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 Slade-Lipkin in the Paris International Fortepiano Competition. She appeared as a soloist for the CBSO and the BBC. Her students included Stephen Hough, Stephen Coombs, Leon McCawley, Sophie Yates, Robert Markham, Stephen Gosling, Phillip Moore, Roderick Chadwick, Jason Ridgway, Jonathan Scott, James Willshire, Faith Leadbetter, Tim Horton, Miles Clery-Fox, Anna Markland, Sarah Nicolls, Helen Sherrah-Davies, Jane Ford, Robert Emery, Joy Morin, Julia Hartmann, Nellie Seng, David Moss, Iulia Mocioc, Margaret Roberts, Jacqueline Leveridge, Eleanor Meynell, James May, Iain Clarke, Durness Mackay-Champion, and Anna Michels. Recordings by Heather Slade-Lipkin include "Jean-Philippe Rameau: The Second Book of Pièces de Clavecins" and "Contrasts" with