World Championship 2009 [provisional discussion]

[Matt_2745]

David Gray loses 10-8, he now needs a win in China then.

[tomcrossnz]

gray has lost 10-8 to Long

[Goldspark]

Ah, so we're not gonna know who's survived until the China open... great.

[Alex0paul]

Better luck next time Selty.

He deserves nothing but bad luck after what he did to get onto the tour.

[JiangYu]

He deserves nothing but bad luck after what he did to get onto the tour.

The alledged bribes to win matches?

[Alex0paul]

The alledged bribes to win matches?

Of course. No smoke without fire (unless you have a smoke machine)

[superaussie]

well he was not found guilty of anything so unless you actually saw what happened how can you be sure he is guilty without solid proof

[Odrl]

David Gray has to play a wild card match in China against Tian Pengfei, and then Marco Fu in the first round. That's a bit of a longshot.

[DartsMadJohn]

I could see him losing to Tian Pengfei, and never getting the chance to play Fu!

After Lawler's win, he's definitely back next season even if he loses in China?

Gray should be good enough to come back on tour via the PIOS if he wants to.

[Alex0paul]

Given Gray's history I would imagine he would be given a wildcard for next season.

[DartsMadJohn]

You may be right, although if he does, I'd say he's been lucky with there being two wildcard spaces this year - if there had only been one, I don't know if he'd get it (unless of course the WSA are embarrassed by the Liu Chuang scenario, and want to give it to an established player this time).

[dannyd0g]

Having looked at the World Championship draw on WorldSnooker, I don't think it's randomly selected, unfortunately .

The only thing that is randomly selected is which qualifier plays which top 16 player.

[dannyd0g]

Trump and Walden werent messing around this morning were they ! Both taking 8-1 leads.

Ricky Walden 8-1 Rod Lawler
67-48, 77(77)-0, 83-0, 76(76)-23, 128(128)-4

Tom Ford 4-5 Patrick Wallace
121(121)-0, 113(104)-12, 68-69

Gerard Greene 6-3 Liu Song
102(68)-17, 15-84, 88(88)-0, 64-53, 104(104)-0

Judd Trump 8-1 Joe Delaney
85(62)-6, 72-7, 48-63, 83-0

Marcus Campbell 4-4 Daniel Wells
53-71, 30-57, 81-5

http://www.global-snooker.com/profes...ng-results.asp

[spike]

Quite surprising to see Walden take such a big lead, was expecting Lawler to give Ricky a much tougher time of it. Not that i'm complaining though

[tomcrossnz]

not looking good for Parrot. His ranking will slip quite a lot if he loses. How close is he to slipping off the tour?