Q School 2014

Sonny wrote:Corey Deuel as well, US pool player who's featured in many Mosconi Cups

yea itll be great to get a US Player on to the pro tour.

Corey such a big name in US Pool and might increase snookers profile in the states

Is it too late to enter for this year?!!

Q School 1

Spot 1

Players that has fallen off the tour this season Adam Duffy, Liam Highfield, Craig Steadman and Li Yan will be trying to get back on tour and continuing their professional career on the Main Tour. Also in this section Former pros Michael Georgiou who got close via the EBSA Amateur cup play offs of getting a 2 year tour card losing 4-1 to Zak Surety, Shane Castle who played as a top up player in 8 main ranking events this season including the World Championship without much success but his claim to fame Live on BBC TV he pushed Mark Selby to 6-4 in the UK Championship in york having lead Selby 3-1 at the mid session interval. Sanderson Lam also in this section Sanderson played in 10 main ranking events as a top up player and managed to qualify for the venue stages in the World Open with a 5-1 win over former Asian Open Champion Dave Harold but had a wild card round and lost 5-3 to Chen Zifan.But the Best known face in this section is Former World no 6 and eurosport commentator Mike Hallett he played in Q School in 2011 trying to get back on to the Main tour for the first time since 2004/2005 after wins over Tony Knowles and Sean O'Sullivan both by 4-0 he lost in the Last 32 to Reanne Evans by 4-3

Spot 2

Martin O'Donnell and Daniel Wells are the players that will be attempting to carry on as Main tour players in this section Daniel Wells first match will be against Corey Deuel who has represented Team USA 7 Times in the Barry Hearn inspired Mosconi Cup the last time in 2010 when Europe won 11-8. Also in this section is 10 times Women's World Champion Reanne Evans who played on the main tour in 2010/2011 and has been a Regular on the European Tour since it was launched in 2010.

Spot 3

Hossein Vafaei Ayouri, Michael Leslie, Zhang Anda, Paul Davison and Sean O'Sullivan are the Relegated Professionals hoping to bounce right back in this section of the draw. In 2012/2013 and 2013/2014 seasons Ayouri had a 2 year tour card and entered 9 tournaments playing 2 matches and Winning 1 due to visa issues Apparently so hopefully if he gets back in that will be sorted. Also in this section is Canadian Alex Pagulayan a 38 year old that has excelled at Pool and has had Snooker success Nationally in Canada but this might be a step up for him and his first Q School Opponent will be Lewis Frampton who entered Q School last year without much success. Also in this section is Shokat Ali who first tried to turn professional in 1988 then 1989 Losing to Brian Morgan 1996 Asian Open Runner up, Shokat finally turned professional when the game went open in 1991 his best result was reaching the Quarter finals of the 2001 Thailand Masters a tournament won by Ken Doherty.

Spot 4

Tian Pengfei has had 3 stints on the Pro Tour 2004/2005 where his only win during that season was against Current top 16 player Mark Allen in the 2005 World Championship Tian Pengfei winning 5-3 before Mark Joyce beat him 5-3 in the next Round. His second stint was between 2006 and 2008 he managed to do enough during 2006/2007 to stay on for the next year but fell off the tour in 2008 and would not return until 2011 where he reached his highest ranking of 49 and his end of season World Ranking was 50 BUT with a change to Money based Rankings he finds himself in 66th spot and in to Q School. Also in this section is Gareth Allen who in the 2013 Welsh Open he had a Last 64 Match as a top up player where he played John Higgins on BBC TV and he took a frame off John losing 4-1.

Nice research. Hopefully one of these guys can win next year's world title.

Hossein Vafaei Ayouri has withdrawn from Event 1, Visa issues I guess.

A shame for the young lad.

Still not withdrawn from Event 2 though.

JDM375 wrote:Hossein Vafaei Ayouri has withdrawn from Event 1, Visa issues I guess.

A shame for the young lad.

Still not withdrawn from Event 2 though.

I think (hope?) not visa issues again, but because he's entered in the World Under 21 which clashes with this as they had to move it as St Petersburg withdrew, so using the same venue that was used last week for the Asian Snooker Championship.

never has a player payed so much and played so little as Hossein Vafaei Ayouri

ive been told via twitter that Zhao Xintong and Niu Zhuang have no visas to play in Q School.

Q School finishes on May 21, not May 24.

vodkadiet wrote:Q School finishes on May 21, not May 24.

yea sorted

i did this thread when they had it as May 24th

A New Term in Q School who will be the 8 graduate who goes on to the Real World and challenge World Champion Mark Selby

Michael Georgiou only season on the Main Tour was in 2008/2009 http://www.cuetracker.net/pages/players ... =2008/2009

as you can see not very impressive lol

but on the Amateur Scene he did win the World under 21 Championship in 2007 a Tournament that was won this season by Lu Ning who as a result has booked his place on the Main Tour for 2014/2015 and 2015/2016.

Rhys Clark won the second frame to equal with a top break of 35

Wildey wrote:Rhys Clark won the second frame to equal with a top break of 35

Blimey you're committed to this!

Michael Georgiou 2-2 Rhys Clark

Rhys Cark with his first scoring chance made a break of 93 to level

Sonny wrote:

Wildey wrote:Rhys Clark won the second frame to equal with a top break of 35

Blimey you're committed to this!

for the time being but the other half just arived home so not for much longer lol

Thanks to Q School last year Rhys Clark played in 8 World Ranking events During 2013/2014 season his most impressive win was beating Mike Dunn 10-2 in the Last 128 of the World Championship a week after Mike reached his first Ranking Semi final in the China Open during his 22nd season as a Pro.

Apparently Xintong has pulled out giving Ashley Hugill a bye. Go on Ashley!

Wildey wrote:ive been told via twitter that Zhao Xintong and Niu Zhuang have no visas to play in Q School.

Oh right, yeah that

Rhys Clark won 4-3

Hossein Vafaei Ayouri will not be competing in Q School apparently World Snooker has granted him his Pro status because of the farce regarding visa for the last 2 years but this visa issues are still on going so at the moment there's not much point giving him a tour spot lets hope that is sorted ASAP.

Playing Today is Adam Duffy been on the Pro tour since 2011. he Received the Paul Hunter Scholarship in 2008/2009 and was given the help to Turn Professional. He made a good start in his debut season and was Ranked in the top 64 at the start of this year however he suffered a disastrous season that saw him drop to 85th and therefore off the tour.

In his debut season he Beat Mark Selby 4-0 on his way to the last 16 of PTC 2 in 2011 and his best finish in a Main Ranking Event was Last 48 in the 2012 Welsh Open beating James Wattana and Jack Lisowski before losing 4-2 to Peter Ebdon and he also reached the last 48 of the 2013 Shanghai Masters when he almost Qualified for the final stages in shanghai but Narrowly lost 5-4 to Ali Carter.