Betfred World Championship (Mon April 23rd) Last 32 !!

Saturday 21st of April~Monday 7th of May at The Crucible Theatre, Sheffield

On Day 3 Ding Junhui starts his campaign. For the last two years its taken Mark Selby to beat him but with Mark out he will fancy his chances again this year he takes on compatriot Xiao Guodong.

Also on day 3 Luca Brecel enters the fray playing former seed Ricky Walden who missed out on the crucible last year.

3 Matches are played to a finish both Mark Allen and Shaun Murphy held overnight leads and will be hoping to convert them to wins with a minimum of fuss.

DRAW

ORDER OF PLAY

Monday 23rd of April

10am

**Mark Allen 6-3 Liam Highfield Allen leads 1-0
Barry Hawkins v Stuart Carrington Hawkins leads 2-0

2.30pm

**Shaun Murphy 5-4 Jamie Jones Murphy leads 5-4
Ding Junhui v Xiao Guodong Ding Junhui leads 4-1

7pm

Luca Brecel v Ricky Walden Brecel leads 3-1
**Barry Hawkins v Stuart Carrington Hawkins leads 2-0

** Denotes Final Session of a Match

Surprised Murphy didn't push on from 5-2

GJ wrote:Surprised Murphy didn't push on from 5-2

5-4 is the best position to be in, says Wildey.

Didn't he lead 5-4 going into the second session of the match they played in 2012?

PLtheRef wrote:Didn't he lead 5-4 going into the second session of the match they played in 2012?

patterns

That Brecel-Walden match should be an interesting one. A 50/50 match imo. Brecel hasn't done anything after his first ranking event win. Walden will fancy this.

TheRocket wrote:That Brecel-Walden match should be an interesting one. A 50/50 match imo. Brecel hasn't done anything after his first ranking event win. Walden will fancy this.

I make Walden clear fav and before the pink panther asks yes I picked ricky in predictions

PLtheRef wrote:Didn't he lead 5-4 going into the second session of the match they played in 2012?

And he went 6-4 and 7-5 down before winning 10-8 he obviously enjoys the match up with shaun

TheRocket wrote:That Brecel-Walden match should be an interesting one. A 50/50 match imo. Brecel hasn't done anything after his first ranking event win. Walden will fancy this.

Brecel hasn't been the same since he lost his cue. I make Walden a clear 60/40 favourite in that one.

Is Luca Brecel the only player from mainland Europe to play at the Crucible?

Cloud Strife wrote:Is Luca Brecel the only player from mainland Europe to play at the Crucible?

Maflin

Alex0paul wrote:

Cloud Strife wrote:Is Luca Brecel the only player from mainland Europe to play at the Crucible?

Maflin

Forgot about him. Also forgot about Robin Hull, if he counts.

Cloud Strife wrote:

Alex0paul wrote:

Cloud Strife wrote:Is Luca Brecel the only player from mainland Europe to play at the Crucible?

Maflin

Forgot about him. Also forgot about Robin Hull, if he counts.

Drago

Holden Chinaski wrote:

GJ wrote:Surprised Murphy didn't push on from 5-2

5-4 is the best position to be in, says Wildey.

From Jones' point of view he'd have prefered to be 6-3 down, after all his opponent would have had a false lead giving Jones more chances to win the match

Badsnookerplayer wrote:

Cloud Strife wrote:

Alex0paul wrote:

Cloud Strife wrote:Is Luca Brecel the only player from mainland Europe to play at the Crucible?

Maflin

Forgot about him. Also forgot about Robin Hull, if he counts.

Drago

Don't think Malta counts as mainland though

Badsnookerplayer wrote:

Cloud Strife wrote:

Alex0paul wrote:

Cloud Strife wrote:Is Luca Brecel the only player from mainland Europe to play at the Crucible?

Maflin

Forgot about him. Also forgot about Robin Hull, if he counts.

Drago

Didn't count him, as Malta is as mainland Europe as the UK is. They are both islands on the periphery.

Good point CS!

There's also Paul Mifsud from Malta and Helgason from Iceland if you count them.
I know another who was born in mainland Europe... would make a good question for the never ending quiz.

Stefan Mazrocis

Really looking forward to seeing Ding live and first time at The Crucible

Alex0paul wrote:Really looking forward to seeing Ding live and first time at The Crucible

Should be a quality match with Xiao

GJ wrote:

Alex0paul wrote:Really looking forward to seeing Ding live and first time at The Crucible

Should be a quality match with Xiao

I’d expect Ding to win comfortably after his performances there in the last few years

1400+ posts for both the first 2 days is superb.

I don’t think we will reach 500 for Monday though

Snooker Fan, why did you want to know which forum members are married?

Honest feeling: Maguire has let O'Sullivan off the hook. Can't see any winner other than O'Sullivan now.

It's done.

Listening to a Doctor Who audio, and in the background there's snooker commentary in which the comms say:

"Oooh and that's a bad miss."

"It's not good; you'd expect a player of his quality to knock that in easily."

"He probably knocks those in for fun in the practice hall. Just goes to show you what pressure these guys are under..."

About as insightful as most of the BBC comms so far

Iranu wrote:Listening to a Doctor Who audio, and in the background there's snooker commentary in which the comms say:

"Oooh and that's a bad miss."

"It's not good; you'd expect a player of his quality to knock that in easily."

"He probably knocks those in for fun in the practice hall. Just goes to show you what pressure these guys are under..."

About as insightful as most of the BBC comms so far

That's John Virgo to a tee.

Did Selby suffer a false loss and has Ronnie suffered a false win?

Pink Ball wrote:Honest feeling: Maguire has let O'Sullivan off the hook. Can't see any winner other than O'Sullivan now.

It's done.

Good.

Pink Ball wrote:Honest feeling: Maguire has let O'Sullivan off the hook. Can't see any winner other than O'Sullivan now.

It's done.

Obviously Carter is a miss Match in the Last 16 But last 3 players to beat Ronnie at the Crucible was Ding Junhui, Barry Hawkins and Stuart Bingham between them the head to head is Ronnie 35 - 9 Trump has beaten Ronnie 10 times that is more than Selby has.


all 3 were not obvious choices to have a chance of beating Ronnie over best of 25 but they did.