Results Lee Walker 2-3 Darren Morgan Stephen Hendry 3-0 Patsy Fagan Michael Judge 2-3 Patrick Wallace David Lilley 3-1 Philip Williams
Full coverage details:
Friday, 7 May
12:00-16:00 & 19:00-23:00 - BBC Red Button, BBC iPlayer and BBC Sport website & app
Did anyone watch this? What was the standard like, in previous years it was bit hard to watch, but Hendry getting some kind of form and Lee Walker who plays a few events. Paulie did post about the highlight for Philip Williams was who he was coached by lol
Im not posting much anymore but have seen about 4/5 people comment about The Jester nickname and need to clear this up to avoid further confusion.
How many of you know him personally? How many of you see him behind the scenes?
Just because on the table he concentrates on what he needs to do(and that by the way has won him 4 world titles in the last 8 years) and doesn't laugh and joke around the table you think its a stupid nickname.
So many pros and other people around the circuit have said off the table he is one of the funniest people around hence the nickname.
But when he has a match on he knows he needs to be in match mode and is fully focused on what he needs to do
Come off it, it's a stage nickname as it rhymes with Leicester, nothing else.
Same as Neil Robertson bring the Thunder from Down Under.
You mean it's not a reference to his intestinal problems?
Event 3 117-Ian Burns 118-Lei Peifan 119-Dean Young 120-Duane Jones
Q School Top 2 order of Merit 121-Hammad Miah 122-Mitchell Mann
Unfortunately this left world snooker in a tough position the tour normally had 128 players they only had 122 the event that normally filled they other 6 slots couldnt be played due to covid, so to make this up as a one of World Snooker offered the next 6 on the Q School order of merit a 1 year top up card, guaranteeing they will be able to enter every event(baring the home nations events as the empty slots will be filled by the local governing body choosing their own amateur players(which again is brilliant)
So these lucky 6 are.
123-Sanderson Lam 124- Michael Georgiou 125-Si Jiahui 126-Soheil Vahedi 127-Micheal White 128-David Lilley
So there we have it the 128 players who will be competing on this years world snooker tour.
A lot has been made of The women but personally i am looking forward to seeing how Cao Yupeng does.
He was always someone i expected to win titles, and he was so close in that Scottish open final against Neil Robertson.
But obviously he was banned for 30 months for match fixing which ended in November and managed to get straight back on tour, will also be interesting to see how fans respond to him.
John Higgins seems to have got away with from the crowds (not from me) so hope they give the youngster the same courtesy.
For me the big difference is games that were actually fixed.
Higgins may have been caught agreeing to it and then coming up with that stupid excuse that he thought the mafia was gonna hurt his family if he didnt, but no one knows if he actually would have gone through with it or if hus conscience would have got the better of him, which is why his ban was so short.
Yupeng like like DeLu actually admitted to fixing 3 results in 2016(Delu fixed 5 and didn't help and was found to have been betting when banned from doing so thats why his banned until 2029)
I was actually talking to someone about this the other day and managed to find a report where it mentioned what games were fixed(apologies if you had a bet on any of these and are just finding out you lost cos they were fixed 😉)
YU DELUS FIXED GAMES
Indian Open qualifiers: WON 4-3 v Martin McCrudden - 12 February 2015
Paul Hunter Classic: LOST 4-1 v Dominic Dale in Germany - 29 August 2015
Welsh Open: WON 4-3 v Ian Glover - 15 February 2016
European Masters qualifiers: LOST 4-1 v Michael Georgiou - 4 August 2017
Shanghai Masters: LOST 5-3 v Kurt Maflin - 15 November 2017
CAO YUPENGS FIXED GAMES
Welsh Open: LOST 4-1 v Ali Carter - 15 February 2016
Indian Open qualifiers: LOST 4-0 v Stuart Bingham - 30 June 2016
UK Championship: LOST 6-1 v Stephen Maguire - 24 November 2016
Welcome back Paulie, thank you for the updates. I really haven't been paying attention of late so will have to look out for when the next tournament is.
I do think just giving the ladies spots is a bit silly, but then again they do overseas spots too again to players who are not good enough so i suppose its similar in that respect. I'll be rooting for the ladies but would do well to win a match either of them, no disrespect just they haven't in the past shown they are of the required standard. You have to be gutted if you were an amateur snooker player and just outside getting in, but thats life.
edit - Champions league i dont really follow just proper events.
Although... Ronnie on today so i might have to watch it, starts at 12 on freesports anyone who wants to follow. Top 1 qualify, two groups today Group 6: Mark Lloyd(A) Higginson Holt Fergal O'Brien
Group 32: Ronnie Nasir(A) Joyce Burns
Players are ranked by most points and frame difference, in that order. If that is still the same then the result of the match between the players in question will determine the rankings (not implemented in this table)
Although... Ronnie on today so i might have to watch it, starts at 12 on freesports anyone who wants to follow. Top 1 qualify, two groups today Group 6: Mark Lloyd(A) Higginson Holt Fergal O'Brien
Group 32: Ronnie Nasir(A) Joyce Burns
Players are ranked by most points and frame difference, in that order. If that is still the same then the result of the match between the players in question will determine the rankings (not implemented in this table)
I noticed you do this today for Ronnies group.
Championship league started 2 days ago lol where was your update for the first 2 groups 😉😉
Although... Ronnie on today so i might have to watch it, starts at 12 on freesports anyone who wants to follow. Top 1 qualify, two groups today Group 6: Mark Lloyd(A) Higginson Holt Fergal O'Brien
Group 32: Ronnie Nasir(A) Joyce Burns
Players are ranked by most points and frame difference, in that order. If that is still the same then the result of the match between the players in question will determine the rankings (not implemented in this table)
I noticed you do this today for Ronnies group.
Championship league started 2 days ago lol where was your update for the first 2 groups 😉😉
I didn't realise buddy, your post made me check as i dont log on weekends, until back in the office Tuesdays..
Slight bias, but this one was just pure luck. Happy i haven't missed Ronnie. Bit odd the TV schedule is showing on Premier sports not Freesports... hopefully they make it free for the day or maybe freesports one isn't updated properly.
Although... Ronnie on today so i might have to watch it, starts at 12 on freesports anyone who wants to follow. Top 1 qualify, two groups today Group 6: Mark Lloyd(A) Higginson Holt Fergal O'Brien
Group 32: Ronnie Nasir(A) Joyce Burns
Players are ranked by most points and frame difference, in that order. If that is still the same then the result of the match between the players in question will determine the rankings (not implemented in this table)
I noticed you do this today for Ronnies group.
Championship league started 2 days ago lol where was your update for the first 2 groups 😉😉
I didn't realise buddy, your post made me check as i dont log on weekends, until back in the office Tuesdays..
Slight bias, but this one was just pure luck. Happy i haven't missed Ronnie. Bit odd the TV schedule is showing on Premier sports not Freesports... hopefully they make it free for the day or maybe freesports one isn't updated properly.
PS- I doubt ill be updating this daily
This whole tournament has been appalling.
Day 1 afternoon
Table 1 was only available on facebook Table 2 on matchroom.live
Day 1 evening
Table 1 on freesports Table 2 on matchroom.live
Day 2 afternoon
Table 1 on freesports Table on matchroom.live
Day 2 evening
Table 1 on Facebook Table 2 on matchroom.live
First tournament of the season and its all of the place and you miss half of Table 1 matches because u cant find where it is.
Its why i havent bothered with the updates lol, its ok to watch and get the season started but even the broadcasters dont care about it
John Higgins seems to have got away with from the crowds (not from me) so hope they give the youngster the same courtesy.
For me the big difference is games that were actually fixed.
Higgins may have been caught agreeing to it and then coming up with that stupid excuse that he thought the mafia was gonna hurt his family if he didnt, but no one knows if he actually would have gone through with it or if hus conscience would have got the better of him, which is why his ban was so short.
Yupeng like like DeLu actually admitted to fixing 3 results in 2016(Delu fixed 5 and didn't help and was found to have been betting when banned from doing so thats why his banned until 2029)
I was actually talking to someone about this the other day and managed to find a report where it mentioned what games were fixed(apologies if you had a bet on any of these and are just finding out you lost cos they were fixed 😉)
YU DELUS FIXED GAMES
Indian Open qualifiers: WON 4-3 v Martin McCrudden - 12 February 2015
Paul Hunter Classic: LOST 4-1 v Dominic Dale in Germany - 29 August 2015
Welsh Open: WON 4-3 v Ian Glover - 15 February 2016
European Masters qualifiers: LOST 4-1 v Michael Georgiou - 4 August 2017
Shanghai Masters: LOST 5-3 v Kurt Maflin - 15 November 2017
CAO YUPENGS FIXED GAMES
Welsh Open: LOST 4-1 v Ali Carter - 15 February 2016
Indian Open qualifiers: LOST 4-0 v Stuart Bingham - 30 June 2016
UK Championship: LOST 6-1 v Stephen Maguire - 24 November 2016
I get that you can unilaterally 'fix' a game for you to lose.....but the 1 x win ?!?
John Higgins seems to have got away with from the crowds (not from me) so hope they give the youngster the same courtesy.
For me the big difference is games that were actually fixed.
Higgins may have been caught agreeing to it and then coming up with that stupid excuse that he thought the mafia was gonna hurt his family if he didnt, but no one knows if he actually would have gone through with it or if hus conscience would have got the better of him, which is why his ban was so short.
Yupeng like like DeLu actually admitted to fixing 3 results in 2016(Delu fixed 5 and didn't help and was found to have been betting when banned from doing so thats why his banned until 2029)
I was actually talking to someone about this the other day and managed to find a report where it mentioned what games were fixed(apologies if you had a bet on any of these and are just finding out you lost cos they were fixed 😉)
YU DELUS FIXED GAMES
Indian Open qualifiers: WON 4-3 v Martin McCrudden - 12 February 2015
Paul Hunter Classic: LOST 4-1 v Dominic Dale in Germany - 29 August 2015
Welsh Open: WON 4-3 v Ian Glover - 15 February 2016
European Masters qualifiers: LOST 4-1 v Michael Georgiou - 4 August 2017
Shanghai Masters: LOST 5-3 v Kurt Maflin - 15 November 2017
CAO YUPENGS FIXED GAMES
Welsh Open: LOST 4-1 v Ali Carter - 15 February 2016
Indian Open qualifiers: LOST 4-0 v Stuart Bingham - 30 June 2016
UK Championship: LOST 6-1 v Stephen Maguire - 24 November 2016
I get that you can unilaterally 'fix' a game for you to lose.....but the 1 x win ?!?
Would have been a correct score im guessing, so play a dodgy few frames makes sure you win a couple and your opponent wins 3, get it to 3-3 then play your best in the final frame decider and hope it goes your way lol
OMG will put the full draw on here in a bit but wow stand out tie of the British Open.
Mark Allen will play his Ex Reanne Evans and this come just a few months after he asked the BBC studio to remove her fom set whilst he was practicing for the World Championships as he couldn't concentrate 🤣🤣
OMG will put the full draw on here in a bit but wow stand out tie of the British Open.
Mark Allen will play his Ex Reanne Evans and this come just a few months after he asked the BBC studio to remove her fom set whilst he was practicing for the World Championships as he couldn't concentrate 🤣🤣
I replied to your twitter post, its been said that Allen will withdraw if he ever gets Reanne in an event, so well see... I hope he doesn't could make for some great TV.
OMG will put the full draw on here in a bit but wow stand out tie of the British Open.
Mark Allen will play his Ex Reanne Evans and this come just a few months after he asked the BBC studio to remove her fom set whilst he was practicing for the World Championships as he couldn't concentrate 🤣🤣
I replied to your twitter post, its been said that Allen will withdraw if he ever gets Reanne in an event, so well see... I hope he doesn't could make for some great TV.
John Astley 3-1 Zhang Anda Joe O'Connor 3-2 Steven Hallworth Xu Si 3-2 Fan Zhengyi Robbie Williams 3-1 Akani Songsermsawad Liang Wenbo 3-1- Simon Lichtenberg Jordan Brown 3-2 Andrew Higginson Jak Jones 3-2 Lyu Haotian Dylan Emery 3-2 Gao Yang John Higgins 3-1 Alexander Ursenbacher Hammad Miah 3-2 Ben Woollaston Louis Heathcote 3-2 Yuan Sijun Chen Zifan 3-0 Farakh Ajaib Martin O'Donnell 3-2 Gerard Greene Mark Williams 3-0 Tian Pengfei Jimmy White 3-0 Aaron Hill Ken Doherty 3-0 Zak Surety Bai Langning 3-0 Ash Carty David Lilley 3-1 Craig Steadman Judd Trump 3-2 Mitchell Mann Matt Selt 3-2 Thepchaiya Un-Nooh Ian Burns 3-1 Michael White Liam Highfield 3-0 Stuart Carrington Zhou Yuelong 3-2 Tom Ford Mark Allen 3-2 Reanne Evans
Comments
From what i have read it sounds like it should be really good documentary.
Saw him play as a kid in Manchester back in the 70s - never seen anything like it.
Totally self destructive like George Best.
The 64 who finished in the top 64 last season
1-Judd Trump
2-Mark Selby
3-Ronnie O'Sullivan
4-Neil Robertson
5-Shaun Murphy
6-Kyren Wilson
7-John Higgins
8-Ding Junhui
9-Stephen Maguire
10-Yan Bingtao
11-Mark Williams
12-Mark Allen
13-Barry Hawkins
14-Jack Lisowski
15-Stuart Bingham
16-Anthony McGill
17-Zhou Yuelong
18-Graeme Dott
19-Thepchaiya Un-Nooh
20-Joe Perry
21-Kurt Maflin
22-Tom Ford
23-David Gilbert
24-Ali Carter
25-Martin Gould
26-Zhao Xintong
27-Liang Wenbo
28-Ryan Day
29-Xiao Guodong
30-Matthew Selt
31-Michael Holt
32-Ricky Walden
33-Gary Wilson
34-Scott Donaldson
35-Lu Ning
36-Matthew Stevens
37-Robert Milkins
38-Li Hang
39-Luca Brecel
40-Jordan Brown
41-Hossein Vafaei
42-Mark Joyce
43-Liam Highfield
44-Noppon Saengkham
45-Alexander Ursenbacher
46-Ben Woollaston
47-Stuart Carrington
48-Martin O'Donnell
49-Mark Davis
50-Sam Craigie
51-Elliot Slessor
52-Mark King
53-Lyu Haotian
54-Anthony Hamilton
55-Jamie Jones
56-Andrew Higginson
57-Sunny Akani
58-Tian Pengfei
59-David Grace
60-Chris Wakelin
61-Dominic Dale
62-Joe O'Connor
63-Jimmy Robertson
64-Nigel Bond
The 27 players who are on the 2nd year of their 2 year tour card
65-Jak Jones
66-Pang Junxu
67-Jamie Clarke
68-Robbie Williams
69-Steven Hallworth
70-Ashley Carty
71-Simon Lichtenberg
72-Oliver Lines
73-Zhao Jianbo
74-Ken Doherty
75-Gao Yang
76-Fergal O'Brien
77-Rory McLeod
78-Allan Taylor
79-Aaron Hill
80-Lukas Kleckers
81-Ashley Hugill
82-Peter Devlin
83-Jamie Wilson
84-Ben Hancorn
85-Lee Walker
86-Fan Zhengyi
87-Zak Surety
88-Stephen Hendry
89-Farakh Ajaib
90-Iulian Boiko
91-Sean Maddocks
Next we have the 8 highest players on the 1 year list
92-Chang Bingyu
93-Igor Figueiredo
94-Xu Si
95-Louis Heathcote
96-Chen Zifan
97-Jamie O'Neil
98-Andy Hicks
99-Gerard Greene
Following that we have the 4 players who qualified via the Chinese qualifying events
100-Wu Yize
101-Zhang Jiankang
102-Cao Yupeng
103-Zhang Anda
Following that you have the 4 Invitational cards
2 from the Womans tour
104-Reanne Evans
105-Ng On-Yee
2 from the Mens tour
106-Jimmy White
107-Marco Fu
Following that is a deferred tour card from last year Following illness
108-Andrew Pagett
Then we have the Q School Winners
Event 1
109-Peter Lines
110-Fraser Patrick
111-Jackson Page
112-Yuan Sijun
Event 2
113-Barry Pinches
114-Craig Steadman
115-Micheal Judge
116-Alfie Burden
Event 3
117-Ian Burns
118-Lei Peifan
119-Dean Young
120-Duane Jones
Q School Top 2 order of Merit
121-Hammad Miah
122-Mitchell Mann
Unfortunately this left world snooker in a tough position the tour normally had 128 players they only had 122 the event that normally filled they other 6 slots couldnt be played due to covid, so to make this up as a one of World Snooker offered the next 6 on the Q School order of merit a 1 year top up card, guaranteeing they will be able to enter every event(baring the home nations events as the empty slots will be filled by the local governing body choosing their own amateur players(which again is brilliant)
So these lucky 6 are.
123-Sanderson Lam
124- Michael Georgiou
125-Si Jiahui
126-Soheil Vahedi
127-Micheal White
128-David Lilley
A lot has been made of The women but personally i am looking forward to seeing how Cao Yupeng does.
He was always someone i expected to win titles, and he was so close in that Scottish open final against Neil Robertson.
But obviously he was banned for 30 months for match fixing which ended in November and managed to get straight back on tour, will also be interesting to see how fans respond to him.
Higgins may have been caught agreeing to it and then coming up with that stupid excuse that he thought the mafia was gonna hurt his family if he didnt, but no one knows if he actually would have gone through with it or if hus conscience would have got the better of him, which is why his ban was so short.
Yupeng like like DeLu actually admitted to fixing 3 results in 2016(Delu fixed 5 and didn't help and was found to have been betting when banned from doing so thats why his banned until 2029)
I was actually talking to someone about this the other day and managed to find a report where it mentioned what games were fixed(apologies if you had a bet on any of these and are just finding out you lost cos they were fixed 😉)
YU DELUS FIXED GAMES
CAO YUPENGS FIXED GAMES
I do think just giving the ladies spots is a bit silly, but then again they do overseas spots too again to players who are not good enough so i suppose its similar in that respect. I'll be rooting for the ladies but would do well to win a match either of them, no disrespect just they haven't in the past shown they are of the required standard. You have to be gutted if you were an amateur snooker player and just outside getting in, but thats life.
edit - Champions league i dont really follow just proper events.
Group 6:
Mark Lloyd(A)
Higginson
Holt
Fergal O'Brien
Group 32:
Ronnie
Nasir(A)
Joyce
Burns
Players are ranked by most points and frame difference, in that order. If that is still the same then the result of the match between the players in question will determine the rankings (not implemented in this table)
Championship league started 2 days ago lol where was your update for the first 2 groups 😉😉
Slight bias, but this one was just pure luck. Happy i haven't missed Ronnie. Bit odd the TV schedule is showing on Premier sports not Freesports... hopefully they make it free for the day or maybe freesports one isn't updated properly.
PS- I doubt ill be updating this daily
Day 1 afternoon
Table 1 was only available on facebook
Table 2 on matchroom.live
Day 1 evening
Table 1 on freesports
Table 2 on matchroom.live
Day 2 afternoon
Table 1 on freesports
Table on matchroom.live
Day 2 evening
Table 1 on Facebook
Table 2 on matchroom.live
First tournament of the season and its all of the place and you miss half of Table 1 matches because u cant find where it is.
Its why i havent bothered with the updates lol, its ok to watch and get the season started but even the broadcasters dont care about it
Mark Allen will play his Ex Reanne Evans and this come just a few months after he asked the BBC studio to remove her fom set whilst he was practicing for the World Championships as he couldn't concentrate 🤣🤣
Round 1
Results
John Astley 3-1 Zhang Anda
Joe O'Connor 3-2 Steven Hallworth
Xu Si 3-2 Fan Zhengyi
Robbie Williams 3-1 Akani Songsermsawad
Liang Wenbo 3-1- Simon Lichtenberg
Jordan Brown 3-2 Andrew Higginson
Jak Jones 3-2 Lyu Haotian
Dylan Emery 3-2 Gao Yang
John Higgins 3-1 Alexander Ursenbacher
Hammad Miah 3-2 Ben Woollaston
Louis Heathcote 3-2 Yuan Sijun
Chen Zifan 3-0 Farakh Ajaib
Martin O'Donnell 3-2 Gerard Greene
Mark Williams 3-0 Tian Pengfei
Jimmy White 3-0 Aaron Hill
Ken Doherty 3-0 Zak Surety
Bai Langning 3-0 Ash Carty
David Lilley 3-1 Craig Steadman
Judd Trump 3-2 Mitchell Mann
Matt Selt 3-2 Thepchaiya Un-Nooh
Ian Burns 3-1 Michael White
Liam Highfield 3-0 Stuart Carrington
Zhou Yuelong 3-2 Tom Ford
Mark Allen 3-2 Reanne Evans
147 JOHN HIGGINS
John Higgins makes the 167th 147 in snooker history and his 12th his last one coming October 2020