Shanghai Masters qualifiers 2011 - Day 2

It was "Clash day" in Sheffield

This has been the perfect day for some good old typical clashes. It was either about the Chinese players having to face each other, or about the Pink Army soldiers that had to remove "friendship" from their status and replace it with the word "fight".


Clash number one was the match given between Liu Song and Tian Pengfei. The boys went all the way through, consuming all their frames, in the end Liu taking his share of victory with 5-4.
On second place, we have the cue battle that featured the names of Liu Chuang and Li Yan. And once again, the players ended up on a decider, the winner being Liu.

On last place, but please don't get any fancy ideas that it was any less entertaining than the other two matches, we have the snooker encounter between Xiao Guodong and Cao Yupeng. Actually this was the match that closed the second day of the Shanghai Qualifiers and as expected it also finished after quite a battle of cues, Cao being now able to play in the next round after defeating Xiao 5-4.


Moving on to the On Q Promotions' players, we had a real treat seeing first of all Alfie Burden taking on a much younger but eager to win Michael White, while the legendary Jimmy White faced a very well prepared Adam Wicheard.
Although Alfie was standing his ground, the youngster Michael seemed not to experience any problems in beating him 5-2 and hitting a beautiful 145 break in the process. By the way, this break it’s the highest of his career and the highest so far from the qualifiers.

Booya! Won my first match!

As for Jimmy White and Adam Wicheard, "The Whirlwind" started his journey in the best possible way, by winning the first battle with a very good 5-3 result. However, if we take a look at Jimmy's latest performances in the qualifiers, he tends to win the first one or two matches and then he gets beaten. Hopefully his cue action has improved, because I'm dying to see the man on TV, playing in a ranking event. Don't you?


Scotland's boys Alan McManus and Anthony McGill, have both obtained important victories over their opponents, Alan whitewashing David Hogan 5-0, while Anthony won 5-2 over Ben Woollaston, so we’ll be seeing more of them at least for one round more.


The Thai James Wattana continued his smooth run, passing with a perfect 138 break and a 5-2 scoreline over Andy Hicks, India's best Aditya Mehta defeated Rod Lawler after a very hard fought battle that ended on a 5-4 result, while Norway's Kurt Maflin performed another of his extraordinary wins, by eliminating Joe Jogia 5-3.


Below you can check the full list of results:


10am


2.30pm


7pm


Tomorrow's schedule:


10am


2.30pm


7pm