Open (sport) performance standards or eligibility criteria may apply in other sports. Opens are usually found in golf, tennis, bowling, badminton, quizbowl, fighting games, snooker, darts, volleyball, ultimate, squash and chess. Open (sport) An Open in sports terminology refers to a sporting event or game tournament that is open to contestants regardless of their professional or amateur status, age, ability, gender, sex, or other categorization. In many sports, preliminary qualifying events, open to all entrants, are held to successively reduce the field to a manageable number for participation in a final championship event, which itself may involve elimination rounds (tournaments). The term
Heather Ratnage Black in Childhood & Youth Studies. Ratnage-Black is married with two young children. Heather Ratnage Black Heather Ratnage-Black (born 1973) is a flight lieutenant of the British Royal Air Force (RAF) Skeleton Association. She is currently a coach for the RAF Skeleton Association, a senior Skeleton athlete and chairperson of the Combined Services Skeleton Association. Ratnage-Black grew up in the North East of England, in Norton-on-Tees; attending Bede College in Billingham; before studying Geography at the University of Wales, Lampeter. She has been in the RAF since graduating from Lampeter, where she became involved in the Skeleton sport. In more recent