2022 World Championship Qualifiers

[Neil Taperell]

Very good win form David Lilly, expected a tough match for him but he played very solid and was the better player throughout.

And Maflin has lost his Tour Card . Clearly too much pressure for him in the end .
Would have expected a far closer game , off table pressures not helping either I would assume .

[trains]

By my reckoning , these are the players who have been relegated and will have to enter q school to regain their place on tour :

Michael holt , kurt maflin , martin o donnell , sunny akani , ashley carty , rory mcleod , fergal o brien , steven hallworth , lukas kleckers , zhao jianbo , ben hancorn , lee walker , peter devlin , aaron hill , farak ajaib , jamie wilson , zak surety , iulian boiko , sean maddocks .

Stuart carrington needs some players ranked below him not to qualify for the crucible to keep his tour card , in particular he needs cao yupeng to lose to robert milkins today or for yupeng to lose to saengkham / wells on judgement day or allan taylor to lose to scott donaldson tomorrow or for taylor to lose in the crucible first round.

[balkend]

And most people would have expected Ricky Walden to be at Sheffield this year . Thats a fairly long tough list posted by trains

[itsnoteasy]

And Maflin has lost his Tour Card . Clearly too much pressure for him in the end .
Would have expected a far closer game , off table pressures not helping either I would assume .

Ah didn't know Maflin was under that extra pressure, it really is brutal for some of these players, the pressure must be immense.

[Odrl]

That's quite a few familiar names gone from the tour. Some of them were playing even before I started following snooker seriously.

[neuronic]

Meanwhile Graeme fires a nice 147 followed by another century to win 6:1...

[Nifty50]

Meanwhile Graeme fires a nice 147 followed by another century to win 6:1...

Well done Wee Dotty. 10k for 147. 15k for highest break. 15k guaranteed prize money. 40k should buy him box at Ibrox.

[DeanH]

only his second maximum in professional play, I thought he had a couple already

Andy Yates joins four other referees in joint second place with 7 maximums to their names.
Only Brendan Moore has more at 9

[Neil Taperell]

I think that's Ursenbacher off of the Tour as well .

[trains]

I think that's Ursenbacher off of the Tour as well .

Is that confirmed ? i’ve been basing my reckonings on the provisional end of season list on snooker.org , my deduction is cao yupeng has to qualify for the crucible to knock carrington out of the 64 , for ursenbacher to get relegated , as well as yupeng qualifying , matthew stevens needs to beat sam craigie this evening plus any combo of ashley hugill , allan taylor and gao yang making the crucible last 16 , possible but a lot to play yet to get that far.

[Neil Taperell]

All too confusing Trains !!!! .......I'll wait and see what happens over the next few days !

[trains]

fair enough

[trains]

the milkmans on a 147 , ahh missed black on 73 , does anyone know what cao yupeng was upset about earlier when the ref had a word with him and he slightly banged the table , was it about a free ball not been given ?

[DeanH]

the milkmans on a 147 , ahh missed black on 73 , does anyone know what cao yupeng was upset about earlier when the ref had a word with him and he slightly banged the table , was it about a free ball not been given ?

I was going to ask the same just seen a vid on twitter and looks like he was trying to break his knuckles!

[Stony152]

I've watched both Lichtenberg and Yuan today. I have no idea how Lichtenberg has a higher ranking. That was one of the worst "performances" I've ever seen in a professional event. I think half of you who are amateur players could have done better. Yuan, on the other hand looks like a top 30 player. He still hasn't beaten Day, but the talent is definitely there. I'm afraid that the European guys, other than Brecel, have a long way to go to even dream of being top 16 players.