English Open 2016

[inevermissblue]

Congratulations to Derby's Jamie Bodle in beating Matthew Stevens last night. Jamie won the English Amateur championships this year proving that the winner of this should be awarded a main tour place! Why is this still not the case? Come on WS sort yourselves out!

[Neil Taperell]

Just went through yesterday's scores and Michael White had an impressive performance . Breaks of 94 , 75 , 89 & 75 . Limiting his opponent to only potting one ball .

[Boongogg]

Great to find a free channel that's showing snooker coverage. Shame to only discover by word of mouth, but then advertising is expensive I guess.

[DeanH]

Not sure when the English Amateur winner stopped getting a tour card, but now it is the World, European, and Asian amateur winners (the main competition and the U21) that get a card.

[jonny66]

For some reason Quest aren't showing any of the evening sessions live, just a highlights show in the morning, good job I'm off work this week.

[streamer45]

This Akbar can play , damn

[PatBlock]

Another good performance from Judd today, but watching his post match interview I kept wondering, why is he trying to sound like Ali G??

Is i cos e is black, Innit?

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[ken147]

Alfie Burden made a 147.

[DeanH]

English Open 2016

well done Alfie

Maybe lost him the match though
Not a TV match, anyone there see it?

[Neil Taperell]

Nice one Alfie . £10k in the kitty , unless someone else does it .

Got me thinking , I'm sure they don't , but do high break prizes add to a players earnings and thus affect their ranking points for that season ?

[DeanH]

High break prizes are not added to the ranking money

[Rane]

Burdens 147 was his 100. th official century break. And Trump made his 400 th. while beating O´Sullivan the other day.

[Tommykiid]

Not sure when the English Amateur winner stopped getting a tour card, but now it is the World, European, and Asian amateur winners (the main competition and the U21) that get a card.

Think they have to win the European amature to get it now dean could be wrong but josh boileu won it an got one last year to the best of my knowledge

[DeanH]

Think they have to win the European amature to get it now dean could be wrong but josh boileu won it an got one last year to the best of my knowledge

yep, as I said the World, European, Asian and World U21, EuroU21, AsianU21 are six avenues to get a tour card

Do you know when the old English Amateur winner tour card stopped?

[PatBlock]

What a great result for 106 ranked Liam Highfield beating Mark Selby 4 - 3, Mark's B game just not quite good enough this time. He'll play either Ryan Day or Stephen Maguire next on Thursday.

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