Q School under way

zack01

The new qualifying system for snooker players to gain a place on the main tour began on Wednesday in the academy in Sheffield.
Three events over three weeks will be held and the semi finalists from each event wii be granted a place on the tour.

Many familiar names who lost their place on the main circuit are back again to try and make another go of a snooker career none more so than former world number 2 Tony Knowles and number 7 Mike Hallett who as luck would have it were drawn against each other in the first round.
Hallett incidentally won 4-0.

I'll post the semi finalists names here when they reach that round, names I'm sure we'll here a lot of over the coming seasons.

Arthur Daley

Mike Hallet vs Tony Knowles in Sheffield. It must be 1985.

oneillMan999

scores so far for anyone thats interested .....




Date Player 1 Player 2 Round
14 May ANTONY PARSONS 4 - 3 BOBBY CRUICKSHANKS ROUND 2
14 May JAMES WELSH 1 - 4 DAVID GILBERT ROUND 2
14 May ROBIN HULL 4 - 1 CRAIG BARBER ROUND 2
14 May DEAN VENABLES 0 - 4 REANNE EVANS ROUND 2
14 May MARTIN O'DONNELL 4 - 0 JEFF CUNDY ROUND 2
14 May SEAN O'SULLIVAN 0 - 4 MIKE HALLETT ROUND 2
14 May BASH MAQSOOD 2 - 4 FRASER PATRICK ROUND 2
14 May JAMIE WALKER 4 - 1 LIAM MONK ROUND 2
14 May CHRIS NORBURY 4 - 1 ROBERT VALIANT ROUND 2
14 May GARY WILSON 4 - 0 JUSTIN ASTLEY ROUND 2
14 May JAMES LOFT 0 - 4 ALLAN TAYLOR ROUND 2
14 May JOHN J ASTLEY 4 - 1 SHAHRAM CHANGEZI ROUND 2
14 May MEI XI WEN 4 - 2 KISHAN HIRANI ROUND 2
14 May JAK JONES 3 - 4 KYREN WILSON ROUND 2
14 May MITCHELL TRAVIS 2 - 4 DAVID GRACE ROUND 2
14 May ROBBIE WILLIAMS 2 - 4 SYDNEY WILSON ROUND 2
14 May THEPCHAIYA UN-NOOH 4 - 2 JOEL WALKER ROUND 2
14 May NICK JENNINGS 4 - 1 VINNIE CALABRESE ROUND 2
14 May DAVID PORTMAN 1 - 4 ZHANG ANDA ROUND 2
13 May IAN GLOVER 4 - 3 SIMON BEDFORD ROUND 2
13 May MICHAEL WILD 3 - 4 LEE WALKER ROUND 2
13 May STUART CARRINGTON 4 - 3 CHARLIE WALTERS ROUND 2
13 May DAVID GRAY 4 - 0 SAM HARVEY ROUND 2
13 May CHEN ZHE 4 - 2 MICHAEL WASLEY ROUND 2
13 May MITCHELL MANN 2 - 4 IAN BURNS ROUND 2
13 May LEE STEPHENS 1 - 4 MARTIN O'DONNELL ROUND 1
13 May LEE SPICK 3 - 4 LUKE SIMMONDS ROUND 2
13 May PHIL O'KANE 0 - 4 JEFF CUNDY ROUND 1
13 May DAVID GILBERT 4 - 1 STEVE JUDD ROUND 1
13 May MOHAMMED RAOOF 3 - 4 CRAIG BARBER ROUND 1
13 May GARETH EDWARDS 0 - 4 DEAN VENABLES ROUND 1
13 May SACHIN PLAHA 0 - 4 REANNE EVANS ROUND 1
13 May GEORGE MARTER 1 - 4 ROBIN HULL ROUND 1
13 May KURT MAFLIN 3 - 4 CRAIG STEADMAN ROUND 1
13 May ANTONY PARSONS 4 - 3 SHEHZAD IQBAL ROUND 1
13 May STEPHEN ELLIS 2 - 4 GARY WILSON ROUND 1
13 May MANISH JAIN 1 - 4 BOBBY CRUICKSHANKS ROUND 1
13 May JUSTIN ASTLEY 4 - 0 NAJM KHAN ROUND 1
12 May BEN JUDGE 1 - 4 JAMIE WALKER ROUND 1
12 May JASON TART 2 - 4 JAMES LOFT ROUND 1
12 May ROBERT VALIANT 4 - 0 MATTHEW SIMPSON ROUND 1
12 May LYNDON GORDON 0 - 4 LIAM MONK ROUND 1
12 May AUGUSTO RUCKAUF 0 - 4 CHRIS NORBURY ROUND 1
12 May BHAVESH SODHA 0 - 4 FRASER PATRICK ROUND 1
12 May LEE PAGE 4 - 2 DAVID MCLELLAN ROUND 1
12 May ADAM WICHEARD 4 - 1 TONY ELSE ROUND 1
12 May JAMES BURRETT 1 - 4 BASH MAQSOOD ROUND 1
12 May SHAHRAM CHANGEZI 4 - 1 MARC HARMAN ROUND 1
12 May MICHAEL LESLIE 4 - 0 SIMON BEVZ ROUND 1
12 May DUANE JONES 3 - 4 ALEX DAVIES ROUND 1
12 May LI YAN 2 - 4 MEI XI WEN ROUND 1
12 May RYAN CAUSTON 3 - 4 SYDNEY WILSON ROUND 1
12 May RUNE KAMPE 0 - 4 JAMIE O'NEILL ROUND 1
12 May ALEX O'DONAGHUE 0 - 4 TIAN PENGFEI ROUND 1
12 May LASSE MUNSTERMANN 3 - 4 MITCHELL TRAVIS ROUND 1
12 May DAVID GRACE 4 - 3 GARETH ALLEN ROUND 1
12 May JOEL WALKER 4 - 3 LI HANG ROUND 1
12 May ROBBIE WILLIAMS 4 - 1 ADAM DUFFY ROUND 1
12 May THEPCHAIYA UN-NOOH 4 - 2 STEPHEN CRAIGIE ROUND 1
12 May ZHANG ANDA 4 - 1 ALEX TAUBMAN ROUND 1
11 May SAQUIB NASIR 2 - 4 KYREN WILSON ROUND 1
11 May JAK JONES 4 - 2 THANAWAT THIRAPONGPA ROUND 1
11 May VINNIE CALABRESE 4 - 0 JAMES HILL ROUND 1
11 May OLIVER BROWN 1 - 4 CHARLIE WALTERS ROUND 1
11 May BEN HARRISON 1 - 4 CHEN ZHE ROUND 1
11 May DAVID GRAY 4 - 2 DAVID SINGH ROUND 1
11 May JAMES SILVERWOOD 2 - 4 STUART CARRINGTON ROUND 1
11 May JAMIE RHYS CLARKE 1 - 4 IAN BURNS ROUND 1
11 May MITCHELL MANN 4 - 2 ZAK SURETY ROUND 1
11 May SIMON BEDFORD 4 - 1 SHAUN WILKES ROUND 1
11 May STEPHEN ROWLINGS 3 - 4 IAN GLOVER ROUND 1
11 May STEPHEN ORMEROD 3 - 4 LEE WALKER ROUND 1
11 May JAMES MCBAIN 3 - 4 LEE SPICK ROUND 1
11 May ROB M JAMES 2 - 4 LUKE SIMMONDS ROUND 1
11 May STEPHEN GROVES 1 - 4 ANDREW NORMAN ROUND 1
11 May MICHAEL WILD 4 - 0 HANS BLANCKAERT ROUND 1


Mike Hallett is rollin along nicely!

zack01

Q School event one is down to the quarter-final stage.Here are tomorrow's matches with a place on the professional tour the reward for the winners: Andrew Norman v Chen Zhe; Zhang Anda v David Grace; Robin Hull v David Gilbert; Adam Wicheard v Fraser Patrick

Backstreet Moyes

Suprised nothing mentioned about David Moriss qualifying in the second tournament to get straight back onto the tour. In his interview on world snooker he said he took all the ptc's like pro ams last year and didnt take it serious. Hopefully he can make an assualt on the top 32 next year he has the talent, but hopefully he has the desire this time around.

zack01

Sorry been away for a few days!
Agreed it's great to see Davy Morris straight back onto the tour, he's a nice lad and a good player, I just feel he's missing something, hopefully he makes the latter stages of more ranking events this year and has a good season.

On another note it was Interesting to see that James Wattana has been given a wild card for next season.
I'm sure one or two fellow pros might feel a bit aggrieved about that.

Backstreet Moyes

zack01 wrote: »

Sorry been away for a few days!
Agreed it's great to see Davy Morris straight back onto the tour, he's a nice lad and a good player, I just feel he's missing something, hopefully he makes the latter stages of more ranking events this year and has a good season.

On another note it was Interesting to see that James Wattana has been given a wild card for next season.
I'm sure one or two fellow pros might feel a bit aggrieved about that.

I cant understand it to be honest. Whats the point giving Wattana a wild card when you can give a promising young player the wild card. The wild cards should be used to try bring fresh talent through the game for example i would probably give it to Luca Brecel. Has a great amateur carear already at such a young age.

On Moriss its hard really to say. He made it sound like he hasnt been taking the prob tour serious enough in his interview. Getting kicked off could be the kick he needs to realise if he wants to make a living he is going to have to put more effort in. He had a good amateur carear and was competing with for example Trump and was an excellent break builder. But watching him on the pro tour he rarely makes the big breaks he used to, im not sure why this is. The English and Chineese players are practicing in the academy and the Welsh usually work alot with Terry Griffiths. I dont know who Moriss is practising with but i think it makes a big difference playing possibly better players day in day out in the academy. Their is not much young players making an impact on the tour the likes of Jamie Jones and Micheal White were expected to do well, Wengbo did but struggled this year, while Trump until the end of this year had not done much. Its frustrating as its nice to see young players coming through with all the extra tournaments hopefully we will see some young guns come through the rankings. On Moriss the thing he seemed to be missing is his break building which needs to get better to compete at the top level. Also i noticed he lost alot of final frame deciders last year but he beat Gary Wilson 4-3 and came from 3-1 down to win 4-3 to qualify.

SD7792

As far as I'm aware Luca brecel did get a wildcard or so he said on his website anyway. Hence why he didn't participate in Q school.

zack01

Luca Brecel did get a wildcard along with James Wattana, Lucky Vatnani and Yu Delu.
I have a feeling Wattana has been given a wildcard because along with the snooker world cup being held in June, the WPBSA are trying to arrange a future ranking event return to Thailand. Wattana even though he's had a very disappointing last five years or so is still a big draw in Thailand.

Vatnani being Indian really explains itself as a ranking event is almost certain to be held next season in India.

Morris meanwhile has earned his chance through the Q school and deservedly so, I hope he goes on now to have a good season.