Kaspersky Riga Masters Qualifying !!!

Monday 10th- Thursday 13th of June at Ponds Forge Int Sports Centre, Sheffield

Here We go again New Season and New World Champion Judd Trump will have that acolade for the whole season but your only as good as your last match.

Judd wont be involved in Riga and will get most of his matches carried over to the main venue so will be spared this process this year

So new pros and some experiance players will kick off the season trying to qualify for the Kaspersky Riga Masters.

Shaun Murphy, Kyren Wilson, Stephen Maguire, Stuart Bingham, Barry Hawkins, Luca Brecel, Jack Lisowski and Crucible giant Killer James Cahill wwill all be in sheffield for the opening event of 2019/2020 season.

Who wll make the grade and reach Riga this year?

DRAW

Selected Last 128 Matches
Ben Woollston v Mark Davis
Yan Bingtao v Anthony McGill
Riley Parsons v Lukas Kleckers
Shaun Murphy v Zhang Anda
Ricky Walden v Si Jiahui
Yuan Sijun v Noppon Saengkham
Stuart Bingham v Li Hang
Mark King v Martin Gould
Kyren Wilson v Fergal O'Brien
Robbie Williams v Graeme Dott
Scott Donaldson v Frazer Patrick
Sam Baird v Mark Joyce
Stephen Maguire v Liam Highfield
Craig Steadman v Dominic Dale
Jack Lisowski v David Lilley
Oliver Lines v Shane Castle
Luca Brecel v Andy Hicks
Joe O'Connor v Peter Ebdon
Kacper Filipiak v Zhao Xintong
Alfie Burden v David Grace
Jimmy White v James Cahill

ORDER OF PLAY

Come on Mark

Which one?

Ck147 wrote:Which one?

If he says Mark Joyce, it's not his mum.

Mark Davis of course

Snooker is back tomorrow!

What is the reason for doing these qualifying rounds so early? They could be a month later. The players, non-UK players especially, would surely prefer a longer break between seasons.

Well done to Tian Pengfei. First man through to Riga.

Lemnas wrote:What is the reason for doing these qualifying rounds so early? They could be a month later. The players, non-UK players especially, would surely prefer a longer break between seasons.

Yes, certainly time between the other side of the world cup and the actual tournaments to schedule these.

Maybe...venues are booked for July or are more expensive to hire then?

Or it gives first time qualifiers more time to sort out visas if theres a month gap inbetween?

SteveJJ wrote:Well done to Tian Pengfei. First man through to Riga.

Or was it Bai Langning...?

Lemnas wrote:What is the reason for doing these qualifying rounds so early? They could be a month later. The players, non-UK players especially, would surely prefer a longer break between seasons.

Hearn doesn't like players having time off.

D4P wrote:

SteveJJ wrote:Well done to Tian Pengfei. First man through to Riga.

Or was it Bai Langning...?

Oops, my mistake. Good start for the debutant!

SteveJJ wrote:

D4P wrote:

SteveJJ wrote:Well done to Tian Pengfei. First man through to Riga.

Or was it Bai Langning...?

Oops, my mistake. Good start for the debutant!

Yes, Bai gets a bye...!

I imagine Q School has done Chen Zifan the world of good in terms of confidence, great win vs Georgiou. How many games did he win last season, 2?

Dan-cat wrote:Well let’s hope it isn’t bye bai in the next round

Hey.

I see what you did there.

Hello !
New to this forum, I have a question :
Why seed #16 face seed #18 (Yan Bingtao [16] - Anthony McGill [18]) in 1st round ?
Late registration of one of these players ?

GeF wrote:Hello !
New to this forum, I have a question :
Why seed #16 face seed #18 (Yan Bingtao [16] - Anthony McGill [18]) in 1st round ?
Late registration of one of these players ?

Only 1 to 16 are seeded and then draw the rest randomly

Ricky Walden is playing Si Jiahui.

A frame score in the Bingtao match was 132-85.

vodkadiet1 wrote:A frame score in the Bingtao match was 132-85.

Really?

How many fouls were committed?

vodkadiet1 wrote:A frame score in the Bingtao match was 132-85.

With no 50+ breaks...

Yan Bingtao finishes the match with an AST of 12.1 secs.