Apologies for the lack of a post yesterday, unfortunately there just aren’t enough hours in the day at the moment. Click below for my reflections on the round two matches that I saw while I have also updated the provisional rankings and drawsheet at the usual places…
More photos will follow on Friday while you can also read my play by play updates over at Twitter.
So that’s the first round completed in Sheffield and to give you a picture (no pun intended), of how matters have progressed, here are the very best of my photos so far from the 2011 World Championship qualifiers…
So that is round one is over and what a finish we had, a sensational match between Xiao Guodong and Kurt Maflin which saw four straight century breaks this evening. Usually I would prepare a detailed frame by frame report but as those of you following me on Twitter will have noticed, I have been posting frame by frame updates on there so hopefully they will give you the gist of how the matches unfolded.
Instead I offer a few thoughts on the action so far and who could be worth a watch in the coming rounds…
I have also updated the provisional rankings (they are right this time), and the drawsheet…
Click here for the full qualifying draw…
Onto the third quarter of my World Championship qualifiers, will I be brave and tip any of the lower ranked players this time? Only one way to find out…
Four days down, two to go at Prestatyn and we are down to the last eight in the third of the season’s eight PIOS events. Click below to see how the event has unfolded so far…
While snooker is often (with some justification), criticised for its lack of events, it is hard to make that accusation at the moment as although the top 16 will not see ranking event action until early September, there are more than enough tournaments scheduled for the upcoming weeks. Click below to read what is going on and where…
With the 2009/10 PIOS getting underway tomorrow, Sportingbet.com are running a market on the first event and their odds make for interesting reading…
Whilst you might be expecting me to review the season by looking back over the various tournaments staged, as I have already done that (for half the season anyway), as part of my 2008 review, I am going to do things a little differently here.
Instead I am going to look back at the seasons of each of the top 96 players on tour, increasing in detail as we move up the rankings. Today sees me look back at the 24 players who barring wildcards, will have lost their main tour places at the end of the season…