Wuhan Open 2024

5-1 Xiao

Heathcote beat Theppy 5-4 without making a single 50 to Theppy's 4!

1-0 Graham over Jack, Stan over Mugthew

The Glove finally gets over the line in frame #1 at the umpteenth time of asking against JakJ, 1-0.

1-1 Jack.

2-0 Stan

Robbo pots the black cush first and eventually wins the opening frame from KEnDo, 1-0.

2-1 Jack, 1-1 JakJ

3-1 Jack, 2-1 Stan

2-1 The Glove, 2-0 Robbo

2-2 JakJ, 4-1 Jack, 3-0 Robbo, 2-2 Mugthew barring snookers

4-2 Jack, 3-2 Stan, 4-0 Robbo

5-2 Jack

5-0 Robbo

3-2 Jak J

4-2 Jak J

4-2 Stan

5-2 Stan

4-3 Jak J

5-3 Jak J

Jimmy R & Sarkhosh the only match still going on.

Tournament proper starts 6th October.

Resumes overnight.

Dave and Tubbs have both withdrawn, meaning Wang and Clarke each get byes.

(in addition to Ronnie, of course)

Page 3-1 over Robbo, Ryno 3-1 over Stanley on the LV tables

There's no such thing as an unexpected mistake with Jackson, Dave.

3-3 Stanley

4-1 Page

5-1 Page.  Not a lot of running for Robbo, but Jackson, credit where it's due, has taken these really well.

4-3 Stanley

Stan misses match ball pink.

Ryno slots pink and black and steals, 4-4.

Baaaaaad black off the spot miss from Ryno

Stan needs to stop dancing the foooooook around

5-4 Stanley

Ryno playing on needing just the 20 points in fouls to tie

Ding not bringing much to the party so far, McGuigan leads 2-0.

Kyren 2-0 up on Liam Davies.

Ding has arrived, 2-2.

Kyren 3-1

3-0 Kyren over Hill

Dotty steals on the black, 1-1 v Zhang

5-0 Kyren, Desmond Dotty and Zhang

This Dotty v Zhang match is ugly.

5-3 Zhang, finally.  FUGLY match.

3 matches showing on the LV schedule for 1230 (when it's usually only 2 for Chinese events) and none of them are JB v Fan!  Surely that's a massive oversight?!

As expected, the Yuan v Xing headered match is a double up of the Ding match.

5-0 Ding against a very poor Xu.

Shon 4-1 up on Sheriff.

4-3 Shon

Very scruffy stuff

5-3 Shon

Xiao steals from snookers required after a gross error from Kyren, 2-1 Kyren

2-1 Noppy over Shon barring snookers.

Xiao wins a frame he could easily have lost, 2-2.

2-2 Shon

Kyren's gone from looking golden to looking like a golden shower, 3-2 Xiao.

3-2 Shon

Kyren misses frame ball, 4-2 Xiao

4-3 Shon, 4-3 Xiao

4-4 Kyren

Shon misses a not-especially-difficult virtual match ball

Noppy misses the green and goes in off.  Green runs safe.

Shon puts Noppy out of his misery.  Made some horrific errors in that match.  5-3.

What on earth has Kyren done there?!?

Holy crap, shocking miss from Kyren

Xiao leaves match ball in the jaws, but Kyren can only tie and even getting there won't be easy.

Kyren gets a snooker and can now win.  Pink is safe, though.

Xiao rattles the new match ball

All down to the pink, 11 in it, 13 on

Xiao wins 5-4.

Wakelin appears to be in his real zenith these days, doesn't he? Doing very well in general, for his usual level.

Big test next though of course in Trump...

You have to wonder about some of these results. Are the players putting on a accas on all the outsiders?

Agree stu - Wakelin playing as well/better than he ever has imo and looks like he believes - but Trump v Wakelin h2h is 13:0. Including that European Masters match where Trump came back from 0:4 to win 5:4. Quite looking forward to both of these lunchtime matches.

Will be interesting matchup, like you say with that awful H2H for Wakelin.

He played excellent last round. If he brings that here, Trump will not have it easy.

Oct 10, 2024 -- 11:07AM, pandora1963 wrote:

You have to wonder about some of these results. Are the players putting on a accas on all the outsiders?

Yes, not only are the big names not trying, they've also paid the "outsiders" score for fun.

The other thing I am noticing it that 3 out of the 4 semi players will be from China!

Wakelin and Xiao have been very reliable players against those they should beat.  Wakelin has improved quite significantly against higher quality opposition in the last couple of years and really kicked on last season.  Xiao has always looked like he just hasn't had the belief against the games best until, funnily enough, falling over the line against Kyren earlier in the week.  I was out yesterday, but he played superbly well this morning against Shon.  The first three frames were almost as good as you will ever see from anybody.  It looks like a real belief change, but we're still far enough away from the naming of a champion to know for sure.

There should be an always in my first sentence

Wakelin sponsored by Hottubs London - Mark Allen surely missing a trick there!

Trump making it easy for Wakelin so far...

Playing like their rankings are other way round...

If Wake keeps it together at this point, Trump is there for the taking IMO

signs of chokiness though...

was gifted early chance to go 4-1 but fluffed chances and back to 3-3 - tough from here.

Wakelin gone sadly...head gone.

I think...

Si misses virtual match ball

5-3 Si

Hello

FFS, Waco

OMFG

Wow

Even having luck of the gods couldn't save Waco against Trump - his head had gone...

one for the 'H2H curse' effect I reckon.

Xiao absolutely $hitting himself this morning.

But if Long's going to miss blacks off the spot like that, it might not matter.

This is desperate.

That looked bizarre.  Looked like the right red as we looked went easy.

Xiao going to need to use the MSI to get his head sorted, because this is starting to look like a train otherwise.

Xiao has finally arrived, 4-2 Long

Frigging OpenReach decided they were going to dig up the road in front of my house shortly after my last post, killing my broadband in the process.  Gave up at 1045 and went out on the bike, so didn't see the conclusion of the Xiao game, but see he won 6-4 from 1-4.

It's just come back on.

Si gets the 147 maxi for a 3:1 lead.

Si maxi. 

Top drawer stuff

Outstanding, 6-2 Si

That one mile wide drops in for Xiao - but takes the frame. 8-4 Xiao

9-4

9-7

GSM Xiao 10-7