MrQ UK Championship Qualifying Round 4 (Nov 22-23) !!!!!

Saturday 18th of November- Thursday 23rd of November at Moringside Arena, Leicester

One round left to get to the Barbican Round 4 sees a mixture of youth and experience From 20-year-old Wu Yize in his second season on tour to 54 year old veteran Ken Doherty. In-between there are 30 other players that include Ding Junhui, Ricky Walden, Anthony McGill, Dave Gilbert, Joe Perry, Stephen Maguire, Zhou Yuelong and Hossein Vafaei all trying to join the Top 16 seeds in york.

Who makes the 120-mile Trip up North?

DRAW

Last 48
Ding Junhui v Robbie Williams Tied at 2-2
Michael White v Fan Zhengyi Fan Zhengyi leads 1-0
Thepchaiya Un-Nooh v Ricky Walden Walden leads 6-0
Wu Yize v Noppon Saengkham Saengkham leads 1-0
Anthony McGill v Anthony Hamilton Hamilton leads 4-1
David Gilbert v Jamie Clarke Never played before
Lyu Haotian v Matthew Selt Tied at 1-1
Jamie Jones v Zak Surety Jones leads 1-0
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Lukas Kleckers v Ben Woollaston Woollaston leads 2-0
Joe Perry v Mark Joyce Perry leads 3-2
Joe O'Connor v Stephen Maguire Maguire leads 3-2
Yuan Sijun v Ken Doherty Tied at 1-1
David Lilley v Elliot Slessor Tied at 1-1
Zhou Yuelong v Ian Burns Zhou Yuelong leads 1-0
Pang Junxu v Craig Steadman Never played before
Scott Donaldson v Hossein Vafaei Vafaei leads 2-1

ORDER OF PLAY

LIVE SCORES

Come on Ding!

Some cannon fodder in the bottom half

There's a review of Ronnie's new documentary on Page 51 of the Metro today.

It's Judgement Day.

SnookerFan wrote:It's Judgement Day.

Is that Ryan’s brother?

Alex0paul wrote:

SnookerFan wrote:It's Judgement Day.

Is that Ryan’s brother?

Yes.

Here's a lovely picture of them both.

SnookerFan wrote:It's Judgement Day.

Days

@botty upcoming

mantorok wrote:

SnookerFan wrote:It's Judgement Day.

Days

Today is Judgement Day technically.

It's just so is tomorrow.

Will it be Judgement's Day?

Alex0paul wrote:Some cannon fodder in the bottom half

There's been surprisingly few big upsets so far with the vast majority of the last 48 being ranked appropriately at top 48 players.

And a lot of the non-48'ers are those who, appropriately are just outside the top 48, including the number 49, 50 and 51, 55 and 60.

The 4 highest ranked players to exit only really contains Bingham as it's highest profile exitee, and even he's been on such a bad run for the last 18 months that it's still not even that big of a surprise. Ryan Day, Gary Wilson and Chris Wakelin are all players that won't bat eyelids by exiting at any stage of a competition other than maybe at the last 128 (which doesn't happen with this format).

A lot of those ranked lower than 60 who are still in are the older players who tend to pop up with a good run every now and then, so are not particularly eyebrow raising, but good for long-time fans.

So the exciting 'fresh blood' for this round are:

Lukas Kleckers (78)
Zak Surety (77)
Ian Burns (103)
Craig Steadman (the only unranked qualifier remaining)

And the extent to which any of these are either exciting or fresh blood is somewhat contestable.

There will a minimum of at least 2 players reach the last 32 who are ranked outside the top 48.

Looking down the list for Judgement Day, only 2 matches have the potential to provide what one might describe as a 'major upset', and that would be Ding losing to Robbie Williams and Yuelong losing to Burns. But even then Robbie Williams beating Ding isn't outrageously unthinkable and Yuelong's reputation isn't really big enough to make many people take much notice if Burns' run continues.

There's some really good match-ups at this stage that should provide for some very entertaining snooker, such as Teppy v Walden and Yize V Noppon etc, but I don't think we'll have much to get overly excited about, results wise, until the last 32 stage.

mantorok wrote:@botty upcoming

UK Championship Qualifiers - Coming up today:

Qual Round 4 (Best of 11) Ding Junhui vs Robbie Williams (13:00)
Qual Round 4 (Best of 11) Michael White vs Fan Zhengyi (13:00)
Qual Round 4 (Best of 11) Thepchaiya Un-Nooh vs Ricky Walden (13:00)
Qual Round 4 (Best of 11) Wu Yize vs Noppon Saengkham (13:00)
Qual Round 4 (Best of 11) Anthony McGill vs Anthony Hamilton (19:00)
Qual Round 4 (Best of 11) David Gilbert vs Jamie Clarke (19:00)
Qual Round 4 (Best of 11) Lyu Haotian vs Matthew Selt (19:00)
Qual Round 4 (Best of 11) Jamie Jones vs Zak Surety (19:00)

Mon Ding.

If Ding qualifies, it'll be a huge first round match whoever is drawn against him.

SnookerFan wrote:If Ding qualifies, it'll be a huge first round match whoever is drawn against him.

He will face Ronnie and collapse in a decider.

Graeme Bott wrote:

mantorok wrote:@botty upcoming

UK Championship Qualifiers - Coming up today:

Qual Round 4 (Best of 11) Ding Junhui vs Robbie Williams (13:00)
Qual Round 4 (Best of 11) Michael White vs Fan Zhengyi (13:00)
Qual Round 4 (Best of 11) Thepchaiya Un-Nooh vs Ricky Walden (13:00)
Qual Round 4 (Best of 11) Wu Yize vs Noppon Saengkham (13:00)
Qual Round 4 (Best of 11) Anthony McGill vs Anthony Hamilton (19:00)
Qual Round 4 (Best of 11) David Gilbert vs Jamie Clarke (19:00)
Qual Round 4 (Best of 11) Lyu Haotian vs Matthew Selt (19:00)
Qual Round 4 (Best of 11) Jamie Jones vs Zak Surety (19:00)

To save the previous confusion, if you now ask botty for "scores" he should also provide results from today as well.

GeF wrote:

SnookerFan wrote:If Ding qualifies, it'll be a huge first round match whoever is drawn against him.

He will face Ronnie and collapse in a decider.

Yeah, I kind of wondered if we'd get Ronnie vs Ding.

GeF wrote:

SnookerFan wrote:If Ding qualifies, it'll be a huge first round match whoever is drawn against him.

He will face Ronnie and collapse in a decider.

Or get a bye to Round 2

o'sullivan saying he might retire again. plus ca change.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/snooker/67488015

Disciplinary action against the five players - world champion Luca Brecel, four-time world champion John Higgins and Mark Selby, Thepchaiya Un-Nooh and Ali Carter - was averted when the event in Macau, a special administrative region of China, was moved to December, with World Snooker Tour (WST) permission.

When in December is that happening now?

HappyCamper wrote:o'sullivan saying he might retire again. plus ca change.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/snooker/67488015

Natural reaction really, and that's what it is, a reaction which I'm sure will turn into a calmer response.

SnookerFan wrote:

Disciplinary action against the five players - world champion Luca Brecel, four-time world champion John Higgins and Mark Selby, Thepchaiya Un-Nooh and Ali Carter - was averted when the event in Macau, a special administrative region of China, was moved to December, with World Snooker Tour (WST) permission.

When in December is that happening now?

The Macau events will be from December 21-24 and December 26-29. I will be there.

lhpirnie wrote:

SnookerFan wrote:

Disciplinary action against the five players - world champion Luca Brecel, four-time world champion John Higgins and Mark Selby, Thepchaiya Un-Nooh and Ali Carter - was averted when the event in Macau, a special administrative region of China, was moved to December, with World Snooker Tour (WST) permission.

When in December is that happening now?

The Macau events will be from December 21-24 and December 26-29. I will be there.

What an awesome trip LH!

mantorok wrote:

HappyCamper wrote:o'sullivan saying he might retire again. plus ca change.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/snooker/67488015

Natural reaction really, and that's what it is, a reaction which I'm sure will turn into a calmer response.

Hes been Retiring every year since 1994

No commentary on D+ Judgement Day?

Iranu wrote:No commentary on D+ Judgement Day?

on es there is on the 'judgement day' stream. but not the individual table.

HappyCamper wrote:

Iranu wrote:No commentary on D+ Judgement Day?

on es there is on the 'judgement day' stream. but not the individual table.

Not on my D+ there isn’t

Iranu wrote:

HappyCamper wrote:

Iranu wrote:No commentary on D+ Judgement Day?

on es there is on the 'judgement day' stream. but not the individual table.

Not on my D+ there isn’t

Got it now

Rickity vs Theppy Lad. Potential for a great match this