World Championship Qualifying

[FOXMULDER]

Jimmy lays a magnificent snooker on the final red, Liu misses, and Jimmy makes a pressure clearance.

5-5

[attilahun]

Chuang fluked a snooker and won the frame...this chinese lad has an incredible run of the balls today....AHHHHHHHHHH

[Rane]

Quote of the evening: "Ohhh......sometimes they call it the cruel game" after Jimmy White potted the black and the white came off two cushion to end in the middle pocket.

[Rane]

In the end it also cost him the frame.

[LittleMissAlexa]

yes, he doesn't seemed too bothered about pressure yet, never became negative when behind or under pressure, kept potting the long ones, also potted a very hard half ball black off the side cushion on frame ball with 2 opens reds left in the decider, looks to have great temperament, if he keeps improving and learning, he should become a pretty good top 16 player

FOXMULDER: yeah I just checked he's about 4000 odd points behind the #64 provisionally and the point schedule says that you get 5000 points for reaching the quarters... so you're spot on... it will be a very very big ask, but even if he drops off he'll probably get a wildcard somewhere or should be good enough in q school or win some national / regional championships to get back in..

Jimmy White is on now...

...
Thanawat wasnt given a wildcard after dropping off the tour last season and he hiot a 147

[LittleMissAlexa]

i mean that as in he was the same age as brecel now

[Rane]

Whatabout Sam Baird and Cao Yupeng then should they have wild cards as well ? Basicly I don´t really like the idea of wild card, and I don´t see it justified that Luca Brecel is in first position for one. Maybe if he goes on to lose in a quarterfinal.

[Rane]

Sad to see White out, but it was one of these matches where I didn´t want to see a loser. But what a long pot Chuang started his matchwinning break from.

[FOXMULDER]

Another crushing disappointment for Jimmy White.

I can't see Davis or White ever making the Top 32 again. They should both retire and play each other in exhibitions up and down the country - I'd go and watch!

[beechy1212]

Another crushing disappointment for Jimmy White.

I can't see Davis or White ever making the Top 32 again. They should both retire and play each other in exhibitions up and down the country - I'd go and watch!

Disagree with that. They are both top 48 or thereabouts. There are a lot of players of similar levels from 20-64. There isn't a lot in it at all. I think its something to be admired the way they both battle on. If they were getting crushed every week, i'd agree but they don't. They both chip away and if they enjoy it, they should carry on playing. A few years ago, White was getting beat every single game and within 1 frame of dropping off the tour. So credit there for bouncing back a bit.

[Mr Snooker]

Well the Final Qualifying for takes place this weekend (14 & 15 April)

This is the line with head to head meetings between the players (Including PTC Head To Heads), not sure if any one is doing a prediction contest for the final round if not feel free to make your predictions


1 Ken Doherty (4) V Anothony Hamilton (5)
2 Dominic Dale (0) V Ben Woollaston (1)
3 Ricky Walden (1) V Jamie Jones (2)
4 Mark Davis (1) V Robert Milkins (2)
5 Ryan Day (0) V Gerard Greene (3)
6 Stephen Hendry (1) V Yu De Lu (0)
7 Tom Ford (0) V Cao Yu Peng (0)
8 Marco Fu (2) V Joe Jogia (0)
9 Mark King (0) V Luca Bracel (0)
10 Marcus Campbell (3) V Liang Wenbo (0)
11 Fergal O' Brien (0) V David Gilbert (0)
12 Jamie Cope (0) V Liu Chaung (0)
13 Barry Hawkins (0) V David Morris (1)
14 Andrew Higginson (0) Peter Lines (3)
15 Pete Ebdon (0) V Alfie Burden (0)
16 Joe Perry (2) V Jamie Burnett (1)

Please let me Know if any head to heads are wrong please

Thanks Phil :snooker:

[Dubliner]

Never saw this coming. Could anyone tell me how he played if they got to see the match?

Last time i seen brecel on live stream he didnt look like he could do much damage, today was a different story (and yesterday) .
He has plenty of talent, but it wasnt only raw potting that won him that match, he seems to have matured a little ,he is no john higgins in safety dept but played a few clever safetys and played the right shot most of the time.

must say he did seem to get the run of the ball throughout the match, having said that ,in the end he didnt struggle gettting over the line whereas i think the pressure got to holt in the last couple of frames...i'd say holt was surprised what was thrown at him, especially as brecel didnt do much all season.

mark 'hard as nuts' king tho will be a different kettle of fish for brecel. will be interesting how brecel handles king's playin style. king will stay there till next tuesday no bother.

good to see davy morris get thru to play hawkins. hawkins is one of the toughest seeds to play in last 48 in my opinion. very consistant and scores heavy. davy obvioulsy needs to up his game a bit i think to win, but now is as good as time as any, he is a talented player and can score with ease when he gets on a run.

[Dubliner]

on the brecel/holt match again...it was a great match to watch plenty of drama.

holt stole a massive fram to go 7-6 behind instead of 8-5 behind. he snookered brecel, brecel hit the ball and went in off. holt dished the last 2 reds and colours, was a sickner for brecel to lose that frame.

it went 7-7 and there was another frame where holt needed the snooker, got it and was on to dish the colours, made a canon on pink/black and unluckly to snooker himself on pink and lost that frame.

then later there was the miss from brecel giving holt 30 points, which was writtent about on twitter...there were some injust acusations about holt regarding the snooker and miss. holt was in massive trouble in a snooker, played a great shot and ended up snookering brecel. in mu opinion holt played the game in good spirits, he knew he could have been out if he got the snooker wrong, but still managed to smile (or grimace!) when he was snookered.....

anyways..it was just one of them unfortunate situations where it was a very difficult snooker to hit, eventually he seen the correct way to hit it and did....but anyone who says holt shouldnt have out the ball back doesnt know what they are on about...

so holt won that frame (after brecel missed a long range brown after needing a snooker himself) and it was down to the decider.

brecel held his nerve better that holt in the last frame and in my opinion deserved the win.

[FerruleFox]

I didn't see the match......why are people criticizing Holt's attitude? Did he have a meltdown or something?

[JP1]

I assume everyone here knows what and why the miss rule was brought in? XXXXXXXXX Pete Williamson should not be refereeing a match in an important tournament such as this.
For a start the snooker laid was on the LAST red and there was no easy option for Luca Brecel to hit the red, in fact it was darn near impossible to hit the red, how XXXXX Williamson can call a deliberate miss in this situation is beyond me, IBSF referee watching the match with me, commented also that Wiliamson should have been asked to leave right there and then, surely this is not the intention of the rule to allow cheats to make use of it, not enough Williamson then re sets the balls in an entirely different location at the urging of that nauseous and totally unacceptable Holt, it appeared to all that these two had made up their mind to screw Brecel by hook or by crook. Michael Holt deserves to be thrown out of the tournament - this guys behaviour is a disgrace and damaging to snookers future prospects. Luca Brecel should simply have refused to play the balls from where XXXXX Williamson placed them. There were many more incidences attesting to XXXXXXX unsuitability and bias as referee, awarding Hold a free ball when clearly there was plenty of room for him to hit the object ball on both sides??? Holt needed three snookers at that time the free "gift" from Williamson allowed him to win that frame with the aid of the free ball. I see that other snooker Associations have taken a very serious view of such refereeing disasters as well and have made their displeasure known to WS and Barry Hearn. All credit to Luca Brecel for coming through and winning in spite of having to beat his opponent AND the referee. Let's hope that Luca will get a competent referee against Mark King because on natural ability Luca should have little trouble with King - Go Luca you are an asset to snooker world - wide, it's cheats like Holt and Williamson that leave a bad taste in every snooker enthusiasts mouth. Ask former world snooker champion Mark Williams what HIS opinion of Michael Holt is??

on the brecel/holt match again...it was a great match to watch plenty of drama.

holt stole a massive fram to go 7-6 behind instead of 8-5 behind. he snookered brecel, brecel hit the ball and went in off. holt dished the last 2 reds and colours, was a sickner for brecel to lose that frame.

it went 7-7 and there was another frame where holt needed the snooker, got it and was on to dish the colours, made a canon on pink/black and unluckly to snooker himself on pink and lost that frame.

then later there was the miss from brecel giving holt 30 points, which was writtent about on twitter...there were some injust acusations about holt regarding the snooker and miss. holt was in massive trouble in a snooker, played a great shot and ended up snookering brecel. in mu opinion holt played the game in good spirits, he knew he could have been out if he got the snooker wrong, but still managed to smile (or grimace!) when he was snookered.....

anyways..it was just one of them unfortunate situations where it was a very difficult snooker to hit, eventually he seen the correct way to hit it and did....but anyone who says holt shouldnt have out the ball back doesnt know what they are on about...

so holt won that frame (after brecel missed a long range brown after needing a snooker himself) and it was down to the decider.

brecel held his nerve better that holt in the last frame and in my opinion deserved the win.