2022 World Championship Qualifiers

[tomwalker147]

I fancy Chris Wakelin to qualify this year, easy'ish match against the winner of Jake Crofts and Jamie Wilson who're both young kids then Fan Zhenghyi. Then quite likely Chris or Jimmy Robertson to progress.

[fkhan]

https://wst.tv/how-to-watch-betfred-...ifying-rounds/

On ES in Europe.

[Mr Snooker]

Will Liang Wenbo be replaced in the world qualifiers now he has been suspended from all snooker tournaments by World Snooker until further notice, and if so who will replace him and will everyone move up a place in the seedings, I.E. will Zhao Jianbo now go into the second rd as the N0 80 seed and Scott Donaldson into the 3rd round as the N0 seed 48 or will the player who wins through to play receive a bye into the final qualifying round.

[Nifty50]

Will Liang Wenbo be replaced in the world qualifiers now he has been suspended from all snooker tournaments by World Snooker until further notice, and if so who will replace him and will everyone move up a place in the seedings, I.E. will Zhao Jianbo now go into the second rd as the N0 80 seed and Scott Donaldson into the 3rd round as the N0 seed 48 or will the player who wins through to play receive a bye into the final qualifying round.

Think it would be a bye. Draw has been published now.

[DeanH]

Will Liang Wenbo be replaced in the world qualifiers now he has been suspended from all snooker tournaments by World Snooker until further notice, and if so who will replace him and will everyone move up a place in the seedings, I.E. will Zhao Jianbo now go into the second rd as the N0 80 seed and Scott Donaldson into the 3rd round as the N0 seed 48 or will the player who wins through to play receive a bye into the final qualifying round.

Think it would be a bye. Draw has been published now.

yes I think it will be a bye; if Liang's match had been R1 then they could have slotted the next person in the Lists of amateurs, but in R3 a bit difficult to do so, and unfair to those working their way up the rounds

[trains]

yes I think it will be a bye; if Liang's match had been R1 then they could have slotted the next person in the Lists of amateurs, but in R3 a bit difficult to do so, and unfair to those working their way up the rounds

It would have been easy to have slotted the next highest ranked amateur in for the years 2014 to 2019 when it was flat 128’s for the first three qualifying rounds for players ranked 17 - 144 but not since 2020 when it went back to being tiered again.

[JimMalone]

So who are your picks to come through? My wild picks:
Ricky Walden
Lyu Haotian
Zhou Yuelong
Jordan Brown
Matthew Selt
Jamie Jones
Ding Junhui
Joe O'Connor
David Gilbert
Chris Wakelin
Noppon Saengkham
Ryan Day
Ali Carter
Xiao Guodong
Gary Wilson
Hossein Vafaei

[DeanH]

It would have been easy to have slotted the next highest ranked amateur in for the years 2014 to 2019 when it was flat 128’s for the first three qualifying rounds for players ranked 17 - 144 but not since 2020 when it went back to being tiered again.

hm? I thought that the World Championship has always been tiered as it is now, at least for many years including those you mention - I recall Barry Hearn saying that he would not change WSC when he started changing format (like the flat 128).
But hey, it would be difficult for a R3 insertion of a new player

[trains]

hm? I thought that the World Championship has always been tiered as it is now, at least for many years including those you mention - I recall Barry Hearn saying that he would not change WSC when he started changing format (like the flat 128).
But hey, it would be difficult for a R3 insertion of a new player

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2015_W...hip#Qualifying

64 winners in round one , also look at the following year , ding played ireland’s greg casey in the first round

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2016_W...hip#Qualifying

I got the year they switched to flat 128’s wrong though , it was 2015 not 2014

i think hearn's statement was about not reducing frames , which subsequently has been reduced , i dont think he would have said anything about tier's , that would have been too advanced for a press statement i think.

[trains]

So who are your picks to come through? My wild picks:
Ricky Walden
Lyu Haotian
Zhou Yuelong
Jordan Brown
Matthew Selt
Jamie Jones
Ding Junhui
Joe O'Connor
David Gilbert
Chris Wakelin
Noppon Saengkham
Ryan Day
Ali Carter
Xiao Guodong
Gary Wilson
Hossein Vafaei

Part prediction and part slightly preferring them to qualify :

Zhao jianbo

Duane jones

Zhou yuelong

Mark king

Jak jones

Jamie jones

Ding junhui

Martin gould

David gilbert

Jimmy robertson

Cao yupeng

Steven hallworth

Ali carter

Joe perry

Pang junxu

Alexander ursenbacher

[DeanH]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2015_W...hip#Qualifying

64 winners in round one , also look at the following year , ding played ireland’s greg casey in the first round

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2016_W...hip#Qualifying

I got the year they switched to flat 128’s wrong though , it was 2015 not 2014

i think hearn's statement was about not reducing frames , which subsequently has been reduced , i dont think he would have said anything about tier's , that would have been too advanced for a press statement i think.

thanks for the info

[fkhan]

Frazz v M White today. Good luck Frazz.

[Mr Snooker]

Any free live streams to the matches please I can't find any if so let me know and if I find any I will share

Thanks

[DeanH]

147 bonus back
https://wst.tv/betfred-world-championship-147-bonuses/
£40K TV rounds and £10K for quals - "on top of" the £15k already in place for Highest break prize

[Mr Snooker]

my 16 qualifiers predictions are

16 Qualifiers
1 Ricky Walden
2 Dominic Dale
3 Stephen Maguire
4 Jordan Brown
5 Jak Jones
6 Jamie Jones
7 Ding Junhui
8 Martin Gould
9 David Gilbert
10 Jimmy Robertson
11 Robert Milkins
12 Ryan Day
13 Matthew Stevens
14 Joe Perry
15 Graeme Dott
16 Hossein Vafaei