Obviously not a ranking title but will mean alot to Scott as its his first Title as a pro player and it books his place at The Champion of Champions as well, currently ranked 24th he is really starting to show something
I think I said before he was the one I felt was more likely to break into the top 16, seems to be getting better results every year and more than capable of beating the big guns.
Re: Ronnie, I agree with Paulie, although most people are better when they go into it with a bit of match sharpness, last time Ronnie won he played like 3 events and came in pretty much cold. Probably his best chance left, you never know but it is looking unlikely I would love him to win just one more but so many people have been at the top of their game this year: Trump, Robbo, Murphy, Magure and I think he has lost the fear factor. He does have it in him, but over 2 and a half weeks its going to be tough, we can dream? although hopefully he doesn't go out first round to a qualifier this year lol
So Gibraltar Open starts tomorrow with the qualifiers as I said I wont wont be doing updates on the Qualifiers as there are over 240 players lol
Only 100 fans are being let in for the main event the players were told today in a letter due to Coronavirus
Ali Carter has been advised by his doctors to pull out due to his weaker immune system his is more at risk should he contract the virus, so Jamie O'Neil will get a Bye
Neil Robertson Stephen Maguire Graeme Dott Dave Gilbert
Have also pulled out of Gibraltar
Neil Robertson pulling out means if Trump wins he will win the £150,000 Betvictor Series Bonus
Maguire and Dott pulling out means neither of those will make the Tour Championships and its likely Higgins will take the last spot unless Un-Nooh,Perry, Wilson or Williams win the event
Carter pulling out means he will have to qualify for the World Championships as he wont be in the top 16 by the cut of period
So not a decision any of those players would have taken lightly
Sorry for lack of updates but there wont be any until Sunday, will update any big casulties but its so hard to update round by roubd, you have one round starting before another has finished
For instance Bingham and Woollaston are playing there 3rd round match whilst Williams and Zhou Yuelong are playing there 2nd round match lol its so complicated haha
So just thought for the Gibraltar Open it as the opening 2 days are crazy it would just be simpler to update at the end of the day.
So after day 1 going into Sundays final day
Ben Woollaston v Thepchaiya Un-Nooh Fergal O'Brien v Kyren Wilson
Lyu Haotian v David Grace Tian Pengfei v Mark Williams
Then again tomorrow you have more 1st/2nd and 3rd round matches and after that we will end the day with another 8 players to complete the final 2 quarters of Sundays final day
I heard there was a game without a ref? The players spotted balls for each other, just like playing in the local club.
There was more than one A number of refs were unable to turn up due to flight restrictions so the outside tables had roaming refs this morning as the refs that where there had to have a rest in between matches, which meant that players where picking the balls out for their opponents, appalling really and not acceptable at a ranking event no mater what the circumstances are.
Neal Fould tried to justify it by saying the playerd are used to it in practice they usually pick the balls out for each other, but this isn't practice its a serious ranking event, what if there was a foul and a miss on one of the roaming tables and the balls needed to be replaced would they expect the 2 players to figure it out between themselves
Xiao Guodong 4-2 Tom Ford David Grace 4-1 Lyu Haotian Liang Wenbo 4-2 Ashley Hugill Judd Trump 4-1 Li Hang Jimmy Robertson 4-1 Rory McLeod Kyren Wilson 4-3 Fergal O'Brien Mark Williams 4-3 Tian Pengfei Thepchaiya Un-Nooh 4-2 Ben Woollaston
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I think I said before he was the one I felt was more likely to break into the top 16, seems to be getting better results every year and more than capable of beating the big guns.
Re: Ronnie, I agree with Paulie, although most people are better when they go into it with a bit of match sharpness, last time Ronnie won he played like 3 events and came in pretty much cold. Probably his best chance left, you never know but it is looking unlikely
I would love him to win just one more but so many people have been at the top of their game this year: Trump, Robbo, Murphy, Magure and I think he has lost the fear factor. He does have it in him, but over 2 and a half weeks its going to be tough, we can dream? although hopefully he doesn't go out first round to a qualifier this year lol
Only 100 fans are being let in for the main event the players were told today in a letter due to Coronavirus
Ali Carter has been advised by his doctors to pull out due to his weaker immune system his is more at risk should he contract the virus, so Jamie O'Neil will get a Bye
Stephen Maguire
Graeme Dott
Dave Gilbert
Have also pulled out of Gibraltar
Neil Robertson pulling out means if Trump wins he will win the £150,000 Betvictor Series Bonus
Maguire and Dott pulling out means neither of those will make the Tour Championships and its likely Higgins will take the last spot unless Un-Nooh,Perry, Wilson or Williams win the event
Carter pulling out means he will have to qualify for the World Championships as he wont be in the top 16 by the cut of period
So not a decision any of those players would have taken lightly
Ali Carter
Neil Robertson
Stephen Maguire
Graeme Dott
Dave Gilbert
Jimmy White
Fraser Patrick
Noppon Saengkham
Mike Dunn
John Higgins
Mark Allen
Still expecting some more that haven't been announced yet that just wont show that haven't travelled
So he pulled out of his match today
For instance Bingham and Woollaston are playing there 3rd round match whilst Williams and Zhou Yuelong are playing there 2nd round match lol its so complicated haha
So after day 1 going into Sundays final day
Ben Woollaston v Thepchaiya Un-Nooh
Fergal O'Brien v Kyren Wilson
Lyu Haotian v David Grace
Tian Pengfei v Mark Williams
Then again tomorrow you have more 1st/2nd and 3rd round matches and after that we will end the day with another 8 players to complete the final 2 quarters of Sundays final day
For the first few days they were letting 100 people in only, but as from tomorrow no one will be allowed in.
Will be interesting to see if they take the same stance with the Tour Championship now
A number of refs were unable to turn up due to flight restrictions so the outside tables had roaming refs this morning as the refs that where there had to have a rest in between matches, which meant that players where picking the balls out for their opponents, appalling really and not acceptable at a ranking event no mater what the circumstances are.
Neal Fould tried to justify it by saying the playerd are used to it in practice they usually pick the balls out for each other, but this isn't practice its a serious ranking event, what if there was a foul and a miss on one of the roaming tables and the balls needed to be replaced would they expect the 2 players to figure it out between themselves
Last 16
Ben Woollaston v Thepchaiya Un-Nooh
Fergal O'Brien v Kyren Wilson
Lyu Haotian v David Grace
Tian Pengfei v Mark Williams
Rory McLeod v Jimmy Robertson
Tom Ford v Xiao Guodong
Ashley Hugill v Liang Wenbo
Li Hang v Judd Trump
Last 16
Results
Xiao Guodong 4-2 Tom Ford
David Grace 4-1 Lyu Haotian
Liang Wenbo 4-2 Ashley Hugill
Judd Trump 4-1 Li Hang
Jimmy Robertson 4-1 Rory McLeod
Kyren Wilson 4-3 Fergal O'Brien
Mark Williams 4-3 Tian Pengfei
Thepchaiya Un-Nooh 4-2 Ben Woollaston
Quarter Finals
Thepchaiya Un-Nooh v Kyren Wilson
David Grace v Mark Williams
Jimmy Robertson v Xiao Guodong
Liang Wenbo v Judd Trump
Quarter Final
Results
Judd Trump 4-1 Liang Wenbo
Xiao Guodong 4-3 Jimmy Robertson
Mark Williams 4-1 David Grace
Kyren Wilson 4-0 Thepchaiya Un-Nooh
Semi Finals
Kyren Wilson v Mark Williams
Xiao Guodong v Judd Trump
Semi Final
Results
Kyren Wilson 4-0 Mark Williams
Judd Trump 4-3 Xiao Guodong
Final
Kyren Wilson v Judd Trump
Final
Result
Judd Trump 4-3 Kyren Wilson
Tour Championships
Quarter Final
Judd Trump v John Higgins
Neil Robertson v Ding Junhui
Mark Selby v Yan Bingtao
Shaun Murphy v Mark Allen
Proper event this
Quarter Finals best of 17
Semi Finals best of 19
Final best of 27