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Race to the Crucible: Qualifying Round 2 (July 23rd~24th)

Postby Wildey » 22 Jul 2020 Read

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Thursday 23rd and Friday 24th Of July at the English Institute of Sport, Sheffield

So Round 1 is complete with a few shocks no fewer than 9 profesionals lost to Amataurs these includes James Cahill who reached the Crucible last year as a Amataur but gone first match this year loosing 6-2 to Belgium's Ben Mertens.

So on to the 2nd Round and the Likes of Ken Doherty, Dominic Dale, Martin Gould and Michael White enters the tournament in this Round

Round 3 awaits the winners but who will they be?

DRAW

Players in this Round thats apeared at the Crucible

Jimmy White 25 1981-2006
Ken Doherty 19 1991-2014
Nigel Bond 15 1992-2009
Fergal O’Brien 10 1994-2017
Dominic Dale 9 1997-2014
Martin Gould 9 2009-2019
Andy Hicks 8 1995-2007
Gerard Greene 5 1999-2010
Barry Pinches 3 1991-2005
Lee Walker 3 1997-2004
Rory McLeod 3 2009-2017
Michael White 3 2013-2016
Robbie Williams 3 2014-2016
Rod Lawler 2 1995 and 1996
Andrew Higginson 2 2009 and 2012
Sam Baird 2 2013 and 2016
Alfie Burden 1 1998
Peter Lines 1 1998
Mike Dunn 1 2002
Craig Steadman 1 2015
Mitchell Mann 1 2016
David Grace 1 2017
Liam Highfield 1 2018
Michael Georgiou 1 2019
Luo Honghao 1 2019

Selected 2nd Round Matches

Sonny Akani v Lukas Kleckers
Craig Steadman v Barry Pinches
Ken Doherty v Fraser Patrick
Martin Gould v Amine Amiri
Sam Baird v Ben Mertens
Dominic Dale v Fan Zhengyi
Mike Dunn v Kacper Filipiak
Nigel Bond v Eden Sharav
Sam Craigie v Andy Hicks
Harvey Chandler v Jackson Page
Michael Georgiou v Jimmy White
Lee Walker v Allan Taylor
Fergal O'Brien v Rod Lawler
Alfie Burden v Tyler Rees
Robbie Williams v Wu Yize

ORDER OF PLAY

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Re: Race to the Crucible: Qualifying Round 2 (July 23rd~24th

Postby Prop » 23 Jul 2020 Read

You’d expect today will be a tougher test for Jimmy. Georgiou is well capable. After yesterday’s match Jimmy mentioned, yet again, that he’s “playing well in practice”! We know mate, just make it happen when it counts.

I don’t know if Michael White has got his game together yet. He was a real prospect when he got on the tour, but he’s looked really inconsistent over the last year or so.

Re: Race to the Crucible: Qualifying Round 2 (July 23rd~24th

Postby SnookerEd25 » 23 Jul 2020 Read

I expect Georgiou to win, but I wouldn't be overly surprised to see Jimmy go through. He seemed to get stronger as the match went on, and closed it out nicely on Monday.

Georgiou looked to be on the verge of a significant breakthrough a couple of seasons back, but has dropped away again since and holds a current ranking of 65, so his tour place is under real threat here...

Re: Race to the Crucible: Qualifying Round 2 (July 23rd~24th

Postby Wildey » 23 Jul 2020 Read

Prop wrote:You’d expect today will be a tougher test for Jimmy. Georgiou is well capable. After yesterday’s match Jimmy mentioned, yet again, that he’s “playing well in practice”! We know mate, just make it happen when it counts.

I don’t know if Michael White has got his game together yet. He was a real prospect when he got on the tour, but he’s looked really inconsistent over the last year or so.

Yea I'm bored with Jimmy who cares what he does in Practice it means rubbish.

Re: Race to the Crucible: Qualifying Round 2 (July 23rd~24th

Postby Wildey » 23 Jul 2020 Read

SnookerEd25 wrote:I expect Georgiou to win, but I wouldn't be overly surprised to see Jimmy go through. He seemed to get stronger as the match went on, and closed it out nicely on Monday.

Georgiou looked to be on the verge of a significant breakthrough a couple of seasons back, but has dropped away again since and holds a current ranking of 65, so his tour place is under real threat here...

Georgiou won the Shoot out that propped him up reality is he's not good enough at this level playing proper snooker even with winning the shootout his highest ranking ever has been 46. Without that fluke event he most likely wouldn't have made the top 64.

Re: Race to the Crucible: Qualifying Round 2 (July 23rd~24th

Postby SnookerFan » 23 Jul 2020 Read

Wildey wrote:
SnookerEd25 wrote:I expect Georgiou to win, but I wouldn't be overly surprised to see Jimmy go through. He seemed to get stronger as the match went on, and closed it out nicely on Monday.

Georgiou looked to be on the verge of a significant breakthrough a couple of seasons back, but has dropped away again since and holds a current ranking of 65, so his tour place is under real threat here...

Georgiou won the Shoot out that propped him up reality is he's not good enough at this level playing proper snooker even with winning the shootout his highest ranking ever has been 46. Without that fluke event he most likely wouldn't have made the top 64.


Let's be honest, Jimmy White wasn't great on Tuesday night. If he was playing that way with somebody who had a bit of experience/form the result would've been different.

How many players will have form at the minute though?

Re: Race to the Crucible: Qualifying Round 2 (July 23rd~24th

Postby PLtheRef » 23 Jul 2020 Read

Prop wrote:You’d expect today will be a tougher test for Jimmy. Georgiou is well capable. After yesterday’s match Jimmy mentioned, yet again, that he’s “playing well in practice”! We know mate, just make it happen when it counts.

I don’t know if Michael White has got his game together yet. He was a real prospect when he got on the tour, but he’s looked really inconsistent over the last year or so.


Michael White is 71st in the rankings and is some £11,000 outside the top 64 but that he's also set to keep his card thanks to the one year list.

If Georgiou loses to Jimmy then that's his tour card gone.

Re: Race to the Crucible: Qualifying Round 2 (July 23rd~24th

Postby SnookerFan » 23 Jul 2020 Read

TWITTER ATTACK!

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Jimmy White plays his 105th match in 40 World Championships live on Eurosport 1 from 1.30pm against Michael Georgiou, whose tour card is under threat if he loses. Peter Lines will be joining us in commentary today to give the perspective of someone playing in the event.

Re: Race to the Crucible: Qualifying Round 2 (July 23rd~24th

Postby Prop » 23 Jul 2020 Read

PLtheRef wrote:
Prop wrote:You’d expect today will be a tougher test for Jimmy. Georgiou is well capable. After yesterday’s match Jimmy mentioned, yet again, that he’s “playing well in practice”! We know mate, just make it happen when it counts.

I don’t know if Michael White has got his game together yet. He was a real prospect when he got on the tour, but he’s looked really inconsistent over the last year or so.


Michael White is 71st in the rankings and is some £11,000 outside the top 64 but that he's also set to keep his card thanks to the one year list.

If Georgiou loses to Jimmy then that's his tour card gone.


Georgiou doesn’t stand out as good under pressure to me. And he’ll be under it. Great on his day but plenty of players fall in that category.

Re: Race to the Crucible: Qualifying Round 2 (July 23rd~24th

Postby PLtheRef » 23 Jul 2020 Read

Prop wrote:
PLtheRef wrote:
Prop wrote:You’d expect today will be a tougher test for Jimmy. Georgiou is well capable. After yesterday’s match Jimmy mentioned, yet again, that he’s “playing well in practice”! We know mate, just make it happen when it counts.

I don’t know if Michael White has got his game together yet. He was a real prospect when he got on the tour, but he’s looked really inconsistent over the last year or so.


Michael White is 71st in the rankings and is some £11,000 outside the top 64 but that he's also set to keep his card thanks to the one year list.

If Georgiou loses to Jimmy then that's his tour card gone.


Georgiou doesn’t stand out as good under pressure to me. And he’ll be under it. Great on his day but plenty of players fall in that category.


I agree. I know any player is bound to be nervous before a Crucible debut but he didn't impress last year. I think had Kovalskii had a bit more experience going into that match on Tuesday he could well have turned Jimmy over though.

Georgiou should start favourite for this one but the two ideal things for Jimmy going into this is that Georgiou is playing to save his tour card and two he's already played one match already

Re: Race to the Crucible: Qualifying Round 2 (July 23rd~24th

Postby SnookerFan » 23 Jul 2020 Read

gallantrabbit wrote:I hope Jimmy doesn't put himself under pressure. He should expect nothing really. If he accepts that, realxes and gets on with it he has a good chance against Georgiou, who's certainly nothing special.


The problem is, Jimmy honestly believes that he can win The Crucible again.

He does the opposite of putting pressure on himself.

Re: Race to the Crucible: Qualifying Round 2 (July 23rd~24th

Postby Alex0paul » 23 Jul 2020 Read

SnookerFan wrote:
gallantrabbit wrote:I hope Jimmy doesn't put himself under pressure. He should expect nothing really. If he accepts that, realxes and gets on with it he has a good chance against Georgiou, who's certainly nothing special.


The problem is, Jimmy honestly believes that he can win The Crucible again.

He does the opposite of putting pressure on himself.


How can he win it again when he’s never won it?

Re: Race to the Crucible: Qualifying Round 2 (July 23rd~24th

Postby SnookerFan » 23 Jul 2020 Read

Alex0paul wrote:
SnookerFan wrote:
gallantrabbit wrote:I hope Jimmy doesn't put himself under pressure. He should expect nothing really. If he accepts that, realxes and gets on with it he has a good chance against Georgiou, who's certainly nothing special.


The problem is, Jimmy honestly believes that he can win The Crucible again.

He does the opposite of putting pressure on himself.


How can he win it again when he’s never won it?


Just goes to show how delusional he is.

Re: Race to the Crucible: Qualifying Round 2 (July 23rd~24th

Postby HustleKing » 23 Jul 2020 Read

Pink Ball wrote:Hot take: I wish Jimmy had been World Champion.


At least if that happened, he probably would have retired long ago as the "quest" for that world title may be the only thing spurring him on to keep playing

Re: Race to the Crucible: Qualifying Round 2 (July 23rd~24th

Postby HustleKing » 23 Jul 2020 Read

Prop wrote:
Pink Ball wrote:Hot take: I wish Jimmy had been World Champion.


He’s the 2nd most successful player never to win it.

In 1st... your man Ding.


Shhh.

You're not allowed to say Ding is better/more talented/more successful than Jimmy, get it?
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