Shanghai Masters Wild Card and 1st Round Discussion !!!!

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Jamie Burnett 5-2 Tian Pengfei
Andrew Higginson 5-2 Rouzi Maimaiti
Ken Doherty 5-4 Mohammad Sajjad
Rob Milkins 3-5 Jin Long

12.45pm BST

Dave Harold v Passakorn Suwannawat Eurosport Main Match
Mike Dunn v Mei Xiwen
Martin Gould v Li Hang
Joe Delaney v Li Yan

in the absence of coverage of other matches and me updating scores here apparently world snooker.com are updating scores as they go on HERE

Do they do those scores after every frame or when the match has finished ?

Bourne wrote:Do they do those scores after every frame or when the match has finished ?

dont know yet didnt know they was doing it until i read snookerscene blog after matches finished ill take a look this afternoon ..

OK thanks. Would have liked to see Gould today

Yeah to be fair it's not like there's an obvious candidate. We all want to see Gould but maybe Harold is slightly more well known out in Shanghai. Has he had any decent results in China over the years?

Not sure, only significant thing he's done in the last several years was NI wasn't it ?

How many points does Burnett get this week ?

This Sunnawat's a big lad isn't he ? Harold made QFs in first Shanghai Masters 3 years ago comm just said.

Well done mike smith quoting the right Ranking instead of the shambles on WS.

Nice break

These are class wild cards even this guy Passakorn Suwanawat played on the main tour few years back.

Mike Dunn 0-1 Mei Xiwen

what a amatarish shot from Dave Harold ....Jesus christ

Not as bad as that miss from Ting tong

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Dave Harold 0-1 Passakorn Suwanawat
Mike Dunn 0-1 Mei Xiwen
Martin Gould 1-0 Li Hang
Joe Delaney 0-0 Li Yan dont know score the stream not working

Sonny wrote:Yeah to be fair it's not like there's an obvious candidate. We all want to see Gould but maybe Harold is slightly more well known out in Shanghai. Has he had any decent results in China over the years?

Harold won the Asian open in 1993 does that count ?

Gould in the Balls looking to make it 2-0 and should but hang getting plenty of chances and not taking anything.

Dire stuff this. Suwannawat nearly went in off with his first shot on tv so how he managed to win the frame, that shows how bad Harold is cueing. It's gotta be 5-1 to Harold, surely he can't lose another frame.

I love the Joe Johnson quip - "Never leave a mug a double". It's so true, and Suwannawat is playing like one.

Quite uncomfortable to watch actually.

Commentators got it wrong Harold was 13th in 95/96 and 11th in 96/97 and he was 13 in 2000/2001 and 15th in 2001/2002 so hes been 4 times in the top 16.

Gould 1-1 Li Hang
Delaney 1-0 Li Yan
Dunn 0-2 Mei Xiwen

a chinese woman refereing the gould match.

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Dave Harold 2-1 Passakorn Suwanawat
Mike Dunn 0-3 Mei Xiwen
Martin Gould 2-1 Li Hang
Joe Delaney 1-0 Li Yan

Just pushed out a meeting so I could have a look at this Suwanawat fella & see what al the fuss is about. He's cueing is all over the place, not cueing through straight at all, at all. Andy Murray's Mum must have been in his ear before he played.

He's not doing much for the people who want wild cards to continue either.

You should've seen the shots he missed at the end of frame 1. It's only Harold's bad play that kept letting him back in. He seems to have steadied down a bit here though.

John you reckon you could still compete with these wildcards ?

Bourne wrote:John you reckon you could still compete with these wildcards ?

Nah. In front of cameras or with a rubbish load of pressure on I might have a chance, but behind closed doors they'd bucking hammer me.

Fair enough, this dude's certainly not impressed me a whole lot so far, neither has Harold for that matter.

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Dave Harold 3-1 Passakorn Suwanawat
Mike Dunn 1-3 Mei Xiwen
Martin Gould 3-1 Li Hang frame
Joe Delaney 2-0 Li Yan

Bourne wrote:Fair enough, this dude's certainly not impressed me a whole lot so far, neither has Harold for that matter.

Its about channelling the pressure right isn't it, which he isn't doing nor looks like he knows how too. This fella looks lost out there, he's not comfortable at all, at all.

I think he's dragged Dave Harold down to be honest, which can happen. I'd be surprised if the other fella muster's more that 20 points in these next 2 frames & fully expect Dave Harold to kick on from here on in waving bye bye....

How is Mike Dunn still a pro? 20 years on the circuit and he has only ever reached two last 16's (the first in 2005) and he is sitting on his highest ever career ranking of 33. So much for 'today's' standards.