Kurt Dunham Delights to Lift Maiden Australian National Snooker Championship Title
Kurt Dunham defeated James Mifsud 6-5 in the final of the 2025 Australian National Snooker Championship at the RACV Snooker Club in Melbourne.
The 33-year-old from Tasmania, who was a World Snooker Tour (WST) professional between 2016 and 2018, won six matches in Australia’s second most-populous city to secure the national championship title for the first time in his career.
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Dunham dropped just two frames en route to the quarter-finals as he swept aside Paul James (4-0), Johl Younger (4-1) and Chi Kin Yeung (4-1) to set up a last eight meeting with seven-time Q Tour Asia-Pacific event winner Vinnie Calabrese.
Despite losing the opener to a break of 64 by Calabrese, Dunham quickly rallied to take three in a row with contributions of 74 and 71 before taking the sixth frame to complete a 4-2 victory.
An impressive whitewash win over Xavier Daw in the semi-finals then saw Dunham book his place in a first ever Australian National Snooker Championship final.
James Mifsud was the title match opponent after he had ended the run of his brother and 11-time national champion Steve Mifsud in a semi-final deciding frame.
That deciding frame would not be the end of the drama in Melbourne as a fiercely-contested final went all the way at the RACV Snooker Club.
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In a race to six, it was Mifsud who took the early ascendency as he 2-0 and 3-1 ahead in the early stages. Dunham then found his stride, however, and took three consecutive frames with breaks of 59 and 95 to move ahead for the first time.
From there, the 33-year-old would never again trail in the title match as the two players traded blows all the way to a decisive 11th and final frame which was ultimately taken by Dunham to lift the national title.
