PTC1 2011/2012 - Day 3 - A Few Big Names were sent home

The 2011/2012 snooker season has started! 2-day amateur pre-qualifiers ended on Sunday. Today professionals include Mark Selby, Ronnie O'Sullivan, Judd Trump comes to play their opening matches :-)


20.6.2011


Mark Selby played his opener with Zhang Anda who was a Crucible Last 32 finalists in 2010. Selby won it comfortably with scoreline 4-1. Another top 16 player, Stephen Maguire won a thriller 4-3 against Matthew Day despite he is 0-2, 2-3 behind in the match. 


Jack Lisowski who was named 'Rookie of the year' on World Snooker Awards this year, secured a 4-1 victory over Ian Glover with 108.

O'Sullivan practised with Chinese players over the weekend for PTC 1  

Another notable match in the morning would be 'The Rocket' Ronnie O'Sullivan against Mike Hallet. O'Sullivan started off poorly and was 0-2 down at the beginning. Later Ronnie found his rhythm to win. He scored a 4-2 victory and will be playing Andy Hicks in the next round.

Michael Holt

Michael Holt impressed me this afternoon. He performed superbly! He secured a 4-1 success with 3 centuries (117, 106, 103). 'The shotgun' also earned a whitewash against Les Dodd. Unfortunately Holt was defeated by Joe Jogia in round 5.


'The Whirlwind' Jimmy White had a neck and neck match with Ireland's David Morris. Morris began with 103 and White led 2-1 before Morris levelled the match 2-2. White extends his lead to 3-2 but it goes really tight in the sixth frame. White got 2 snookers needed to force a black spot but Morris won the respotted  black. Morris dragged into decider. Eventually White won the match 4-3. A very intense and exciting match! :)

David Gilbert is the man to beat today. Gilbert was one of the Q School winners last month. On fire Gilbert beats three players (Judd Trump 4-1, Jamie Cope 4-2, Jimmy White 4-1) today! Very well done to him :)   

Shock of the day will be John Higgins was sent home. Higgins lost 3-4 to Thailand's Dechawat Poomjaeng in his first match. He won the 2010 IBSF World Snooker Championship to enter the circuit this season. Higgins led 3-1 but Poomjaeng knocks 80, 95 to force a decider. In the decider once again Poomjaeng won it by one visit. But later Poomjaeng was defeated 2-4 by Marcus Campbell.

John Higgins was defeated by Eden Sharav(Right 1)

Eden Sharav is a Scottish amateur and whitewashed Liang Wenbo in round 3. It's never easy for an ametuer to enter the last 16. He beaten Adam Duffy & Gary Wilson as well. 

Ronnie O'Sullivan continued his play in the evening. He earned a 4-1 victory over Andy Hicks & whitewashed Bjorn Haneveer. O'Sullivan entered Last 16 and will be back on Wednesday to play PTC Grand Final Runner-up Martin Gould. Gould completed an unbelievable comeback in Round 5, winning the match 4-3 against Nigel Bond from 0-3 down. 

There was an interesting clash between Mark Selby & Stephen Maguire in Round 5. The eventual winner was Stephen Maguire, had a victory a 4-2 victory over Selby. Maguire will play against Stuart Bingham in last 16 on Wednesday.


Full result of PTC1 on June 20, 2011 (Monday)

9am

111. Mark Selby 4-1 Zhang Anda

112. Gerard Greene 4-3 Aditya Mehta
113. Stephen Maguire 4-3 Matthew Day
114. Jack Lisowski 4-1 Ian Glover

115. Mark Davis 4-2 James Mcgouran

116. Barry Hawkins 4-1 Tian Pengfei
117. Stuart Bingham 4-0 Andrew Milliard

118. Jamie Burnett 4-2 Robin Hull

Not before 11am

119. Adrian Gunnell 2-4 Craig Steadman

120. Bjorn Haneveer 4-1 Joe Meara
121. Ronnie O'sullivan 4-2 Mike Hallett

122. Andy Hicks 4-2 Sean O'sullivan

123. Matthew Selt 4-2 Stephen Craigie
124. Martin Gould 4-2 Jamie Barrett
125. Dave Harold 1-4 Sam Craigie
126. Nigel Bond 4-2 Ben Woollaston

Not before 1pm

127. Matthew Couch 4-0 Lucky Vatnani
128. Michael Holt 4-1 David Gray

129. Joe Jogia 4-0 Daniel Wells
130. Liu Chuang 4 - 0 Jack Culligan
131. Jamie Cope 4-0 Les Dodd

132. Judd Trump 1-4 David Brown Gilbert
133. Alan Mcmanus 4 - 1 Kacper Filipiak
134. Jimmy White  4 - 3  David Morris

Not before 3pm

135. Anthony Mcgill 3 - 4 Gary Wilson

136. Barry Pinches 4 - 1 Christopher Norbury
137. Liu Song 0 - 4 Adam Duffy
138. Liang Wenbo 0 - 4 Eden Sharav

139. Marcus Campbell 4 - 3 Paul Davison
140. Jimmy Robertson 3 -4 Passakorn Suwannawat
141. Ricky Walden 2 - 4 Justin Astley

142. John Higgins 3 - 4 Dechawat Poomjaeng

Not before 5pm

159. Mark Selby  4 - 0  Gerard Greene

160. Stephen Maguire  4 - 1 Jack Lisowski

161. Mark Davis  4 - 1  Barry Hawkins

162. Stuart Bingham  4 - 0 Jamie Burnett

163. Craig Steadman  1 - 4  Bjorn Haneveer

164. Ronnie O'sullivan  4 - 1 Andy Hicks

165. Matthew Selt   3 - 4 Martin Gould

166. Sam Craigie 1 - 4  Nigel Bond

Not before 7pm

167. Matthew Couch  2 - 4  Michael Holt

168. Joe Jogia  4 - 1 Liu Chuang

169. Jamie Cope  2 - 4  David Brown Gilbert
170. Alan Mcmanus  3 - 4  Jimmy White

171. Gary Wilson  4 - 3 Barry Pinches

172. Adam Duffy  1 - 4  Eden Sharav

173. Marcus Campbell  4 - 1  Passakorn Suwannawat
174. Justin Astley  3 - 4  Dechawat Poomjaeng
 

Not before 9pm

183. Mark Selby  v  Stephen Maguire

184. Mark Davis  3 - 4   Stuart Bingham

185. Bjorn Haneveer  0 - 4  Ronnie O'sullivan

186. Martin Gould  4 - 3 Nigel Bond
187. Michael Holt  2 - 4 Joe Jogia

188. David Brown Gilbert  4 - 1 Jimmy White
189. Gary Wilson  2 - 4 Eden Sharav

190. Marcus Campbell  4 - 2  Dechawat Poomjaeng


A few Last 16 matches are produced:
195. Stephen Maguire  v  Stuart Bingham
196. Ronnie O'Sullivan  v  Martin Gould
197. Joe Jogia  v  David Gilbert 
198. Eden Sharav  v  Marcus Campbell