Q School Event One Round 1 Round-up - Power of Chinese Army

To learn more about 'What is Q School', please refer to Q School Event One - Passports to the Big Time.

With the withdrawal of several players, including Luca Brecel, Yu Delu, Sam Baird, James Wattana. Their opponents got a walkover to the next round.

Chinese players who joined did quite well in the first round. Zhang Anda won 4-1 over Alex Taubman with 116; His fellow Tian Pengfei also made a century 118 in the match that he beaten Alex O'Donoghue. Mei Xiwen beats Li Yan by 4-2 while Chen Zhe defeated Ben Harrison by 4-1. 

Joel Walker & Ronnie O'Sullivan in Rileys Future Stars 

However, one of the chinese army lost in the first round. Li Hang, a wildcard player reached Last 16 in China Open last month by beating two world champions Ken Doherty & Graeme Dott. Li was beaten 3-4 by Joel Walker, the picked winner of 'Riley's Future Stars of Snooker' by Ronnie O'Sullivan last year. Walker was 0-2 behind but he survived to win 4-3.

Six-time Ladies World Champion Reanne Evans, she got her first victory in man's professional circuit. Evans won 4-0 over Sachin Plaha to enter the next round. Congrats to Reanne! :-)

Mike Hallett

There is a first round match between two snooker leading players in 80s' & 90s - Mike Hallett v Tony Knowles. Hallett won comfortably 4-0 against Knowles despite in the last frame. In the last frame, Knowles cameback from behind to force a black respot. Hallett ends the thriller by potting the respotted black to end the match. Knowles will have an early sit back before next week. 

Former professional players including Lee Spick, Lee Walker, David Gray were also the winners in the first round. They aim at regaining a place in the tour.

Round 2 follows up after first round finished. We will have four players to qualify for 2011/2012 tour by reaching semi-final of event one :-)

Full Draw & Playing Schedule of Q School Event One can be found here

Live Scores & Results can be found here

Q School Event One - Round 1 full results

1. Stephen Groves 1-4 Andrew Norman 2. James McBain 3-4 Lee Spick 3. Robert James 2-4 Luke Simmonds 4. Michael Wild 4-0 Hans Blanckaert 5. Stephen Ormerod 3-4 Lee Walker 6. Stephen Rowlings 3-4 Ian Glover 7. Simon Bedford 4-1 Shaun Wilkes 8. David Gray 4-2 David Singh 9. Sam Harvey w/o Luca Brecel 10. Mitchell Mann 4-2 Zak Surety 11. Jamie Clarke 1-4 Ian Burns 12. James Silverwood 1-4 Stuart Carrington 13. Oliver Brown 1-4 Charlie Walters 14. Ben Harrison 1-4 Chen Zhe 15. Lucky Vatnani w/o Michael Wasley 16. Nick Jennings w/o Yu DeLu 17. Vinnie Calabrese 4-0 James Hill 18. Jak Jones 4-2 Thanawat Thirapongpaiboon 19. Saquib Nasir 2-4 Kyren Wilson 20. David Portman w/o Sam Baird 21. Zhang Anda 4-1 Alex Taubman 22. Thepchaiya Un-Nooh 4-2 Stephen Craigie 23. Joel Walker 4-3 Li Hang 24. Lasse Munstermann 3-4 Mitchell Travis 25. David Grace 4-3 Gareth Allen 26. Robbie Williams 4-1 Adam Duffy 27. Ryan Causton 3-4 Sydney Wilson 28. Li Yan 2-4 Mei Xiwen 29. Gareth Coates w/o Kishan Hirani 30. Rune Kampe 0-4 Jamie O'Neil

31. Duane Jones 3-4 Alex Davies 32. Alex O'Donoghue 0-4 Tian Pengfei 33. Lee Page 4-2 David McLellan 34. John Astley w/o Aditya Mehta 35. Shahram Changezi 4-1 Marc Harman 36. Michael Leslie 4-0 Simon Bevz 37. Adam Wicheard 4-1 Tony Else 38. James Burrett 1-4 Bash Maqsood 39. Bhavesh Sodha 0-4 Fraser Patrick 40. Augusto Ruckauf 0-4 Christopher Norbury 41. Robert Valiant 4-0 Matthew Simpson 42. Ben Judge 1-4 Jamie Walker 43. Lyndon Gordon 0-4 Liam Monk 44. Jason Tart 2-4 James Loft 45. Allan Taylor w/o Brent Kolbeck 46. Antony Parsons 4-3 Shehzad Iqbal 47. Manish Jain 1-4 Bobby Cruickshanks 48. Stephen Ellis 2-4 Gary Wilson 49. Justin Astley 4-0 Najm Khan 50. Kurt Maflin 3-4 Craig Steadman 51. George Marter 1-4 Robin Hull 52. Mohammed Raoof 3-4 Craig Barber 53. James Wattana w/o Sean O'Sullivan 54. Tony Knowles 0-4 Mike Hallett 55. Gareth Edwards 0-4 Dean Venables 56. Sachin Plaha 0-4 Reanne Evans 57. James Welsh w/o Shahbaaz Khan 58. David Gilbert 4-1 Steve Judd 59. Lee Stephens 1-4 Martin O'Donnell 60. Phil O'Kane 0-4 Jeff Cundy

Century Breaks 

118 - Tian Pengfei
116 - Zhang Anda
114 - Fraser Patrick
114 - Steve Judd
113 - Jamie O'Neill
108 - Michael Lesile