opened the floodgates and the Whittlesea product never looked back to defeat Turner 21-14.
Under 18s:
The under-18 boy’s singles will see a new champion as Victorians Harry Coleman and Charlie Boswood have set up a tantalising clash.
The girls singles will see New South Wales’ Annabelle Teague up against Victoria’s Mackenzie Parsons.
Over 60s:
In the Over 60’s men’s pairs, 2025 finalists Tony Hinton and Warren Shipley will face the South African pairing of Gary Rom and Michael Herbert, with the women’s event seeing Queensland’s Vikki Grenot and Elizabeth Walton up against their state compatriots Dianne Reed and Faye Clarke.
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