Dafabet World Championship Qualifying Rnd 1 (8-9th April)

Luca did well to win that frame. 3-3. Nice to see proper long format snooker. Nowhere near enough of it on the tour.

Two good frames from Luca to go 4-3 up. Great last pink to make the ton.

Nice century break by Luca

LUCA

Ton of 118 to go 4-3up, keep it going kid.

Luca is a great potter, but runs out of position a bit too much. He does like to play entertaining shots. Great to watch when he's on fire. But like I said, needs to work on his positional play.

Holden Chinaski wrote:Luca is a great potter, but runs out of position a bit too much. He does like to play entertaining shots. Great to watch when he's on fire. But like I said, needs to work on his positional play.

Yeah, as does Selby in recent times for that matter

Andre147 PGC wrote:

Holden Chinaski wrote:Luca is a great potter, but runs out of position a bit too much. He does like to play entertaining shots. Great to watch when he's on fire. But like I said, needs to work on his positional play.

Yeah, as does Selby in recent times for that matter

Selby needs to work on everything

Looks to be a lot more close matches this session. At least 4 5-4s compared to only one for the morning. And no 8-1s.

had a look at who didnt enter
Khairy, Suwannawat, Hendry - retired
Lee - banned
Simon Ronniebeater Bedford - also retired?
Lee Spick - played only 1 match this season, retired?
Vafaei - no visa?
Jin Long, Shi Hanqing - only played in Asian tour events, do they know they qualified to the tour?
and Germany's Patrick Einsle - last he played was ET8, where is he?

I think Luca should maybe have gone for one of those pots rather than put the cue ball back. Ronnie would certainly have taken one on.

Luca focused on the cannon more than the pot there. Lucky he got both parts of the shot wrong.

Joel Walker 5-4 Allan Taylor
James Wattana 5-3 Alex Borg
Sam Baird 4-5 John J Astley
Gary Wilson 4-5 James Cahill
Luca Brecel 4-3 Lee Page
Chen Zhe 5-4 Antony Parsons
Michael Wasley 5-4 Sydney Wilson
Robbie Williams 5-3 Lyu Haotian
Li Hang 7-2 Ratchayothin Yotharuck
Tony Drago 2-7 Robin Hull

Luca

And so every match in this session, bar two, have finished 5-4.

Going to be a tense afternoon tomorrow...

Luca loses that frame after having a good chance to lead heading into the final session.

Of course he's only a frame behind at 5-4, but the last frame of a session is always so important from a phsycological point of view.

Tuesday 8th of April

2.30pm

Joel Walker 5-4 Allan Taylor
James Wattana 5-4 Alex Borg
Sam Baird 4-5 John J Astley
Gary Wilson 4-5 James Cahill
Luca Brecel 4-5 Lee Page
Chen Zhe 5-4 Antony Parsons
Michael Wasley 5-4 Sydney Wilson
Robbie Williams 5-4 Lyu Haotian
Li Hang 7-2 Ratchayothin Yotharuck
Tony Drago 2-7 Robin Hull

7pm

Zhang Anda 7-2 Andrew Pagett streaming
Craig Steadman 2-5 Jak Jones
Liam Highfield 8-1 Khaled Belaid Abumdas
Thanawat Tirapongpaiboon 5-4 Sanderson Lam
Barry Pinches 8-1 Hammad Miah
Kyren Wilson 6-3 Chris Norbury streaming
Martin O'Donnell 8-1 Shane Castle
Daniel Wells 3-6 Ryan Clark
Jamie O'Neill 3-4 Cao Xin Long
Paul S Davison 7-2 Chris Wakelin
Michael Leslie 4-3 Christopher Keogan

Jak Jones, who hasnt won a match all season, doing well against Craig Steadman, who reached the Last 16 in China. Currently 6-2

Martin O'Donnell, first man through to the Last 96 with a 10-1 thumping of Shane Castle

fridge46 wrote:Jak Jones, who hasnt won a match all season, doing well against Craig Steadman, who reached the Last 16 in China. Currently 6-2

Have to say that would be a surprise result. Not sure whether Steadman could turn that round from four behind though. Needs to get to 7-4 at the interval at worst

PLtheRef wrote:

fridge46 wrote:Jak Jones, who hasnt won a match all season, doing well against Craig Steadman, who reached the Last 16 in China. Currently 6-2

Have to say that would be a surprise result. Not sure whether Steadman could turn that round from four behind though. Needs to get to 7-4 at the interval at worst

6-4 now. Twist in the tale?

Zhang Anda 10-2 Andrew Pagett
Craig Steadman 5-7 Jak Jones
Liam Highfield 10-2 Khaled Belaid Abumdas
Thanawat Tirapongpaiboon 8-7 Sanderson Lam
Barry Pinches 10-3 Hammad Miah
Kyren Wilson 9-6 Chris Norbury
Martin O'Donnell 10-1 Shane Castle
Daniel Wells 7-8 Ryan Clark
Jamie O'Neill 5-7 Cao Xin Long
Paul S Davison 7-7 Chris Wakelin
Michael Leslie 5-6 Christopher Keogan

Fantastic performance from Chris Wakelin against such an experienced player

Been out. See most of the one sided matches finished swiftly. Looks like Wakelin has pulled ahead of Snowy Davison from 7-2 behind

Think Daniel Wells was a fair bit behind Clark as well and has got level.

TT goes 9-8 up on Lam.

Been 4 tons between them in that match. Strength in depth etc.

Skull with so many tons already in the first day of qualifying, you think we'll see a 147 be made? I think there will be at least one in this qualifiers.

Possibility but I think it's more likely it'll be done a higher ranked player.

Fun fact: There have two 147s in the qualifying stages for the Worlds and they were made by Robert Milkins.

Skullman wrote:Possibility but I think it's more likely it'll be done a higher ranked player.

Fun fact: There have two 147s in the qualifying stages for the Worlds and they were made by Robert Milkins.

Didn't know Milkins is the only player to have achieved that, let alone the 2 he made.

And yeah I also think it will be done by a higher ranked player, who knows maybe Milkins himself again

See Leslie and Keogan are only at 6-6! They were pulled off early, but still. Hope the ref for that match doesn't have to be up early tomorrow.

Clark 9-8 up against Wells, but I think that match is bound to have a decider.

TT finishes off with back to back big breaks, 128 and a 90+. I wonder if he realised he's in a tight match at the Worlds?

First decider of the Worlds between Wells and Clark.