2025 World Bowls Indoor Championships

This article is about the World Bowls/IIBC Indoor Championships. For the rival event organised by the World Bowls Tour, see 2025 World Indoor Bowls Championship.

The 2025 World Bowls Indoor Championships took place at the Aberdeen Indoor Bowling Club in Aberdeen, Scotland, from 20 to 26 April 2025.^[1][2][3]

2025 World Bowls Indoor Championships
4th
Location	Aberdeen Indoor Bowling Club
Date(s)	20–26 April 2025
← 2024 2026 →

The format of the Championships is one player representing each county in the singles and two in the pairs. In the singles, a round robin determines the top player in each section progressing to the quarter final and the second and third placed players progressing to the knockout round. The mixed pairs was slightly different in that a draw determined the knockout round, due to the fact that 12 teams qualified from the six group round robin stage.^[4][5][6][7]

Australia's Jack McShane won the singles defeating Dominic McVittie in the final, while Sophie McGrouther became world champion after a tie break victory over Emily Kernick. The English pair of McVittie and Kernick gained consolation by winning the mixed pairs title.^[8]

Winners

Event	Winner
Men's singles	Jack McShane
Women's singles	Sophie McGrouther
Mixed pairs	Dominic McVittie & Emily Kernick

Results

Men's singles

First round

Section 1 Pos Name Pts 1 Andrew Kyle 21 2 Mark McGreal 15 3 Ian Merrien 15 4 Boaz Markus 12 5 Ozkan Akar 6 6 Mike McNorton 6 7 Tim Sheridan 6 8 Olle Backgren 3

Section 2 Pos Name Pts 1 Ross Owen 21 2 Keanu Darby 18 3 Dominic McVittie 15 4 Bill Brault 9 5 Loukas Paraskeva 9 6 Gabor Foti 6 7 Robert Simpson 3 8 Patrick Piguet 3

Section 3 Pos Name Pts 1 Jason Evans 21 2 Haiqal Azami 18 3 Peter Bonsor 15 4 Peter Ellul 12 5 Ian Hodgetts 9 6 Oliver Thompson 6 7 Beat Mattn 3 8 George Ngata Kieni 0

Section 4 Pos Name Pts 1 Stewart Anderson 21 2 Jack McShane 18 3 Anthony So 15 4 Christol Steenkamp 9 5 Johnny Yuk Kay Ng 9 6 Mohammed Qureshi 6 7 Takashi Ohira 6 8 Jan Sinnema 0

Knockout round

Player 1	Player 2	Score
McVittie	McGreal	6–9, 8–1, 6–0
McShane	Bonsor	9–4, 7–4
Darby	Merrien	5–8, 4–9
Azami	So	1–10, 6–9

Quarter finals

Player 1	Player 2	Score
Kyle	McShane	4–5, 6–3 1–3
Owen	So	8–2, 8–4
Evans	Merrien	7–4, 3–8, 4–1
Anderson	McVittie	4–9, 3–6

Semi finals

Player 1	Player 2	Score
Owen	McVittie	2–6, 3–5
Evans	McShane	5–5, 5–6

Final

Player 1	Player 2	Score
McShane	McVittie	9–4, 7–2

Women's singles

First round

Section 1 Pos Name Pts 1 Alison Merrien 18 2 Claire Anderson 12 3 Esme Kruger 9 4 Nor Farah Ain Abdullah 9 5 Ada Lai 9 6 Soledad Robertson 6 7 Pian Yuk Ping Lai 0

Section 2 Pos Name Pts 1 Kelsey Cottrell 15 2 Connie Rixon 15 3 Rachel Macdonald 12 4 Rahsan Akar 9 5 Linda Ng 6 6 Giulia Gallo 3 7 Diana Viljoen 3

Section 3 Pos Name Pts 1 Tayla Bruce 18 2 Emily Kernick 15 3 Caroline Whitehead 12 4 Zoe Minish 9 5 Caroline Lehmann 6 6 Cindy Royet 3 7 Maureen Caesar 0

Section 4 Pos Name Pts 1 Emma Firyana Saroji 15 2 Sophie McGrouther 15 3 Lauren Gowen 12 4 Shae Wilson 12 5 Lisa Bonsor 6 6 Sayuri Abiru 3 7 Auleria Shieunda Fuller 0

Knockout round

Player 1	Player 2	Score
Anderson	Macdonald	9–1, 4–9, 6–0
McGrouther	Whitehead	9–5, 14–0
Rixon	Kruger	4–9, 7–2, 1–2
Kernick	Gowen	5–4, 3–5, 2–1

Quarter finals

Player 1	Player 2	Score
Merrien	McGrouther	6–4, 1–9, 0–4
Cottrell	Kernick	4–5, 5–7
Bruce	Anderson	7–1, 3–6, 4–0
Saroji	Kruger	7–4, 8–1

Semi finals

Player 1	Player 2	Score
Saroji	Kernick	1–6, 1–9
Bruce	McGrouther	5–4, 4–6, 1–2

Final

Player 1	Player 2	Score
McGrouther	Kernick	4–6, 5–4, 6–0

Mixed pairs

First round

Section 1 Pos Name Pts 1 McVittie & Kernick 12 2 Kyle & Minish 9 3 Lai & Ng 6 4 Hodgetts & Macdonald 3 5 Abiru & Ohira 0

Section 2 Pos Name Pts 1 Markus & Kim Watt 12 2 Sinnema & Ariana Mowat 9 3 Piguet & Royet 6 4 Steenkamp & Viljoen 3 5 Kieni & Fuller 0

Section 3 Pos Name Pts 1 Owen & Gowen 12 2 Darby & Bruce 9 3 So & Lai 6 4 Bonsor & Bonsor 3 5 McGreal & Whitehead 0

Section 4 Pos Name Pts 1 Anderson & Anderson 12 2 Evans & Kruger 9 3 Foti & Katie Rendall 6 4 Simpson & Caesar 3 5 Matti & Lehmann 0

Section 5 Pos Name Pts 1 McShane & Cottrell 12 2 Merrien & Merrien 12 3 Sheridan & Wilson 9 4 Ellul & Rixon 6 5 Backgren & Abdullah 3 6 Qureshi & Lauren Roddie 3

Section 6 Pos Name Pts 1 Paraskeva & Robertson 12 2 Azami & Saroji 12 3 Akar & Akar 9 4 Thompson & McGrouther 6 5 McNorton & Ng 3 6 Brault & Gallo 3

Knockout round

Player 1	Player 2	Score
Anderson & Anderson	Sinneman & Mowat	11–6, 11–5
Kyle & Minish	Evans & Kruger	7–7, 9–5
Merrien & Merrien	Darby & Bruce	5–6, 14–2, 5–3
McShane & Cottrell	Azami & Saroji	9–1, 7–5

Quarter finals

Player 1	Player 2	Score
McVittie & Kernick	McShane & Cottrell	9–2, 7–5
Merrien & Merrien	Markus & Watt	8–1, 9–3
Owen & Gowen	Kyle & Minish	8–3, 4–3
Anderson & Anderson	Paraskeva & Robertson	8–6, 16–2

Semi finals

Player 1	Player 2	Score
McVittie & Kernick	Anderson & Anderson	2–7, 6–5, 3–2
Merrien & Merrien	Owen & Gowen	0–7, 3–7

Final

Player 1	Player 2	Score
McVittie & Kernick	Owen & Gowen	6–6, 6–5