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I'm pretty new to snooker, but I'm surprised at the success that the first round winners have had in progressing. Wattana, Gilbert, looks like Chuang. I can't help but wonder if playing early matches helps them get accustomed to the tables and actually provides an advantage over higher seeded players. Or maybe snooker parity is such that even 17 frames doesn't truly determine the better player. Thoughts?
Wattana is a former world no. 3, so he still can produce some good stuff once and a while. Gilbert doesn´t really live up to former expectations, and this could well be a turn around for him. And Chuang is a young and promishing really tough player in the longer matches, I wouldn´t be too surprised to see him in top 16 within a few years. In 2008 he qualified for the cruicible, so these wins don´t come totally unexpected.
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Wattana is a former world no. 3, so he still can produce some good stuff once and a while. Gilbert doesn´t really live up to former expectations, and this could well be a turn around for him. And Chuang is a young and promishing really tough player in the longer matches, I wouldn´t be too surprised to see him in top 16 within a few years. In 2008 he qualified for the cruicible, so these wins don´t come totally unexpected.
Wattana is without doubt the best far eastern player of old - 147 in 1992 - regular top 16 player for many years - solid cue action - fantastic long potter.... Just great to watch... Sorely missed by myself and many other fans from the snooker hay days... He was the fore-runner to Fu - Ding - Wenbo etc. and a real hero in his own land. Would love to see him on a televised match first time for so long... Hope so... Come back James and play like you really can....
Cant understand the schedule
Mark Joyce played a marathon match yesterday and defeated Marcus Campbell 9-8 past midnight
on this morning he plays Steve Davis. so unfair
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Wattana is without doubt the best far eastern player of old - 147 in 1992 - regular top 16 player for many years - solid cue action - fantastic long potter.... Just great to watch... Sorely missed by myself and many other fans from the snooker hay days... He was the fore-runner to Fu - Ding - Wenbo etc. and a real hero in his own land. Would love to see him on a televised match first time for so long... Hope so... Come back James and play like you really can....
He was a great player - and just to add - he has THREE maxiums - only Hendry, ROS and Higgins have more. So fluent and smooth around the table, good solid temperament.
He qualified for one tournament last year - not done much so far this season, but didn't play in all the PTCs and he has made a decent start in the match vs Gould 2-1 up and in the balls 14-12 up in 4th frame. And now out of the balls, but looks like he may have played a safety as Gould didn't score straightaway
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