World Championship Draw

[The Statman]

I expected that there would be a thread already for discussion and reaction to today's draw.

The draw will take place at 10:45am - that's in 20 minutes' time!

If somone could put the results of the draw into a post on this thread, I'd be grateful.

[ore]

Here you are.

[Agnes]

Neil Robertson (1) v Judd Trump
Marco Fu (16) v Martin Gould
Graeme Dott (9) v Mark King
Ali Carter (8) v Dave Harold
Ding Junhui (5) v Jamie Burnett
Peter Ebdon (12) v Stuart Bingham
Stephen Hendry (13) v Joe Perry
Mark Selby (4) v Jimmy Robertson
Mark Williams (3) v Ryan Day
Jamie Cope (14) v Andrew Pagett
Mark Allen (11) v Matthew Stevens
Stephen Maguire (6) v Barry Hawkins
Shaun Murphy (7) v Marcus Campbell
Ronnie O’Sullivan (10) v Dom Dale
Ricky Walden (15) v Rory McLeod
John Higgins (2) v Stephen Lee

[The Statman]

Thanks - but unfortunately I can't get to that site at work. Any chance someone could reproduce the information here?

[Odrl]

It looks like Higgins, Williams, Fu and Allen got the most dangerous qualifiers.

On the other hand, I think Carter, Ding, Selby, Cope, Murphy and O'Sullivan will be quite pleased.

[snoopy2608]

some great matchups in there:

Robertson v Trump - great way to start tournament
Fu v Gould - repeat of 1st round last year
Ebdon v Bingham - should be close
Williams v Day - could be tricky for Mark
Allen v Stevens - tie of the round?

[jrc750]

Looks like Williams & Higgins have tough matches

[Agnes]

Thanks - but unfortunately I can't get to that site at work. Any chance someone could reproduce the information here?

Neil Robertson (1) v Judd Trump
Marco Fu (16) v Martin Gould
Graeme Dott (9) v Mark King
Ali Carter (8) v Dave Harold
Ding Junhui (5) v Jamie Burnett
Peter Ebdon (12) v Stuart Bingham
Stephen Hendry (13) v Joe Perry
Mark Selby (4) v Jimmy Robertson
Mark Williams (3) v Ryan Day
Jamie Cope (14) v Andrew Pagett
Mark Allen (11) v Matthew Stevens
Stephen Maguire (6) v Barry Hawkins
Shaun Murphy (7) v Marcus Campbell
Ronnie O’Sullivan (10) v Dom Dale
Ricky Walden (15) v Rory McLeod
John Higgins (2) v Stephen Lee

[missneworleans]

OMG what a draw
So many interesting hard matches!

[The Statman]

Thanks Agnes - I was replying to the first reply and you did yours while I was typing!

[spike]

Tie of the round for me is - Allen v. Stevens..

[cue1]

The way Ronnie has been playing in ranking events lately, I wouldn't put my money on him to get past Dale

Ricky & Rory could be a veeeeery long match

Mark J. & Day sounds like it could be very tricky :snooker:

Dotty v King would be very interesting to watch especially with the way King has been playing lately, same goes for Allen v Stevens :snooker:

Tough encounter for Stephen Lee. I don't fancy his chances despite his recent resurgence

Pagett could very well upset Cope

And I'd like to see Hendry get past Perry :snooker:

[cueman]

Some great match ups and I reckon quite a few seeds will be tumbling first round.

I don't envy the bottom half of the draw at all. Whoever comes through that section the question has to be will they have enough left in the tank for the final. Top half I think is a lot easier, potentially a first world title for Ding or Selby is how I see it. Bottom half obviously Higgins is favourite but Murphy looked good this weekend, maybe Ronnie being fresh could spring a surprise.

I'm gonna stick my neck out and predict a Ding v Murphy final.

[snoopy2608]

Ding and Selby are definitely in the weakest quarter - this is a real opportunity for one of them (I hope that will be Ding but think it could be too soon for him sadly)

[singchin]

are there any steaming sites beside bet365 where u have to pay?

the only 2 site i could find are Wii-cast (table 2) and Meevos (table 1) on
fromsports, but they are offline right now.