International Championship Wild Card and Last 32 Discussion

Mark Selby 6-3 Allister Carter
John Higgins 3-6 Cao Yupeng
Stephen Lee scr Peter Ebdon w/o
Barry Pinches 2-5 Lu Ning

Lu Ning quietly going about his business. Wasn't he the player that beat Jamie Jones and Smurph in the China Open this year?

Skullman wrote:This may be an overreaction but a question.

Is Cao Yupeng China's no2 player?

Obviously he's not as highly ranked as Liang, Xiao et al but from the last Worlds he's qualified for three out of five rankers and beat the opposing seed in all of them and relatively comfortably each time.

at this moment in time without a doubt.

Guodong has only qualified for 1 ranking venue and the PTC Grand Finals.

all other venue appearances has been as a Wild Card

this is cao 3rd venue in 7 months

Barry Pinches 3-5 Lu Ning

Wild WC wrote:Mark Selby 6-3 Allister Carter
John Higgins 3-6 Cao Yupeng
Stephen Lee scr Peter Ebdon w/o
Barry Pinches 2-5 Lu Ning

Well done Selby!!.






Flippin eck!,whats up with John Haggis,loses already in the 1st round!,

Good thing there are only two matches in the next session. If they played all four, someone would have to wait for Pinches and Lu Ning to finish.

Cao

This kid playing Stevens looks really young. Anyone have any idea how old he is?

Cao Yupeng could have a re match against Mark Allen in CHINA if Allen beats Milkins

The fifteen year old wild card wins the first frame against Stevens

Stevens gets to 3-1 though. Zhao not making it especially difficult for him. I assume he played better against Kendo.

Monday 29th of October

6.30am

Mark Selby 6-3 Allister Carter
John Higgins 3-6 Cao Yupeng
Stephen Lee scr Peter Ebdon w/o
Barry Pinches 5-6 Lu Ning

Lu Ning finally gets over the line against Pinches 6-5. Second failed comeback by a pro against a wildcard this week. Has a match with Walden tomorrow.

Just in case you don't Know after a trip to Mars

Ronnie O'Sullivan scr Lu Haotian w/o
Pankaj Advani scr Zhou Yuelong w/o

Matthew Stevens 4-1 Zhao Xintong
Graeme Dott 2-3 Dominic Dale

For someone so inexperienced, impressive that Zhao won a frame against Stevens while needing a snooker.

Zhao takes it to 4-3. Let's see how Stevens's legendary bottle holds up against an opponent that's actually fighting back.

good to see all these teenage Chinese players doing so well on the 1st anniversary of Sir Jimmys passing from this mortal coil

Probably from relief as there's no chance of him bucking them anymore.

Zhao levels 4-4. Stevens doing the usual I see.

Dom 5-3 up. Shock on the cards there?

Graeme does not seem to have any concentration at all..

Zhao misses frame ball to force a decider but still 66 ahead with 67 on. Let's see how Stevens's bottle holds.

Decider alert. Zhao is fearless but Stevens has the much better safety game. Should be interesting.

Dom wins 6-3. Dott didn't look his best the brief moments I looked at the stream but Dom deserved to win from what I saw. Randam must be chuffed if he's not too busy enjoying uni.

Interesting match between him and Lu Haotian in the last 16.

Zhao gets the first chance...

Skullman wrote:Dom wins 6-3. Dott didn't look his best the brief moments I looked at the stream but Dom deserved to win from what I saw. Randam must be chuffed if he's not too busy enjoying uni.

Interesting match between him and Lu Haotian in the last 16.

Nah im still popping on every so often to check how things are going. Hope everyone is well! I have a project week this week so no lectures today and decided id take the time to enjoy some snooker in this great event im fond of the format (if they put the UK back to best of 19's then both these tournaments would have their own character and be majors in different senses)

Anyway what a great performance from Dale! Great century and a wonderful frame to get over the line. I honestly turned over at 5-3 up thinking dott would win 6-5 but dale played a great shot to middle and held his nerve to win that frame and get a great win!

Hopefully can win the next match and progress to quarters which would give him some good confidence and ranking points to boost the rest of his season.

Reds spread and Stevens is in...

Also cant wait to see stevens face when he loses this match to a baby from 4-1 up!

These young chinese players including dales next opponent seem to be so good, you can tell the future is strong for chinese players with kids beating main tour players.

randam05 wrote:

Skullman wrote:Dom wins 6-3. Dott didn't look his best the brief moments I looked at the stream but Dom deserved to win from what I saw. Randam must be chuffed if he's not too busy enjoying uni.

Interesting match between him and Lu Haotian in the last 16.

Nah im still popping on every so often to check how things are going. Hope everyone is well! I have a project week this week so no lectures today and decided id take the time to enjoy some snooker in this great event im fond of the format (if they put the UK back to best of 19's then both these tournaments would have their own character and be majors in different senses)

Anyway what a great performance from Dale! Great century and a wonderful frame to get over the line. I honestly turned over at 5-3 up thinking dott would win 6-5 but dale played a great shot to middle and held his nerve to win that frame and get a great win!

Hopefully can win the next match and progress to quarters which would give him some good confidence and ranking points to boost the rest of his season.

Good to know. Won't have a better chance to make the quarters with wildcard Lu Haotian next.