Qualifying Round results

[Semih_Sayginer]

Oh dear, Jimmy lost again. 3-1 to Joe Jogia

unreal, almost.

would never have thought this would happen "so quickly" to jimmy, even though JJ is a good stick

[PaulTheSoave]

Jimbo!

Get your act together! Lose weight, get fit. Stop the poker nonsense, Practice more and more and devote the rest of your time to your family. Come back and win that title! After that, do what you like!

[Semih_Sayginer]

Jimbo!

Get your act together! Lose weight, get fit. Stop the poker nonsense, Practice more and more and devote the rest of your time to your family. Come back and win that title! After that, do what you like!

"headmasterish", but well said.

[PaulTheSoave]

I cant stand it, him slipping down like that. It hurts.

[Ellena]

So 2 matches lost already for Jimmy

I am afraid we won't see much of Jimmy this season as i don't think he'll manage to break through the qualifying rounds .
Unfortunately , the way i see it it is Jimmy's last season as a pro...
"I guarantee you I will be in the top 16 for next year. I am far too good." - those were Jimmy's words before the season begun. Am i the only one around who thinks that is almost impossible to happen ?!

[PaulTheSoave]

I have an interview with Jimmy before the worldchampionship. what hes saying there you wont believe it. hes in fairyland! I have also noticed he is doing a lot of exhibitions in the Riley snooker halls. Hes distracted, but cant blame him generating an income.

[PaulTheSoave]

Here is the interview. Just before The Masters in january.

Copyright Skyports.

Jimmy White has told skysports.com that he believes 2006 will finally be the year that he will lift the World Championship at The Crucible.
The 43-year-old is a huge crowd favourite, but he has never been able to convert his immense ability into a world title.

The Whirlwind has come agonisingly close to lifting snooker's biggest prize, with six final appearances in Sheffield, but he has always come up just short.

Stephen Hendry has been his main nemesis beating White in four of those finals, including coming from 14-8 down to win 18-14 in 1992, while he also broke White's heart in 1994 by winning 18-17.

Snooker fans would dearly love White to lift the title and despite his advancing years, he has insisted that he still has what it takes to win the world title.

White is gearing up for the Masters at Wembley, but insisted his main aim in
2006 is to finally become world champion, and he is confident that he can fulfil his dream.

"I'm absolutely looking forward to the Masters," White told skysports.com.

"I know people say this every year but I've got a new mental approach for this year.

"But my main aim this season is to win the World Championship - I've decided to win it this year.

"And I'll do that by putting in a different approach in my practice."

White faces Grand Prix champion John Higgins in the first round of the Masters, but with his home crowd at Wembley always firmly behind him, he always fancies his chances.

"The Masters is a great tournament to win because it's an invitational. For me it's one of the greatest tournaments in the world in a one-table situation and it's in London which is the only tournament to be held in London.

"It's a great tournament to be involved in but my eye is firmly on the World Championship, although if I could win the Masters I would of course be delighted."

Steve Davis has already showed that age is no barrier to success after he reached the UK Championship final in York, but White won a ranking event in
2004 - the Daily Record Players Championship - and says that it proved he can still win tournaments.

"I've never ever wanted Davis to win a match before but I did in York,"
added White.

"I just think in the final that he changed his game and went into his shell a bit, and that could have cost him.

"But I won a ranking event last year so in my heart I know that I can still win tournaments.

"And it's going to be the World Championship this year, I've decided."

[SteUK2006]

John Parrott 2-2 Drew Henry. Match suspended at 2-2 due to running over time ? Seems very harsh not to let them finish !!

It wasnt suspended... Drew Henry just went for the usual quick break.

[Ellena]

Thanks for the interview Paul, i don't think i've read it before...
Well...no comment.. Obviously it is one thing Jimmy said and a very different one he did. If he was as confident when playing as he is when he's making those statements ,he would surely win.
If he doesn't get himself together , and maybe follow Paul's advice posted up there , this will be his last year in the circuit.

[Cessy143]

I cant stand it, him slipping down like that. It hurts.

Yeh I agree with you Paul, It's hard to bear.

Hopefully this really bad patch will end soon, real soon.

[snookersfun]

Dominic Dale had an awful start as well!

[Cessy143]

Dominic Dale had an awful start as well!

Yeah I noticed that SF.

I actually think this best of 5 format will suit the lower ranked players/underdogs.

Just think, in a usual best of 9 match, how often the lower ranked player takes a 3-1 or 3-2 lead, only to lose 5-4 or 5-3 once the higher ranked player gets going. Obviously in this format, the higher ranked player does'nt have this luxury, they have to hit the ground running.

I can see plenty shocks coming in Aberdeen also. Be interesting to see how the big boys cope.

[SteUK2006]

A good start for John Parrott aswell... I seen him play Drew Henry yesterday, and he played OK.

1st frame... Parrott won with break of 56/58.
2nd frame... Henry missed brown, left it hanging over pocket, white fouling too. Parrott only needed brown for frame.
3rd frame... Parrott made break of 48, missed a red. Henry wins
4th frame... cant really remember... but Henry missed an easy red to middle pocket, and Parrott said "Its catching". Henry won
5th frame... Parrott fluked a snooker early on in frame. Henry missed 3/4 times, and hit the black at least twice.

Didnt see his match against David Gilbert, had to come home early.

[SteUK2006]

How many matches do you reckon you'd have to win to finish in the Top 2? 5/6/7?

You get different ranking points depending on what position you finish... so every match matters really... especially for lower ranked players.

1st-2nd 1150 (plus qualification for the finals)
3rd-4th 900
5th-6th 650
7th-8th 200

At the finals
1st-2nd 1900 (plus qualification for the last 16)
3rd-4th 1400
5th-6th 1150 (575 seeded losers)

[elvaago]

Very in these round robin formats the end result is as follows:

Winner - lost 0 - won 6
2nd - lost 1 - won 5
3rd - lost 2 - won 4
4th - lost 3 - won 3
5th - lost 4 - won 2
6th - lost 5 - won 1
7th - lost 6 - won 0

But things are not always like that, so even when you lose 2-3 matches you could still end up in second place, if it's not evenly spread like this. Check the international pool tour website and you can see many, many round robin results to make statistics of. :-)