Haikou World Open Wild Card and Last 32 Discussion !!!!!

GJ wrote:I expect an early exit for robbo this week

Just a bad feeling .......

we obviously all hope this is the case

Peter Drury CDL

Smart wrote:Peter Drury CDL

hes hopeless at his so called main sport football so i dread how bad he will be

i think phil studd standard

GJ wrote:

Smart wrote:Peter Drury CDL

hes hopeless at his so called main sport football so i dread how bad he will be

i think phil studd standard

GJ

GJ wrote:I expect an early exit for robbo this week

Just a bad feeling .......

you said that in wales and it happened.

i thought Aussies was always possitive.

you been living in Ireland too long lol

Monday 25th of February

6.30am

Ricky Walden v Peter Ebdon TV
Alan McManus v Lin Shuai TV
Mark Joyce v Noppon Saengkham
Nigel Bond v Zhu Yinghui

11.30am

Simon Bedford v Lu Haotian TV
Mark Davis v Robert Milkins TV
David Gilbert v Lu Ning
Ian Burns v Saleh Muhammad

Nigel Bond and an in-form McManus both seems to comfortably cruising through their chinese opponents.. Tight as expected between Ricky Walden and Ebdon, 2-2 currently.

Ricky takes a 3-2 lead over Ebdon.

It can be mentally bit tight at times, but players are in great hands now. Loads of matches and there won´t be much cheap shots behind the curtains anymore like it was a habit just a few years ago. So really worth of it, and personally looking forward the spring (not even mention summer here)..

Wild WC wrote:

GJ wrote:I expect an early exit for robbo this week

Just a bad feeling .......

you said that in wales and it happened.

i thought Aussies was always possitive.

you been living in Ireland too long lol

lets call it an attempted jinx

rexy is right

Drury = CDL of the highest order

clive

Not sure why ITV4 chose to screen this tournament, they knew there would be rubbish attendance like always in China. This doesnt do any good for the sport. They should have screened something like German Masters

Monday 25th of February

6.30am

Ricky Walden 5-2 Peter Ebdon
Alan McManus 5-3 Lin Shuai
Mark Joyce 5-4 Noppon Saengkham
Nigel Bond 5-3 Zhu Yinghui

11.30am

Simon Bedford 1-3 Lu Haotian
Mark Davis 0-3 Robert Milkins
David Gilbert 3-0 Lu Ning
Jamie Cope 1-2 Wang Yuchen

randam05 wrote:Not sure why ITV4 chose to screen this tournament, they knew there would be rubbish attendance like always in China. This doesnt do any good for the sport. They should have screened something like German Masters

its possitive that they decided to screen anything at all considering its been 10 years since they televised anything

Davis losing 4-1. If he loses this game and Ronnie confirms that he is in for the WC Davis mind find himself out of the top-16 for the crucible....

wild

Any chance of milkins getting in top 16 soon hes a classy player and better than plodder MCD

randam05 wrote:Not sure why ITV4 chose to screen this tournament, they knew there would be rubbish attendance like always in China. This doesnt do any good for the sport. They should have screened something like German Masters

no big names playing today attendance was never going to be good

Simon Bedford 2-4 Lu Haotian
Mark Davis 1-4 Robert Milkins
David Gilbert 5-0 Lu Ning
Jamie Cope 3-3 Wang Yuchen

GJ wrote:wild

Any chance of milkins getting in top 16 soon hes a classy player and better than plodder MCD

theres always a chance by the end of the china open because hes in the PTC Grand Finals too

at the moment hes about 4,300 points off the top 16 so he needs to reach the Final to give him a chance after this tournament.

Wild WC wrote:

GJ wrote:wild

Any chance of milkins getting in top 16 soon hes a classy player and better than plodder MCD

theres always a chance by the end of the china open because hes in the PTC Grand Finals too

at the moment hes about 4,300 points off the top 16 so he needs to reach the Final to give him a chance after this tournament.

his temperament must be dodgy

because his break building and safety is top drawer

Have to say the cycling woman hasnt done a bad job so far

so only CDL Drury is a bad choice oin the itv team

GJ wrote:

Wild WC wrote:

GJ wrote:wild

Any chance of milkins getting in top 16 soon hes a classy player and better than plodder MCD

theres always a chance by the end of the china open because hes in the PTC Grand Finals too

at the moment hes about 4,300 points off the top 16 so he needs to reach the Final to give him a chance after this tournament.

his temperament must be dodgy

because his break building and safety is top drawer

over the years hes rushed shots a bit too much and its cost him like Drago.

but this season hes had some decent runs and currently 13th on the one year list.

he started the season ranked 36 and he has a chance of being a seed at the World Championship.

for me that sort of story will be missing with a flat 128 draw.

ok its a fairer system but seeing players with that immediate target of a higher ranking with a tier system would put bigger significance of playing well at tournaments.

Simon Bedford 2-5 Lu Haotian
Mark Davis 3-4 Robert Milkins
David Gilbert 5-0 Lu Ning
Jamie Cope 4-3 Wang Yuchen

Mark Davis is back in the Match without doing much Milkins is definitely feeling it now.

and Lu Haotian beats Simon Bedford 5-2

Ronnie couldn't beat bedford but Lu could

Apparently Ricky Walden beat Peter Ebdon 5-2 with Stephen Maguires Cue.

Ricky's Cue did not make the Journey on the same Flight

Milkins Laboured for a 5-3 win after starting the Match so well

only one Match left this afternoon

Jamie Cope 4-4 Wang Yuchen

Wang is 15-0 up in the decider

Monday 25th of February

11.30am

Simon Bedford 2-5 Lu Haotian
Mark Davis 3-5 Robert Milkins
David Gilbert 5-0 Lu Ning
Jamie Cope 5-4 Wang Yuchen

in a hard faught decider Cope eventually goes through to Play Graeme Dott tomorrow.

Dott played Cope in the 2007 China Open Final.....Graeme last Ranking Tournament win.

Tuesday 26th of February

6.30am

Mark Allen v Ryan Day TV
Shaun Murphy v Martin Gould TV
Ian Burns v Saleh Muhammad
Andrew Higginson v Zhao Xintong

11.30am

Judd Trump v Mark Joyce TV
Neil Robertson v Dominic Dale TV
Matthew Stevens v David Gilbert
Graeme Dott v Jamie Cope

Just got back. Anything interesting? Just managed to see a bit of Walden v Ebdon before I left for school.

Any idea if Walden has his stuff back? He looks odd in Mags clothes...

Oh and how was ITV4's coverage?

Skullman wrote:Oh and how was ITV4's coverage?

im in Denmark so did not see their coverage but one thing that was Positive according to Twitter when their allotted time was up they continued to see the conclusion although it was only 20 minutes over the time BBC Wouldn't do that.