Pink Ribbon Tournament Draw and Discussions !!!!

Sonny wrote:Can't do an in depth day summary because I've got cousin here but it was highly enjoyable. Showed Reanne the picture of Alex and his comment about photoshop and she laughed. (That's not a highlight, was browsing topic to catch up and got reminded ).

What can I say... so much happened. We've got the arrival of John Higgins exactly at the same time as cousin and PSB Matt which was 5pm and from then on it was hectic. But it was hectic before... I played my last match against Eden Sharav at 11am. I played alright except for the last frame, by that I mean I potted a few good long pots at the right speed, I played a few good safety shots but he would just find a long red, go bang and knock in a big break. Very talented player and one of Mark's (Jones) tips.

John Higgins was really suffering from hay fever, I thought it was man flu but his eyes were streaming so he was in a bad way. The excitement among the young players to have the World Champion here was obvious and they all want to play him.

Other than that I followed Ben where I could and also took cousin along to watch Syd Wilson for a few frames. Syd's dad was hilarious when I showed him Shotmaker (bit of background - he asked does it do x and y before I showed him) because he got talking about a shot Syd played and what he should have played and as he described I drew, and he thought I was interested in the shot rather than showing him the software! I said proudly "do you mean he played this shot and should have played this shot because the shot he played left his opponent this shot?" and he said "yeah that's right" as I went through the diagrams. There's Syd in the background going "Dad forget about that what do you think of the software?" and me and cousin laughing.

Anyway, Syd says he will definitely join the forum so look out for him. A great lad and very entertaining and natural player. One of the beauties of this event for me is seeing the young players with all the talent before they've been bashed around in the qualifiers by the big guns. They are going for everything and having fun and some of the talent on display is incredible. If you haven't guessed, the two I've gone for are Syd and Ben.

Did an interview with Hannah and then Mark which went really well, and then Reanne came in just as I was about to have photo taken with the Joneses so took the opportunity to get her involved too.

First time I've ever watched Reanne play. One word - graceful.

Also grabbed a quick interview with the "kid with the glove" Ross Muir which was on the spur of the moment so had no questions prepared but I'll manage to extract something out of it.

Right, that'll do. Just had to get it down now while it's fresh and then I'll do a proper write up for the blog in due course.

Pink Ribbon - the Glastonbury of snooker

Wild wrote:Scores Courtesy of Twitter Live from the Academy

Jamie Jones 1-4 Martin Gould

Michael White 4-2 Sydney Wilson

Robert Valiant 1-3 John Higgins

Mark Joyce 4-0 Stephen Maguire

Ben Harrison 2-3 Sam Harvey

Jimmy Robertson 4-1 Shane Castle

Leo Fernandez 0-4 Ryan Day

Michael Holt 2-1 Sean O'Sullivan

Sonny wrote:Holt won in 20 minutes!