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Post by Panda on Jun 15, 2010 12:43:25 GMT 1
An early start for this thread this year, with the first Players Tour Championship event taking place next week.
The line-up of players for the new season is almost complete:
Top 64 from the end of last season:
John Higgins (still suspended pending investigation)
Neil Robertson
Ronnie O'Sullivan
Ali Carter
Ding Junhui
Stephen Maguire
Shaun Murphy
Mark Williams
Mark Selby
Mark Allen
Stephen Hendry
Ryan Day
Graeme Dott
Marco Fu
Mark King
Liang Wenbo
Jamie Cope
Peter Ebdon
Joe Perry
Ricky Walden
Barry Hawkins
Steve Davis
Stephen Lee
Michael Holt
Matthew Stevens
Mark Davis
Judd Trump
Gerard Greene
Stuart Bingham
Ken Doherty
Dave Harold
Andrew Higginson
Mike Dunn
Rory McLeod
Stuart Pettman
Robert Milkins
Jamie Burnett
Nigel Bond
Joe Swail
Marcus Campbell
Tom Ford
Anthony Hamilton
Martin Gould
Adrian Gunnell
Dominic Dale
Alan McManus
Fergal O'Brien
Ian McCulloch
Rod Lawler
Peter Lines
Matt Selt
Michael Judge
Andy Hicks
Tony Drago
David Gilbert
Jimmy Michie
Barry Pinches
Mark Joyce
David Morris
Jimmy White
Joe Delaney
Bjorn Haneveer
Jimmy Robertson
Paul Davies
Top 8 from one year ranking list of those not in top 64:
James Wattana
Patrick Wallace
Zhang Anda
Simon Bedford
Joe Jogia
Matthew Couch
Michael White
Ben Woollaston
Top 8 from PIOS rankings:
Jack Lisowski
Liam Highfield
Paul Davison
Anthony McGill
Kyren Wilson
Jamie O'Neill
Justin Astley
Jamie Jones
Wildcards and winners of qualifying tournaments:
Alfie Burden (ISBF world champion)
Noppon Saengkham (World Under-21 champion)
Issara Kachaiwong (Asian champion)
Liu Chuang (Asian Under-21 champion)
Mohammed Sajjad (Asian wildcard - unconfirmed)
Shawn Budd (Oceania champion - unconfirmed)
James McBain (Winner of Scottish play-off)
Andrew Pagett (Welsh wildcard)
Robert Murphy (Irish wildcard - unconfirmed)
Dermot McGlinchey (Northern Irish wildcard)
Kuldesh Johal (Winner of English play-off)
Adam Wicheard (English wildcard)
Kurt Maflin (Winner of European play-off)
Jak Jones (European Under-19 champion)
Reanne Evans (World Snooker wildcard)
Igor Figueiredo (World Snooker wildcard)
Patrick Einsle (World Snooker wildcard)
2010/11 Calendar:
Jun 25-27: Players Tour Championship Event 1 (Sheffield)
Jul 9-11: PTC 2 (Sheffield)
Aug 2-5: Shanghai Masters qualifiers (Sheffield)
Aug 6-8: PTC 3 (Sheffield)
Aug 14-16: PTC 4 (Sheffield)
Aug 21-24: World Open qualifiers (Sheffield)
Aug 27-29: Euro PTC 1 (Germany)
Sep 6-12: SHANGHAI MASTERS (Shanghai)
Sep 18-26: WORLD OPEN (Glasgow)
Oct 1-3: Euro PTC 2
Oct 8-10: PTC 5 (Sheffield)
Oct 15-17: PTC 6 (Sheffield)
Oct 22-24: Euro PTC 3 (Frankfurt)
Oct 29-31: Euro PTC 4
Nov 5-7: World Seniors Championship (Bradford)
Nov 12-14: Euro PTC 5 (Hamm)
Nov 19-21: Euro PTC 6 (Halle)
Nov 24-Dec 1: UK Championship qualifiers (Sheffield)
Dec 4-12: UK CHAMPIONSHIP (Telford)
Dec 14-17: German Masters qualifiers
Jan 9-16: THE MASTERS (Wembley)
Jan 28-30: World Snooker Shoot-Out
Feb 2-6: GERMAN MASTERS (Berlin)
Feb 8-11: Welsh Open qualifiers (Sheffield)
Feb 14-20: WELSH OPEN
Feb 24-27: China Open qualifiers (Sheffield)
Mar 4-15: World Championship qualifiers (Sheffield)
Mar 17-20: PLAYERS TOUR CHAMPIONSHIP FINALS
Mar 28-Apr 3: CHINA OPEN (Beijing)
Apr 16-May 2: WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP (Sheffield)
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Post by Panda on Jun 15, 2010 12:45:00 GMT 1
148 players have entered the first Players Tour Championship event, including 72 members of the Main Tour. These include Ronnie O'Sullivan, Shaun Murphy and Mark Selby.
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Post by ligerdog7 on Jun 15, 2010 15:39:36 GMT 1
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Post by Panda on Jun 15, 2010 15:52:14 GMT 1
Still no update on the Higgins case and it's difficult to know how it would affect the rankings under the new system. I think they will aim to have the matter sorted before the Shanghai Masters.
Apparently the Players Tour Championship events will count towards the rankings, though it hasn't yet been announced how many points will be on offer. Those events will also have their own order of merit with the top 24 qualifying for the finals later in the season.
I don't think there are any plans to televise the PTC events, with them taking place at the Academy in Sheffield but there may be some coverage online at some point. All other events are likely to be shown by BBC, Eurosport and Sky Sports (who are showing the Shoot-Out).
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Post by ligerdog7 on Jun 15, 2010 16:05:12 GMT 1
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Post by Panda on Jun 15, 2010 19:42:38 GMT 1
PTC is just an abbreviation for Players Tour Championship. Six of the PTC events are being played at the Academy in Sheffield, and six are being played in Europe (with at least four in Germany).
The Academy does sound like a super top-secret place but is actually part of the English Institute of Sport in Sheffield. It's hosted the World Championship qualifiers for the last few years but this season is being used for all qualifying matches, rather than Pontins in Prestatyn, plus the PTC events.
The World Snooker Shoot-Out is a new tournament to be shown on Sky, where all the matches will be one frame only. The whole event will be played over one weekend.
The World Open is replacing the Grand Prix and will be shown on BBC this season. It will feature shorter matches and there will be a completely random draw for every round. The tournament is also open to amateurs, with around 20 going forward to the final qualifying round. Darts has the UK Open, which is billed as "The FA Cup of Darts". I think this is Barry Hearn's attempt to do something similar for snooker.
You're right about there being lots of new stuff on the calendar. Players were complaining about a lack of tournaments and Barry Hearn has addressed that with the new additions.
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Post by ligerdog7 on Jun 16, 2010 1:45:19 GMT 1
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Post by Panda on Jun 16, 2010 9:31:11 GMT 1
Sky Sports will still be showing Premier League snooker during the season as well.
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Post by ligerdog7 on Jun 17, 2010 1:04:56 GMT 1
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Post by Panda on Jun 17, 2010 9:56:27 GMT 1
I don't think there are any plans to televise the PTC events, with them taking place at the Academy in Sheffield but there may be some coverage online at some point. |
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Post by Elmer on Jun 17, 2010 11:34:01 GMT 1
That'll b the interesting point of all these fixtures is how much will be televised. It wont matter a jot unless the majority of the population can watch.
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Post by Panda on Jun 17, 2010 11:48:14 GMT 1
That'll b the interesting point of all these fixtures is how much will be televised. It wont matter a jot unless the majority of the population can watch. I would expect everything except the PTC events to be televised. There are plans to show the later PTC events online. BBC will be showing the World Open, UK Championship, Masters and World Championship. I would expect Eurosport to show the other ranking tournaments. |
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Post by ligerdog7 on Jun 17, 2010 21:56:14 GMT 1
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Post by Panda on Jun 17, 2010 22:29:26 GMT 1
World Snooker has now confirmed the 96-player line-up for this season.
None of the players I had listed as "unconfirmed" have taken up their places on the Main Tour. Wild cards have been given to China's Xiao Guodong and Thailand's Thanawat Thirapongpaiboon.
The following Main Tour players have entered the first PTC event: (alphabetical order)
Zhang Anda
Justin Astley
Simon Bedford
Stuart Bingham
Nigel Bond
Alfie Burden
Jamie Burnett
Marcus Campbell
Liu Chuang
Jamie Cope
Matthew Couch
Dominic Dale
Mark Davis
Paul Davison
Ryan Day
Graeme Dott
Tony Drago
Mike Dunn
Peter Ebdon
Patrick Einsle
Igor Figueiredo
Tom Ford
Marco Fu
David Gilbert
Martin Gould
Gerard Greene
Adrian Gunnell
Xiao Guodong
Anthony Hamilton
Bjorn Haneveer
Dave Harold
Barry Hawkins
Andy Hicks
Andrew Higginson
Liam Highfield
Michael Holt
Joe Jogia
Kuldesh Johal
Jak Jones
Jamie Jones
Mark Joyce
Mark King
Stephen Lee
Peter Lines
Jack Lisowski
Kurt Maflin
Stephen Maguire
James McBain
Ian McCulloch
Anthony McGill
Rory McLeod
Alan McManus
Jimmy Michie
Robert Milkins
Shaun Murphy
Fergal O'Brien
Jamie O'Neill
Ronnie O'Sullivan
Andrew Pagett
Barry Pinches
Jimmy Robertson
Mark Selby
Matt Selt
Matthew Stevens
Joe Swail
Judd Trump
Ricky Walden
Patrick Wallace
Jimmy White
Adam Wicheard
Mark Williams
Kyren Wilson
Ben Woollaston
33 non-Main Tour players were drawn at random to go straight through to the first round:
Chris Norbury
Marc Harman
Zak Surety
Sam Baird
Ian Burns
Mitchell Mann
David Grace
David Bailey
Ben Harrison
Liu Song
Ian Glover
Gavin Buller
Sam Thistlewaite
Lee Farebrother
Paul Metcalfe
Jamie Clarke
Luca Brecel
Shokat Ali
Gareth Greene
Lee Spick
Adam Stefanow
Danny Douane
Adam Duffy
James Hill
Craig Barber
Oliver Vandenbohede
Michael Wasley
James McGouran
Marcin Nitchke
Nisar Safuddin
Robbie Williams (no, not THAT Robbie Williams)
Krzysztof Wrobel
Allan Taylor
The following players will play-off for the 22 remaining places:
Greg Davis v David Gray
Craig Steadman v Aditya Mehta
Mitchell Travis v Sam Craigie
Chen Zhe v Stephen Ormerod
David Craggs v Jamie Walker
Charlie Walters v Stephen Craigie
Komran Ashraf v Richard Somauroo
Mark Miller v Sharrukh Nasir
Jake Nicholson v Jordan Brown
Robert Redmond v Jack Culligan
Sam Harvey v Shaun Parkes
Nick Jennings v Stephen Groves
Damien Wilkes v Andrew Norman
Martin O'Donnell v Jeff Cundy
Alex Davies v Michal Zielinski
Ryan Clarke v Hugh Abernethy
Oliver Brown v Andy Lee
Michael Wild v James Silverwood
Jordan Rimmer v Daniel Wells
Marc Davis v Ejler Hame
James Cahill v Ashik Nathwani
James Brown v Stuart Carrington
The draw for the 1st round takes place on Monday.
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Post by ligerdog7 on Jun 17, 2010 22:38:50 GMT 1
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Post by Panda on Jun 17, 2010 22:41:33 GMT 1
By process of elimination, these are the Main Tour players who have NOT entered PTC1:
John Higgins
Neil Robertson
Ali Carter
Ding Junhui
Mark Allen
Stephen Hendry
Liang Wenbo
Joe Perry
Steve Davis
Ken Doherty
Stuart Pettman
Rod Lawler
Michael Judge
David Morris
Joe Delaney
Paul Davies
James Wattana
Michael White
Noppon Saengkham
Issara Kachaiwong
Dermot McGlinchey
Reanne Evans
Thanawat Thirapongpaiboon
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Post by Panda on Jun 17, 2010 22:41:58 GMT 1
He's in there. The list is in alphabetical order (by last name). |
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Post by ligerdog7 on Jun 17, 2010 22:46:23 GMT 1
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Post by ligerdog7 on Jun 17, 2010 22:48:20 GMT 1
cheers dude ull hac keep us updatted whos in out scores get time not tv yoooooooooooo doing ace name moo uppppppppppppppp gggg]   ;D He's in there. The list is in alphabetical order (by last name). cheers dude ull hac keep us updatted whos in out scores get time not tv yoooooooooooo doing ace name moo uppppppppppppppp gggg] ;D |
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Post by Elmer on Jun 17, 2010 23:20:26 GMT 1
Cheers MrH for sifting out this useful information as usual |
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:Dwow dude dat list hugeeeeeeeeeeeee 4 games i just wondering next snooker be :o24th june next week innit 
ide want get higgions sortted before den 
