Among the those through to the Crucible over the weekend was reigning Shoot Out and Championship League winner Martin Gould, who booked his place with a hard-fought 10-7 victory against Rod Lawler on Sunday evening.
Following his victory, I spoke to both Martin and his coach Steve Feeney, as he spoke of his relief to make it back to the Crucible as well as revealing amongst other things, that he will walk out to some new walk-on music this weekend.
Click here to listen to our chat (thanks to Monique Limbos for uploading this for me).