The 2002 ANBA Open was held at Miami Beach on Sunday and attracted several of the UK's top 9 Ball players. Pre-tournament favourites were UK #1 Daryl Peach and Anythony Ginn, currently the highest ranked British player on the WPA World Tour.

  Aberdeen 9 ball experts John McCann and Mark Oaten were expected to spearhead the local challenge for a total of £1700 in prize money, but it was 4 times North of Scotland snooker champion Derek Hearns who returned from a year's absence from competitive 9 ball to show his class as a complete cue sportsman. Derek reached the final of the winner's section with relative ease, disposing of the leading contenders including Daryl Peach on the way. His opponent was London's Anthony Ginn, who had earlier been beaten by Dundee's Jamie Pollock to resign him to the losers section, and having to beat Hearns twice to take the title.

Anthony Ginn

  The first match in the final saw Ginn and Hearns match each other in the earlier stages, until Ginn hit a patch of form and his vast 9 ball experience shone through to allow him to take the match by 8 frames to 3. The vociferous crowd were fully behind Hearns when he stepped up to the table in the second and deciding game. However they were silenced by the most stunning performance of 9 ball pool that has ever been seen in Aberdeen. Ginn was unstoppable and ran out 7 racks in under thirty minutes, barely letting Hearns back to the table at any stage, securing the title 8-3 and 7-0.