Players Tour Championship Event 11 (2011) - Day 1

Ding hits another max

PTC 11 made its debut with a great 147 being hit by the one and only Ding Junhui, the player that just a couple of days ago made the same maximum break during PTC 12 Stage One. 

Stephen Maguire seems to be rocking around the snooker table, after getting a well deserved ticket to Germany to play in the Last 16 round of PTC 12, the Scottish player reaffirming his intention of doing the same for this event, while Simon Bedford stepped into the Last 16 for the very first time since the beginning of this season’s PTC series.

What can be better than a third 147? To hit your forth, of course. Well, that happened for Ding Junhui, the Chinese player that on December 15 was making a maximum break during PTC 12 Stage One. Yesterday, the history repeated itself, the current Masters champion hitting another brilliant 147 (click here to see it) in the match he played against James Cahill and whom he beat 4-1.

After this match, the little Chinese player whitewashed Liam Highfield 4-0 and kept it strong against a very determined and eager-to-win Stephen Hendry to defeat him 4-2, for a place in the Last 16. This is actually the second time Ding manages to go all the way to the Last 16 since PTC 12, when he reached the final along with Judd Trump and got crashed 4-0.

Maguire's on fire

After seeing Stephen Maguire's cue action and attitude during the UK Championship, when he reached the quarter-finals, one can think he's been taking anger management classes, for he seems pretty cool and manages to keep it together and not lose his temper when he misses or gets unlucky. 

So after reaching the Last 16 during PTC 12, the Scottish player thought it is for the best to repeat the experience, victories of 4-1 over Sean O'Sullivan, 4-2 over Marco Fu and another 4-2 over Dominic Dale doing the trick. If he keeps up like that, there's no reason he couldn't win the event. Just saying.

Mark Davis has come to keep company to his Last 16 colleagues too, wins of 4-0 over Matthew Couch, 4-1 over Luca Brecel and 4-3 over Marcus Campbell guaranteeing him a spot, Martin Gould did the same by defeating his opponents one by one: 4-2 with Michael Leslie, Peter Lines and Jamie Jones, while the "Welsh Dragon" Matthew Stevens decided to re-visit the famous Last 16 group (his best performance being the final of PTC 7, when he lost 4-2 to Ronnie O'Sullivan), by using scorelines of 4-3 in front of Ricky Norris and 4-1 in front of Tony Drago and Stephen Craigie.

Bedford - for the first time in Last 16

Michael Holt is no stranger from reaching the Last 16, the man from Nottingham even winning a PTC event (aka. PTC 10), but with his great form, nothing can stop him doing it all over again. For now he travelled half way through using a 4-3 result to take down Duane Jones, hammering Robbie Williams 4-1 and ending on a 4-2 with PTC 3 champion Andrew Higginson.

On the opposite side is Simon Bedford, a player that has never reached this stage of the competition, but who made it now, by seeing off Mitchell Mann 4-1, crashing Liang Wenbo 4-0 and ending on a very tight 4-3 with Chen Zhe.

Last but not least, a figure that we haven't seen for a while taking part in this stage of the competition, "The Sheriff of Pottingam" Anthony Hamilton got also a spot after beating Scotland's Eden Sharav 4-2, whitewashed Rod Lawler 4-0 and obtained a hard fought victory of 4-3 in front of Craig Steadman.

Below you can check Day 1 list of results:

9.30am
31 Neil Robertson 1-4 Dominic Dale Round 2
32 Shaun Murphy 4-0 Mark Miller Round 2
33 Marco Fu 4-1 Scott Donaldson Round 2
34 Stephen Maguire 4-1 Sean O'Sullivan Round 2
35 Mark King 1-4 Gary Wilson Round 2
36 Marcus Campbell 4-0 David Gray Round 2
37 Luca Brecel 4-1 Mike Dunn Round 2
38 Mark Davis 4-0 Matthew Couch Round 2

Not before 11am
39 Liam Highfield 4-3 Stephen Groves Round 2
40 Ding Junhui 4-1 James Cahill Round 2
41 Jimmy Robertson 4-0 Oliver Brown Round 2
42 Stephen Hendry 4-0 Martin Ball Round 2
43 Anthony Hamilton 4-2 Eden Sharav Round 2
44 Joe Jogia 3-4 Rod Lawler Round 2
45 Allister Carter v Andrew Milliard w/o Round 2
46 Craig Steadman 4-2 Zhang Anda Round 2
47 Jack Lisowski 2-4 David Grace Round 2
48 Jamie Jones 4-3 Scott MacKenzie Round 2
49 Peter Lines 4-3 Saqib Nasir Round 2
 
Not before 1pm
50 Martin Gould 4-2 Michael Leslie Round 2
51 Kyren Wilson 0-4 Chen Zhe Round 2
52 Matthew Selt w/o Kacper Filipiak Round 2
53 Simon Bedford 4-1 Mitchell Mann Round 2
54 Liang Wenbo 4-2 Stuart Carrington Round 2
55 Xiao Guodong 4-1 Ross Muir Round 2
56 Andrew Higginson 4-3 Chris Norbury Round 2
57 Robbie Williams 4-0 Barry Stark Round 2
58 Michael Holt 4-3 Duane Jones Round 2
59 Tony Drago 4-3 Robert Milkins Round 2
60 Matthew Stevens 4-3 Ricky Norris Round 2

Not before 3.30pm
61 Ben Woollaston 3-4 Stephen Craigie Round 2
62 Andy Hicks 4-3 George Marter Round 2
95 Dominic Dale 4-2 Shaun Murphy Round 3
96 Marco fu 2-4 Stephen Maguire Round 3
97 Gary Wilson 1-4 Marcus Campbell Round 3
98 Luca Brecel 1-4 Mark Davis Round 3
99 Lian Highfield 0-4 Ding Junhui Round 3
100 Jimmy Robertson 0-4 Stephen Hendry Round 3
101 Anthony Hamilton 4-0 Rod Lawler Round 3
102 Andrew Milliard 0-4 Craig Steadman Round 3

Not before 5pm
103 David Grace 3-4 Jamie Jones Round 3
104 Peter Lines 2-4 Martin Gould Round 3
105 Chen Zhe 4-1 Matthew Selt Round 3
106 Simon Bedford 4-0 Liang Wenbo Round 3
107 Xiao Guodong 1-4 Andrew Higginson Round 3
108 Robbie Williams 1-4 Michael Holt Round 3
109 Tony Drago 1-4 Matthew Stevens Round 3
110 Stephen Craigie 4-1 Andy Hicks Round 3

Not before 7.30pm
127 Dominic Dale 2-4 Stephen Maguire Round 4
128 Marcus Campbell 3-4 Mark Davis Round 4
129 Ding Junhui 4-2 Stephen Hendry Round 4
130 Anthony Hamilton 4-3 Craig Steadman Round 4
131 Jamie Jones 2-4 Martin Gould Round 4
132 Chen Zhe 3-4 Simon Bedford Round 4
133 Andrew Higginson 2-4 Michael Holt Round 4
134 Matthew Stevens 4-1 Stephen Craigie Round 4

Today, the action continues with:

9.30am
63 Mark Selby v Daniel Wells Round 2
64 Li Yan v Matthew Day Round 2
65 David Gilbert v James Hill Round 2
66 Stuart Bingham v Mark Williams Round 2
67 Gerard Greene v Adam Wicheard Round 2
68 Steve Davis v Joe Swail Round 2
69 Graeme Dott v Ashley Carty Round 2
70 Ryan Day v Paul Davison Round 2
71 Joe Perry v Ian McCulloch Round 2
72 Dave Harold v Reanne Evans Round 2
73 Ricky Walden v Jak Jones Round 2

Not before 11.30am
74 Barry Hawkins v Alfie Burden Round 2
75 Mark Allen v Ashley Wright Round 2
76 Michael White v Aditya Mehta Round 2
77 Stephen Lee v Sam Craigie Round 2
78 John Higgins v Justin Astley Round 2
79 Tom Ford v David Hogan Round 2
80 Mark Joyce v Ian Burns Round 2
81 Fergal O'Brien v Thomas Wealthy Round 2

Not before 1pm
82 Nigel Bond v Lucky Vatnani Round 2
83 Yu DeLu v Andrew Norman Round 2
84 Dechawat Poomjaeng v Peter Ebdon Round 2
85 James Wattana v Adrian Gunnell Round 2
86 Jamie Burnett v Oliver Lines Round 2
87 Rory McLeod v Kurt Maflin Round 2
88 Adam Duffy v Andrew Pagett Round 2
89 Jamie Cope v Gareth Allen Round 2
90 Anthony McGill w/o David Singh Round 2
93 Ken Doherty v David Morris Round 2
94 Judd Trump v Sam Baird Round 2

 
Not before 3.30pm
91 Jimmy White v Barry Pinches Round 2
92 Alan McManus v Liu Song Round 2
111 WINNER OF MATCH 63 v WINNER OF MATCH 64 Round 3
112 WINNER OF MATCH 65 v WINNER OF MATCH 66 Round 3
113 WINNER OF MATCH 67 v WINNER OF MATCH 68 Round 3
114 WINNER OF MATCH 69 v WINNER OF MATCH 70 Round 3
115 WINNER OF MATCH 71 v WINNER OF MATCH 72 Round 3
116 WINNER OF MATCH 73 v WINNER OF MATCH 74 Round 3
117 WINNER OF MATCH 75 v WINNER OF MATCH 76 Round 3
118 WINNER OF MATCH 77 v WINNER OF MATCH 78 Round 3

Not before 5pm
119 WINNER OF MATCH 79 v WINNER OF MATCH 80 Round 3
120 WINNER OF MATCH 81 v WINNER OF MATCH 82 Round 3
121 WINNER OF MATCH 83 v WINNER OF MATCH 84 Round 3
122 WINNER OF MATCH 85 v WINNER OF MATCH 86 Round 3
123 WINNER OF MATCH 87 v WINNER OF MATCH 88 Round 3
124 WINNER OF MATCH 89 v WINNER OF MATCH 90 Round 3
125 WINNER OF MATCH 91 v WINNER OF MATCH 92 Round 3
126 WINNER OF MATCH 93 v WINNER OF MATCH 94 Round 3
Not before 7.30pm
135 WINNER OF MATCH 111 v WINNER OF MATCH 112 Round 4
136 WINNER OF MATCH 113 v WINNER OF MATCH 114 Round 4
137 WINNER OF MATCH 115 v WINNER OF MATCH 116 Round 4
138 WINNER OF MATCH 117 v WINNER OF MATCH 118 Round 4
139 WINNER OF MATCH 119 v WINNER OF MATCH 120 Round 4
140 WINNER OF MATCH 121 v WINNER OF MATCH 122 Round 4
141 WINNER OF MATCH 123 v WINNER OF MATCH 124 Round 4
142 WINNER OF MATCH 125 v WINNER OF MATCH 126 Round 4
*all hours are UK time

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