China Open Snooker Starts Today

The China Open started this morning (7:30am in the UK) with the Wild Card round.

You can watch live snooker on Eurosport or online at the Eurosport Player (pay-per-view) action is live all week until the culmination on Sunday.

Ricky Walden, who won his first ranking title in Shanghai earlier in the year, will be looking to make it two-from-two in China. He has made an excellent start in the Wild card round by beating Cao Kaisheng 5-0.

The biggest upset of the day so far was Chinese wild card Tang Jun defeating Championship League winner Judd Trump 5-3 this morning.

The other two matches played this morning in the Beijing University Students Gymnasium were also split:

  • Cao Yupeng 2-5 Stuart Pettman
  • Yu Delu 5-3 Rod Lawler

The rest of the wild card round will be completed today with the following matches live this afternnon.

  • Liang Wenbo v Robert Milkins (Qualification match)
  • Tian Pengfei v David Gray
  • Xiao Guodong v Michael Holt

Joh Parrott, due to compete in this round, had earlier pulled out meaning China’s Cao Xinlong was given a bye through to the first round proper.

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