Bahrain Champ - 1st round discussion!

[Alex0paul]

Pinches was on red hot form today by the looks of the scoring. May be a decent outside bet with his draw.

[PaulTheSoave]

This tournament does not do anything for me. Players pulling out, half a dozen of snooker nitwits getting a wildcard. The circuit has become a total shambles. I wonder whether there are any helicopters in Bahrain?

[In-off]

Dunn beat Murphy then

Note to self: keep your big mouth shut in future

[Odrl]

Weird day, all 5 seeds lost. And 0 points for me in the predictions.

So with 5 out, and 4 not even entering the event, that's 9 of the top19 players already out, with the other 10 still to play. And look at some of the opponents: Harold, Walden, Trump, Lee. Then there's the out of form Robertson and Stevens, and only 4 clear favourites in Ebdon, Maguire, Perry and Carter.

Could be quite a weak last16 lineup.

[JiangYu]

Oh my God! Stevens is 4-0 up against Bingham! Come on Stevens - I hope this will bring him back to the Top 16 (well as a good start to the season) where he thoroughly belongs! Even though Carter is my Lucky Dip, I really want to see Steven's win this tournament. He's been out of the game for so long - he's got to come back: he's got way too much class to be where he is at the moment!

[littleminx147]

Stevens has won 5 - 0

[Capelito]

Seems like a good day for the welsh players. Stevens witewashed Bingham and Day is now up 4-2 against Harold

[João]

Happy for Stevens. Although he tends to struggly in best of 9 tournaments here's a good chance of going far and get some points (oh and he needs them badly).

And Day is no surprise to me, he's here to stay and for long. Very consistent.

[Monique]

Day won 5-2. He's certainly one to follow up in this tournament.

[darrus]

Stevens and Day are to meet in the next round, so one of them is out of contention. I guess Day will be the one to advance to quarterfinals.

[In-off]

I haven't seen Stevens play for ages

Well done to him

[Thorpy]

Quite surprised at Bingham, expected him to beat an out of form Stevens who just seems to have fell out of love with the game. Not sure we should take much from this win though as there were only a couple of breaks over 50 in it. I would expect Day to beat him in the next round.

[João]

Peter Ebdon's hair is growing!

[darrus]

Lol yes, Joao, you are right Quite strange to see him like this

[April madness]

Lol yes, Joao, you are right Quite strange to see him like this

his ponytail looked great