The Captain and Vafaei are through
Michael Holt, the conquerer of Stuart Bingham was beaten.
Well beaten
Matthew Stevens and Wu Yize in a decider.
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Today"s winners
O’Connor
Vafaei
Zhengi
Yize
Peifan
Carter
Junxu
Selt
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Ronnie v The Captain!
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You could hardly write it! Surely Ronnie will be up for that!
He mightn’t bother turning up now. Carter has a sore neck.
full draw
Kyren Wilson v Lei Peifan
Jak Jones v Zhao Xintong
Neil Robertson v Chris Wakelin
Mark Allen v Fan Zhengyi
Ronnie O’Sullivan v Ali Carter
Zhang Anda v Pang Junxu
Si Jiahui v David Gilbert
Mark Selby v Ben Woollaston
John Higgins v Joe O’Connor
Xiao Guodong v Matthew Selt
Barry Hawkins v Hossein Vafaei
Mark Williams v Wu Yize
Luca Brecel v Ryan Day
Ding Junhui v Zak Surety
Shaun Murphy v Daniel Wells
Judd Trump v Zhou Yuelong
I cant wait
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This is disappointing.
Stuart Bingham is (was) one of those great, reassuring figures of constancy.
The Selby v Bingham semi-final of 2021, particularly the third session on the Friday night, was one of the most intoxicating snooker matches I ever witnessed.
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Kyren Wilson (1) v Lei Peifan
Jak Jones (16) v Zhao Xintong
Neil Robertson (9) v Chris Wakelin
Mark Allen (8) v Fan Zhengyi
Ronnie O’Sullivan (5) v Ali Carter
Zhang Anda (12) v Pang Junxu
Si Jiahui (13) v David Gilbert
Mark Selby (4) v Ben Woollaston
John Higgins (3) v Joe O’Connor
Xiao Guodong (14)v Matthew Selt
Barry Hawkins (11) v Hossein Vafaei
Mark Williams (6) v Wu Yize
Luca Brecel (7) v Ryan Day
Ding Junhui (10) v Zak Surety
Shaun Murphy (15)v Daniel Wells
Judd Trump (2) v Zhou Yuelong
Interesting to look at the make up of the 32 players.
13 England
10 China
4 Wales
1 Scotland, Northern Ireland, Belgium, Australia & Iran
The demographics of snooker is really changing.
Watching those interviews on Hendry’s channel, none of these lads around a while are practicing much, or admitting to anyway.
They don’t have to, the new lads are shit.
10 or 11 Chinese. Must be a record.
Higgins, Robbo and Gilbert my selections. I would love Ronnie to manage the elusive, but I can’t see it this year.
Best of luck to everyone, best two weeks of the year is almost upon us
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10 Chinese out of a field of 32. Pretty much all the young players emerging now are from China. The game seems to be dying in its traditional base of the British Isles.
Kids aren’t misspending their youth in snooker halls anymore
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Has any channel taken on the coverage Eurosport used to give?