Podcast #030: Mosconi Cup 2009 Live
The Mosconi Cup returns this weekend (10th-13th December) and is live in the UK on Sky Sports Extra starting at 7pm on 10th December, Team Europe is captained by Alex Lely and is made up of a host of World Champions: Darren Appleton (making his debut for us Brits!), Niels Feijen, Mika Immonen, Ralf Souquet and Thorsten Hohmann.
On the Team USA side once again it is headed up by Nick Varner and his team is made of a lot of inexperienced Mosconi players in comparison to the European side. Shane Van Boening, Corey Deuel (returning to the side), Oscar Dominguez (rookie), Dennis Hatch (rookie) and stalwart Johnny Archer.
On paper I would say Team Europe all the way but on US soil the story could be different.
I will try and update as much as I can over the weekend.
Pukka Pies UK Championships
This tournament continues throughout the next four days culminating in the final on Sunday. Todays matches in the 1/4 finals are Ronnie O’Sullivan v Mark Selby and John Higgins v Liang Wenbo. Already in the semi’s are Stephen Maguire and Ding Junhui.
Dennis Hatch was the player voted to be on the American side. Here are the results of the voting:
Dennis Hatch - 26.31%
Rodney Morris - 20.07%
Charlie Williams - 19.54%
Stevie Moore -18.68%
Charlie Bryant - 6.42%
John Schmidt - 5.51%
Shawn Putnam - 1.79%
Kim Davenport - 1.67%