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Re: Race to the Crucible: Qualifying Round 3 (April 11th & 1

Postby Wildey

Andre147 wrote:Dott would be a nice addition to the Crucible as opposed to Jones. 3 time Crucible Finalist, a player who usually plays his best snooker there. Jones only had that Quarter.final run and that was it.

well to do anything there you have to qualify so if he loses to Dott he wont be improving on that quarter final

Re: Race to the Crucible: Qualifying Round 3 (April 11th & 1

Postby Cheshire Cat

Rob Walker did some commentary during the Welsh Open this year, I think it was. It was one of the Open events, at least.

I didn't know who it was at first, but it was decent enough.

Would love Yuelong and Bingtao to both make the Crucible.

Re: Race to the Crucible: Qualifying Round 3 (April 11th & 1

Postby GJ

ronniesrun wrote:Hammad Miah is just an outright diabolical snooker player. Baffling how a guy like him can be a professional.



Can get why Walden.lost to him due to injury but what excuse has snooker backers mate O'Donnell got :lol: :chin:

Re: Race to the Crucible: Qualifying Round 3 (April 11th & 1

Postby GJ

Cloud Strife wrote:Lee Walker shouldn't be reaching the Crucible in the year 2017. What a sorry state of affairs.



You can thank Stevens and Hamilton for that.

Re: Race to the Crucible: Qualifying Round 3 (April 11th & 1

Postby PoolBoy

Tom Ford 4-5 Hossein Vafaei
Ben Woollaston 4-5 Zhou Yuelong
Stephen Maguire 7-2 Li Hang
Stuart Carrington 6-3 Mark J Williams
Jamie Jones 5-4 Graeme Dott
Rory McLeod 7-2 Hammad Miah


Lee Walker 4-2 Noppon Saengkham
David Gilbert 6-2 Fergal O'Brien

Re: Race to the Crucible: Qualifying Round 3 (April 11th & 1

Postby vodkadiet

PLtheRef wrote:
SnookerEd25 wrote:
Vallomas wrote:It seems that only a few players ranked between 17 and 32 will go at the Crucible. Walden was out from the 1st round, Perry, Hamilton and McManus crumbled at the 2nd and at the first session of today's matches we see King, Holt and M. White at least three frames behind their opponents.


Squeaky bum time.


I think it was 1997 when we saw 11 'unseeded qualifiers from outside the top 32.

Of those that did, Bradley Jones who won no money the season before took 4th seed John Parrott to a deciding frame in the first round whilst world number 189 Lee Walker who won £275 ended up making the quarter-finals.

And that was when the 17 to 32 seeds had to play one qualifier - I think the Last 48 round of qualifying was also standalone as in none of the 17-32 players were coming up against players who had had 5 or 6 matches before they entered the fray


It was worse in 1994, when 14 of the top 16 qualifiers were outside the top 32. And of the 2 who were inside the top 32, Dene O'Kane was not expected to win as he was playing an up and coming Stephen Lee.

And some of the players who qualified in 1993 (although the qualifiers were played the previous September0 were some of the worst ever. Spencer Dunn, Karl Payne, John Giles, and Shaun Mellish. The latter having a shock win over Ken Doherty.

When Lee Walker made the quarters in 1997 he had to play in the pre qualifiers and was 3-0 down in a best of 9 frame match before winning 5-4. It is surprising that he may qualify for The Crucible 20 years on.

Re: Race to the Crucible: Qualifying Round 3 (April 11th & 1

Postby PLtheRef

vodkadiet wrote:
PLtheRef wrote:
SnookerEd25 wrote:
Vallomas wrote:It seems that only a few players ranked between 17 and 32 will go at the Crucible. Walden was out from the 1st round, Perry, Hamilton and McManus crumbled at the 2nd and at the first session of today's matches we see King, Holt and M. White at least three frames behind their opponents.


Squeaky bum time.


I think it was 1997 when we saw 11 'unseeded qualifiers from outside the top 32.

Of those that did, Bradley Jones who won no money the season before took 4th seed John Parrott to a deciding frame in the first round whilst world number 189 Lee Walker who won £275 ended up making the quarter-finals.

And that was when the 17 to 32 seeds had to play one qualifier - I think the Last 48 round of qualifying was also standalone as in none of the 17-32 players were coming up against players who had had 5 or 6 matches before they entered the fray


It was worse in 1994, when 14 of the top 16 qualifiers were outside the top 32. And of the 2 who were inside the top 32, Dene O'Kane was not expected to win as he was playing an up and coming Stephen Lee.

And some of the players who qualified in 1993 (although the qualifiers were played the previous September0 were some of the worst ever. Spencer Dunn, Karl Payne, John Giles, and Shaun Mellish. The latter having a shock win over Ken Doherty.

When Lee Walker made the quarters in 1997 he had to play in the pre qualifiers and was 3-0 down in a best of 9 frame match before winning 5-4. It is surprising that he may qualify for The Crucible 20 years on.


Rod would break the record between appearances if he qualifies (21 years)

If Lawler misses out then Walker will level the record of 13 years should he make it through

Re: Race to the Crucible: Qualifying Round 3 (April 11th & 1

Postby Alex0paul

SnookerFan wrote:
Alex0paul wrote:
SnookerFan wrote:
Alex0paul wrote:ITS JUDGEMENT DAY


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