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The draw and results for the last 32 onwards will be updated here throughout the rest of the day.

You can still watch the tournament at http://www.cuesport.tv

Last 32

1) Neil Raybone 8 v 7 Steve Petty
2) Joe O’Connor 3 v 8 Avi Singh
3) Anthony Doble 8 v 6 Dan Darlington
4) Mike Day 6 v 8 Nicky Scott
5) Dave Williams 8 v 2 Clint I’Anson
6) Jason Bates 6 v 8 Carl Morris
7) Ben Flack 8 v 4 Alex O’Donoghue
Harry Hayman 4 v 8 Ronan McCarthy
9) Ian Crosbie 3 v 8 Rob Chilton
10) Darren Jeffery 5 v 8 Carl Rowe
11) Tem Dixon 8 v 5 Jamie Graham
12) Chris McGee 4 v 8 Craig Marsh
13) Tom Cousins 8 v 7 Karl Sutton
14) Jordan Shepherd 8 v 1 Ben Swinnerton
15) Tony Joannou 7 v 8 Richard Cradduck
16) Kyle Edwards 8 v 6 Phil Harrison

Last 16

1) Avi Singh 5 v 8 Neil Raybone
2) Anthony Doble 8 v 6 Nicky Scott
3) Dave Williams 3 v 8 Carl Morris
4) Ben Flack 4 v 8 Ronan McCarthy
5) Rob Chilton 6 v 8 Carl Rowe
6) Tem Dixon 6 v 8 Craig Marsh
7) Tom Cousins 7 v 8 Jordan Shepherd
Kyle Edwards 5 v 8 Richard Cradduck

Quarter Finals

1) Neil Raybone 8 v 5 Anthony Doble
2) Carl Morris 7 v 8 Ronan McCarthy
3) Carl Rowe 4 v 8 Craig Marsh
4) Jordan Shepherd 8 v 5 Richard Cradduck

Semi Finals

1) Neil Raybone 3 v 8 Ronan McCarthy
2) Craig Marsh 8 v 4 Jordan Shepherd

Final

1) Ronan McCarthy 6 v 8 Craig Marsh

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June 20th 2009 will see the very much anticipated £1000 per-man 10 ball challenge between Raj ‘Hitman’ Hundal and Ricardo ‘Indiana’ Jones.

Raj Hundal, the 2005 World Pool Masters Champion and regular on the International tournament scene, is rarely seen playing in one-on-one challenge matches. A player that is flamboyant and exciting and believes in hitting the break hard will come up against a UK based player he has known for over 10 years.

Ricardo ‘Indiana’ Jones is the house-pro at top Cambridge pool venue Mickey Flynn’s and is regularly seen playing challenge matches against some of Europe’s top players. Most recently Ricardo lost a very tight match against Dutchman Alex Lely. This particular money match went hill-hill. Jones, who has also represented the UK in the World Pool Championships in the past is probably regarded as the underdog on paper.

Jones recently commented “…alot of practice is required because I know I’m gonna have to produce a near fautless display to win…I, like him [Raj Hundal] consider myself part of the old-skool, the way American Pool used to be played with powerful breaks and great shot making.”

It is going to be an absolutely cracking match and Ricardo Jones is not a player to be underestimated and Raj will have to work hard if he is to win the match. There is due to be a return match and this is already pencilled in for Hounslow, the home of Raj Hundal, but lets get this one out of the way first.

The match is being played for £1000-per-man and starts at 7pm (UK time) it is a race-to-25 that is expected to go close to the wire - the match is being shown live on pay-per-view by WebTV channel Cuesport TV. You can purchase the match from just £2.95 ($4.75) which will allow you 24 hour access to the channels subscription service.

Visit: Cuesport TV for further information.

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On Wednesday 29th April CueSport TV, the Internet Pool & Snooker channel, will broadcast a live interview with 2005 World Pool Masters Champion Raj Hundal.

The interview will be broadcast from ‘The Hitmans’ family restaurant where he grew up in Hounslow, London.

Pete Williams, Managing Director of CueSport TV Ltd stated, ‘I wanted to catch an interview with Raj before he made the trip to the USA for the World Pool Masters, if this turns out to be a success then we will look to provide more live interview shows in future.’

You can watch the interview live at www.CueSport.tv from 15.00 (British Summer Time - approx 10.00 EST). The whole interview will then be made available on demand for viewers to watch at their leisure.

In order to make the interview more interesting for CueSport TV viewers the company are asking for your questions for Raj Hundal that may well be used on the live broadcast. If you have a burning question you would like to ask Raj Hundal then please email the question with your full name, city and country to enquiries@cuesport.tv no later than 19.00 (14.00 EST) on Tuesday 28th April 2009.

Everyone at CueSport TV looks forward to your involvement.

Further Information:

In order to view video’s on the new and improved CueSport TV you will be required to download Microsoft Silverlight.

The live broadcast is provided for free and requires no login, simply press the Live Event link.

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Ronnie O’Sullivan is the first man through to the second round of the 2009 BetFred.com World Snooker Championships. The defending champion served up some brilliant snooker en route to a 10-5 victory over Stuart Bingham.

Amongst the balls both players looked very solid with O’Sullivan notching up 3 centuries, the pinnacle a 140 and Bingham picking up one himself. There were a further 8 breaks over 50 in a match of some very quality break building.

The biggest shock was O’Sullivans ability at distance - at one point his long pot success rate was as low as 35% - this allowed Bingham to get into the balls on two back-to-back occasions, something he took gleefully knocking in 100 and 97 breaks.

The rest of todays scores:

• Hendry 4 v 5 Williams
• Dott 4 v 5 Hawkins
• King 3 v 3 McLeod
• Carter 3 v 1 Greene (as I type, still playing first session)

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It’s the big one, The 2009 BetFred World Snooker Championships starts today from the legendary Crucible Theatre in Sheffield. (A Theatre that has incidentally had a refurbishment this year.)

The action starts live today from 10.00am (BST) - in about 20 minutes actually - you can watch it on BBC Interactive, Eurosport, Eurosport web player, BBC Online and BBC 2 (some coverage will be on BBC 1).

Today’s matches are the following:

10.00

• Ronnie O’Sullivan (Eng) v Stuart Bingham (Eng)
• Mark King (Eng) v Rory McLeod (Eng)

14.30

• Graeme Dott (Sco) v Barry Hawkins (Eng)
• Stephen Hendry (Sco) v Mark Williams (Wal)

19.00

• Ronnie O’Sullivan v Stuart Bingham (Eng)
• Ali Carter (Eng) v Gerard Greene (NI)

As always the reigning champion starts the defence of his title with the first match on. Bingham should not pose too much of a threat to Ronnie over the longer distance, that match actually concludes with the second session this evening.

Of the afternoon session, the one I will be watching will be two former world champions, Stephen Hendry (who underwent a resurgence in China recently) and a man who has performed well all season, breaking back into the top 16, Mark Williams. This should be a real cracker and I fancy Mark Williams as an outisde chance for this title.

King v McLeod and Dott v Hawkins in my opinion will be very close, they finish tomorrow. Ali Carter, who was predicted as a possible winner by Peter Ebdon this week has a reasonably easy start (again in my opinion) against Irishmen Gerard Greene.

So the action comes thick and fast over the next two weeks, I will make an update everyday so stay tuned or subscribe via RSS.

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