China Open 2007 - Results and Discussions

[Skypigeon]

Surprised that Jimmy won actually...but good on him!

[edinmis]

Jimmy is lucky and got the last chances for staying in main tour next year. Hope he can find his form back and play better.

There are 5 chinese wildcard players wins in 8 wildcard matches, and with Ding, there are 6 chinese players in last 32.

[hegeland]

OK, summary of day 1:

Jamie Cope 5-1 Yang Qintian
(65) 73-50, 36-73, 101-27, (67) 99-20, 60-53 (respotted black), (52) 71-36

Ian Preece 4-5 Li Hang
0-52, (50) 66-0, 78-0, 39-58, 30-66, 32-75, (59) 79-48, (71) 77-0, 5-57

Tom Ford 3-5 Xiao Guodong
10-85, 61-8, 57-56, 21-98 (75), 49-55, 43-62, (69) 73-20, 59-66 (respotted black)

Joe Swail 5-4 Jin Long
24-84, 28-70, 38-74, 74-59, 64-10, 37-83 (63), 71-19, 65-30, 64-30

Alfie Burden 2-5 Mei Xiwen
12-71 (64), 33-48, 23-67, 29-61, 62-28, 56-31, 10-60

Jimmy White 5-2 Zheng Peng
65-38, 40-58, 11-56, 84 (61)-0, 69-23, 62-9, 56-15

Andy Hicks 4-5 Liu Chang
N/A

Joe Jogia 1-5 Yu Delu
9-82 (69), 2-72 (60), 17-82, 43-64, 74-9, 4-89

Ding Junhui 5-3 Adrian Gunnell
(82) 82-49 (49), 97 (92)-0, (53) 54-68 (54), (130) 130-0, 8-110 (106), 77-9, 48-79, 68-9

[chasmmi]

So with Robertson and Wattana that means 25% of the last 32 is non UK players.

That must be a record surely. I'm sure that never happened even in the days of Canadian Domination.

[hegeland]

I think you're right, Chasmmi. That is a very good record IMO.

Edit: and Fu too. That makes 9 out of 32 players.

[snookersfun]

what about your predictions?
Did anybody do real well today?
Anybody less than 5 points (out of the 9 games)

[missneworleans]

Good that White through...and I'm shocked of Ford's lose, and Swail had to fight hard to win!!

[dannyd0g]

what about your predictions?
Did anybody do real well today?
Anybody less than 5 points (out of the 9 games)

i dont even want to add mine up. My confidence that all the wildcards would get whitewashed 5-0 turned out to be rather misplaced.

Glad i didnt put any money on that !

Also it must be worrying for the main tour players, with many of the supposed best qualifiers getting beaten by the wildcards.

[missneworleans]

what about your predictions?
Did anybody do real well today?
Anybody less than 5 points (out of the 9 games)

I get 5.. i thought these Chinese will be worse...

[elvaago]

I got the grand total of 3 whole points!

[Sarmu]

Acctually to be exactly correct, it's 9 out of 31, and percentage wise it's 29%

[missneworleans]

Acctually to be exactly correct, it's 9 out of 31, and percentage wise it's 29%

Anyway it's so shocking....snooker running away from England!!!

[edinmis]

I got 6.5 points for the first 9 games, not so bad giving so many suprising results today.

[Sarmu]

If I guess it, I would got 4, Cope Ding White Swail

[snookersfun]

so, big games tomorrow:

3pm -or 8am (UK)
Stephen Hendry v Marco Fu
Graeme Dott v James Wattana
John Higgins v Ian McCulloch
Neil Robertson v Michael Holt

7.30pm or 12:30 pm (UK)
Ronnie O'Sullivan v Liu Chuang
Matthew Stevens v Xiao Guodong
Ali Carter v Yu Delu

and Ding has reddish highlights now
http://www.worldsnooker.com/tourname...d18570)-60.htm