The BTM Interview: Rebecca Whiting


Main as much as the 2022 IBF Bowling World Cup in Australia, Bowling This Month contributor Dean Champ interviewed Australian Rebecca Whiting, winner of the 2019 QubicaAMF Bowling World Cup in Indonesia. The 2022 IBF Bowling World Cup is being hosted on the Suncity Tenpin Bowl, situated at Alexandra Headland Queensland, Australia.

Rebecca has been an Australian consultant on 13 events and this shall be her fifth World Cup bowling for Australia. She is a a number of Australian Rankings winner and she or he is acknowledged as considered one of Australia’s best-ever bowlers.

(Please word that our questions seem in daring italics and Rebecca’s solutions seem in customary typeface.)

Let’s begin along with your win on the 2019 QubicaAMF Bowling World Cup in Indonesia. How would you describe that entire expertise?

It was such a surreal feeling successful the 2019 World Cup and it took me a really very long time to come back to phrases with the truth that I used to be now a world champion.

Wanting on the historical past books, Australian girls have gained the World Cup seven occasions, putting you second behind the USA girls. What does it imply to you to hitch this listing of previous Australian champions?

It’s really an honor to hitch the listing of previous Aussie World Cup winners. Some days I feel I don’t belong alongside them, as they’re true legends of our sport and have executed a lot for our sport. They’re all individuals I appeared as much as as a junior and I wished to be similar to them in the future, so I suppose I’m residing a dream now!

With a change to four-person groups for the 2022 IBF Bowling World Cup, what are you most wanting ahead to in regards to the new format?

We’re nonetheless fortunate to have singles as a part of the format. Nonetheless, I’m most wanting ahead to the Baker format in groups. Workforce bowling is considered one of my favourite issues and that is one thing we’re not …