Cazoo Players Championship Last 16 !!

Monday 7th ~ Sunday 13th of February at The Aldersley Leisure Village, Wolverhampton

12th year of The Players Championship but only the 6th time in its current form where only the Top 16 on the one year list invitedis in its 11th year having been the conclusion to the PTC Series for the first 6 years.

Since its Current form ony 3 players has played every year Judd Trump, Neil Robertson and Current Champion John Higgins.

Only 7 of the players that's in the draw played in it last year Ronnie O’Sullivan, Judd Trump, Neil Robertson, Kyren Wilson, John Higgins, Mark Williams and Barry Hawkins

Zhao Xintong, Gary Wilson, Ricky Walden Hossein Vafaei will be making their debut with Zhao Xintong as UK Champion and German Masters Champion.

Who will reach the Quarter Finals?

DRAW

Last 16
Zhao Xintong v Barry Hawkins Zhao Xintong leads 4-2
David Gilbert v Yan Bingtao Yan Bingtao leads 3-1
Mark Allen v Ricky Walden Allen leads 12-10
Mark Williams v Gary Wilson Williams leads 4-0
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Ronnie O'Sullivan v Judd Trump Trump leads 15-13
Neil Robertson v Kyren Wilson Wilson leads 5-4
John Higgins v Hossein Vafaei Higgins leads 2-0
Luca Brecel v Jimmy Robertson Brecel leads 6-5

ORDER OF PLAY

I don't even recall Jimmy Robertson having such a great season. #parttimefan

The_Abbott wrote:I don't even recall Jimmy Robertson having such a great season. #parttimefan

Me neither, now you mention it.

Might not sound the most glamorous of ties. (Well, it's not is it? Because Ronnie is playing Judd.) But Xintong vs Hawkins could be tasty.

SnookerFan wrote:

The_Abbott wrote:I don't even recall Jimmy Robertson having such a great season. #parttimefan

Me neither, now you mention it.

mostly based on a semi final in the british open.

Come on Judd!

Jimmy Robertson also got to the quarter finals of the World Grand Prix.

Will ITV put Williams vs Gary Wilson on tomorrow, or Robbo vs Kyren on?

Pity they can't do like the BBC and put one match on the ITV Hub.

SnookerEd25 wrote:Robbo v Kyren is my guess.

Yeah me too.

I'd prefer Williams, but it's the lesser match.

I don't understand why ITV can't give people an option to watch table 2 online, surely it can't be that difficult for them to sort it out.

Juddernaut88 wrote:I don't understand why ITV can't give people an option to watch table 2 online, surely it can't be that difficult for them to sort it out.

They have the ITV Hub, like BBC has the I-Player so they could do it.

One of the reasons I don't really want the majors to go to ITV4.

I wish there was an afternoon session today. I know there never is though with ITV4 coverage on Mondays.

SnookerEd25 wrote:

Juddernaut88 wrote:I wish there was an afternoon session today. I know there never is though with ITV4 coverage on Mondays.

Why is that?

I was looking forward to an afternoon session

I honestly have no idea why they do that for. This is what my ideal schedule would be for the Players championship:

Round 1- Played Monday and Tuesday- 2 matches in the afternoon and evenings both days.
Quarter finals- Played on Wednesday and Thursday, 1 match in the afternoon and evening.
Semi finals- Friday afternoon and evening and 2nd semi final played Saturday afternoon and evening (Best of 17)
Final- Sunday (Best of 19)

Juddernaut88 wrote:I wish there was an afternoon session today. I know there never is though with ITV4 coverage on Mondays.

So do I. The more snooker the better for me. I like three sessions per day.


But it's lucky for me today that I won't be missing anything. I don't have any schoolwork this afternoon, so I have agreed to go on a 'mushroom hunt' with my MMA instructor, his wife, and a few other people. We will be trying to find 'Velvet Shank' mushrooms. I've never been before. So, who knows? It might be OK.

Juddernaut88 wrote:

SnookerEd25 wrote:

Juddernaut88 wrote:I wish there was an afternoon session today. I know there never is though with ITV4 coverage on Mondays.

Why is that?

I was looking forward to an afternoon session

I honestly have no idea why they do that for. This is what my ideal schedule would be for the Players championship:

Round 1- Played Monday and Tuesday- 2 matches in the afternoon and evenings both days.
Quarter finals- Played on Wednesday and Thursday, 1 match in the afternoon and evening.
Semi finals- Friday afternoon and evening and 2nd semi final played Saturday afternoon and evening (Best of 17)
Final- Sunday (Best of 19)

Your schedule sounds a lot better than ITV's schedule, Judders.

They should put you in charge, mate.

Yanfan wrote:

Juddernaut88 wrote:

SnookerEd25 wrote:

Juddernaut88 wrote:I wish there was an afternoon session today. I know there never is though with ITV4 coverage on Mondays.

Why is that?

I was looking forward to an afternoon session

I honestly have no idea why they do that for. This is what my ideal schedule would be for the Players championship:

Round 1- Played Monday and Tuesday- 2 matches in the afternoon and evenings both days.
Quarter finals- Played on Wednesday and Thursday, 1 match in the afternoon and evening.
Semi finals- Friday afternoon and evening and 2nd semi final played Saturday afternoon and evening (Best of 17)
Final- Sunday (Best of 19)

Your schedule sounds a lot better than ITV's schedule, Judders.

They should put you in charge, mate.

Juddernaut88 wrote:I honestly have no idea why they do that for. This is what my ideal schedule would be for the Players championship:

Round 1- Played Monday and Tuesday- 2 matches in the afternoon and evenings both days.
Quarter finals- Played on Wednesday and Thursday, 1 match in the afternoon and evening.
Semi finals- Friday afternoon and evening and 2nd semi final played Saturday afternoon and evening (Best of 17)
Final- Sunday (Best of 19)

Yeah. I don't know why ITV insist on that.

They must just not want to show it on Monday afternoons for whatever reason. It's not like it's clashing with other sports.

I guess maybe it's in case there's been a tournament on the Sunday, it gives players a chance to get from one venue to the next. But no other channels seem to worry about that.

https://wst.tv/history-of-the-cazoo-pla ... mpionship/

2017 and 2020 were the best years in this event
The rest were meh.

It's funny how with the ITV events, I can look at old finals and either not remember them happening at all, or realise if I do, I would've had trouble remembering which ITV event it happened at.

ITV tournaments do feel like they run into one sometimes.

An on-form Judd versus an on-form Zhao would be a dream final for me.

(I've gone off Yan a bit after that 9-0 nonsense. )

I don’t mind the tournament starting on a Monday evening. Honestly I prefer that to the BBC style of putting big names on in the afternoon with no evening coverage. It’s just a shame it means matches are buried on an un-televised table.

Iranu wrote:I don’t mind the tournament starting on a Monday evening. Honestly I prefer that to the BBC style of putting big names on in the afternoon with no evening coverage. It’s just a shame it means matches are buried on an un-televised table.

Pity the ITV tournaments don't get on Eurosport as well, like the BBC ones do.

The second matches might get on Discovery+ then if nothing else.

I guess that would mean that people like Foulds, McManus, Hendon etc would have to pick a channel to work for though.

Yanfan wrote:(I've gone off Yan a bit after that 9-0 nonsense. )

Glory supporter?

Juddernaut88 wrote:

Yanfan wrote:

Juddernaut88 wrote:

SnookerEd25 wrote:

Juddernaut88 wrote:I wish there was an afternoon session today. I know there never is though with ITV4 coverage on Mondays.

Why is that?

I was looking forward to an afternoon session

I honestly have no idea why they do that for. This is what my ideal schedule would be for the Players championship:

Round 1- Played Monday and Tuesday- 2 matches in the afternoon and evenings both days.
Quarter finals- Played on Wednesday and Thursday, 1 match in the afternoon and evening.
Semi finals- Friday afternoon and evening and 2nd semi final played Saturday afternoon and evening (Best of 17)
Final- Sunday (Best of 19)

Your schedule sounds a lot better than ITV's schedule, Judders.

They should put you in charge, mate.

He'd be sacked straight away as he's forgotten the reason for the odd scheduling is that itv4 are contractually obliged to show horse racing on Saturday afternoons, so if you schedule snooker for then it won't be televised, even more of an issue when they seem reluctant to put table 2 on the hub or move the snooker to one of their other channels on Saturday afternoons

No I am already aware of the horse racing issue thank you. There are 3 other channels on ITV though so there is no reason why Snooker can't be on one of them. I have also checked the schedule for this Saturday afternoon on ITV4 and horse racing isn't currently showing on that channel, it is on the normal ITV1 channel though.

SnookerFan wrote:It's funny how with the ITV events, I can look at old finals and either not remember them happening at all, or realise if I do, I would've had trouble remembering which ITV event it happened at.

ITV tournaments do feel like they run into one sometimes.

I agree with this. At least teh BBC make there 3 tournaments feel different. ITV is like McDonalds you get served a nice burger but a burger is a burger.