Eight years after his breakthrough victory in Beijing, Ding Junhui has won his second full-ranking event title in his homeland China with a 10-6 victory against compatriot Xiao Guodong this afternoon.
For the first time, tomorrow will see an all-Chinese ranking event final between Ding Junhui and Xiao Guodong, after the pair came through their respective semi-finals against Barry Hawkins and Michael Holt earlier today.
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With the fallout from the Stephen Lee verdict still fresh in the air, it is easy to forget that there is a ranking event currently in progress as the third day of the Shanghai Masters saw the line-up for the last 16 finalised today.
Click below for a round-up of the key stories so far…
After what feels like a surprisingly long break in this era of all-year round snooker, this week sees the return of top level ranking event snooker to our screens with the venue stages of the Shanghai Masters.
Click below for my preview of the season’s third full ranking event…
Yesterday saw the conclusion of the 2013 Shanghai Masters qualifiers at the Doncaster Dome and with nine of the 16 ‘seeded’ players losing in the final round, it was something of a day for the underdogs.
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Day one in Doncaster and as became clear from a read of my Twitter feed earlier this afternoon, it was certainly not a day without intrigue, with much chatter over the matches involving Thai duo Thanawat Tirapongpaiboon and Passakorn Suwannawat, who both lost this morning.
Click below for the official statement from World Snooker on those matches, as well as a summary of the rest of the results. The latest projected seedings will be updated following this evening’s final session…
A reminder tonight that the qualifiers for the 2013 Shanghai Masters begin tomorrow (Wednesday), at the Doncaster Dome, for more information please click here to read my previous blog.
Judging by the above photo, posted on Twitter by @snookerservices, the set-up looks to be excellent at the venue, something akin to the set-up that we have seen at the EISS in Sheffield for the World Championship qualifiers.
I am planning to get down to the venue for the final round of these qualifiers on Saturday, as well as the subsequent Indian Open qualifiers and ET3 events at the same venue.
Hope to see a few of you there!
