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China Open 9-ball Starts Today

June 11, 2009 / The_Teach / No comments

The second world ranking event of the new WPA Pool Tour is underway in China.

This event follows on from the recent Philippines Open which was won by, surprisingly in some eyes, by Indonesia’s Ricky Yang. The win propelled Yang into 19th in the world rankings and with a few withdrawals means he is seeded 11th for this tournament.

The event takes place inside the Pudong Yuanshen Gymnasium which has capacity to hold up to 5000 spectators.

As you can imagine the field is dominated by local Chinese players, but there are four British players who have made the trip. World 10-ball Champion, Darren Appleton (seeded 2) and Daryl Peach (seeded 7) plus Karl Boyes and Craig Osborne.

You can watch live scoring here: China Open Live Scoring

There is also a TV feed that as yet I haven’t managed to work here: Live Streaming

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Surprise as Ebdon Reaches China Open Final

April 4, 2009 / The_Teach / No comments

Peter Ebdon, a man who won a World Snooker Championship in 2002, has had an awful season that has seen him slip to number 17 in the provisional rankings. Well this week in Beijing he has managed to find some form and tomorrow will see him compete in the China Open Final.

He had an impressive 5-1 win over Stephen Hendry in the quarter finals and backed that up with a 6-1 win over semi final debutant Stuart Pettman in his semi final.

The other semi final between John Higgins and Ryan Day is still going with Higgins leading 5-3 in the best of 11 frame match.

If John Higgins does not win this title then we will be guaranteed our 7th different winner in 7 world ranking events this season.

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Higgins to Play Day in Semi-Finals

April 3, 2009 / The_Teach / No comments

John Higgins, who at one point led 4-1 against Ronnie O’Sullivan until the reigning World Snooker Champion had a bit of a resurgence, came through his quarter-final a 5-4 victor.

Higgins will now play Welshman Ryan Day who himself demolished Saun Murphy 5-0 in an earlier encounter.

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Ebdon Demolishes Hendry

April 3, 2009 / The_Teach / No comments

Just as I finished writing my last post Peter Ebdon wrapped up his 1/4 final against Stephen Hendry.

Ebdon one of the players (alongside Hendry) lacking form this year and with the possibility of dropping outside the top 16 has found some form at the right time.

Good also to see Hendry back into the thick of the action, at 40 he may be past his best but I am confident he still has the ability to pick up a ranking event win at some point.

Ebdon now awaits the winner of the Stuart Pettman vs Graeme Dott match. Pettman currently leads 4-1.

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World Snooker Champions Do Travel Well!

April 3, 2009 / The_Teach / No comments

No less than six former World Snooker Champions have made it through the the last eight of the China Open. A couple are well known for their batting qualities, Peter Ebdon, who faces Stephen Hendry (he is also leading 4-1 as I type) and Graeme Dott.

Dott is currently trailing Stuart Pettman 4-1. One of the stories of this tournament has been Pettman who has reached his first ever ranking event 1/4 final in 17 years as a professional. This shows that there is still a lot of quality lower down the world rankings and further adds to the funny season we have had with 6 different winners in six events.

In the other 1/4 finals later today Ronnie O’Sullivan will once again play John Higgins and Shaun Murphy plays Ryan Day.

I have been saying all season that Ryan Day is due a tournament win, could China finally be it?

My title to this post relates really to those players who do not always perform at tournaments outside of the UK. Ronnie O’Sullivan pulled out of the Bahrain event earlier in the year and the other players on show did not perform either. Maybe the tide is changing, snooker has to change to really become a ‘world sport’ and are players starting to accept this?

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China Open Snooker Starts Today

March 30, 2009 / The_Teach / No comments

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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