World Cup Line Up

[wildJONESEYE]

http://www.worldsnooker.com/page/NewsArticles/0,,13165~2346378,00.html

TEAMS

Top eight seeds:

1. Wales: Mark Williams and Matthew Stevens
2. Scotland: John Higgins and Stephen Maguire
3. England: Mark Selby and Ali Carter
4. China: Ding Junhui and Liang Wenbo
5. Australia: Neil Robertson and Steve Mifsud
6. Northern Ireland: Mark Allen and Gerard Greene
7. Hong Kong: Marco Fu and Fung Kwok Wai
8. Republic of Ireland: Ken Doherty and Fergal O'Brien

Host teams

Thailand A: James Wattana and Dechawat Poomjaeng
Thailand B: Passakorn Sunwannawat and Thepchaiya Un-nooh

Wild cards

Germany: Patrick Einsle and Lasse Münstermann
Brazil: Itaro Santos and one other TBC

Qualifiers

Belgium: Bjorn Haneveer and Luca Brecel
Pakistan: Sahid Aftab and Muhammad Sajjad
India: Aditya Metha and Pankaj Advani
Afghanistan: Mohammad Rais Senzahi and Saleh Mohammad Mohammadi
UAE: Mohmmed Mustafa Shehab and Mohammed Al Joaker
Poland: Kacper Filipiak and Krzysztof Wrobel
Malta: Tony Drago and Alex Borg
Egypt: Wael Talat and Yasser El-Sherbini

[cajt]

I wonder what has happened to Igor Figuieredo. Why is he not first choice for Brazil? He is still on the main tour as far as I know. Itaro Santos was representing Germany a while back!

[sunny3909]

I wonder what has happened to Igor Figuieredo. Why is he not first choice for Brazil? He is still on the main tour as far as I know. Itaro Santos was representing Germany a while back!

Yes I also find it a bit amusing.

[KashifK]

It appears that Igor won't be on the Tour this year. Don't know why.

[willtyson]

I got a feeling about Australia this year :) :snooker:

[wildJONESEYE]

I got a feeling about Australia this year :) :snooker:

you got to make Scotland and England faves with Wales and China just behind cant see past those 4 TBH.

[cally]

you got to make Scotland and England faves with Wales and China just behind cant see past those 4 TBH.

Fancy a welshman saying that eh!...lol.

Looking at the 'teams' to me it's hard to call between the home nations. i wouldn't say mark and matt are weaker than the scots or them englanders!. do you think? (not much between them for me a tough call, but i'm going for the welsh boys to pull it off)...
Hoping maybe!! but it's a tough call..

But i agree with you but not necessarily the order like...:)


Thanks for the info on this joneseye fella...:)

[sunny3909]

This is one of the tournaments I am looking forward to.

[eaoin11]

you got to make Scotland and England faves with Wales and China just behind cant see past those 4 TBH.

I would normally agree with those 4 but it's a world cup. Go Aussie!

[mattyshinobi22]

cant wait for this, brings back memories of the 80's with the doubles and team and 3 man events