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ON TOP OF THE WORLD

Postby N_Castle07

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I’ve lost top spot in the PTC Order of Merit, but hopefully it won’t be too long before I get it back! Barry Pinches beat Ronnie O’Sullivan in the final of the fourth event in Sheffield, meaning I drop down to second. The next one starts in October so I hope I can win that one, to add to my victory in the second event, and get back on top of the pile.

I lost 4-0 against Ronnie in the last 32. I didn’t play brilliantly, but he did play well, to be fair! I’d done okay in my first two games, beating Anda Zhang 4-2 and Dave Harold 4-1. But then I came unstuck against Ronnie, so I’ll have to wait until the next time to get my revenge over him.

The are good little competitions and are a great bonus if you win one. But essentially what they provide is good match practice leading up to the bigger tournaments.

The first ‘major’ of the season is the Shanghai Masters in September, and I hope to carry on the good form I have shown in the past couple of months. As well as winning a PTC, I also won the Six Reds World Championship in Thailand.

Mind you, having done so well already I’m a bit worried that I might have played myself out of form! I hope that’s not the case.

Playing in all these tournaments has meant I’ve got a lot more match-practice under my belt, and that has got to be much better than not playing at all, which was mostly the case last season.

I was over the moon to win the Six Reds. Even though a lot of the big names were missing, it was still a hard title to win. There were plenty of good players involved. And anything that has ‘world’ before it can’t be bad. It’s just a shame no ranking points were available.

The trophy has been on pride of place in the lounge at home, but I can’t keep milking it so it has been put away now. I don’t want to keep looking at it because, if it’s not there, it gives me the incentive to go out and win another one to put in its place.

Next up is a trip to Furth in Germany for the first of the Euro Players Tour championships. It is a hectic schedule at the moment but I’m not knocking it at all, it’s great to be so busy.

I’m really looking forward to going back to Shanghai too. One thing that will help will be the experience of winning the Six Reds. The conditions in China will be very hard, just like they were in Bangkok. The tables are not easy to play and the humidity can get to you.

Hopefully, that will stand me in good stead in China and give me an edge over the other players. I know what to expect. The standard is so high that anyone can beat you but, if I play like I have been doing these past few weeks, I’m sure I will come through it.

Re: ON TOP OF THE WORLD

Postby Wildey

Barry Pinches is so far ahead at the moment nothing short of reaching the final in furth would do to get his top spot back.

but who cares about that hes done enough already just keep it consistent and hes laughing.

Re: ON TOP OF THE WORLD

Postby Casey

Well if we use the first 4 events as a guide, to make the top 24 you will need £6600 meaning MaGuiree up should all ready be there. With Dale to Maguiree almost certain to be there.

Re: ON TOP OF THE WORLD

Postby N_Castle07

After the 12 events and the final will the order of merit table be used for next seasons PTC's? Or will they start from fresh again?

Re: ON TOP OF THE WORLD

Postby Roland

I didn't even realise he won the 6 reds :redneck:

Re: ON TOP OF THE WORLD

Postby Wildey

N_Castle07 wrote:After the 12 events and the final will the order of merit table be used for next seasons PTC's? Or will they start from fresh again?


start from fresh

Re: ON TOP OF THE WORLD

Postby GJ

top of the world

<laugh>

what ambition village idiot ad selby have if they think this is really important rofl ;)

Worlds rule :afro:

Re: ON TOP OF THE WORLD

Postby N_Castle07

GJtheaussiestud wrote:top of the world

<laugh>

what ambition village idiot ad selby have if they think this is really important rofl ;)

Worlds rule :afro:



:chin: :chin: :chin: Something tells me you would feel differently about the PTC's if Robbo was doing well in them. :chin:

Re: ON TOP OF THE WORLD

Postby Wildey

N_Castle07 wrote:
GJtheaussiestud wrote:top of the world

<laugh>

what ambition village idiot ad selby have if they think this is really important rofl ;)

Worlds rule :afro:



:chin: :chin: :chin: Something tells me you would feel differently about the PTC's if Robbo was doing well in them. :chin:

yes now Robbo is World Champion GJ is a bit of a snob and thinks Robbo can trade on being World champion for ever.

Re: ON TOP OF THE WORLD

Postby Noel

wildJONESEYE wrote:thinks Robbo can trade on being World champion for ever.


Ahhh.... wild... he can.
Whenever I see Cliff I still call him "Champ".
And... he is!


=o)

Noel

Re: ON TOP OF THE WORLD

Postby Wildey

Noel wrote:
wildJONESEYE wrote:thinks Robbo can trade on being World champion for ever.


Ahhh.... wild... he can.
Whenever I see Cliff I still call him "Champ".
And... he is!


=o)

Noel


but he didnt sit back and say yey im world champ he went on and on playing anything and everything and winning a fair amount after that .

great players move on after winning a great championship and sweeps up everything they can.