world champs qualifiers discussion thread

[Mr Snooker]

Well done to Steve Davis for 30th appearance times at the crucible! Steve had his 100th major finals, 30th times at the crucible, most uk snooker champions (6 times) and still overall tournament champions of 81 times!

Steve still hold these 4th records (hope that Hendry will not overtake him)

and don't forget 5 decades playing snooker at the Crucible as well Bulldog which i don't thing any player will match a record in itself

[Mr Snooker]

So does this mean Ken is (back) to pretty solid form now? Or just White & Swail were not up for it this year..
Edit: 9th in 1-year rankings so far.

yes i think he could well be Ore, whoever he gets in the draw on thursday i think it will be a cracking game and could push any of the top 16 players all the way I reckon.

[bulldog]

Oh yes, 5 decades too! (Steve could have won his world championship even more in 1990 and 1991 but was beaten by Jimmy White and John Parrott there after) or that famous black ball cut in the corner pocket in 1985!

I was gutted when Hendry won 7th world titles! (wish he stayed as a 6th times world champion like Davis & Ray Reardon did)

[Mr Snooker]

Barry Hawkins 10 Ian McCulloch 7

Michael Holt 10 David Morris 6

[Mr Snooker]

Oh yes, 5 decades too! (Steve could have won his world championship even more in 1990 and 1991 but was beaten by Jimmy White and John Parrott there after) or that famous black ball cut in the corner pocket in 1985!

I was gutted when Hendry won 7th world titles! (wish he stayed as a 6th times world champion like Davis & Ray Reardon did)

you never know we could have a re-spotted black at 17-17 in the final between Davis and Hendry and Davis pots the black to claim his 7th world title but i doubt it LOL

[missneworleans]

Wow well done Tom Ford! That was really top class performance!

[Alex0paul]

Is anyone else going tomorrow? I am hoping I get to meet Graeme at long last but also I don't want to jinx him as I have yet to see him win in 3 attempts.

[bulldog]

you never know we could have a re-spotted black at 17-17 in the final between Davis and Hendry and Davis pots the black to claim his 7th world title but i doubt it LOL

I wish

It will be a fullhouse sell-out and million will watch it if it does happen!

[Matt_2745]

I'll be there Alex.

I was there today and will be putting together an extensive report regarding the Ford/Trump and Ken/Swail matches during the next couple of hours.

In short though Tom was excellent, though Trump certainly had his chances. He seemed to get frustrated at around 3-1 and completely lost his way until 9-1 when he just started to let loose and have a go.

Ken meanwhile was very good, his safety is in a different league to anyone else I have seen at the qualifiers this year, still world class. He's not quite back to his all-time best as his long potting was pretty poor, but in the balls he was good and very unfortunate to miss out on a 147 in frame ten when he got a kick on 81 which put him out of position.

[Alex0paul]

Matt, was it busy today as I am worried because I didn't book a ticket in advance?

[alex_5525]

I wish

It will be a fullhouse sell-out and million will watch it if it does happen!

im sure more than a million would watch it.

how gutted would dennis taylor be if he lost in 1985 tho!

i really hope davis goes far in this years wsc, it was good to see his qualifying match scoring, as he seemed to be making 70s and 80s when he was in the balls.

just out of interest does anyone know what happened to that final black, like who owns it now?

[bulldog]

The final black ball (don't know who own it ?) perhap you can email world snooker when the world championship starting, they might tell everyones who own that black ball.

Good question mate !

[alex_5525]

The final black ball (don't know who own it ?) perhap you can email world snooker when the world championship starting, they might tell everyones who own that black ball.

Good question mate !

i was wondering why no one had asked it before lol

if i was playing in a black ball finish if i potted it i would give it to a member of the audience

i will ask world snooker when the snooker starts again.
im kinda curious as to what happens to the sets of balls after there usage, because there have been 82 world championship finals now, where are those sets?

Also a bit off topic, does anyone know where lecister square hall is? (was it actually in lecister sq, because i typed it into google and coulddnt find anything)

[Matt_2745]

Matt, was it busy today as I am worried because I didn't book a ticket in advance?

Was absolutely rammed, I didn't get a seat all day and stood or sat on the stairs.

But that didn't stop them from letting people in, that was the problem, they just let everyone in despite there being nowhere near enough seats.

[Rane]

I'll be there Alex.

I was there today and will be putting together an extensive report regarding the Ford/Trump and Ken/Swail matches during the next couple of hours.

In short though Tom was excellent, though Trump certainly had his chances. He seemed to get frustrated at around 3-1 and completely lost his way until 9-1 when he just started to let loose and have a go.

Ken meanwhile was very good, his safety is in a different league to anyone else I have seen at the qualifiers this year, still world class. He's not quite back to his all-time best as his long potting was pretty poor, but in the balls he was good and very unfortunate to miss out on a 147 in frame ten when he got a kick on 81 which put him out of position.

I´m very surprised to see, that Trump had such a big loss. No doubt Tom Ford´s a good player, but I had expected Trump to do well in the long distance matches.