4th May, Jakarta: 2017 PBA-World Bowling Tour Thailand champion and top seed, Yannaphon Larpapharat of Thailand, needed only one match in the stepladder final to capture the Open Masters title of the Jaya Ancol Singles Championships 2018.

Both contenders started off with a split in their opening frame of the title match, but Yannaphon failed to convert into a spare while his challenger, Hardy Rachmadian of Indonesia managed to make the spare.

Rachmadian had control of the match when he rolled two consecutive strikes as the Thai could only strike and spare his next two frames. Another opened frame in the fourth swayed the tie toward the Indonesian.

But Yannaphon recovered brilliantly reeling in three-in-a-row in frames five to seven. Rachmadian could not respond and in addition suffered a costly opened frame in the seventh. Yannaphon then added four more strikes and an eight-pin count to take the title, 232-195.

There was another one-game roll-off between two Hong Kong finalists after the pair tied in sixth position with 2116. Joshua Chow beat team-mate James Lui 201-168 to make the cut for the stepladder shootout.

Rachmadian, who picked up 70 million rupiah as first runner-up, won the first match against fifth-seed, Hassan Alshaikh of Saudi Arabia and sixth-seed Chow, 199-172-183 to advance to the next match.

The Indonesian defeated third-seed and newly-crowned Classified division Masters champion, Sukinto Wijaya of Indonesia and Youth division Masters champion, Muhammad Azizi Naim of Malaysia, 254-175-230 to challenge the second seed.

There was no stopping Rachmadian as he dispatched top qualifier and second-seed, Chong Jun Foo 247-188 to face the Thai in the title match. Chong, who settled for second runner-up, took home 35 million rupiah.