World Snooker Championship 2024

About 6 million years ago Joe O'Connor and Matthew Selt began frame 18 of a possible 19. O'Connor led 9-8.

I nodded off at least 3 times.
Anyway Joe is the 32nd and last man into the draw in the morning with a 10-8 win.

So congrats to him and the draw will hopefully provide some interesting stories.

Draw taking place live on 5 Live at 8:45am

First Round Draw:
All matches best of 19 frames
(Seed numbers in brackets)

Luca Brecel (1) v David Gilbert
Robert Milkins (16) v Pang Junxu
Ali Carter (9) v Stephen Maguire
Shaun Murphy (8) v Lyu Haotian
Mark Selby (5) v Joe O'Connor
Kyren Wilson (12) v Dominic Dale
John Higgins (13) v Jamie Jones
Mark Allen (4) v Robbie Williams

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Judd Trump (3) v Hossein Vafaei
Tom Ford (14) v Ricky Walden
Zhang Anda (11) v Jak Jones
Mark Williams (6) v Si Jiahui
Ding Junhui (7) v Jack Lisowski
Gary Wilson (10) v Stuart Bingham
Barry Hawkins (15) v Ryan Day
Ronnie O'Sullivan (2) v Jackson Page

Obvious stand out matches include:

Ding Junhui v Jack Lisowski,
Ali Carter v Stephen Maguire,
Gary Wilson v Stuart Bingham and
Mark Williams v Si Jiahui

Mark Allen V Robbie Williams is tasty - all Leicester affair

(18-04-2024 08:05 )lovebabes56 Wrote:  Mark Allen V Robbie Williams is tasty - all Leicester affair

Neither Mark Allen or Robbie Williams are from Leicester.
The all Leicester match is Selby v O'Connor.

Well if you're looking at possible upsets, look no further than Ronnie and Judd. Ronnie's got the new Welsh superstar of snooker Jackson Page who knocked Higgins and Selby out of the Welsh Open. Judd's potting has been hit and miss and he needs to be on his game against one of this season's most fluent potters Hossein Vafaei.

Ding's got the short straw against the in form Jack Lisowski.

If Jamie Jones plays like he did against Robertson, John Higgins could find himself out of the top 16.

(18-04-2024 07:56 )Snooks Wrote:  First Round Draw:

Ali Carter (9) v Stephen Maguire
Shaun Murphy (8) v Lyu Haotian

So either Carter or Maguire will be gone by Rd 2, and either of them or Murphy will be gone by the Quarters

I'm sure Ding v Lisowski is the zinger.

Zhang Anda v Jak Jones could be interesting too btw. Jones had a decent Crucible run last year and Zhang has arguably been the story of this season up to now.

Right then get your ometers out
Predict the finalists and winner.......

The Snooksometer is considering it's verdict.....