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Post by Panda on Jun 5, 2012 18:03:16 GMT 1
Just a month after the World Championship finished, the new snooker season got underway today with the start of qualifying for the Wuxi Classic.
Under new rules from World Snooker, any spare places in qualifying tournaments due to non-entries will be made up by the best performing players from Q School, meaning there are some taking part who aren't actually on the Tour.
1st qualifying round: Thepchaiyah Un-Nooh v Robbie Williams Aditya Mehta v Sam Baird Chen Zhe v Pankaj Advani Tony Drago v Sean O'Sullivan Luca Brecel v Daniel Wells Fraser Patrick v Hossein Vafaei Ayouri Thanawat Thirapongpaiboon v Ian Burns Zhang Anda v Rod Lawler Tian Pengfei v Duane Jones Martin O'Donnell v David Grace Adrian Gunnell v Ben Judge Michael Leslie v Paul Davison Liam Highfield v Michael Wasley Kurt Maflin v Jamie O'Neill Craig Steadman v Michael Wild Cao Yupeng v Joel Walker
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Post by ligerdog7 on Jun 5, 2012 19:56:48 GMT 1
wow ace dude how ronniie be in it on 6 mounth break + hell never travle china japan but Tony Drago v Sean O'Sullivan wickid pearing hope happen Thepchaiyah Un-Nooh v Robbie Williams singer huhhhhhhhhhhhhh oggyessssssssssss kool moo hooooooooooooooooo upppp
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Post by Paddy on Jun 5, 2012 20:14:04 GMT 1
Wrong o'sullivan Not the singer but was my ironic look on it too.
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Post by ligerdog7 on Jun 5, 2012 20:34:25 GMT 1
darn cheers dude just noticed it hoooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo moooo wuffyyyyyyyyyyyyyy ligers koolllllllllllllllllll ;D
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Post by Elmer on Jun 6, 2012 11:38:16 GMT 1
What concerns me about this loading up the qualifiers with amateurs is how they afford it if they get to the venues. There's only probably the top 16-32 making any decent living from snooker. I bet those in the 50s and 60s don't even pay any tax their earnings are that low
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Post by Panda on Jun 6, 2012 22:46:56 GMT 1
What concerns me about this loading up the qualifiers with amateurs is how they afford it if they get to the venues. There's only probably the top 16-32 making any decent living from snooker. I bet those in the 50s and 60s don't even pay any tax their earnings are that low It's difficult for them, though World Snooker obviously feel if they can afford to enter Q School in the first place (at about £1000 a pop) they can afford a trip to China in the unlikely event they make it that far. Plus reaching the venue stage is worth £6000, which should more than cover their expenses.
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Post by Elmer on Jun 6, 2012 22:51:30 GMT 1
What concerns me about this loading up the qualifiers with amateurs is how they afford it if they get to the venues. There's only probably the top 16-32 making any decent living from snooker. I bet those in the 50s and 60s don't even pay any tax their earnings are that low It's difficult for them, though World Snooker obviously feel if they can afford to enter Q School in the first place (at about £1000 a pop) they can afford a trip to China in the unlikely event they make it that far. Plus reaching the venue stage is worth £6000, which should more than cover their expenses. The thing is people will take loans out and borrow to enter Q school then even if the prize money covers expenses then they've got to live and eat. I've read a lot of the difficulties of the people lower down the rankings. I think Hearn eventually wants a Tennis type system but he needs Tennis money to see that vision !
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Post by ligerdog7 on Jun 6, 2012 23:11:42 GMT 1
What concerns me about this loading up the qualifiers with amateurs is how they afford it if they get to the venues. There's only probably the top 16-32 making any decent living from snooker. I bet those in the 50s and 60s don't even pay any tax their earnings are that low It's difficult for them, though World Snooker obviously feel if they can afford to enter Q School in the first place (at about £1000 a pop) they can afford a trip to China in the unlikely event they make it that far. Plus reaching the venue stage is worth £6000, which should more than cover their expenses. it costs £1000 enter q school how aford it hooooooooo noooo diggtyy moo rufyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy
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Post by ligerdog7 on Jun 8, 2012 1:38:34 GMT 1
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Post by Elmer on Jun 9, 2012 9:08:42 GMT 1
The draw has been decided for the Wuxi Classic starting 25th June
1 Mark Selby [1] v Barry Hawkins [19] 2 Martin Gould [12] v Jamie Cope [23] 3 Stuart Bingham [14] v Peter Ebdon [18] 4 Shaun Murphy [5] v K Doherty [32] 5 Neil Robertson [6] v Jamie Burnett [36] 6 Ding Junhui [9] v Mark Davis [17] 7 Graeme Dott [11] v Michael White [50] 8 Stephen Maguire [4] v Rod Lawler 9 Mark J Williams [3] v Tom Ford [24] 10 Mark Allen [10] v Dave Harold [44] 11 Allister Carter [15] v Feargal O'Brien [31] 12 Stephen Lee [7] v Marcus Campbell [22] 13 Matthew Stevens [8] v Joe Perry [21] 14 Ricky Walden [13] v Michael Holt [30] 15 Andrew Higginson [16] v Robert Milkins[33] 16 Judd Trump [2] v Dominic Dale [20]
Rod Lawler has done exceptionally well, after qualifying through Q school he makes the first venue of the season.
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Post by Elmer on Jun 9, 2012 9:09:22 GMT 1
The next snooker will be the Australian Open qualifiers starting 12th June.
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Post by Panda on Jun 9, 2012 16:09:34 GMT 1
Thanks Elmer.
No Ronnie or Higgins for Wuxi. Ronnie has refused to sign the players' contract. He won't be allowed to play in any Tour events until he does.
Their absence means Ali Carter and Andrew Higginson qualify automatically for Wuxi.
Meanwhile, seven of the top 16 haven't entered the Australian Open. In addition to Ronnie and Higgins, Judd Trump, Mark Williams, Stephen Maguire, Mark Allen and Graeme Dott haven't bothered with it, meaning automatic qualification for Carter, Higginson, Mark Davis, Ebdon, Hawkins, Dale and Perry.
It means a bit of changing around in the qualifying rounds with Allan Taylor, Mitchell Mann, Adrian Gunnell, Michael Wild, Fraser Patrick, Duane Jones, Lee Spick, Justin Astley and Jeff Cundy all getting into the draw from the Q School list. Steve Davis is among those who get to enter the tournament a round later than they would have.
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Post by ligerdog7 on Jun 10, 2012 2:20:36 GMT 1
darn ronnye doing werd stuff agne if sines 1 at time meean got go evythinggg ho9ooooooooooooooooooooooooooo mooo wuuzuppp wuffyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy
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Post by Panda on Jun 20, 2012 16:19:08 GMT 1
Catch-up from last week's Australian Open qualifying.
The following players qualified, joining the 16 automatic qualifiers: Matthew Selt Ryan Day Xiao Guodong Liang Wenbo Ken Doherty Cao Yupeng Jack Lisowski Nigel Bond Marcus Campbell Tom Ford Michael Holt Alan McManus Rory McLeod Jamie Cope Marco Fu Jamie Burnett
Amateur Michael Wild made it all the way to the final qualifying round, beating Steve Davis 5-0 on the way, but lost 5-0 to Ken Doherty.
This will be only the second appearance in the final stages of a ranking tournament for Alan McManus since the 2008/09 season.
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Post by ligerdog7 on Jun 21, 2012 0:46:35 GMT 1
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Post by Elmer on Jun 22, 2012 17:26:37 GMT 1
Stuart Bingham won the first tournament of the year over in China. Gains himself a handy 2000 ranking points and back provisionally in the top 16.
Onto the Wuxi Classic now, another Chinese tournamant, which is a full ranking event. Starts on Monday.
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Post by ligerdog7 on Jun 22, 2012 17:49:14 GMT 1
Stuart Bingham won the first tournament of the year over in China. Gains himself a handy 2000 ranking points and back provisionally in the top 16. Onto the Wuxi Classic now, another Chinese tournamant, which is a full ranking event. Starts on Monday. kool ranking points wow how u figer out many ranking points got how i do dat 1p says ronnie wont be mondays thing grrrrrrrrrrrrr hooooo dammm skippyy wuffyyyyyyy hoooooooooooooo mooooooo upppppppppppppppppppppppppppp
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Post by Panda on Jun 22, 2012 18:11:35 GMT 1
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Post by ligerdog7 on Jun 22, 2012 18:23:34 GMT 1
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Post by Panda on Jun 22, 2012 21:03:29 GMT 1
Ronnie's not in it. Elmer posted the draw two weeks ago.
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