Amazing moment watching when he hit the 1000th, it will be beaten by Trump but GOAT imo Trump has a long way to go and needs to start showing up in the Worlds/ UK with his new found confidence/form (whatever you call it he is alot better player these days and probably Ronnies biggest threat these days)
Then the next 3 on the 1 year ranking list are 7-Stuart Bingham(£188,000) 8-Kyren Wilson(£187,500) 9-Dave Gilbert(182,500)
So with less than 6k seperating them this weekend is crucial to who will take the 7th and 8th spot in Llandudno.
And with Wilson and Bingham due to possibly meet in the Semi Final you have to think Dave Gilbert despite being 9th is favourite out of the 3 to be heading to Wales
Really Hoping Selby uses this and kicks on, the longer format is were he is best and with this, The China Championship and The World Championship coming up, I am hoping we see the Mark Selby of a few years ago
Neil Robertson was 2-0 up Selby won 4 in a row to lead 4-2 then in frame 7 a frame Robertson really needed he was 61-0 up missed a pink he should have potted and Selby cleared up to go 5-2 ahead
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Last 16
Ryan Day v David Grace
Daniel Wells v Dave Gilbert
Tian Pengfei v Yan Bingtao
Oliver Brown v Lu Ning
Andrew Higginson v Zhou Yuelong
Kurt Maflin v Stuart Bingham
Gary Wilson v Yuan Sijun
Rob Milkins v Kyren Wilson
We have 6 players confirmed in The Players Championship(which starts Tuesday and the winner gets £150,000)
Those 6 are(current ranking points in brackets)
1-Mark Allen(£394,000)
2-Ronnie O'Sullivan(£353,500)
3-Judd Trump(£307,000)
4-Neil Robertson(£304,500)
5-Mark Selby(£246,500)
6-Mark Williams(223,500)
Then the next 3 on the 1 year ranking list are
7-Stuart Bingham(£188,000)
8-Kyren Wilson(£187,500)
9-Dave Gilbert(182,500)
So with less than 6k seperating them this weekend is crucial to who will take the 7th and 8th spot in Llandudno.
And with Wilson and Bingham due to possibly meet in the Semi Final you have to think Dave Gilbert despite being 9th is favourite out of the 3 to be heading to Wales
Last 16
Results
Ryan Day 4-3 David Grace
Dave Gilbert 4-3 Daniel Wells
Tian Pengfei 4-3 Yan Bingtao
Lu Ning 4-2 Oliver Brown
Zhou Yuelong 4-3 Andrew Higginson
Stuart Bingham 4-2 Kurt Maflin
Yuan Sijun 4-2 Gary Wilson
Rob Milkins 4-2 Kyren Wilson
The last place is between Wilson and Gilbert
If Gilbert makes the final he will be there, if he loses in quarters ir Semis then the final place is Wilsons
Quarter Finals
Ryan Day v Dave Gilbert
Tian Pengfei v Lu Ning
Zhou Yuelong v Stuart Bingham
Yuan Sijun v Rob Milkins
Quarter Finals
Results
Ryan Day 4-2 Dave Gilbert
Lu Ning 4-3 Tian Pengfei
Stuart Bingham 4-0 Zhou Yuelong
Yuan Sijun 4-3 Rob Milkins
So with Gilbert losing to Day it means Kyren Wilson takes the 8th place in Wales next week.
Semi Final
Results
Stuart Bingham 4-0 Yuan Sijun
Ryan Day 4-2 Lu Ning
Final
Stuart Bingham 4-1 Ryan Day
All quarter final matches are best of 17 and 2 sessions
Bot semi finals are best of 19 frames and 2 session
Final best of 25 frames and 3 sessions
Mark Selby has been world number 1 for 49 months in a row, should ROS win the event he will overtake Mark anr become World Number 1
Quarter final
Mid session interval 1st session
Neil Robertson 2-2 Mark Selby
edging towards Selby just to keep the number one ranking
117-Selby
110-Robertson
103-Selby
Not a bad start to the event
Quarter final
Mid session interval 1st session
Mark Williams 2-2 Judd Trump
Neil Robertson was 2-0 up Selby won 4 in a row to lead 4-2 then in frame 7 a frame Robertson really needed he was 61-0 up missed a pink he should have potted and Selby cleared up to go 5-2 ahead
Quarter final
1st session
Result
Mark Selby 6-2 Neil Robertson
Mark comes from 2-0 down to win 6 in a row, all to do for Neil tonight
Quarter final
1st session
Result
Mark Williams 4-4 Judd Trump
Neither player has had more than a 1 frame lead in this tight battle and I expect that to continue into the 2nd session tomorrow afternoon
Quarter final
Mid session interval 1st session
Ronnie O'Sullivan 2-2 Stuart Bingham
Quarter final
Mid session interval 2nd session
Mark Selby 6-6 Neil Robertson
Robertson wins all 4 frames to level it up.
Quarter final
1st session
Result
Ronnie O'Sullivan 6-2 Stuart Bingham
Stuart missed an easy black of the spot in 3 different frames when in amongst the balls which cost him dearly in the opening 8 frames
Quarter Final
Result
Neil Robertson 9-8 Mark Selby
Final frame decider took over an hour and finished with a black ball game