This morning saw the new season get underway with the start of the 2012 Wuxi Classic qualifiers from the Academy in Sheffield. It was to be a mixed day for India as Aditya Mehta progressed, but Pankaj Advani fell to Chinese youngster Chen Zhe, while veterans Rod Lawler and Adrian Gunnell were among the other winners…
Trailing Sam Craigie by four frames to nil and staring defeat in the face, few would have fancied Ireland’s Ken Doherty to book his place in Berlin today but the 1997 world champion was to prove that there is life in the old dog yet by coming back to win 5-4 and progress. Not so lucky however were old rivals Stephen Hendry and Jimmy White who both exited the tournament today…
Day two from the UK Championship qualifiers in Gloucester and the action is due to get underway in little over an hour. Click below for my updates throughout the course of the day…
Day two from the Academy saw Jimmy White come through his opener early on but the star of the show was undoubtedly Tian Pengfei, click below to read why as well as an update on the situation regarding starter points in the rankings…
As promised, here are more of my photos from the action this week at the 2011 World Championship qualifiers. These photos are all from the second round stage…
Apologies for the lack of a post yesterday, unfortunately there just aren’t enough hours in the day at the moment. Click below for my reflections on the round two matches that I saw while I have also updated the provisional rankings and drawsheet at the usual places…
More photos will follow on Friday while you can also read my play by play updates over at Twitter.
Click here for the full qualifying draw…
Last year I correctly predicted ten of the 16 qualifiers for the 2010 World Championship but can I do any better this time around? There is only one way to find out! Click below for the first part of my preview which will be posted over the next four days…
With the qualifiers for the German Masters set to get underway on Tuesday, the draw will be determined by the revised seedings list following the UK Championship. Click below to see who the movers and shakers are this time around…