Players Tour Championship - Event 4

[HunRon]

Draw: http://www.worldsnooker.com/files/draw_ptc4.pdf

Format: http://www.worldsnooker.com/PTC4_Format.htm?tid=186

[snoopy2608]

no Ding again! means he's ineligible for final stages

[ltfc39]

Ronnie v Ryan Day, with possible meetings with Ken Doherty and Mark Selby in the next round.

[Mr P]

Mark Selby got Zhang Anda in first round, I think he should get through that

[rambon]

The top 8 games in Round 3 are certainly going to throw up some big matches early on:

Mark Selby vs Zhang Anda
Dave Harold vs A.N. Other

Ronnie O'Sullivan vs Ryan Day
Stephen Craigie vs Ken Doherty

Mark King vs A.N. Other
Anthony McGill vs Stephen Hendry

Dermot McGlinchey vs A.N. Other
Judd Trump vs A.N. Other

So we could have Selby vs Harold, Ronnie vs Doherty, Hendry vs King.... then Selby vs Ronnie or Doherty and Hendry versus Trump.... then Hendry vs Ronnie

Interesting

[ltfc39]

no Ding again! means he's ineligible for final stages

I honestly can't understand why Ding hasn't entered enough events. For someone as young as him, he would've been the last person I would think would not be eligible.

Is it laziness? Is it the travelling aspect? Isn't Ding based over here now in Sheffield with Liang and some of the other Chinese players?

[gavhay]

I honestly can't understand why Ding hasn't entered enough events. For someone as young as him, he would've been the last person I would think would not be eligible.

Is it laziness? Is it the travelling aspect? Isn't Ding based over here now in Sheffield with Liang and some of the other Chinese players?

not sure what his reasoning is... i know previously that players from the far east struggled to get Visa's for the start of the season, but that was normally newly qualified asians to the tour. Surely this can't be the case for ding. Maybe he is spending time in China with his family?? Can anyone shed some light on this?

[ltfc39]

not sure what his reasoning is... i know previously that players from the far east struggled to get Visa's for the start of the season, but that was normally newly qualified asians to the tour. Surely this can't be the case for ding. Maybe he is spending time in China with his family?? Can anyone shed some light on this?

Well its definitely not going to be visa problems - he's been on the tour for over 5 years now hasn't he. Isn't he almost eligible to become a UK citizen if he wants to be permanently based here?

[Mr P]

The top 8 games in Round 3 are certainly going to throw up some big matches early on:

Mark Selby vs Zhang Anda
Dave Harold vs A.N. Other

Ronnie O'Sullivan vs Ryan Day
Stephen Craigie vs Ken Doherty

Mark King vs A.N. Other
Anthony McGill vs Stephen Hendry

Dermot McGlinchey vs A.N. Other
Judd Trump vs A.N. Other

So we could have Selby vs Harold, Ronnie vs Doherty, Hendry vs King.... then Selby vs Ronnie or Doherty and Hendry versus Trump.... then Hendry vs Ronnie

Interesting

Yeah, I agree, a very difficult section of the draw. I'm going to predict the winners of each group of 4 now though.

Mark vs Ronnie

Anthony vs Judd

This kind of competitive draws can only be good for the game though and I'm sure lots more draws will be done like this

[snoopy2608]

not sure what his reasoning is... i know previously that players from the far east struggled to get Visa's for the start of the season, but that was normally newly qualified asians to the tour. Surely this can't be the case for ding. Maybe he is spending time in China with his family?? Can anyone shed some light on this?

from looking on his website snookerding.com and using babelfish to translate - it looks like he had some commitments in China until end of July and so would not be back in UK until August sometime. Also as he's committed to participate in Asian Games in November (and hence will miss the last 2 PTC events) maybe changing his plans to incorporate 1 or 2 events in an already busy schedule may not on the whole be good for him.

[Mignon]

Who plays against Daniel Skingle in match 72?

Jamie Cope [worldsnooker draw > http://www.worldsnooker.com/PTC4_Draw.htm?tid=186 ]
or
Joe Perry [worldsnooker format > http://www.worldsnooker.com/PTC4_Format.htm?tid=186 ]

[wildJONESEYE]

The top 8 games in Round 3 are certainly going to throw up some big matches early on:

Mark Selby vs Zhang Anda
Dave Harold vs A.N. Other

Ronnie O'Sullivan vs Ryan Day
Stephen Craigie vs Ken Doherty

Mark King vs A.N. Other
Anthony McGill vs Stephen Hendry

Dermot McGlinchey vs A.N. Other
Judd Trump vs A.N. Other

So we could have Selby vs Harold, Ronnie vs Doherty, Hendry vs King.... then Selby vs Ronnie or Doherty and Hendry versus Trump.... then Hendry vs Ronnie

Interesting

if hendry gets as far as Ronnie id be happy his first match against mcgill who is 16 on the money list with £2,300 pounds will be tough especially with magill being match sharp with 7 wins in the PTC under his belt.

[HunRon]

Who plays against Daniel Skingle in match 72?

Jamie Cope [worldsnooker draw > http://www.worldsnooker.com/PTC4_Draw.htm?tid=186 ]
or
Joe Perry [worldsnooker format > http://www.worldsnooker.com/PTC4_Format.htm?tid=186 ]

I think Daniel plays Perry.
Look this "old" draw: http://www.worldsnooker.com/files/draw_ptc4.pdf

BTW, you have got a great eyes!

[visionaire]

Does anyone know if Global Snooker will be covering this event somehow? Hopefully better than last time? The site loses its value without the live scoring.

[wildJONESEYE]

Does anyone know if Global Snooker will be covering this event somehow? Hopefully better than last time? The site loses its value without the live scoring.

Global started covering the under 21 WC its been abandoned mid tournament http://www.global-snooker.com/2010-I...nship-Menu.asp

it really is disapointing whats going on there now.