Ronnie was unbelievable the last session, unplayable. I am with @MrOneLung not sure why but dislike Murphy although he is good to watch especially with his long potting.
Hopefully Ronnie can add the Worlds, shame UK went a bit short format would have been better a longer format as it just falls in with the rest of them now. Ronnie up to 2 in the world, opposite side to Selby shaping up nicely for 2018 World Championship. Get in Ronnie!
Ronnie was unbelievable the last session, unplayable. I am with @MrOneLung not sure why but dislike Murphy although he is good to watch especially with his long potting.
Hopefully Ronnie can add the Worlds, shame UK went a bit short format would have been better a longer format as it just falls in with the rest of them now. Ronnie up to 2 in the world, opposite side to Selby shaping up nicely for 2018 World Championship. Get in Ronnie!
Ronnie still £700,000 behind Selby safe to say Selby should end season as world number 1 again.
Scottish Open day 1 results Qualifer Ross Vallance 4-2 Robert Carlise Round 1 Xiao Guodog 4-1 Li Yuan Gary Wilson 4-2 Lyu Haotian Stuart Carrington 4-1 Jackson Page Chris Totten 4-1 Sam Baird Yu De Lu 4-2 Lee Walker Fang Xiongman 4-3 Dave Gilbert Zhou Yuelong 4-1 Ian Preece Liam Highfield 4-2 John J Astley John Higgins 4-1 Jack Lisowski(sorry @MrOneLung) Christopher Keogan 4-0 Nigel Bond Mike Dunn 4-0 Adam Duffy David Grace 4-1 Alexander Ursenbacher Noppon Saengkham 4-3 Martin Gould Gerard Greene 4-2 Zhou Xintong Kurt Dunham 4-2 Tian Pengfei Zhang Yong 4-1 Fergal O'Brien Mitchell Mann 4-3 Hossein Vafaei Marco Fu 4-0 Duane Jones Jamie Jones 4-2 Barry Hawkins Michael White 4-0 James Wattana Rory McLeod 4-2 Graeme Dott Sam Craigie 4-2 Kaettikun Boonyarit Dominic Dale 4-1 Bassem Eltahhan Li Hang 4-1 Sean O'Sullivan Peter Lines 4-0 Yuan Sijun Judd Trump 4-0 Robin Hull Jamie Barrett 4-3 Thepchaiya Un-Nooh Ricky Walden 4-2 Billy Joe Castle Stephen Maguire 4-0 Alex Borg Scott Donaldson 4-2 Josh Boileau
So summary of day one, easy victorys for: Trump Maguire Higgins Fu(Defending Champion)
Early Dissapointment for: Dott Hawkins Gould
Other surprise departures mainly a surprise due to facing someone much lower in rankings: Baird Gilbert Pengfei Uh-Nooh
And performance of the day and big shoutout to: Kurt Dunham world ranked 121 beat World number 59 Tian Pengfei, that was the Australians first win since November 2016, since his last win he has played 19 matches and won 19 Frames, big performance from him yesterday to win 4-2.
Also Saengkham got a 144 against Gould and leads the high break prize after day 1 it will take some beating
How long do people reckon before China dominates the top ten? They came from nowhere to be one of the very best chess playing nations and I can see them doing the same here.
How long do people reckon before China dominates the top ten? They came from nowhere to be one of the very best chess playing nations and I can see them doing the same here.
5 years i would guess, just starting to filter down at the mo with most semis/quarters 1 or 2 in there, on snooker.org (best place for results/live scores) someone stated potentially the whole of a quarter could be full of chinese this tourney.
How long do people reckon before China dominates the top ten? They came from nowhere to be one of the very best chess playing nations and I can see them doing the same here.
The thing is 5/6 years ago people said in a few years asian players will dominate, it hasnt happened yet, not saying it wont and there are alot more in top 64 now, however I dont see them completly dominating, there are also alot of young talent from uk and mainland Europe coming through as well.
How long do people reckon before China dominates the top ten? They came from nowhere to be one of the very best chess playing nations and I can see them doing the same here.
5 years i would guess, just starting to filter down at the mo with most semis/quarters 1 or 2 in there, on snooker.org (best place for results/live scores) someone stated potentially the whole of a quarter could be full of chinese this tourney.
yeah I thought by now Asian players would be dominating as I read over 70 million Chinese people play pool or snooker each week so its got to be only a matter of time.
having said that they have had a huge interest in football for a number of years now and have very few top players so maybe it will take alot longer than anticipated.
How long do people reckon before China dominates the top ten? They came from nowhere to be one of the very best chess playing nations and I can see them doing the same here.
5 years i would guess, just starting to filter down at the mo with most semis/quarters 1 or 2 in there, on snooker.org (best place for results/live scores) someone stated potentially the whole of a quarter could be full of chinese this tourney.
Best place for results is Charltonlife lol.
No.... but you do a good job keeping people updated so fairplay
How long do people reckon before China dominates the top ten? They came from nowhere to be one of the very best chess playing nations and I can see them doing the same here.
The thing is 5/6 years ago people said in a few years asian players will dominate, it hasnt happened yet, not saying it wont and there are alot more in top 64 now, however I dont see them completly dominating, there are also alot of young talent from uk and mainland Europe coming through as well.
Yes completely dominating agreed, but reckon there will be maybe like 4-6 players in top 16 so they will become more dominant. I searched the World rankings for 9ball whilst the mosconi cup was on and was suprised that the majority of the top players were chinese/ thailand, I think top ranked US was like 80, there were a few Europeans in there but defo dominated by Asian countries.
Tom Ford 4-1 Ian Burns Cao Yupeng 4-0 Andrew Higginson Joe Swail 4-0 Lukas Kleckers Liang Wenbo 4-2 Sanderson Lam Alan McManus 4-2 Matthew Selt Allan Taylor 4-2 Soheil Vahedi Chris Wakelin 4-2 Thor Chuan Leong Niu Zhuang 4-3 Wang Yuchen Alfie Burden 4-2 Ross Muir Ali Carter 4-0 Anthony Hamilton Jimmy Robertson 4-3 Paul Davison Hamza Akbar 4-1 Leo Fernandez Ashley Hugill 4-3 Ross Vallance Rob Milkins 4-2 Oliver Lines Ronnie O'Sullivan 4-1 Michael Georgiou Michael Holt 4-0 Robbie Williams Yan Bingtao 4-0 Mathew Bolton Craig Steadman 4-1 Ken Doherty Daniel Wells 4-3 Shaun Murphy @MrOneLung Peter Ebdon 4-2 Aditya Mehta Zhang Anda 4-1 Mark King Mei Xiwen 4-0 Kurt Maflin Kyren Wilson 4-2 Chen Zhe Eden Sharav 4-3 Mark Davis Ding Junhui 4-2 Jak Jones Elliot Slessor 4-2 Rhys Clark Mark Joyce 4-2 Martin O'Donnell Anthony McGill 4-0 Ryan Day Neil Robertson 4-0 Rod Lawler Hammad Miah 4-1 Matthew Stevens Jimmy White 4-1 Sunny Akani Ben Woollaston 4-3 Mark Allen Joe Perry 4-2 Chen Zifan
Other surprise departures mainly a surprise due to facing someone much lower in rankings: Maflin Davis Stevens Akani
And my performance of the day: Was gonna go to Cao Yupeng a 147 break and a 4-0 victory, but that was changed tonight Ben Woollaston 3-1 down to Mark Allen and came back to win 4-3.
Also a mention for Daniel Wells, brillaint victory of UK finalist Shaun Murphy.
High break prize pretty much gone to Cao Yupeng now thanks to his 147.
Gerard Greene 4-2 Mike Dunn Noppon Saengkham 4-0 Zhang Yong Chris Totten 4-3 Mitchell Mann Xiao Guodong 4-3 Gary Wilson Zhou Yuelong 4-2 Yu De Lu Ashley Hugill 4-3 Ali Carter Marco Fu 4-2 Fang Xiongman David Grace 4-3 Alan McManus Li Hang 4-1 Jamie Barrett Peter Lines 4-2 Kurt Dunham Rory McLeod 4-0 Niu Zhuang Ronnie O'Sullivan 4-1 Rob Milkins Michael White 4-2 Scott Donaldson Neil Robertson 4-2 Liam Highfield Tom Ford 4-0 Hammad Miah Cao Yupeng 4-3 Allan Taylor John Higgins 4-1 Christopher Keogan Ricky Walden 4-2 Joe Swail Daniel Wells 4-1 Jimmy White Xu Si 4-2 Jimmy Robertson Stephen Maguire 4-2 Hamza Akbar Mark Joyce 4-3 Liang Wenbo Craig Steadman 4-2 Alfie Burden Kyren Wilson 4-1 Dominic Dale Zhang Anda 4-2 Ben Woollaston Judd Trump 4-2 Sam Craigie Yan Bingtao 4-0 Jamie Jones Stuart Carrington 4-2 Joe Perry Michael Holt 4-3 Eden Sharav Elliott Slessor 4-1 Mei Xiwen Ding Junhui 4-2 Chris Wakelin Petet Ebdon 4-1 Anthony McGill
High break prize pretty much gone to Cao Yupeng now thanks to his 147.
Ronnie'll conjure up a 155 but only if the money's good enough.
Does anyone know the most number of continuous points? Not unanswered points, but continuous without the opponent coming to the table. I'll put the answer up tomorrow.
High break prize pretty much gone to Cao Yupeng now thanks to his 147.
Ronnie'll conjure up a 155 but only if the money's good enough.
Does anyone know the most number of continuous points? Not unanswered points, but continuous without the opponent coming to the table. I'll put the answer up tomorrow.
No i dont, i would guess 550 + roughly might have heard it once before but of the top of my head i dont know it.
High break prize pretty much gone to Cao Yupeng now thanks to his 147.
Ronnie'll conjure up a 155 but only if the money's good enough.
Does anyone know the most number of continuous points? Not unanswered points, but continuous without the opponent coming to the table. I'll put the answer up tomorrow.
No i dont, i would guess 550 + roughly might have heard it once before but of the top of my head i dont know it.
550+ is impossible due to breaks I belive Eddie Charlton won a frame in ine visit then next frame potted a red from break and cleared up so got 273 in 2 frames without Ray Reardon getting a shot
Cao Yupeng 4-3 Daniel Wells Tom Ford 4-0 Stuart Carrington Marco Fu 4-3 Zhou Yuelong Xiao Guodong 4-1 Noppon Saengkham Neil Robertson 4-0 Chris Totten David Grace 4-3 Zhang Anda Ashley Hugill 4-1 Peter Lines Xu Si 4-1 Craig Steadman Ronnie O'Sullivan 4-3 Li Hang Michael White 4-1 Kyren Wilson Stephen Maguire 4-3 Yan Bingtao Rory McLeod 4-3 Ding Junhui Ricky Walden 4-1 Mark Joyce John Higgins 4-0 Gerard Greene Judd Trump 4-0 Michael Holt Elliot Slessor 4-3 Peter Ebdon
Marco Fu(9) v Xiao Guodong(34) Neil Robertson(20) v David Grace(65) John Higgins(5) v Ashley Hugill(116) Michael Whie(16) v Ronnie O'Sullivan(2) Rory McLeod(56) v Ricky Walden(23) Tom Ford(37) v Cao Yupeng(67) Stephen Maguire(18) v Xu Si (90) Elliott Slessor(73) v Judd Trump(3)
So 5 of the top 16 are in the last 16 Possible quarter finals for a few lower ranked players as well.
In fact the winner of McLeod v Walden and Ford v Yupeng meet so a possible semi for McLeod, Ford or Yupeng(depending how Walden plays)
Xiao Guodong 4-3 Marco Fu Neil Robertson 4-2 David Grace John Higgins 4-0 Ashley Hugill Ronnie O'Sullivan 4-1 John Higgins Ricky Walden 4-3 Rory McLeod Cao Yupeng 4-0 Tom Ford Stephen Maguire 4-1 Xu Si Judd Trump 4-3 Elliott Slessor
Shaping up to be a strong final, shame i think Higgins and Ronnie are the ones on form but play each other today. Maguire vs one winner final? Ronnie still on fine form although fell asleep during match the other day lol did you see it?
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Appreciate the effort.
Hopefully Ronnie can add the Worlds, shame UK went a bit short format would have been better a longer format as it just falls in with the rest of them now. Ronnie up to 2 in the world, opposite side to Selby shaping up nicely for 2018 World Championship. Get in Ronnie!
Qualifer
Ross Vallance 4-2 Robert Carlise
Round 1
Xiao Guodog 4-1 Li Yuan
Gary Wilson 4-2 Lyu Haotian
Stuart Carrington 4-1 Jackson Page
Chris Totten 4-1 Sam Baird
Yu De Lu 4-2 Lee Walker
Fang Xiongman 4-3 Dave Gilbert
Zhou Yuelong 4-1 Ian Preece
Liam Highfield 4-2 John J Astley
John Higgins 4-1 Jack Lisowski(sorry @MrOneLung)
Christopher Keogan 4-0 Nigel Bond
Mike Dunn 4-0 Adam Duffy
David Grace 4-1 Alexander Ursenbacher
Noppon Saengkham 4-3 Martin Gould
Gerard Greene 4-2 Zhou Xintong
Kurt Dunham 4-2 Tian Pengfei
Zhang Yong 4-1 Fergal O'Brien
Mitchell Mann 4-3 Hossein Vafaei
Marco Fu 4-0 Duane Jones
Jamie Jones 4-2 Barry Hawkins
Michael White 4-0 James Wattana
Rory McLeod 4-2 Graeme Dott
Sam Craigie 4-2 Kaettikun Boonyarit
Dominic Dale 4-1 Bassem Eltahhan
Li Hang 4-1 Sean O'Sullivan
Peter Lines 4-0 Yuan Sijun
Judd Trump 4-0 Robin Hull
Jamie Barrett 4-3 Thepchaiya Un-Nooh
Ricky Walden 4-2 Billy Joe Castle
Stephen Maguire 4-0 Alex Borg
Scott Donaldson 4-2 Josh Boileau
easy victorys for:
Trump
Maguire
Higgins
Fu(Defending Champion)
Early Dissapointment for:
Dott
Hawkins
Gould
Other surprise departures mainly a surprise due to facing someone much lower in rankings:
Baird
Gilbert
Pengfei
Uh-Nooh
And performance of the day and big shoutout to:
Kurt Dunham world ranked 121 beat World number 59 Tian Pengfei, that was the Australians first win since November 2016, since his last win he has played 19 matches and won 19 Frames, big performance from him yesterday to win 4-2.
Also Saengkham got a 144 against Gould and leads the high break prize after day 1 it will take some beating
having said that they have had a huge interest in football for a number of years now and have very few top players so maybe it will take alot longer than anticipated.
CAO YUPENG with his first professional 147
Maximum number 134 in snooker getting closer to the 147th 147
Tom Ford 4-1 Ian Burns
Cao Yupeng 4-0 Andrew Higginson
Joe Swail 4-0 Lukas Kleckers
Liang Wenbo 4-2 Sanderson Lam
Alan McManus 4-2 Matthew Selt
Allan Taylor 4-2 Soheil Vahedi
Chris Wakelin 4-2 Thor Chuan Leong
Niu Zhuang 4-3 Wang Yuchen
Alfie Burden 4-2 Ross Muir
Ali Carter 4-0 Anthony Hamilton
Jimmy Robertson 4-3 Paul Davison
Hamza Akbar 4-1 Leo Fernandez
Ashley Hugill 4-3 Ross Vallance
Rob Milkins 4-2 Oliver Lines
Ronnie O'Sullivan 4-1 Michael Georgiou
Michael Holt 4-0 Robbie Williams
Yan Bingtao 4-0 Mathew Bolton
Craig Steadman 4-1 Ken Doherty
Daniel Wells 4-3 Shaun Murphy @MrOneLung
Peter Ebdon 4-2 Aditya Mehta
Zhang Anda 4-1 Mark King
Mei Xiwen 4-0 Kurt Maflin
Kyren Wilson 4-2 Chen Zhe
Eden Sharav 4-3 Mark Davis
Ding Junhui 4-2 Jak Jones
Elliot Slessor 4-2 Rhys Clark
Mark Joyce 4-2 Martin O'Donnell
Anthony McGill 4-0 Ryan Day
Neil Robertson 4-0 Rod Lawler
Hammad Miah 4-1 Matthew Stevens
Jimmy White 4-1 Sunny Akani
Ben Woollaston 4-3 Mark Allen
Joe Perry 4-2 Chen Zifan
Comfortable victory for:
O'Sullivan
Bingtao
Robertson
Early Disapointment for:
Murphy
King
Day
Allen
Other surprise departures mainly a surprise due to facing someone much lower in rankings:
Maflin
Davis
Stevens
Akani
And my performance of the day:
Was gonna go to Cao Yupeng a 147 break and a 4-0 victory, but that was changed tonight Ben Woollaston 3-1 down to Mark Allen and came back to win 4-3.
Also a mention for Daniel Wells, brillaint victory of UK finalist Shaun Murphy.
High break prize pretty much gone to Cao Yupeng now thanks to his 147.
Round 2
Gerard Greene 4-2 Mike Dunn
Noppon Saengkham 4-0 Zhang Yong
Chris Totten 4-3 Mitchell Mann
Xiao Guodong 4-3 Gary Wilson
Zhou Yuelong 4-2 Yu De Lu
Ashley Hugill 4-3 Ali Carter
Marco Fu 4-2 Fang Xiongman
David Grace 4-3 Alan McManus
Li Hang 4-1 Jamie Barrett
Peter Lines 4-2 Kurt Dunham
Rory McLeod 4-0 Niu Zhuang
Ronnie O'Sullivan 4-1 Rob Milkins
Michael White 4-2 Scott Donaldson
Neil Robertson 4-2 Liam Highfield
Tom Ford 4-0 Hammad Miah
Cao Yupeng 4-3 Allan Taylor
John Higgins 4-1 Christopher Keogan
Ricky Walden 4-2 Joe Swail
Daniel Wells 4-1 Jimmy White
Xu Si 4-2 Jimmy Robertson
Stephen Maguire 4-2 Hamza Akbar
Mark Joyce 4-3 Liang Wenbo
Craig Steadman 4-2 Alfie Burden
Kyren Wilson 4-1 Dominic Dale
Zhang Anda 4-2 Ben Woollaston
Judd Trump 4-2 Sam Craigie
Yan Bingtao 4-0 Jamie Jones
Stuart Carrington 4-2 Joe Perry
Michael Holt 4-3 Eden Sharav
Elliott Slessor 4-1 Mei Xiwen
Ding Junhui 4-2 Chris Wakelin
Petet Ebdon 4-1 Anthony McGill
Dissapointment for:
Carter
Perry
Wenbo
McManus
Jimmy Robertson
McGill
All 6 would have expected wins today
Jubilation for:
Greene
Hugill
Totten
Si Xi
Steadman
All ranked below 90 and in the 3rd round
My performance of the day is John Higgins sorry @MrOneLung a fantastic performance in his 4 frames won he got 3 centuries and a 85 break.
Does anyone know the most number of continuous points? Not unanswered points, but continuous without the opponent coming to the table. I'll put the answer up tomorrow.
I belive Eddie Charlton won a frame in ine visit then next frame potted a red from break and cleared up so got 273 in 2 frames without Ray Reardon getting a shot
Round 3
Cao Yupeng 4-3 Daniel Wells
Tom Ford 4-0 Stuart Carrington
Marco Fu 4-3 Zhou Yuelong
Xiao Guodong 4-1 Noppon Saengkham
Neil Robertson 4-0 Chris Totten
David Grace 4-3 Zhang Anda
Ashley Hugill 4-1 Peter Lines
Xu Si 4-1 Craig Steadman
Ronnie O'Sullivan 4-3 Li Hang
Michael White 4-1 Kyren Wilson
Stephen Maguire 4-3 Yan Bingtao
Rory McLeod 4-3 Ding Junhui
Ricky Walden 4-1 Mark Joyce
John Higgins 4-0 Gerard Greene
Judd Trump 4-0 Michael Holt
Elliot Slessor 4-3 Peter Ebdon
Round 4 Draw
Marco Fu(9) v Xiao Guodong(34)
Neil Robertson(20) v David Grace(65)
John Higgins(5) v Ashley Hugill(116)
Michael Whie(16) v Ronnie O'Sullivan(2)
Rory McLeod(56) v Ricky Walden(23)
Tom Ford(37) v Cao Yupeng(67)
Stephen Maguire(18) v Xu Si (90)
Elliott Slessor(73) v Judd Trump(3)
So 5 of the top 16 are in the last 16
Possible quarter finals for a few lower ranked players as well.
In fact the winner of McLeod v Walden and Ford v Yupeng meet so a possible semi for McLeod, Ford or Yupeng(depending how Walden plays)
Round 4
Xiao Guodong 4-3 Marco Fu
Neil Robertson 4-2 David Grace
John Higgins 4-0 Ashley Hugill
Ronnie O'Sullivan 4-1 John Higgins
Ricky Walden 4-3 Rory McLeod
Cao Yupeng 4-0 Tom Ford
Stephen Maguire 4-1 Xu Si
Judd Trump 4-3 Elliott Slessor