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European Masters Draw

Postby chengdufan

http://www.snooker.org/res/index.asp?event=1267

There are 119 pros and 9 amateur top-ups in the draw.

The 12 missing pros:
Neil Robertson
Ding Junhui
Liang Wenbo
Fergal O'Brien
Allan Taylor
Jamie O'Neill
Igor Figueiredo
Muhammad Asif
Victor Sarkis
Dechawat Poomjaeng
Asjad Iqbal
Mohamed Ibrahim

Stephen Hendry has entered and has drawn Mark Joyce. It's one of the easier draws he could have been given, but I think it highly unlikely he'll win.

The 4 top seeds have their qualifying matches held over to the main event:
Fan Zhengyi (1) v Michael Judge
Ronnie O'Sullivan (2) v Sean O'Sullivan
Judd Trump (3) v Noppon Saengkham
Mark Selby (4) v Yuan Sijun

Re: European Masters Draw

Postby snoopy2608

not surprised by Ding and Robbo.

Hoping Ding will be back for British Open qualies (does anyone know if he will)

so no-one from Asian Q school has entered - are they having visa or funding issues?

Re: European Masters Draw

Postby chengdufan

snoopy2608 wrote:not surprised by Ding and Robbo.

Hoping Ding will be back for British Open qualies (does anyone know if he will)

so no-one from Asian Q school has entered - are they having visa or funding issues?

Himanshu Jain is in the draw.

I assume it's funding issues for Asif and Iqbal.

Poomjaeng... Hard to say. I'm not convinced he's bothered about playing on the pro tour. Could be wrong though.

Re: European Masters Draw

Postby TheRocket

possible Ron vs Hendry in the 2nd round but I think Joyce will spoil the party. He is a solid player.

Re: European Masters Draw

Postby SnookerFan

snoopy2608 wrote:not surprised by Ding and Robbo.

Hoping Ding will be back for British Open qualies (does anyone know if he will)

so no-one from Asian Q school has entered - are they having visa or funding issues?


Why has Ding withdrawn? You'd think he'd go anywhere in the world for a ranking point at the moment.

Re: European Masters Draw

Postby Andre147

TheRocket wrote:possible Ron vs Hendry in the 2nd round but I think Joyce will spoil the party. He is a solid player.


That would be awesome but yeah Joyce is a good player on his day.

And Ronnie plays his namesake Sean O'Sullivan.

Re: European Masters Draw

Postby D4P

Andre147 wrote:And Ronnie plays his namesake Sean O'Sullivan.


With GOAT* status at stake

*Greatest O'Sullivan of All Time

Re: European Masters Draw

Postby lhpirnie

SnookerFan wrote:
snoopy2608 wrote:not surprised by Ding and Robbo.

Hoping Ding will be back for British Open qualies (does anyone know if he will)

so no-one from Asian Q school has entered - are they having visa or funding issues?


Why has Ding withdrawn? You'd think he'd go anywhere in the world for a ranking point at the moment.

Quite the opposite. He's clearly given up on chasing ranking points.


Actually, Ding did win a tournament today in Xi'an, a teams event (with Fan Zhengyi and Mei Xiwen - a pretty strong team!). He'll be returning to the UK on 8th August.

Re: European Masters Draw

Postby SnookerFan

lhpirnie wrote:
SnookerFan wrote:
snoopy2608 wrote:not surprised by Ding and Robbo.

Hoping Ding will be back for British Open qualies (does anyone know if he will)

so no-one from Asian Q school has entered - are they having visa or funding issues?


Why has Ding withdrawn? You'd think he'd go anywhere in the world for a ranking point at the moment.

Quite the opposite. He's clearly given up on chasing ranking points.



Sounds like he's given up a bit. :sad:

Re: European Masters Draw

Postby Wildey

TheRocket wrote:possible Ron vs Hendry in the 2nd round but I think Joyce will spoil the party. He is a solid player.

Stephen is a unknown Quantity the ability is there, the question is dedication to practice that's been lacking in his so called comeback.

Re: European Masters Draw

Postby Cloud Strife

Wildey wrote:
TheRocket wrote:possible Ron vs Hendry in the 2nd round but I think Joyce will spoil the party. He is a solid player.

Stephen is a unknown Quantity the ability is there, the question is dedication to practice that's been lacking in his so called comeback.


Let's be real here, Hendry could practice 24 hours a day, 7 days a week and it will not make a jot of difference. Ronnie will smash him easily.

Re: European Masters Draw

Postby Wildey

Cloud Strife wrote:
Wildey wrote:
TheRocket wrote:possible Ron vs Hendry in the 2nd round but I think Joyce will spoil the party. He is a solid player.

Stephen is a unknown Quantity the ability is there, the question is dedication to practice that's been lacking in his so called comeback.


Let's be real here, Hendry could practice 24 hours a day, 7 days a week and it will not make a jot of difference. Ronnie will smash him easily.

He is not playing Ronnie is he cretin

Re: European Masters Draw

Postby Cloud Strife

Wildey wrote:
Cloud Strife wrote:
Wildey wrote:
TheRocket wrote:possible Ron vs Hendry in the 2nd round but I think Joyce will spoil the party. He is a solid player.

Stephen is a unknown Quantity the ability is there, the question is dedication to practice that's been lacking in his so called comeback.


Let's be real here, Hendry could practice 24 hours a day, 7 days a week and it will not make a jot of difference. Ronnie will smash him easily.

He is not playing Ronnie is he cretin


I was referring to the possible 2nd Rd match. But yeah, let's be real, Joyce will smash him too even if Hendry practices every second of every day until they play. <laugh>

Re: European Masters Draw

Postby Cloud Strife

Hendry's entire comeback has been a massive embarrassment. No other way to describe it.

Re: European Masters Draw

Postby Wildey

Cloud Strife wrote:Hendry's entire comeback has been a massive embarrassment. No other way to describe it.

Hes obviously not taken it seriously, pity you have <doh>

Re: European Masters Draw

Postby Cloud Strife

Wildey wrote:
Cloud Strife wrote:Hendry's entire comeback has been a massive embarrassment. No other way to describe it.

Hes obviously not taken it seriously, pity you have <doh>


I've not taken it seriously at all. In fact, I've had a good laugh watching Hendry trying and failing to be a professional snooker player these last couple of seasons.

Re: European Masters Draw

Postby Iranu

Wildey wrote:
Cloud Strife wrote:Hendry's entire comeback has been a massive embarrassment. No other way to describe it.

Hes obviously not taken it seriously, pity you have <doh>

Isn’t the fact that he hasn’t taken it seriously the embarrassment?

The guy supposedly came back to play at the Crucible again and then didn’t enter the Worlds because he hadn’t played enough, even though it was his choice not to play all those tournaments.

I mean, what the buck?

Re: European Masters Draw

Postby Wildey

Iranu wrote:
Wildey wrote:
Cloud Strife wrote:Hendry's entire comeback has been a massive embarrassment. No other way to describe it.

Hes obviously not taken it seriously, pity you have <doh>

Isn’t the fact that he hasn’t taken it seriously the embarrassment?

The guy supposedly came back to play at the Crucible again and then didn’t enter the Worlds because he hadn’t played enough, even though it was his choice not to play all those tournaments.

I mean, what the buck?

If you had listened, he was railroaded to take the 2 year card by Barry Hearn during a round of golf. This time hes had more time to think if he falls flat on his bottom this time it would be embarrassing.

Re: European Masters Draw

Postby Iranu

Wildey wrote:
Iranu wrote:
Wildey wrote:
Cloud Strife wrote:Hendry's entire comeback has been a massive embarrassment. No other way to describe it.

Hes obviously not taken it seriously, pity you have <doh>

Isn’t the fact that he hasn’t taken it seriously the embarrassment?

The guy supposedly came back to play at the Crucible again and then didn’t enter the Worlds because he hadn’t played enough, even though it was his choice not to play all those tournaments.

I mean, what the buck?

If you had listened, he was railroaded to take the 2 year card by Barry Hearn during a round of golf. This time hes had more time to think if he falls flat on his bottom this time it would be embarrassing.

Don’t bucking talk to me like that.

I know the story about the golf course, thanks.

It doesn’t change anything about what I said. First he wasn’t entering tournaments because there were no crowds, then he wasn’t entering tournaments because he hadn’t practised enough, then he’s not entering tournaments because he’s had no match practice. It’s become a self-fulfilling prophecy.

Re: European Masters Draw

Postby Iranu

Badsnookerplayer wrote:Iranu off again.... :sad:

I wish you were

Re: European Masters Draw

Postby SnookerFan

D4P wrote:
Andre147 wrote:And Ronnie plays his namesake Sean O'Sullivan.


With GOAT* status at stake

*Greatest O'Sullivan of All Time


Wouldn't that be the GOOAT?

Or the GOSOAT?

Re: European Masters Draw

Postby HappyCamper

SnookerFan wrote:
D4P wrote:
Andre147 wrote:And Ronnie plays his namesake Sean O'Sullivan.


With GOAT* status at stake

*Greatest O'Sullivan of All Time


Wouldn't that be the GOOAT?

Or the GOSOAT?


no. one shouldn't include conjunctions in an acronym.

Re: European Masters Draw

Postby SnookerFan

HappyCamper wrote:
SnookerFan wrote:
D4P wrote:
Andre147 wrote:And Ronnie plays his namesake Sean O'Sullivan.


With GOAT* status at stake

*Greatest O'Sullivan of All Time


Wouldn't that be the GOOAT?

Or the GOSOAT?


no. one shouldn't include conjunctions in an acronym.


And why the hell not?

Re: European Masters Draw

Postby HappyCamper

SnookerFan wrote:
HappyCamper wrote:
SnookerFan wrote:
D4P wrote:
Andre147 wrote:And Ronnie plays his namesake Sean O'Sullivan.


With GOAT* status at stake

*Greatest O'Sullivan of All Time


Wouldn't that be the GOOAT?

Or the GOSOAT?


no. one shouldn't include conjunctions in an acronym.


And why the hell not?


just convention. no conjunctions, prepositions and the like in initialisms or acronyms. like how they shouldn't be capitalised in titles of (eg) films or music.