World Championship 2012 1st Round Discussion

[LittleMissAlexa]

excellent century from cao

[montoya10]

Cao now three frames away from a huge upset.

[LittleMissAlexa]

judd hit one in qualifying and not the tv stages

[LittleMissAlexa]

its a shame ivy isnt refereeing as ive heard 3 different pronounciations of cao ivy of course will give us the correct one

[montoya10]

Allen's antics are funny, lol.

[montoya10]

Allen pulls one back and this 13th frame is now a huge one, for sure.

[breakman16]

Job done for now for Allen, first frame on the board this afternoon, it doesnt matter in the slightest how he does it, but if he can get level in this match I'll always back him to win it! Meanwhile Murphy is in a match with Jones. . . very interesting first round this!!

[Jake O'Sullivan]

World Championship 2012 1st Round Discussion

Anyone know what time judds on?

[daffie]

Anyone know what time judds on?

Tuesday 10am.

[daffie]

Rooting for Yupeng to come through really. He has played rather well so far. Hope he can keep his nerves in check...

[Masterdoctorgenius]

8-5 for cao

first shock on the cards

[Zoe]

Did Cao just deliberately foul on the black there to end the frame rather than pot it?

[paddybhoy30]

Too many desperadoes on here. Wanting players beat instead of wanting great snookerosers.

[paddybhoy30]

World Championship 2012 1st Round Discussion

That meant too say great snooker.losers.

[chasmmi]

Watching Cao like this, its a tragedy that Igor kept his tour place through the PTCs last season. It has screwed over all the new qualifiers on the tour this year by making them start nearly 2000 points adrift of safetly.

If it had been based on Guodong's total (64th place on two year list), or in fact even Paul Davidson's last season total (lowest ranked PTC qualifier except Igor), then Cao would jump to at least 62nd if he beat Allen and on the tour still.

It would also mean that David Morris, Sam Craigie and Luca Brecal would also have survived as Yan and Morris would have made top 64 giving Craigie and Brecal the PTC places (or possibly Wattana would have survived via PTC).