Snooker

The China Open has started today.
The last ranking event before the cut off point is reached to decide the automatic qualifiers for the World Championship.
Those outside the top 16 at the end of the China Open face 3 rounds of qualifying to reach the Crucible.

Ding has been KO'd. As he is #16, it looks likely he'll be overtaken before the week is through.

Neil Robertson and Joe Perry were also notable losers.

ITV4 have a series called Snooker Mavericks starting tonight(Thursday) at 10PM

Alas, I think the series is called Mavericks, with only 1 episode on Snooker.

The China Open final is between Ricky Walden who heroically pipped John "and his lovely wife" Higgins 6-5, whilst Judd Trump whitewashed Misery Maguire

Trump won 10-4

That Mavericks thing was quite fun, really, even with Bazza Hearn supposedly lamenting the lack of modern mavericks in the game.

(02-04-2016 21:22 )Doddle Wrote:  Alas, I think the series is called Mavericks, with only 1 episode on Snooker.

The China Open final is between Ricky Walden who heroically pipped John "and his lovely wife" Higgins 6-5, whilst Judd Trump whitewashed Misery Maguire

Unfortunately Maguire did just enough to qualify for the Crucible as a top 16 seed by reaching the semi finals in China .
Jammy so and so.
Not many people in sport I really loathe but he is one .

World Championship Qualifying 1st round started yesterday with Graham Dott having a tough match before beating B Sergeant 10-8, Peter Ebdon beat James Wattana 10-6 to set up a clash with Graham Greene who beat Jimmy White 10-9

Final round of qualifying for World Championship has D Junhui v Nigel Bond, M King V M Holt, Ken Doherty V Ryan Day, Ali Carter V Dominic Dale, Alan McManus V J Robertson, L Wenbo V Guodong X, Matt Stevens V K Wilson, Graeme Dott through to final round where he plays M Dunn. Peter Ebdon is through he came from 9-3 down to beat Graham Greene 10-9 just after 2 am thîs morning. Anthony McGill got through 10-9 against Craig Steadman

Sad, if inevitable, that Jimmy and Steve Davis didn't make it.

I see Bingham decided to slag off Ronnie for not winning as many World Championships as Stephen Hendry. You might as well slag off John Higgins for the same reason. Or you might deduce the reason they haven't is the same - each other.

In Final Qualifying Round for World Championship,
Ding Junghui beat Nigel Bond 10-2, Robbie Williams beat Anthony Hamilton 10-9,
Robert Milkins beat Kurt Maflin 10-7, Alan McManus beat Jimmy Robertson 10-2,
Anthony McGill beat Un Nooh 10-7, Sam Baird beat Liam Highfield 10-9,
Mitchell Mann beat Poomjaeng 10-9, Peter Ebdon beat Ian Burns 10-2,
Ryan Day beat Ken Doherty 10-6, Zhang Anda beat Zhou Yuelong 10-7,
Graeme Dott beat Mike Dunn 10-7, Ali Carter beat Dominic Dale 10-6,
Kyren Wilson beat Matthew Stevens 10-6, Liang Wendo beat Xiao Guiding 10-6
David Gilbert beat J Lisowski 10-7, Michael Holt beat Mark King 10-8