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sas6789 wrote:

TheRocket wrote:

mick745 wrote:Looking at Ronnie's draw i cant see him losing to Gilbert, Ronnie has been a bit of a first round specialist in recent years ( Cahill excepted of course).

Allen is a potential banana skin but Murphy or Xintong wouldnt cause too much problem for him in the qfs.

So if he reaches the one table set up its Higgins or Robertson potentially. There's not much else there for him really.

Whereas the top half, Selby could easily trip up in the first round but Bingtao is a dangerous l16 opponent, then potentially Williams, kyren, ding or trump.

I think No 1 seed has a lot trickier path than no 2 seed.

Having said that it is very rare that the top 8 seeds get to the qfs or the top 4 seeds get to sfs. There are always shocks and upsets.

Trying to predict how the draw for any of the players will pan out is very difficult.

I agree that Allen is the biggest threat to Ronnie before the semis. With Selby (although we cant say how good or bad he will be feeling out there mentally yet) there are a few banana skins.

For me Robertson has the best draw. First two rounds are absolutely ideal. Higgins could pose a threat in the quarters but Robertson beat him twice in big finals this season. If Robertson doesnt take advantage from this draw he never will.

Xintong?

Johnny Bravo wrote:ROS has a tough draw.
Selbo has an easy one.

sas6789 wrote:

Johnny Bravo wrote:ROS has a tough draw.
Selbo has an easy one.

You would say that wouldn't you.

sas6789 wrote:

TheRocket wrote:

mick745 wrote:Looking at Ronnie's draw i cant see him losing to Gilbert, Ronnie has been a bit of a first round specialist in recent years ( Cahill excepted of course).

Allen is a potential banana skin but Murphy or Xintong wouldnt cause too much problem for him in the qfs.

So if he reaches the one table set up its Higgins or Robertson potentially. There's not much else there for him really.

Whereas the top half, Selby could easily trip up in the first round but Bingtao is a dangerous l16 opponent, then potentially Williams, kyren, ding or trump.

I think No 1 seed has a lot trickier path than no 2 seed.

Having said that it is very rare that the top 8 seeds get to the qfs or the top 4 seeds get to sfs. There are always shocks and upsets.

Trying to predict how the draw for any of the players will pan out is very difficult.

I agree that Allen is the biggest threat to Ronnie before the semis. With Selby (although we cant say how good or bad he will be feeling out there mentally yet) there are a few banana skins.

For me Robertson has the best draw. First two rounds are absolutely ideal. Higgins could pose a threat in the quarters but Robertson beat him twice in big finals this season. If Robertson doesnt take advantage from this draw he never will.

Xintong?

Iranu wrote:

SnookerFan wrote:Amended it to the way I like ot, Judder.

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Hope you don't mind. Your list was incredibly helpful. Made it q lot quicker for me to do, and helped me check that I hadn't made any mostakes.

If only he’d done a version of this post too.

Dan-cat wrote:And still we talk about Robertson. Every year

Dan-cat wrote:And still we talk about Robertson. Every year

Iranu wrote:Dave Hendon has been told that Dennis and Virgo are NOT doing their last WC this season.

KrazeeEyezKilla wrote:What the draw would like if it went 1v32, 16v17 etc...

Mark Selby v Lyu Haotian
Yan Bingtao v Scott Donaldson

Barry Hawkins v Michael White
Mark Williams v Stephen Maguire

Kyren Wilson v Jamie Jones
Stuart Bingham v Thepchaiya Un-Nooh

Anthony McGill v Ashley Hugill
Judd Trump v Ding Junhui

Neil Robertson v Chris Wakelin
Jack Lisowski v David Gilbert

Luca Brecel v Liam Highfield
John Higgins v Noppon Saengkham

Zhao Xintong v Jackson Page
Shaun Murphy v Matthew Stevens

Mark Allen v Hossein Vafaei
Ronnie O'Sullivan v Jamie Clarke

Iranu wrote:Dave Hendon has been told that Dennis and Virgo are NOT doing their last WC this season.

KrazeeEyezKilla wrote:

KrazeeEyezKilla wrote:What the draw would like if it went 1v32, 16v17 etc...

Mark Selby v Lyu Haotian
Yan Bingtao v Scott Donaldson

Barry Hawkins v Michael White
Mark Williams v Stephen Maguire

Kyren Wilson v Jamie Jones
Stuart Bingham v Thepchaiya Un-Nooh

Anthony McGill v Ashley Hugill
Judd Trump v Ding Junhui

Neil Robertson v Chris Wakelin
Jack Lisowski v David Gilbert

Luca Brecel v Liam Highfield
John Higgins v Noppon Saengkham

Zhao Xintong v Jackson Page
Shaun Murphy v Matthew Stevens

Mark Allen v Hossein Vafaei
Ronnie O'Sullivan v Jamie Clarke

Not one of these matches got drawn.

Iranu wrote:Dave Hendon has been told that Dennis and Virgo are NOT doing their last WC this season.

sas6789 wrote:

Johnny Bravo wrote:ROS has a tough draw.
Selbo has an easy one.

You would say that wouldn't you.

McManusFan wrote:

Iranu wrote:Dave Hendon has been told that Dennis and Virgo are NOT doing their last WC this season.

As in they're already finished?

Iranu wrote:Sorry yeah. He said they’re doing next year too.

Yanfan wrote:

Iranu wrote:Sorry yeah. He said they’re doing next year too.

Oh, that's good.

I like Virgo.

mick745 wrote:

Cloud Strife wrote:

Johnny Bravo wrote:ROS has a tough draw.
Selbo has an easy one.

Neil Robertson looks favourite to me and the bookies agree. Neil knows how to take advantage of a mild draw and he has one here.

Neil has nothing really before the quarters but he could get unstuck against Higgins.

If his problem is not enough space at the crucible then getting to the one table set up will be the tricky bit for him.

Higgins obviously has to get past Un- Nooh and Brecel first though.