Malta cup

Glenman

Ken's off to a good start winning his first two matches in the round robin. He might do well here after his good run in the masters. In fairness he needs some good rusults as his top 16 place is in danger for next season. I think he is currently provisionally no. 16

Michael Collins

Are there any ranking points available in Malta this year though?

celticfc

Michael Collins wrote: »

Are there any ranking points available in Malta this year though?

Yep, there's no ranking points as it's an invitational tourney and not open.

The only Ranking Tournaments left this season are the Welsh Open (Next week), China Open & obviously The World Championship.

Rankings Points Schedule

Glenman

celticfc wrote: »

Yep, there's no ranking points as it's an invitational tourney and not open.

The only Ranking Tournaments left this season are the Welsh Open (Next week), China Open & obviously The World Championship.

Rankings Points Schedule

Didn't realise this. I thought that the event in Malta was always a ranking event. Typical, Ken will probably do well here as he did in the masters (two non-ranking events) and loose in the first round in Wales!

Michael Collins

Yeh it has been a ranking tournment until this year. This year they opted for the invitational approach. The round robin format is also new to Malta. Not a big fan of it though.

celticfc

The idea behind it is that some of the maltese players will get automatic wild card entry into the tournament, like Tony Drago & Alex Borg

If it was a ranking tournament they wouldn't.

celticfc

By the way, if anyone doesn't know, it is being shown live everyday on Eurosport & the also have a free HQ stream on their site : http://uk.eurosport.yahoo.com/snooker/

Glenman

celticfc wrote: »

By the way, if anyone doesn't know, it is being shown live everyday on Eurosport & the also have a free HQ stream on their site : http://uk.eurosport.yahoo.com/snooker/

Thanks for that link.
Ken has a good chance of making the semi.

bigpad

Glenman wrote: »

Ken's off to a good start winning his first two matches in the round robin. He might do well here after his good run in the masters. In fairness he needs some good rusults as his top 16 place is in danger for next season. I think he is currently provisionally no. 16

I do threads on the Top-16 now and again for UK8ball and Doc's place is in *real doubt. My estimate is that he needs to win a total of 6 matches in the three ranking events left to retain it, or be close to doing so.

zuutroy

Ken into the semis after hammering Robertson. He's really gone off the rails. Pity for Ken that he's only performing in the non-ranking events so far this year. Good to see him in good form though

Michael Collins

bigpad wrote: »

I do threads on the Top-16 now and again for UK8ball and Doc's place is in *real doubt. My estimate is that he needs to win a total of 6 matches in the three ranking events left to retain it, or be close to doing so.

How many matches does he need to win, to win the World Championship?

Glenman

Michael Collins wrote: »

How many matches does he need to win, to win the World Championship?

to win at the crucible he needs to win 5 matches and a total of 70 frames I think.

Second session just started here, 5-2 down but he is brilliant at comebacks. The quality for the live streaming is very good. Don't think its on eurosport till 7. Will get live audio as well when ist on eurosport

gerire

Was well beaten from the bit i saw on tv

Michael Collins

He never got going really. He won the first frame with a 91 break but that was it. From then on he had plenty of chances in all the early frames but broke down on unforced misses. Still, if he can keep his earlier form in good shape for Wales you just never know...

Requiem4adream

Feckin chubbs murphy cost me a grand :mad: had a treble on everton, sunderland (win, win) and ken to win the malta cup :mad:

Glenman

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/other_sports/snooker/7240804.stm

Match fixing in Malta, so that is why Ken got to the final...Sorry...that was cruel!