2018 World Championship

[CueAntW147]

ken safely through 10 - 4

[Stony152]

Gilbert and Walden fighting back. Yan now in a battle.

[CueAntW147]

Young Chris Wakelin through 10 - 4

[sealer]

Gilbert and Walden fighting back. Yan now in a battle.

Yan under pressure. Missing all sorts of balls:-)

[Stony152]

Record of the higher ranked player in QR2 under the new format. Quite a large variance from year to year. The higher ranked player has won about 85% of QR1 matches and 70% of QR2 matches. So far this year it's 6-2 for the higher ranked player, but Yan, Walden, and Gilbert are in tight matches going down to the wire.

2017 - 23-9
2016 - 25-7
2015 - 18-14

[sealer]

Yan - Tian 9 all

[PatBlock]

Lovely clearance from Tian to take the match, the little cannons on the 10th and 15th reds were delicious, wish I'd been able to watch it all now.

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[Stony152]

Tian through. Will play Wakelin. Great opportunity for both of them. Great clearance by Tian in the decider. I think his ranking should be higher. Major underachiever IMO.

[Mr Snooker]

Yan Bingtao out in a final frame decider to Tian Pengfei, also good win for Matthew Stevens a 10-9 winner over Yuan Sijun. Matthew Stevens the twice finalist will now play Ken Doherty the 1997 World champion for a place at the crucible the head to head record is 9 wins each plus a draw could be a close contest between two veterans of the game. I do hope they show it on the live stream broadcast.

[DeanH]

Lovely clearance from Tian to take the match, the little cannons on the 10th and 15th reds were delicious, wish I'd been able to watch it all now.

you can
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-YGxZNp3Hw4

[PatBlock]

you can
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-YGxZNp3Hw4

Cheers Dean. I'll save it for a rainy snookerless day.

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[Hal]

It seems, Michael Mann pulled out after first session of his match with Ryan Day, at least according to live scores. Some surprises already, Bingtao out and Martin Gould trailing 2-9.

[blahblah01]

Jim should be 5-4 ahead seemed like another miscue on black at start of final frame, but right in this match, come on jim

He's using Taom?

Yep, Taom that claims to eliminate miscues lol, in reality it's increased them.

I was being kinda rhetorical, lol: but I thought it reduced kicks but caused more miscues

[blahblah01]

"Jimmy has played careless to get into this position" And I thought the improper use of adverbs was a more recent phenomenon among sport commentators. Things weren't any different 30 years ago.

Don't get me started on the death of the adverb

[blahblah01]

he does that quite a lot, i wonder if it's because he aims so low on the cue ball, or his timings out sometimes for whatever reason, seems to happen too often to be just a dud tip.

Yes to cueing low, but that chalk.....