Q SCHOOL 2

Strong performance from Anthony Parsons in defeating Charlie Walters 4-1 with breaks of 71, 96 and 75 to finish.

David gray might be a top Pro in his time but i dont think hes up to the task of getting back there..Everything is a Grind for him and as soon as he comes up against someone in Form hes Gone.

Looks like Ahmed Saif of Qatar edged Duane Jones, two good players there. Saif was Gary Wilson's last 32 'victim' on Wilson's way to the IBSF World Championship final last autumn.

Ian Brumby? Long time since he made any impact - ten years ago (more?) in Benson & Hedges tournament?

Ouch re Gareth Allen's match with Joe O'Connor - anyone know how committed O'Connor is to this? He's Junior World Eightball Champion at Pool (hometown's Leicester I think). See http://www.wepf.org/worlds.php?option=28

Mitchell Mann 4-1 Oliver Lines
Dylan Craig 4-0 Marc Robertson
Ross Muir 3-2 Josh Boileau
Gareth Allen 2-3 Joe O’Conor
Ben Harrison 4-1 Rhys Clark
Imran Puri 0-4 Phil Barnes
Mohsen Bukshaisha 2-1 Ryan Clark
Lee Page scr Phil O’Kane w/o

Ben Harrison without any breaks of note with 47 in the first frame the highest break of the Match beat Rhys Clark 4-1 to set up a tough match with Phil Barnes tomorrow at 4pm.

meanwhile G-Force Allen is fighting back from 3-0 down against Joe O'Conor its now 3-2

roy142857 wrote:Ouch re Gareth Allen's match with Joe O'Connor - anyone know how committed O'Connor is to this? He's Junior World Eightball Champion at Pool (hometown's Leicester I think). See http://www.wepf.org/worlds.php?option=28

anyone's that got any ambition has to cut it in snooker thats not disrespecting pool players but snooker is on another planet.

my guess Joe wants to prove himself.

Joe is a tremendous player and ton match player. He first played in 2008/2009 season in the Under 14 championship then went onto the Regional Junior Tour. Great little player with a great temperament and nice match play. Different game now though and I haven't seen him play snooker for a while. His pool play is exceptional.

Michael Georgiou, Ahmed Saif, Oliver Brown, Antony Parsons, Christopher Keogan, Sydney Wilson, Justin Astley or Jamie Rhys Clarke will be joining the main tour.

Michael Georgiou spent one season on tour in 2008/2009 without winning a match and fell off immediately. he spent 4 seasons in total on the PIOS but has never played in the PTC or Q School before this year

Justin Astley has spent 3 seasons on the Main Tour 2002/2003 wining 3 Matches in 9 tournament hasent to add he fell right off then he returned for the season 2005/2006 where he won 2 Matches in 7 tournament yes you guessed it and his last stint was in 2010/2011 where by that time the tour had grown substantially and in 21 tournaments he played in he won 9 matches but yet again he Fell off at the end of the season. This time though whoever comes through on Saturday will have a Minimum of 2 years and 44 tournaments to play in.

one of Mitchell Travis, Shane Castle, Ian Brumby, David Morris, Mitchell Mann, Dylan Craig, Ross Muir and Gareth Allen will also join the Main Tour.

Ian Brumby first joined the Main Tour in 1989 along with James Wattana, Nigel Bond and Barry Pinches and in total spent 13 seasons as a Pro he fell off at the end of the 2000/2001 season but came back on for the 2003/2004 season but that was the last year he competed on the Main Tour after that he was a Regular on the PIOS, hes only played in 2 PTC Losing 4-0 to Ali Carter and 4-2 to Jimmy White in 2012 this is his first outing in Q School.

Wildey wrote:

one of Mitchell Travis, Shane Castle, Ian Brumby, David Morris, Mitchell Mann, Dylan Craig, Ross Muir and Gareth Allen will also join the Main Tour.

Ross Muir lost by a single frame to eventual winner James Cahill in the European Under 21s this year.

Dylan Craig lost at the same stage, he was beaten 4 - 0 by Alexander Ursenbacher in a game that wasn't as one sided as that sounds.

edit: this was the last 16 stage of the European Under 21s

A couple more players who made the English Under 21 Series finals going well – Adam Edge lost by a single frame to Elliot Slessor in the last 16, and at the same stage Ryan Clark lost 4 – 1 to Shane Castle.

Darrell Whitworth doing well here – he made the Last 16 of a couple of English Ranking Series events this year - best competition of the year was probably the Ranking Series Event 2 in January, wins over Adam Edge and Antony Parsons before losing by 1 frame to Rob James in the Last 16.

Zak Surety made the Southern Quarter Finals of the English Amateur Championship (lost 5 – 2 to David Gray).

Ben Harrison, Phil Barnes, Ryan Clark, Phil O’Kane, Dylan Mitchell, Darrell Whitworth, Adam Edge or Zak Surety will be receiving a 2 year Card.

these Group of players are very inexperienced at this level with Ben Harrison having most Experience of PTC and Q School having played in 30 PTC and all 3 years of Q School.

in his first PTC Series he beat experienced pro Barry Pinches 4-1 in PTC 5 2010 before losing 4-2 to Mark Allen in the last 64...in PTC 7 2011 he beat Luca Brecel and Yu DeLu 4-2 before Matthew Stevens beat him in the last 32 4-2.Ben's 2012/2013 PTC Series was not that great with more disappointments than Success but hes hoping to finish off with a place on the main tour.

@roy

do you know anything about Chris Wakelin on the Amateur scene because hes going to town in Q School 6th win of the Q School today and hes not played at this level before PTC 3 2012 where he lost to Ricky Norris 4-3 and that's his only PTC but he looks to be a player to fear.

Reanne Evans, Sanderson Lam, Adam Wicheard, Alexander Ursenbacher, Paul Wykes, Chris Wakelin, Jeff Cundy or David Gray will earn a 2 year Card

this section is full of experience Reanne Evans (1 season), Adam Wicheard (2 seasons), Paul Wykes (16 seasons), Jeff Cundy (12 seasons) and David Gray (14 seasons) on the Pro Tour with different level of success.

David Gray of course a Ranking Event winner, UK Championship Runner up, Spent 2 seasons in the top 16 with a highest of 12 in 2003/2004 and played at the crucible 6 times Beating a certain Ronnie O'Sullivan there one year.

Wildey wrote:@roy

do you know anything about Chris Wakelin on the Amateur scene because hes going to town in Q School 6th win of the Q School today and hes not played at this level before PTC 3 2012 where he lost to Ricky Norris 4-3 and that's his only PTC but he looks to be a player to fear.

Hasn't done much that I've seen results for this year, no-showed at both the Paul Hunter English Open and the Malcolm Thorne Open - perhaps unwell? He was semi-finalist in English Under 19s in 2010 (beaten by Kamran Ashraf - is Ashraf still around?). He reached the quarter finals of last years English Under 21 Championship (lost by a frame to Kyren Wilson) and was ranked 14th in the Under 21 Series in 2011/12 having played in 4 of the 6 events with one semi and two Last 16s to his name (the best 5 results counted). (Top 5 in that Series were Hammad Miah, Oliver Lines, Mitchell Mann, Mitchell Travis and Elliot Slessor).
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Just seems to be on form, English Under 21 Championship saw him beat Steven Hallworth to qualify, then 3 wins to make the final against Hammad Miah (which will be played in June) against Callum Costello, Joe Roberts and Oliver Lines, across the 3 matches breaks of 64, 80, 59, 62 and 117

roy142857 wrote:

Wildey wrote:@roy

do you know anything about Chris Wakelin on the Amateur scene because hes going to town in Q School 6th win of the Q School today and hes not played at this level before PTC 3 2012 where he lost to Ricky Norris 4-3 and that's his only PTC but he looks to be a player to fear.

Hasn't done much that I've seen results for this year, no-showed at both the Paul Hunter English Open and the Malcolm Thorne Open - perhaps unwell? He was semi-finalist in English Under 19s in 2010 (beaten by Kamran Ashraf - is Ashraf still around?). He reached the quarter finals of last years English Under 21 Championship (lost by a frame to Kyren Wilson) and was ranked 14th in the Under 21 Series in 2011/12 having played in 4 of the 6 events with one semi and two Last 16s to his name (the best 5 results counted). (Top 5 in that Series were Hammad Miah, Oliver Lines, Mitchell Mann, Mitchell Travis and Elliot Slessor).
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Just seems to be on form, English Under 21 Championship saw him beat Steven Hallworth to qualify, then 3 wins to make the final against Hammad Miah (which will be played in June) against Callum Costello, Joe Roberts and Oliver Lines, across the 3 matches breaks of 64, 80, 59, 62 and 117

thanks for that