ligerdog7
New Member
hollyyyyyyyyyyyy..... ages get bak post laters
Posts: 1
|
Post by ligerdog7 on Dec 8, 2011 8:59:01 GMT 1
|
|
|
Post by Panda on Dec 8, 2011 15:22:58 GMT 1
Quarter-finals today:
Stephen Maguire v Judd Trump Ding Junhui v Neil Robertson Ricky Walden v Shaun Murphy Mark Allen v Marco Fu
|
|
ligerdog7
New Member
hollyyyyyyyyyyyy..... ages get bak post laters
Posts: 1
|
Post by ligerdog7 on Dec 8, 2011 21:53:25 GMT 1
Stephen Maguire wasz rubishhhhhhhh grrrrrrrrrr evean i beeat him yoooo nooooooooooooooooooooooo diggtyy upppppppppppppp ruufyyy ;D ;D ;D
|
|
Tom
Member
*Of Royal Blood*
Posts: 15,419
|
Post by Tom on Dec 10, 2011 14:42:23 GMT 1
Some aren't happy at the UK Championship being reduced to best-of-11, especially when Barry Hearn said he wouldn't touch the World Championship, UK Championship and Masters when he first took over. But overall, he's doing a good job. The number of tournaments is up, interest around the world is up and we now have every tournament being screened in some form. Mark Allen has been very vocal about being unhappy with the Hearn regime, but he's such a w**ker that it's hard to take anything he says seriously. I'm another of those unhappy with the changes to the UK. I thought it was odd when noticing it was best of 11 in the early stages, Allen's comments clarified it for me. It devalues the competition imo and makes it little more than just a Grand Prix event (which of course the BBC don't show anymore). It was interesting that Hearn blamed it on the BBC wanting matches to be completed in one session in the first few rounds. Watched the first couple of frames of Marco Fu's QF the other night against Allen (Fu is someone i follow - thats also the only match i've seen so far this week). Given how poorly he started, 2-0 down having barely potted a ball, it was a decent effort to only lose 6-5 in the end.
|
|
Paddy
Member
*Pick up a P..P...P.. Paddy*
Best newcomer 2009
Posts: 19,422
|
Post by Paddy on Dec 10, 2011 15:08:23 GMT 1
My housemate last night was sat behind Robertson, think he got more tv coverage then the table lol.
|
|
|
Post by Panda on Dec 10, 2011 15:10:41 GMT 1
I should point out that I'm not necessarily in favour of best-of-11s in the UK Championship either but I think overall, Hearn is doing a good job and any complaints about the format would have more weight if it was someone other than Mark Allen making them.
|
|
ligerdog7
New Member
hollyyyyyyyyyyyy..... ages get bak post laters
Posts: 1
|
Post by ligerdog7 on Dec 11, 2011 3:05:22 GMT 1
|
|
|
Post by Panda on Dec 11, 2011 3:08:26 GMT 1
It's Trump v Allen in the final.
|
|
|
Post by Panda on Dec 11, 2011 23:56:01 GMT 1
Trump wins an excellent final 10-8.
We nearly had a repeat of last year with Allen threatening to overturn a big lead but Trump sealed it with a break of 94.
Trump will be up to #5 in the new world rankings.
|
|
Elmer
Member
Posts: 7,318
|
Post by Elmer on Dec 12, 2011 1:19:17 GMT 1
I think you could see Trump potentially fighting for #1 by the end of the season. He's hardly any points to defend as two years ago he was sweating it out in the qualifiers ! I think with this new kid on the block people will be less likely to pander to Ronnie O'Sullivan as his position as the most popular draw is quickly getting usurped !!
|
|
|
Post by suedehead on Dec 12, 2011 1:47:37 GMT 1
I missed some of it but, from what I did see, it was a cracking final. It was slightly awkward dividing my attention between Match of the Day on the telly and the snooker on the laptop.
Like many people I first heard the name Judd Trump seven or eight years ago but it's only really been this year that he's shown what the fuss was all about. Mark Allen, of course, also contributed to a great final. Indeed, it showed why longer matches are better than short ones. I just hope Hearn doesn't tamper with the World Championship format.
|
|
|
Post by Panda on Dec 12, 2011 2:20:15 GMT 1
I think you could see Trump potentially fighting for #1 by the end of the season. He's hardly any points to defend as two years ago he was sweating it out in the qualifiers ! That's a good shout. He's 13000 behind Mark Selby but when you take into account points to come off, he's only about 4000 behind with around 40000 points still up for grabs this season. Even though we're halfway through the season, we've only had three of the eight ranking tournaments (not including PTCs). Calendar for the rest of the season: Dec 15-16: PTC 12 (first 2 rounds) - Sheffield Dec 17-19: PTC 11 - Sheffield Jan 6-8: PTC 12 (final stages) - Munich Jan 15-22: The Masters - London Jan 27-29: Shoot-Out - Blackpool Feb 1-5: German Masters - Berlin Feb 13-19: Welsh Open - Newport Feb 27-Mar 3: World Open - Hainan, China Mar 14-18: PTC Finals Mar 26-Apr 1: China Open - Beijing Apr 21-May 7: World Championship - Sheffield Another thing worth noting is the World Championship qualifiers won't be completed until less than a week before the main tournament starts.
|
|
Elmer
Member
Posts: 7,318
|
Post by Elmer on Dec 12, 2011 14:54:10 GMT 1
Looking at the calendar I still think it needs quite a bit of tweaking yet ! I'm quite in favour of what Barry Hearn is doing but it's still in its infancy ! For example a tournament in China then home for a PTC followed by another tournament in China is mad !
|
|
|
Post by Panda on Dec 12, 2011 15:10:06 GMT 1
The World Open really got shoe-horned into that slot after the BBC dropped it. It was previously in the old Grand Prix slot and would've still been held in Britain if the BBC had decided to keep showing it.
There's no venue confirmed yet for the PTC Finals but I wonder if Hearn is looking at China. Mind you, that would mean the players spending over a month in China ahead of the World Championship...
|
|
Elmer
Member
Posts: 7,318
|
Post by Elmer on Dec 12, 2011 15:20:12 GMT 1
There's that Champions League lobbed in the middle of it all round that time as well. I don't know much about it at all or the format surrounding it.
|
|
|
Post by Panda on Dec 12, 2011 15:25:19 GMT 1
There's that Champions League lobbed in the middle of it all round that time as well. I don't know much about it at all or the format surrounding it. The Championship League is a series of events that offer a place in the following season's Premier League to the overall winner. There's only a small number of players in each event so it's a bit easier to fit it into their schedules.
|
|
|
Post by Panda on Dec 13, 2011 2:27:03 GMT 1
Updated world rankings after the UK Championship:
Current position (position after last cut off) (position at end of last season) Player Points
1(1)(3) Mark Selby 69185 2(2)(1) Mark Williams 64100 3(4)(5) Neil Robertson 57940 4(3)(2) John Higgins 57820 5(8)(9) Judd Trump 56385 6(6)(7) Shaun Murphy 53365 7(10)(10) Graeme Dott 48365 8(7)(6) Ali Carter 47640 9(5)(4) Ding Junhui 47420 10(12)(12) Mark Allen 46905 11(9)(8) Stephen Maguire 46900 12(16)(21) Martin Gould 42490 13(15)(14) Matthew Stevens 41695 14(11)(17) Stuart Bingham 40755 15(14)(11) Ronnie O'Sullivan 40540 16(13)(18) Stephen Lee 39990 17(17)(19) Mark Davis 38740 18(22)(20) Ricky Walden 37730 19(20)(25) Andrew Higginson 35910 20(18)(15) Jamie Cope 35700 21(21)(16) Stephen Hendry 35300 22(23)(22) Barry Hawkins 34520 23(24)(24) Marcus Campbell 34160 24(29)(23) Marco Fu 33765 25(26)(31) Dominic Dale 33515 26(19)(13) Peter Ebdon 32840 27(30)(28) Ryan Day 31985 28(27)(27) Joe Perry 31835 29(25)(26) Mark King 31405 30(28)(37) Fergal O'Brien 30985 31(31)(34) Tom Ford 30980 32(33)(35) Rory McLeod 29875 33(32)(29) Ken Doherty 29305 34(34)(36) Anthony Hamilton 35(37)(32) Gerard Greene 36(36)(33) Robert Milkins 37(38)(45) Michael Holt 38(44)(40) Nigel Bond 39(39)(52) Jack Lisowski 40(45)(47) Jamie Jones 41(40)(43) Matthew Selt 42(35)(30) Liang Wenbo 43(42)(39) Jamie Burnett 44(48)(49) Joe Jogia 45(43)(44) Steve Davis 46(46)(51) Alan McManus 47(54)(55) Jimmy White 48(47)(48) Dave Harold 23955 49(41)(38) Mike Dunn 50(55)(69) Ben Woollaston 51(52)(64) Xiao Guodong 52(50)(42) Mark Joyce 53(57)(53) Jimmy Robertson 54(49)(41) Barry Pinches 55(56)(59) Anthony McGill 56(51)(46) Tony Drago 57(65)(66) Michael White 58(58)(67) James Wattana 59(53)(50) Peter Lines 60(59)(60) Liu Chuang 61(62)(62) Liu Song 62(61)(56) Adrian Gunnell 63(64)(61) Andy Hicks 64(60)(57) Alfie Burden 18660 65(70)(-) Li Yan 66(67)(63) Ian McCulloch 67(66)(58) Rod Lawler 68(74)(76) David Gilbert 69(63)(54) Joe Swail 70(68)(68) Liam Highfield 71(69)(-) Passakorn Suwannawat 72(75)(-) Andrew Norman 73(73)(-) Yu Delu 74(81)(-) Tian Pengfei 75(77)(-) Adam Duffy 76(78)(85) Kurt Maflin 77(72)(71) Andrew Pagett 78(80)(78) David Morris 79(71)(65) Bjorn Haneveer 80(83)(-) Sam Craigie 81(86)(-) Cao Yupeng 82(88)(-) Sam Baird 83(84)(-) Aditya Mehta 84(79)(73) Paul Davison 85(76)(70) Matt Couch 86(87)(-) Dechawat Poomjaeng 87(89)(-) David Grace 88(82)(-) Scott MacKenzie 89(91)(-) Luca Brecel 90(93)(88) Adam Wicheard 91(85)(79) Simon Bedford 92(92)(-) Robin Hull 93(90)(-) David Hogan 94(94)(-) Stuart Carrington 95(95)(-) Kacper Filipiak 95(95)(-) Joe Meara 95(95)(-) Daniel Wells 98(98)(-) Lucky Vatnani 99(98)(80) Igor Figueiredo
The next cut-off point is after PTC 12 and will determine the seedings for the Welsh Open, World Open and China Open.
|
|
Elmer
Member
Posts: 7,318
|
Post by Elmer on Dec 13, 2011 10:15:11 GMT 1
Ronnie could be in a spot of bother now as he's declined to enter PTC11 and PTC12.
|
|
|
Post by Panda on Dec 13, 2011 15:44:28 GMT 1
He has to hope Mark Davis and/or Ricky Walden don't do really well in the last two PTCs.
If Mark Davis wins one of them, he'll go ahead of Ronnie. Walden probably needs to win one and reach the semi-finals of the other one.
|
|
ligerdog7
New Member
hollyyyyyyyyyyyy..... ages get bak post laters
Posts: 1
|
Post by ligerdog7 on Dec 13, 2011 18:28:35 GMT 1
|
|