McCulloch, O'Donnell at Basel Open - O'Donnell 147 !

British players Ian McCulloch, Martin O'Donnell and Jonni Fulcher (formerly British Universities Champion and now a Swiss resident) all safely got through the group stages of the Basel Open today, each safely winning 3 matches 2 - 0 and McCullogh having a tournament-high break of 84. Other players through include France's Nathanael Beckrich, Germany's Florian Werres and Switzerland's Alexander Ursenbacher, Marcel Muller, Tom Zimmermann and Urs Freitag.

Fulcher, McCulloch and O'Donnell safely through to the quarter finals - Swiss Snooker showing O'Donnell hit a 147




(McCulloch did the same at the 2010 tournament, hope like that one they got O'Donnell's on video)

Last 16 results:
Alexander Ursenbacher 3 - 0 Chris Tsitalis (Germany)
Nathanael Beckrich (France) 3 - 0 Rafael Giger
Florian Werres (Germany) 3 - 0 Franz Stähli
Jonni Fulcher (UK) 3 - 0 Marcel Müller
Martin O'Donnell (UK) 3 - 0 Tomas Faoro
Tom Zimmermann 3 - 0 Jürg Alder
Ian McCulloch 3 - 0 Peter Wagner (Germany)
Result awaited - Urs Freitag v Mohanraj Sivasubramaniam

to Martin. Guess the Snookerbacker Classic win gave him some real confidence. Hope he gets through the Q-School.

Mohanraj Sivasubramaniam beat Urs Freitag 3 - 2 in the final last 16 match

Quarter finals

Still playing - Alexander Ursenbacher v Nathanael Beckrich
Jonni Fulcher 3 - 1 Florian Werres
Martin O'Donnell 3 - 0 Tom Zimmermann
Ian McCulloch 3 - 0 Mohanraj Sivasubramaniam

Nathanael Beckrich beat Alexander Ursenbacher 3 - 2 in the last quarter final.

Semi finals:

Jonni Fulcher 3 - 0 Nathanael Beckrich
Martin O'Donnell 3 - 2 Ian McCulloch

So an all British quarter final as ex-pat Joni Fulcher takes on 147 man Martin O'Donnell



Edit - or even, final ...

And to complete a great weekend for Martin O'Donnell, he takes victory 3 - 0 over Jonni Fulcher (and pockets 1000 Swiss Francs - about 693 pounds, plus another 100 Swiss Francs for highest break).

Martin.