Shanghai Masters Discussions Thread

[hegeland]

First day of the new season, a bit of a warmup, no real spectacular matches yet. Tony Drago against Chinese wildcard Bulajiang would be interesting to see though. In fact, any match involving a new face is good to watch. So this should make for an interesting day, don't you think?

Day 1, Monday August 6:

07.00 BST
Stuart Pettman vs. Cao Kaisheng
Fergal O'Brien vs. Cao Xinlong
Adrian Gunnell vs. Jin Long
Dominic Dale vs. Liu Chuang
12.30 BST
Scott MacKenzie vs. Yang Qintian
Tony Drago vs. A Bulajiang
Michael Judge vs. Xiao Guodong
Mike Dunn vs. Yu Delu

Eurosport 1
08.00-10.30
12.30-15.30
16.45-20.00
22.30-00.00

Shanghai TV
06.55-11.00
12.10-16.00

Looks like an early night for me...

[rivercard]

Well, no early night for me I'm afraid, so I think I'll miss the first session, but I'll have a look at the second one. I hope Eurosport will show Drago against Bulajiang, but MacKenzie or Judge is ok for me as well.

[Maija]

Tony Drago against Chinese wildcard Bulajiang would be interesting to see though.

Not too sure about that - despite playing Tony Drago, Bulajiang has the worst odds in the entire tournament. (At least he did when I checked it earlier.)

Oh, well, new and live snooker. I'll be in front of my telly with a cuppa

[Alex0paul]

Out of all the Wild Card matches I hope they show Dunn v Yu Delu. Yu Delu has won both his previous wild card matches in the China Open and presuming they show Liu Chuang's match it will be interesting to see the difference in standard as Liu was awarded a tour place ahead of Yu despite Yu having a much better amateur record.

[bluecoffee_rain]

I just hope 2 of the 8 wild card Chinese players can get into the next round.

[rivercard]

Not too sure about that - despite playing Tony Drago, Bulajiang has the worst odds in the entire tournament.

I don't think Hegeland (or in fact anyone else) would watch that match to see Bulajiang (no disrespect, but nobody knows anything about him), but to see Tony playing in good form, because that would mean good entertainment for most snooker fans.

[hegeland]

And Dominic Dale wins the first TV-shown frame of the season with a great break of 116 before losing position on the green.

[Ellena]

I was wondering what matches we have today ..especially in the second session. So thanks Hege once again.
Anyone knows if we can watch it online .. i am at the office during the first session..i would be happy to see some snooker....

[April madness]

don't know Ellena, doesn't look eurosport is going to have live video streaming on their webpage (and they are yet to start the snooker coverage). Not sure if the chinese TV is available without installing sopcast or some other software.

[Maija]

Eurosport today:

09:00: Dominic Dale - Liu Chung (looks to be a short one, then, Domic Dale is 3-0 up 3 mins before the transmission starts)
13:30: Scott MacKenzie - Yang Qintian

Tomorrow (could be changed):

09:00: John Higgions - Jamie Cope
13:30: Steve Davis - O'Brien/Cao OR Ding Junhui - Dunn/Yu

According to Rolf Kalb, there will be online streaming, so I'm looking for that one right now Will report back should I find it.

[April madness]

4-0 to Dominic already.

[April madness]

here is the russian eurosport online coverage

http://www.eurosport.ru/snooker/mcpl...vid47496.shtml

[hegeland]

Well there's TV coverage on at least two tables, on CCTV 5 they show Pettman v Kaisheng.

[Semih_Sayginer]

Well there's TV coverage on at least two tables

indeed

looks a good big airy venue.

just showed the "two main tables" on eurosport.....

Dom Dale playing well so far.

[Maija]

I never did find the streaming, but well, 48 minutes of transmission wasn't much. Again according to Rolf Kalb they cannot switch between the two tables during transmission.