Players Tour Championship Event 6 (2011) - Day 3

Xiao gets a place into the Last 16

Hard battles of cues were given yesterday in the beautiful capital of Poland, Warsaw for the last eight places of the Last 16 round. Most of the matches saw all their frames being consumed and so the glorious and sometimes unfair decider was the one that had the last word on who's going on the next stage.

Although China had two powerful players that managed to reach the third round, only one of them got a place into the forth one. Xiao Guodong whitewashed Adam Wicheard 4-0, hammered Scotland's Scott Mackenzie 4-1 and ended on a tight 4-3 against the Thai James Wattana, while his fellow-country, even though obtained victories of 4-2 over Aditya Mehta and 4-1 in front of David Gilbert, found himself being crashed 4-0 by Ricky Walden.

A long-waited victory for Ricky Walden

And since we are on the Ricky Walden subject, I must add that this is the first time that Ricky succeeds to get a place into the Last 16. He's always had great runs during the PTCs but somehow he always managed to lose the last match of the day. Until now, that is. Besides that 4-0 against Cao he also defeated Mitchell Mann by the same scoreline and applied a 4-1 over Andrew Norman.

Ireland's got a place into the next round also, thanks to Fergal O'Brien's results of 4-1 against Thanawat Tirapongpaiboon, 4-2 in front of Li Yan and 4-3 by playing Jamie Jones, Joe Swail recorded a 4-3 against a very musical Robbie Williams, continued by hammering Anthony McGill 4-1 and finished his day with another 4-3, this time in front of Paul Davison, while the PTC event Three champion, Ben Woollaston, used scorelines of 4-2 over Phil O'Kane and Chris Norbury and a very decisive 4-1 with Craig Steadman in order to catch a spot in the Last 16 too.

Can Woollaston win another PTC?

The two former world champions, Shaun Murphy and Neil Robertson didn't want to disappoint their fans and so they decided to give their best and prolong their staying in this tournament for as long as possible. For Robertson a 4-2 against Daniel Wells and a 4-3 with Gerard Greene and  Peter Ebdon seemed to be enough for another day in Warsaw, while for Murphy scorelines like 4-2 over Jak Jones, 4-3 in front of Stuart Carrington and 4-1 with Adam Duffy have surely done the trick.

Scotland's Stephen Maguire had also a good day of cueing through the balls, ending his first match with David Hogan on 4-1, while the last two saw a tight 4-3 scoreline being recorder against "The Sheriff of Pottingham" Anthony Hamilton and Michael Holt.

Below you can check Day 3 list of results: