Ding Junhui 6-2 Mark Allen -Allen 9th in the World Rankings before this event is now 16th after losing £150,000 from the 2 year ranking list after winning this event in 2016, possibility Allen The Masters champion will have to go through 3 rounds of qualifying for The World Championship now
Shaun Murphy 6-3 Kyren Wilson- Proof that if you have skill practise isnt everything, Murphy has not picked up his cue in 3 weeks and pulled out 2 centuries in the opening 4 frames
After session: Ryan Day 6-3 Mark Selby- Selbys poor form continues and not long to turn it around before the worlds Ryan Day on the other hand is still in with a chance of 3 titles in a row.
Mark Williams 6-2 Yan Bingtao
Evening session
Ronnie O'Sullivan 6-1 Graeme Dott Neil Robertson 6-2 Luca Brecel.
Tomorrow's matches Afternoon: John Higgins v Anthony McGill Judd Trump v Stephen Maguire Evening Ronnie O'Sullivan v Ding Junhui
The World Senior Championships start tomorrow with the winner earning a place at qualifing for the cruicble and big news is Stephen Hendry is taking part, how great would it be to see him back at Sheffield.
The 16 players at the world seniors are as follows Seeded 1-Stephen Hendry 2-John Parrott 3-Joe Johnson 4-Dennis Taylor 5-Simon Dent (was due to be Tony Drago but he pulled out) 6-Tony Knowles 7-Cliff Thorburn 8-Gary Filtness (was due to be Willie Thorne but he has pulled out)
Qualifiers 1-Johnathan Bagley 2-Rhydian Richards 3-Patrick Wallace 4-Barry Pinches 5-Aaron Canavan 6-Cao Kaisheng 7-Nick Spelman(was due to be David Lilley but he pulled out) 8-John Farrell
The 4 matches tomorrow are 13.00 John Parrott v Cao Kaisheng 14.00 Gary Filtness v Barry Pinches 19.00 Simon Dent v Patrick Wallace 20.00 Dennis Taylor v Aaron Canavan
I believe Snooker Legends official facebook page is live streaming the whole event
@paulie8290 - how many qualifying rounds would the senior winner have to get thru to reach Crucible ?
Rules were changed a couple of years ago meaning everyone plays 3 qualifying rounds, it doesnt matter if u are 17th in the world or 100th, everyone enters in 1st qualifying
Would love Stephen Hendry to make it back to the crucible, there is a chance but not a great chance for me. He played Ronnie over a few days in exhibitions last year and didn't do too bad so if he wants it enough? Would be great to see him back, but even the qualifies there are so many tough matches now.
Lee Richardson was 2-0 up Kaisheng pulled it back to 2-1 before Richardson took the lead in the 4th, Richardson then gave 51 points away from a foul (the angle was clearly not there) and Kaisheng levelled before Kaosheng then won the blackball shoot out in the 5th (in seniors if it goes 2-2 a blackball shootout decides the winner)
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Anyway Romanian Masters final
Stuart Bingham v Ryan Day (going for his 2nd win in a row)
Bingham got of to a 4-0 start at mid session interval.
But session finished
Stuart Bingham 5-4 Ryan Day
It's currently
Stuart Bingham 6-6 Ryan Day
1 more frame before mid session interval in final session
RYAN DAY
And 8-7 behind but won the final 3 frames
Back to Back Tournaments for Day now and 3 for the season.
Bingham did win the High break prize with a 137 in the first round
Will be interetsing to see who turns up,
Kyren Wilson due to play on opening night but has had 2 planes cancelled and is stuck in Romania, so he is doubtful he will make it.
Mark Williams due to play on Tuesdau is apparently snowed in and hasn't been able to leave since Saturday so he is not sure either.
Not seen any tweets about other players journeys but Shaun Murphy is still a doubt with the injury that has kept him out of the last 2 events
Ronnie O'Sullivan V Graeme Dott(Dott has taken 1 frame of O'Sullivan in there last 3 meetings, and only 3 6 in the previous 6 meetings)
Ding Junhui V Mark Allen
Luca Brecel V Neil Robertson
Judd Trump V Stephen Maguire
John Higgins v Anthony McGill(3rd meeting between these 2 already in 2018)
Shaun Murphy v Karen Wilson(Possibly neither of these could turn up)
Mark Selby v Ryan Day(Repeat of 1st round match at this event last year)
Mark Williams v Yan Bingtao
Ding Junhui 6-2 Mark Allen -Allen 9th in the World Rankings before this event is now 16th after losing £150,000 from the 2 year ranking list after winning this event in 2016, possibility Allen The Masters champion will have to go through 3 rounds of qualifying for The World Championship now
Shaun Murphy 6-3 Kyren Wilson- Proof that if you have skill practise isnt everything, Murphy has not picked up his cue in 3 weeks and pulled out 2 centuries in the opening 4 frames
Mark Williams v Yan Bingtao
Both about to start imagine it will be Selby v Day on ITV4
Ryan Day 6-3 Mark Selby- Selbys poor form continues and not long to turn it around before the worlds
Ryan Day on the other hand is still in with a chance of 3 titles in a row.
Mark Williams 6-2 Yan Bingtao
Evening session
Ronnie O'Sullivan 6-1 Graeme Dott
Neil Robertson 6-2 Luca Brecel.
Tomorrow's matches
Afternoon:
John Higgins v Anthony McGill
Judd Trump v Stephen Maguire
Evening
Ronnie O'Sullivan v Ding Junhui
The World Senior Championships start tomorrow with the winner earning a place at qualifing for the cruicble and big news is Stephen Hendry is taking part, how great would it be to see him back at Sheffield.
The 16 players at the world seniors are as follows
Seeded
1-Stephen Hendry
2-John Parrott
3-Joe Johnson
4-Dennis Taylor
5-Simon Dent (was due to be Tony Drago but he pulled out)
6-Tony Knowles
7-Cliff Thorburn
8-Gary Filtness (was due to be Willie Thorne but he has pulled out)
Qualifiers
1-Johnathan Bagley
2-Rhydian Richards
3-Patrick Wallace
4-Barry Pinches
5-Aaron Canavan
6-Cao Kaisheng
7-Nick Spelman(was due to be David Lilley but he pulled out)
8-John Farrell
The 4 matches tomorrow are
13.00 John Parrott v Cao Kaisheng
14.00 Gary Filtness v Barry Pinches
19.00 Simon Dent v Patrick Wallace
20.00 Dennis Taylor v Aaron Canavan
I believe Snooker Legends official facebook page is live streaming the whole event
So first match is
Lee Richardson v Cao Kaisheng
Live below
Cao Kaisheng 3-2 Lee Richardson
Lee Richardson was 2-0 up Kaisheng pulled it back to 2-1 before Richardson took the lead in the 4th, Richardson then gave 51 points away from a foul (the angle was clearly not there) and Kaisheng levelled before Kaosheng then won the blackball shoot out in the 5th (in seniors if it goes 2-2 a blackball shootout decides the winner)
Richards is currently beating Johnson 1-0
Round 1 results
Anthony McGill 6-0 John Higgins
Judd Trump 6-4 Stephen Maguire
So the last 8 are as follows
Ronnie O'Sullivan (2)
Judd Trump (3)
Ding Junhui (4)
Mark Williams (6)
Shaun Murphy (7)
Neil Robertson (15)
Anthony McGill (16)
Ryan Day (17)
Ronnie O'Sullivan v Ding Junhui
Shaun Murphy v Anthony McGill
Judd Trump v Neil Robertson
Mark Williams v Ryan Day
Whilst
Simon Dent plays Patrick Wallace in the seniors again live below
Next up is Dennis Taylor v Aaron Canavan
Players Championship
Ronnie O'Sullivan 6-3 Ding Junhui
World Seniors
Patrick Wallace 3-0 Simon Dent
Aaron Canavan 3-1 Dennis Taylor
Players Championship
Quarter Final
Judd Trump v Neil Robertson
Live on ITV 4
World Seniors
Stephen Hendry v Jonathan Bagley
Gary Filtness v Barry Pinches
Live on the usual link below
Results
Players Championship
Judd Trump 6-1 Neil Robertson
World Seniors
Jonathan Bagley 3-1 Stephen Hendry
Gary Filtness 3-2 Barry Pinches
Evening Session
Players Championship
Mark Williams v Ryan Day
Live on ITV 4
World Seniors
Cliff Thorburn v Nick Spelman
Tony Knowles v John Farrell
Live on
How will a now 70 year old Grinder do
Basically there is a line on the cue to help with sighting
This is Gary using it
U can see that black line in the middle of the cue
Players Championship
Mark Williams 6-3 Ryan Day
World Seniors
Nick Spelman 3-2 Cliff Thorburn
John Farrell 3-1 Tony Knowles